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Posted by Wayne K
Jan 24, 2014 at 03:48 PM
Yes, I’m referring to attributes displayed as columns that allow you to organize your files. At this point, I don’t care if it’s proprietary…I’d be thrilled with something that worked. It’s really puzzling to me that this isn’t a standard feature of file managers.
Last night, I tried: WinCatalog 2014, Where Is It 2013, Disk Explorer 3, Data Crow, Free Commander, Nexus File, Free Commander, and Total Commander. Of these, only Total Commander had customizable columns but I found it awkward to use and you it appears you can’t move any column to the left of the name column on the left side.
For me, the best choices so far are Opus Directory and Xyplorer.
Posted by Achim
Jan 24, 2014 at 04:54 PM
Wayne K wrote:
Yes, I’m referring to attributes displayed as columns that allow you to
>organize your files. At this point, I don’t care if it’s
>proprietary…I’d be thrilled with something that worked.
Well, if I had the chance to thrill someone with a catalog software, I would suggest BrokenX Diskmanager.
It offers customizable attributes and fields, catalogs content of archives, mediafile metatags and so on. Maybe it’s what you are looking for.
Best regards
Achim
Posted by Jon Polish
Jan 24, 2014 at 08:35 PM
Wayne K wrote:
>I thought MyInfo would handle this with ease but that didn’t work out
>either. If you select a column of pdf’s in your file manager and drag
>it into MyInfo, it creates a nice list of files. Unfortunately, these
>are not links; they’re embedded files. There’s an 11 MB limit on file
>sizes, which alone makes it unusable for me. In addition, if you modify
>the original file, you have to remember to embed the new version in
>MyInfo. Too much trouble.
>
>Zoot might do the job but I haven’t tried it yet.
>
>Wayne
Have you tried Ultra Recall? In addition to custom attributes, notes, etc. there is no limit on file size. Plus with text based pdfs, UR indexes them so the contents can be located using UR’s search. I have found this to be very useful.
Jon
Posted by Wayne K
Jan 24, 2014 at 09:13 PM
Achim,
Thanks for the suggestion. I downloaded it and spent an hour going through the help files and trying out trying out various commands. It’s probably my own shortcomings but honestly I couldn’t make sense of it. Almost all the columns are based on attributes that cannot be changed.
I tried creating custom columns using “User-defined Extra Information” but that didn’t work out either. I was unable to click on the column and directly enter information. The only way I could change anything was using a dialogue that took several steps just to enter one word for one file. It was really unintuitive for me and I gave up at that point.
Also, the display was difficult to read because there are no grid lines to guide your eyes across the column entries. This was compounded by the fact that when you select an entry, the selection box only highlights the left-most column—it does not extend across all the columns.
Wayne
Posted by Wayne K
Jan 24, 2014 at 09:15 PM
Jon,
Ultra Recall was another program I found unintuitive. Again, that may very well be my fault. I’d be willing to take a look at it again. Can you get it to display the files in a spreadsheet-like format, as you see in file managers?
Wayne