This looks nice, I haven't tried it yet, but from the description, it seems like it would also catalogue and give yo ua list of the files you have on _any_ drive, right? So I could print a list of the files I have in my local hard-drive?
That is something good if it did that.
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You can have it catalogue any drive you want. And then you can see/search files from all the catalogued drives you have.
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I must be doing something wrong, it refuses to work for, if you go to help and follow that it wants you to open vvv files, if you change it to all files it gives me an error after trying to catalog, what's the trick ?..Do I need something else installed ?
Need a step by step ?
Open is for opening up catalogs you have created. You add new volumes with the volume command. Rad through the help a bit as it's a bit different from other apps in terminology.
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After clicking new it opens a dialog to save as vvv type a name save it some where then click Volumes/Catalog Volumes and choose stuff...Thanks John. Although I don't get the virtual view yet. It says choose a virtual folder after you click add to virtual but it's empty. I have been doing something similar with Free Commander which is "Make Folder List", I use to have to do some long syntax from a ms-dos or cmd prompt and dump it to a .txt or .doc, but this is so useful and cool, it isn't funny. And I like the export .csv function in VVV.
The Virtual View is a way for you to move/arrange folders in a way that is convenient without actually physically moving them. For example if you have 10 data CD's each with an "MP3". You can create a virtual "MP3" folder, and then add each of those 10 real "MP3" folders to the MP3 virtual folder. Now you can browse all 10 MP3 folders at once, virtually, just like they were all one big folder, the MP3 virtual folder (when really they're not). Virtual views are about convenience and bringing together folders that aren't necessarily truly together physically. This becomes even more useful if say those 10 MP3 folders weren't all in the root of each CD. Imagine they were buried in different sub-folders on each CD. If you virtualization the folder structure, now there's no need to go hunting through each CD to try to find the "MP3" folder of each.
There's all kinds of possibilities with virtual folders.
It's mostly meant for external media like Data CDs and DVDs, USB drives, Zip disks and external hard drives, but there's no reason why you couldn't catalog an internal drive. I can only see limited uses of this but still the possibility is there.
I just recall that I sometimes get requests for all the files on a particular folder to see if some of our student workers filed things on time.
Or just to see if I filed my various music lists right.
I won't use it often, but I will use it.
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I've been testing this some more and found a downside... the catalogs are (comparatively) huge. I've cataloged two volumes that are no more than about 4GB each and I've already generated 42MB+ of data. Compare that with Cathy which has about 30GB of data catalogued and is about 20MB in size. I wonder what VVV is storing. I'm guessing that it stores a lot of meta data which is something that Cathy doesn't do.
On the face of it 42MB isn't horrific, but I would have concerns that this will grow exponentially which is problematic if you're already tight for space on a smaller USB Flash drive. Overall though my impressions of the app are positive.
Volume size is nearly completely irrelevant. What is relevant is the number of files and the types of files being stored. VVV indexes ID3 tags from MP3 files for instance, not just file names, so if you have a ton of MP3 files, that'll be in there. That's just an example of a difference.
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