Advanced Disk Catalog

1.0 stars

"Absolutely useless, dog-slow, don't waste your time."

January 13, 2012  |   By pureambient

Version: Advanced Disk Catalog 1.51

Pros

None that I could see, but then, since it spent ONE HOUR scanning just 2% of my modestly sized hard drive, I will never know - I've never seen a S L O W E R program.

Cons

Probably everything that the other reviewers have said and more, but I will never know, because after watching it scan at the pace of a dead snail for one hour, and only manage to catalog 1500 of my files, a few folders, less than 2% of my small drive, in that time - I uninstalled it and put it where it belongs - in the recycling. It actually kinda pisses me off, because I searched for ages yesterday for a particular combination of file management features, and the very glowing and well-written description seemed to promise a tool that would do EXACTLY what I wanted. But that is useless if it won't run - and it did not run. At the rate it was going, it would have taken more than a day just to scan my hard drive - and that is useless if you are trying to do ACTUAL WORK. So less of the BS advertising, and more of a program that has basic functionality - i.e. a scan that runs at a DECENT SPEED - I don't expect miracles, but I am bitterly disappointed, and now the search is back on...

Summary

I would say: avoid, avoid, avoid, use anything else. Good luck with this one...

The next tool I tried, ScanFS, scanned very quickly indeed, in just a few minutes, and gave me RESULTS - at least I can actually ASSESS it - this thing, however, looked good on paper, but is possibly the SLOWEST software I have EVER SEEN :-)


Ever.

EVER.


It would be quicker to get some paper, open each folder, and write down the names of all your files :-0


What a shame, because the description is very promising. And, maybe it DOES do all those things - but I need tools that work at a respectable speed - not so slowly I could die of old age before I even see some results. Much less reports or analysis...


:-) EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING.

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2.0 stars

"This is only a demo!"

October 14, 2010  |   By MarkCh5v9

Version: Advanced Disk Catalog 1.51

Pros

Very nice program, work pretty well with lots of features.

Cons

The download here is only an evaluation edition, limited to 5 disks.

Summary

The desctiption *needs* to state this is only a trial version and requires a $20 registration fee to catalog more than 5 disks.

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5.0 stars

"Quality media manager but is not outdated."

October 12, 2010  |   By cage_

Version: Advanced Disk Catalog 1.51

Pros

Great catalog program for optical media. My catalog consists of mixed optical media that is well over 2200 discs. No slowdown or searching issues present.

Cons

Discontinued.

Summary

I signed up specially to cnet to respond to the "previous" review. I have been using this software since v1.14 (11/07/97) and am still using it. Never experienced any crashing/parsing issues EVER.

v1.51 was released in 2004! This is not meant to be a viable alternative for today even though I still use it.

http://www.disk-catalog.com/ doesn't even exist for this product anymore as of 10/12/2010.

Added an option for media export near the EOL for this software so users would not have their data locked into their format.

This is hands down the oldest program I've been using with no issues.

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1.0 stars

"Buggy, unsupported crapware"

April 14, 2010  |   By t3chnomanc3r

Version: Advanced Disk Catalog 1.51

Pros

it does excellent basic cataloging and could crawl into archives looking for .NFO, .ID, .NO, etc... type file extensions describing archives, when that functionality it works

Cons

File content & details cataloging modules hopelessly riddled with showstopping parsing bugs which crash the program loosing all information cataloged. No newer archive types like 7Z supported, no file hashing.

Summary

Since it's not opensource nor actively updated there's no fixing these issues. Best "save face" thing they could do is 1. remove the sales page, 2. release the source
code under GPL.

Sad the company made so famous years back for it's developer being jailed here in the US for exposing Acrobat PDF encryption flaws they discovered would simply drop support for a very useful tool. I've personally contacted them as a paying customer, basically told "tough luck, it's been years since we sold you the license" despite my numerous & persistent bug reports to them in the 1st 2 years asking for fixes.

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