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The FileCataloger is a very useful file catalog software, also is disk catalog software, cd catalog software and file search software. If the electronic files in user computer is too much and chaos. You want to manage and organise them in order to find and use them. FileCataloger can help you to do this easily. FileCataloger can catalog the files in cd, dvd, hard disk, moveable disk etc, and save the catalog data to a database, makes it available for offline browsing and searching and using. If you want to find some files, you can explore or search them in catalog database instead of opening a real media. These actions dispense with searching troublesomely and protecting the media. FileCataloger also provides the functionality of bookmarking to manage and use catalog data. The user interface of FileCataloger is very simple and easy to use. It includes menu, toolbar, path bar, group view, list view, description view and status bar. Group view is showing the catalog groups of the opening catalog database. List view is showing the sub-items of the selected catalog group in group view. In the list view, user can sort catalog item by clicking header of list view. The description view of FileCataloger can show the comment, custom propertys, thumbnails of the current selected catalog item.
FileCataloger uses a single catalog database file to save all catalog data, so as to easily arrange, copy, move and backup catalog data. The actions for operation catalog database is simply. The below articles can teah you operating catalog database in FileCataloger. Creating a file catalog databse in FileCataloger Opening a exist file catalog database in FileCataloger Closing the current opening file catalog database in FileCataloger Saving changes to the current catalog database in filecataloger Cancel changes from the current file catalog database Shrinking catalog database in Filecataloger Export a part of file catalog data to a new catalog database Importing a exist file catalog database
FileCataloger providesseveral friend wizard to help user to import cdrom, dvd, local disk, movable disk, folder and solo files into catalog database. And there are some options that can be configured to customize the importing operation. While importing file from media, user can enable file parser to take comment and custom property from the files imported. Now FileCataloger support zip file, rar file, mp3 file, chm file, eml file. In the future, FileCataloger can support more file type parser.
FileCataloger can import zip or rar file as catalog group, just enable complex parser for zip or rar file.
The below articles can teah you importing catalog item to database in FileCataloger. Importing local disk into file catalog database Import cd/dvd to file catalog database in filecataloger Importing Folder into file catalog database in filecataloger Importing movable disk into file catalog database Importing individual file into file catalog database
FileCataloger support several catalog item operations. User can modify name and extention name, add comment, view property and delete it. Every catalog item can be added multi custom propertys and multi thumbnails. Every custom property have one name and one value, to note catalog item's property. These functions let catalog item having a lot of infomation to use. The below articles can teah you operating catalog item in FileCataloger. Rename a file catalog item in FileCataloger Deleting the items of the file catalog database Write comment for each file catalog item Using custom property of file catalog item Using thumbnail of file catalog item
User Group is unit for organizing catalog item. Firstly create some user groups, The user groups can be hierarchical. After that user can move independent catalog items into proper user group. Now, user can browse the hierarchical tree of disks, files and folders that looks exactly the same as in Windows Explorer. The moving operation is support Drag/Drop. Creating a user group as a category in filecataloger Move independent catalog items
Bookmark group is also a useful tool for organizing catalog data. Every bookmark group can contains a lot of bookmark items. Every bookmark item links to a catalog item just liks Shortcut in window. Double clicking a bookmark item will let FileCataloger navigating to the location of the catalog item. User can have multi bookmark group and also have multi bookmark item in different bookmark group to links to a same catalog item. User can operate bookmark item like normal catalog item in bookmark group. The bookmarking operation is support Drag/Drop. Bookmarking file catalog items in FileCataloger Bookmarking catalog item for using
Some file often be viewed by user, such as readme file, index file. FileCataloger can take its content from media to catalog database, then view them or save as other files. Certainly The file content can be cleared by user. Load file content to file catalog item View file content at file catalog item Save file content from file catalog item Clear file content from file catalog item
Filecataloger have a powerful easy-to-use quickly searching function. User can search file caption(name and extention name), comment, content, custom property, sizes, creation time, last write time, last access time. User can set search target types. example: cd, move disk, file and so on. And User can combine tow search result with Remove the previous result option be cleared. Searching text is also support mildcard * and ?. Finally user can set search for all catalog item or current catalog group or previous search result. User can operate search results like normal catalog items in search group. If user double click a catalog item in search result group, FileCataloger will navigate to the location of the catalog item. Because searching is in database, so user assure any changes has been saved Before searching. Search caption in fileCataloger Search catalog' comment in fileCataloger Search catalog' custom property in fileCataloger Search file content in fileCataloger Search file size in fileCataloger Search last access time for file catalog item Search last write time for file catalog item Search creation time for file catalog item
If FileCatalog's function can't satisfy user, then user can write VBsscript to customize application. With VBscript, user can operate catalog database and catalog item. FileCataloger provide some objects and some function. User can run vbscript through the following methods. Run script from file in FileCataloger Run script command from script menu Run start script in FileCataloger Run script file from command line
There are some script commands that can be accessed by script menu. script for list file's full path to a text file script for list file's caption to a text file
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