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Cathy 2.28 Portable Launcher Development Test 1Submitted by prapper on October 29, 2009 - 8:37am
Application: Cathy Download Cathy Portable 2.28 Development Test 1 [403KB download / 285KB installed] Release Notes: Notes:
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Cathy is awesome
Have used it for years, since a friend recommended it. (Not even sure if I ever updated it!)
I always thought it was "portable" in the sense that it was a standalone app? Did it leave registry entries or something?
Just cataloged and scanned my USB drive.
Looks like it works great.
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Sic semper tyrannosauro.
Registry
Yeah, it left [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\rOva]. From Help/Tip & Hints -
"If you want to start Cathy as portable application, use the parameter
-ini cathy.reg , where cathy.reg is the export of registry entries for
Cathy saved as simple ASCII-file (not UNICODE). This file will be read
instead of registry entries, but no change will be written back to it."
I didn't look into that (because it won't save any changes), I just used the standard PA.c registry routine.
I see why
I think I finally understand the registry. It's really a humongous INI file. Sad, eh?
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Wicked!
Disk Cataloging, though I don't use it very often is something I've found to be pretty handy over the years. I have never in all my years of searching found something as quick and efficient as Cathy (and believe me, I've tried 'em all). It's one of the few remaining applications I have that isn't truly portable, but I'm kinda forced to stick with it since I can't find a viable alternative.
Hooray for Cathy Portable! Hope this one becomes a PA.c standard.
403KB download / 285KB installed?
what? The installer is larger? wow. Is this after it downloads the app online?
My proxy won't allow me to look at the website of the original app. it says "games is filtered". wow. It looks cool though. Will test.
My homepage has changed! You should see it.
The App
The interface is a bit dated, but it performs really well in terms of finding files (it's very fast). In addition, I've noted some disk catalog programs take megabytes to store information on a couple of hundred files. The disk space used by Cathy to catalog a volume seems much more reasonable (kilobytes rather than megabytes, of course it does depend on the size of your volume and how many files it has).
I find it particularly useful in searching for MP3s that I've backed up to CD/DVD. Using Cathy I can quickly identify the exact media a particular MP3 is on.