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<html> <head> <title>Zipcat Pro 3 (cataloging Disks)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" link="#CCFFFF" vlink="#FFFFCC" alink="#FFFF00"> <table border="0" width="99%" height="99%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" vspace="0" hspace="0"> <tr valign="TOP" align="CENTER"> <td align="CENTER" valign="TOP"> <center> <table border="0" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" vspace="0" hspace="0"> <tr valign="TOP"> <td valign="TOP"> <img src="catalog.gif" width="391" height="310"> Figure 2: The Catalog Window Before You catalog a disk, be sure to create a database to put it in. This generally occurs when you start using Zipcat Pro for the first time. Roll your mouse slowly over the buttons in the toolbar at the top of the main window (see the Introduction for a picture of the main window) and stop briefly on each one. A tooltip will pop up and tell you what the button is. Click the New Database button and give it a name. You can then click the Catalog Disk button. The dialog in figure 2 will appear. The process to catalog a disk is a simple 3 step process: <ul> <li>Select a drive in the left window to catalog</li> <li>Select the destination database for your volume</li> <li>Click the Catalog button</li> </ul> After you click the catalog button for a disk that hasn't been previously cataloged, you wil be asked to name it. ZCP3 will automatically fill in the volume label as the name of the volume, but you can type over it with whatever you like. You'll find that naming disks with good, descriptive volume labels, as well as using "descript.ion" files (explained in detail below) will save you time when recataloging later. The arrow button on the lower right reveals catalog options that are explained in detail in the Options section. They are generally set there, globally, but can be overided here if necessary. The options include turning on/off ZIP file extraction, auto-descriptions, and more. You generally won't use them here after setting them in the Options window. If you have several disks to catalog, ZCP3 is able to eject each disk after cataloging (Options.) But you may also select a drive in the left pane and click the Eject Disk button. DESCRIPTION FILES are real timesavers! This is how they work: You create a file with the name descript.ion and place it in a folder on your disk. That file will contain the descriptions of files and folders that reside in the same folder as itself. So, you may have many of these files, each in a different folder on your disk to describe the contents of their respective parent folders. It's really just a text file, which you can edit with notepad, etc. to add the descriptions. These descriptions support files and folders, and long filenames. The format of the file contents follows: "My Documents" Word processing documents, etc. Games Video Games and Entertainment files "software demo.exe" Demo for software at work zipcat.cat ZCP3 Catalog marker file Above are 4 lines of text, each ending with CR+LF (pressing ENTER in notepad, or whatever text editor you're using.) Files or folders with long filenames are surrounded with quotes, while short filenames don't have to be. The filename and description are separated with a space. The description does not need to be asurrounded with quotes. <a href="default.htm">Click here to return</a> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>