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Adding a Disk Dialog

Adding a Disk Dialog
This dialog allows you to select a drive for adding to the catalog
1

List of drives

1. List of drives
The list of drives displays all available local discs and mapped network drives. If you want to index an unmapped network location, use Add folder command instead (see Adding a Folder Dialog).
 
2

Drive name

2. Drive name
Using the Drive Name edit box you can set the name to the disc as it will be shown in the catalog.
 
3

Location in the catalog

3. Location in the catalog
Using the Location in the catalog combo box you can select where to add the new disc.
 
4

Disc number

4. Disc number
Using this field you can assign an unique number to each disc. The Disk Number is automatically incremented field. On the example above, the next value will be 272, then 273, etc.
 
5

Disk location

and sublocation

5. Disk location
and sublocation
Here you can set where the disk is physically located. It could be a physical shelf, cardboard box, CD binder, disc wallet or anything you want.
 
The Location field consists of two part: General Location and Sub Location.
 
General Location (or Location) means something that can be the same for several items, for example a cardboard box, or a disc wallet. The General locations can be managed by the location manager.
 
The Sub Location makes the location more exact. In example above it shows the page number inside the disc wallet.
6

Scanning options

6. Scanning options
Select the scanning options profile that will be used to process the current disk. WinCatalog remembers your choice for each disk and reuse this profile each time you update the disk.
 
7

OK button

7. OK button
Click OK button to start scanning process
 
8

Cancel button

8. Cancel button
Click Cancel button to close the dialog and cancel adding a disk