WhereIsIt is an application written for Windows operating
systems, and designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog
of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs, audio CDs,
diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, DVDs, or
any other present or future storage media Windows can access as a
drive. The primary goal for WhereIsIt is to provide access to the
contents of cataloged disks, even when they are not available on
the system, or even not your own. You can browse their contents,
search for items you need, use imported descriptions and
thumbnails, and organize data using categories, flags etc.

· Suitable for beginners and advanced users

WhereIsIt was designed to be a very adjustable program with
lots of options for power users, as well as quick and easy to use
with predefined default settings and wizards for all those who
don’t want to get their hands dirty.

· Well thought-out user interface with
multi-language support

WhereIsIt’s user interface is one of its most praised
qualities. Easy to use, familiar Explorer-like user interface with
clear overview of available functions, adjustable toolbar, columns
to choose between, and extensive use of object menus (right mouse
click) to let you quickly access command you need. Want to see
item’s description or assigned thumbnail image? Just leave mouse
pointer on it for a moment, it will popup as a tool-tip.

Not just that, WhereIsIt’s user interface can be used in any
of the supported languages, dialogs will adjust to translated text.
Support for new languages can be downloaded in a form of small
language files, or even created by users themselves by translating
the program to a new language.

· Manageable catalog files

WhereIsIt doesn’t use large and complex databases, all
information is stored in a single catalog (.ctf) file, easily
transferable to another computer, a friend, a public forum… as
well as easy to backup. Share your data the easy way. Catalogs
don’t need to be installed in any way, they can just simply be
opened in the program as document files, even on someone else’s
computer, while still retaining full functionality. Internal
catalog file structure is optimized for very efficient access and
small total size, allowing fast searches and small memory
footprint, even with very large catalogs. For example, 30.000 files
and folders (that’s about five heavily populated CD-ROMs) will
result in a catalog file approximately

1 MB in size - details may vary, depending on data structure
and selected scanning options.

· Detailed information about every file, folder,
or disk

Every item in catalog includes detailed basic information
about files and folders you would come to expect, like name, size,
date, file attributes and similar, but WhereIsIt adds to that its
own information it provides as a catalog program. For example,
every item can include up to 32 KB textual description, a small
thumbnail image, you can assign items custom-defined, multi-level
categories or flags, you can even assign them so-called alias
names, under which are they known in catalog - for example, if the
real file name is to cryptic. When displayed in WhereIsIt, items
can be colored according their type, assigned categories or
flags… All of those can be used to find items you are looking
for, or just make browsing your disk images a lot simpler and more
fun.

· Internal support for many compressed file
formats

Many of the often used compressed file formats can be handled
during media scan, including ZIP, ARJ, RAR, CAB, LHA/LZH, TAR, ARC,
ACE, ZOO, GZIP, BZIP2, 7ZIP, CBZ, CBR, PAK, HA, JAR, SFX… If so
selected, compressed files can be presented as folders, showing
their content inside. Files compressed inside archives can be
extracted right out from WhereIsIt to any folder, or they can be
viewed or launched with associated program with one click!

· Automatic description and thumbnails importing

Description Plugins One of WhereIsIt most powerful features
are description and thumbnail plugins, in charge of importing
descriptions and images while media is being scanned and stored in
the catalog. This way, you can have your files and folders equipped
with descriptions right after scanning completes. Based on source
type, descriptions are automatically attached either to files
themselves, to their parent folders, other files in the folder,
etc. Standard description plugins handle importing from more than
60 file types and other sources, including files like File_id.diz,
Descript.ion, 00index.txt, Files.bbs, they can browse and extract
details from most documents, graphics and audio files, including
MP3s (sampling, play time, ID3 tags…), Audio CDs (CDDB database,
Cdplayer.ini), MS Office documents, Adobe Acrobat files, executable
files and fonts, and many many more. Details about graphics files
not only include their size and color depth, a small thumbnail can
be imported in catalog as well, possibly together with digital
camera info and other comments embedded inside.

As if all this wouldn’t be enough, there is even more - you
can develop your own description and thumbnail plugins to handle
additional types of sources and files WhereIsIt doesn’t handle yet
at this time, or you can download plugins others have written and
made them available for others to use.

· Built-in media recognition system

WhereIsIt supports any media type Windows can access as
drive, including diskettes, CD-ROMs, DVDs, removable disks like
iomega Zip, hard disks, network drives etc. It will recognize by
name and collect useful data for most of them, too. WhereIsIt is
compatible with all Windows-supported file systems, including FAT,
FAT32, and NTFS.

WhereIsIt does not use drive letters to reference cataloged
disks, it is able to recognize them by their key properties, like
type, serial number, formatted capacity, and similar. This way, it
doesn’t matter which drive your media is in, WhereIsIt will find
it, even on some other computer over the network. In the unlikely
event that media changes that much that it can no longer be
recognized (for example, by reformatting it), you can still
manually update its existing disk image in catalog.

· Powerful searching finds what you are looking
for

WhereIsIt features a powerful multi-threaded searching, with
detailed settings on what to search for, where to search and how to
search. Use either Quick Search to quickly find your items by name
or description, or start up Advanced Search with Search Expression
Editor, allowing you to write complex search queries using the full
rich set of available search criteria and Boolean logic operators.
WhereIsIt provides quick shortcuts to search only in selected disks
or folders, or you can search through previous search results or
user list items, resulting in countless capabilities to combine
multiple searches, narrow down results…

Searching for duplicate items is in there, too, as well as
comparing cataloged disk image to actual files on the media, and
comparing cataloged disk images allows for tasks such as version
tracking, if comparing disk images of the same media taken at
different points in time.

· Professional report generator

Adjustable and professional report generator adds a final
touch to your catalog collections. Report generator is usually used
together with extensive search capabilities or report wizard,
allowing you to first collect the items you want in the report,
while report generator handles processing items themselves, such as
specifying layout and details to be included, optionally sorting
and arranging items by their location etc. Needless to point out,
you can use the built in print preview, with adjustable zoom and
full-screen capabilities.

Report generator not only allows you to print your reports on
your printer or send them by fax using the Microsoft Fax, it is
also used for exporting cataloged data to other formats, including
ASCII files, Excel tables, rich-text RTF documents, HTML documents,
external database formats like SQL, XML, CSV, SYLK, or just send it
directly to clipboard for pasting to some other application…

Size : 5.4 MB

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