Simple Disc Cataloger 1.1.0

Welcome

SDC is a cataloging program for all those data discs you've collected over the years. Ever try to remember on which disc you burned your CV or where that shareware program you downloaded last year is but couldn't remember, so you ended up going through all your CDs? Well, with SDC you can catalog all your discs. When you need to find something, the simple search engine in SDC will find it in no time. You can even add comments to any folder or file which can be searched.

Installation / Upgrading (Read before uninstalling or upgrading)

To install SDC
  1. Download the latest version from www.aronson.co.il/sdc.
  2. Unzip the files in SDC.ZIP into a temporary folder. A program like Winzip is needed for opening zip files. Run the file setup.exe. You will be asked for a location into which the program will be installed.

    If you have a previous version of SDC installed, you can install the new version to a separate folder, in which case you will have both fully functional versions on your computer. Or you can install the new version into same folder where the old version resided. In this case the new version will overwrite the old version but it will not overwrite the data. In other words, any discs scanned up to this point will not be lost. That is because the file sdc.mdb which holds the data will not be overwritten.

To uninstall SDC
  1. In Windows, click Start and select Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
  2. Select Simple Disc Cataloger from the list of currently installed programs.
  3. Click Remove.
Note:

Requirements

SDC will run on any computer running the following operating systems: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP. SDC should work fine on any future versions of Windows too. If not, check back to www.aronson.co.il/sdc for the latest version.

Getting Started

The first time SDC is run you will see two empty panes. The left hand pane holds discs and folders, the right hand pane shows the files of the currently selected disc/folder on the left pane.

To scan new discs To do a search
  1. Choose Search from the Tool menu.
  2. Right click the mouse on a folder or file to bring up the contents of the Action menu under the mouse cursor.

Note: There is no UNDO or SAVE in SDC. All actions are executed on the spot.

Scanning New Discs into SDC

To add new discs (or folders from your hard drive or disc)
  1. Choose 'Scan' from the 'Tool' menu. A window will appear allowing you to choose the disc or folder to be scanned. A progress bar at the bottom of the SDC window shows the progress of the scan, underneath the progress bar a status label shows the number of KB scanned.
  2. During the scan a 'Cancel' button will appear in the bottom right corner. Press the Cancel button to stop the scan without saving any data to SDC.
  3. Once the scan is complete the word Done! will appear under the progress bar.
  4. Unless you manually ejected the CD, or deleted files during the scan, this message usually can be ignored. Just click the Yes button. However, this message may also indicate that the FAT section of your disk is reporting incorrect file information. Run ScanDisk to check.

Creating, Deleting and Renaming Discs, Folders and Files in SDC

You can manually add discs, folders, and files to the SDC database, and to rename a file or folder.

To manually add a disc or folder to SDC
To create files
  1. Click on the files pane.
  2. Choose Create File from the Action menu.

This will add a new file to the end of the list of existing files. By default the name will be "New File"'.

To delete a file or folder
To rename a file or folder

Searching for Discs, Folder and File

You can search for all items containing a user-defined string, perform an exact  search, and or search for item comments. You can specify to search 
all item types or just discs, folder or files.

Folder/File Properties (Comments)

To see the properties of a folder or file

Choosing SDC Database to load

All data is stored in the file sdc.mdb. This file can be backed up, or copied to other folders, allowing you to have multiple databases.

To choose which file SDC should use
  1. Choose Options from the Tool menu.
  2. Either manually type in the path to the new database or click the "..." button to open an Explorer window.
  3. You must restart SDC for the changes to take effect

Choosing Interface Language

Currently Hebrew, English and German are supported.

If the language you chose appears incorrectly when running SDC (question marks or squares are visible in place of letters) you need to change you Language setting in Windows, to do so do the following:
In Windows XP: click Start and select Settings > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options. Click Advanced tab and choose your language in the Language for non-Unicode programs section.
In Windows 98: click Start and select Settings > Control Panel > Regional Settings. In the Regional Settings choose your language.

Source Code

SDC was written in Visual Basic 6.
It uses DAO 3.6 to connect to an MS Access database file to store information (sdc.mdb) and another access database to store text strings (LangSupport.mdb). The FileScriptingHost (scrrun.dll) is used to manipulate files. The left pane uses the TreeView control. The right pane uses the ListView control. The source code can be found at www.aronson.co.il/sdc. If you have any questions or suggestions about the source, e-mail me. I give permission to reuse this code. If you make changes to the code and redistribute it you must change the text in the About window to reflect that.

I have created uFREEDB.ocx from the source code (version 1.6.2) provided at freedb.org created by Jon F Zahornacky and Peter Schmiedseder

Disclaimer

This program is distributed for free. Source code from which the program was compiled can be found at www.aronson.co.il/sdc. Therefore I take no responsibility for any damage this program may cause you or your computer. If you are unsure of where the program you have came from, download the latest version from my site. As always, I advice scanning any software downloaded from the Internet for viruses.

Changes From 1.0.14 to 1.1.0

1. SDC can now catalog Music CDs. It connects to FreeDB save the information. (Thanks to John B. Miller for helping me characterize and test) 2. Check for update feature has been upgraded and can now be called via the Tools menu

Changes From 1.0.13 to 1.0.14

1. Fixed bug where, if a folder had a very long name SDC would fail. (Thanks to John B. Miller for helping me resolve this)

Changes From 1.0.12 to 1.0.13

1. Fixed bug where, if a folder being scanned had a single quote (') in its name, SDC would fail. (Thanks to Dan DeOreo for helping me resolve this)

Changes From 1.0.9 to 1.0.12

1. Fixed Crash when trying to scan a CD drive with no CD inside.
2. Fixed Appearance of the word 'Text1' in comments.
3. Fixed bug where, in the search feature, even if you have checked "search comments" it does not search comments of the CD, only comments of files.
4. Thanks to Lars Alexander Hult for bringing the above bugs to my attention.

Changes from 1.08 to 1.09

1. Added Turkish, Russian.
2. SDC now remembers last folder scanned so for example if user want to scan many CDs he needs to choose the CD ROM drive only once.
3.When scanning, if program encounters folder to which the current user has no permissions the program skips over them instead of stopping.
4.Some limited printing capabilities added but still needs development (any volunteers?)

Changes from 1.07 to 1.08

1. Added support for more Languages (Changed fonts).
2. Added German. Along side Hebrew and English.

Changes from 1.06 to 1.07

1. When scanning a whole volume, the name is extracted from file system (and not just the drive letter)
2. Various fixes for handling very large files.

Changes from 1.05 to 1.06

1. Size column now sorts correctly. Shows sizes in bytes, KB or MB depending on file size.
2. First click on a column, sorts Ascending. Second click, sort Descending
3. Search improved. User can search for files with a Single quote mark. User can use * (as in the Windows Search).
4. Multiple Lines of same disc no longer appear in search results.
5. Search results can be sorted by clicking on column header.

Changes from 1.00 to 1.05

1. When SDC is run for the first time, it creates the config.ini file which holds the location of the active SDC database.
2. Discs are now shown sorted.
3. Changing database location loads the new database immediately.
4. When SDC is run for first time a welcome screen with basic Usage help is displayed.

If you have any questions e-mail me at adin[at]aronson.co.il with the word SDC in the subject

 

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