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A question to those of you out there who archive your projects to some sort of removable media (CD/DVD/etc.) Are you keeping an index of the files on those media or do you rely on your infallible memory to remember where a particular file is when you need it again?

If you use a software solution to keep a searchable index of removable media, what are you using? We are looking for a solution to the overcrowding/disorganization of our network media storage. I would like to be able to archive off a project’s files (we will have everything from Word docs to PDFs to image files) to a CD or DVD and then add those contents to an index that would be searchable by the members of our department. Any ideas/solutions/recommended providers?

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Hello Tom,
An exceedingly useful utility which allows the contents of CD/DVD’s to be catalogued and searches to be easily carried out for specific file types.
It is freeware - when you go to "anders" website shown below, you will find it by following the path entitled "the Programs".
It is really excellent.
Hope this helps
Regards
John
download filesize is approximately 2.8Mb


http://hem.spray.se/anders.peterson

Looks interesting. I have downloaded it and will see how it works.

Thanks

Hi Tom,
I have created an Access Database to keep track of all my projects and important stuff.
If you have Microsoft Office XP you can even use on of the template databases they offers and tailor to your need or even go to Microsoft Website/Access section and download one of the many "Records track" databases they offer for free.
I hope this helps
German

This is a great utility. It works well.

One point -- seems to only work from the System CD drive, but that's not a problem.