On 2019-07-15 00:43:57 +0000, dontno314 said:
> BillFrugge <pinback@darkstar.spc> wrote:
>> On 2019-07-14 22:52:00 +0000, Pepi said:
>>
>>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 02:43:13 +0000, dontno314 wrote:
>>>
>>>> I use an Excel spreadsheet
>>>
>>> Oh, dear! I am not envious.
>>>
>>> I use Cathy: http://www.mtg.sk/rva/ (about halfway down the page)
>>>
>
>
>>> Been using it since, oh, 2003-ish or so...
>>>
>>> I can find most things I've cataloged within a few seconds using Cathy
>>> (depends on number of hits, building the result list takes longer the
>>> more hits you get).
>>>
>>> There are three things wrong with Cathy: 1. it doesn't understand
>>> Unicode, and 2. it has no RegEx searching. It has wild cards, sort of. 3.
>>> you can only get a maximum of 9,999 hits. Most likely because of the
>>> problem with building the result list.
>>>
>>> Oh, and I run Cathy under Wine on my Linux system and it works perfectly
>>> fine. Couple of features missing, it can no longer open directories or
>>> open files. On Windows it can. I've learned to live without that feature.
>>>
>>> So, this must be a huge program to install, right? Well, unpacked from
>>> the ZIP it's around 150 kB, only one file. Unpack, run. That simple.
>>>
>>> Just noticed as I researched this, that he has a new version out, from
>>> 2019-07-06. Have to try that one and see if it still works in Wine. :D
>>
>> I remember someone mentioning Cathy some years back. I was searching
>> for a cataloging program, but ended up using WhereIsIt. (Which works
>> okay for movies.)
>>
>> I settled on "All My Movies" to catalog my movies. The problem, though,
>> is that I've got a lot of movies that still need to be added to it. I
>> just don't want to spend the time editing all those entries.
>>
>> For my TV shows, I just need to know where they're stored.
>
> If you are using a window based machine you can do the following:
>
> 1) Go to the directory that you want to catalogue
> 2) In the address bar type ==> cmd
> 3) In the DOS window type ==> dir /ad > {directory name}.doc or .txt
> 4) This only works for WinWord
> 5) In MS Word position your curser at the left side of the space you want to
> remove. Press ==> Alt (hold), Shift (hold) then left click the mouse to clear
> the space on the left
>
> This lets you erase the extra space without doing it line-by-line.
>
> You can then past the text into an Excel column.
Yes, that's where I started. Had to do it for several HDs, but imported
straight into Excel using bare format.
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