I have 18 hard drives, most of them on the shelf...

We’re publishing the recent testimonial from Bob Snow. Bob uses WinCatalog since 2004 and what he’s saying:

Hard Drives First off I never write a review if it’s negative. Everyone can evaluate a program differently. My goals in a review is to pass on features that will help someone else.

Reviews can be very misleading. I have a product that I have used for over 12 years called Opus. I will not start my computer without it. To say it’s a replacement for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is extremely misleading. And that’s what it’s always compared to. It’s a product that does everything, everything I need to do for computer control. There is no way that you can fire this up for 30 days and write a review. You have to live it.

Your product [meaning WinCatalog, M.R.] fits in to this bucket along with Dragon, Snagit, MacroExpress and WinRAR, that’s the kind of company you keep. You extend the capabilities of Opus, capturing and controlling history, making it fit into the got to have.

I’m using your product, teaming with Opus to save, my company. I was a victim of a very savage identity theft that dealt a devastating blow to all of my critical files. I have 18 hard drives, most of them on the shelf, that holds proprietary data critical to my company. The data deal with every home built since 1989 in the Wisconsin. I was able to recover my losses and continue on because I had made the decision to use WinCatalog back in the day.

So to me this is why your product is a necessity to me.

  1. You were here back in the day, today and I’m confident tomorrow. (Reliability)

  2. Extremely easy for me to use with no teaching necessary when others help.

  3. Very robust and does what I need when it comes to a history of my data.

Thank you very much for having an idea, developing it and successfully marketing your finished product that fits in well with other reliable software. You say it sounds a bit patronized. Give it a try and see what you’re saying.

Bob Snow

Posted on: September 3, 2013

WinCatalog 4.15 Minor Update

Hello,

WinCatalog 2013 version 4.15 is available. The new update fixes two minor issues:

  • In some cases sorting by Type worked like sorting by Name. The reason was that sorting by Type considered all files (except pictures and archives) as having the same type (file), so the Name column was used (as a second sorting criteria, which is used for identical values in other columns).
  • In some cases on search queries returning large result lists (more than 10-15+ thousands found items) some items could be lost. WinCatalog does not lose any results now, however the GUI freezes for a while on fetching huge result sets now while tries to display all the results. We’re planning to solve this as well.
  • Chinese translation has been updated.

The latest version is always available here.

Posted on: September 3, 2013

WinCatalog 4.11 - a Quick Fix

Hello, the new update (version 4.11) of WinCatalog has been released. The new update fixes an issue: the only long date format (like Friday, August 16, 2013) has been available for saving into reports. Now you can switch from long to short and vice versa.

The French translation of user interface has been also updated.

The update is recommended for all French users and for those who generates reports and wish to include dates in short format.

The latest version is always available here.

Posted on: August 16, 2013

WinCatalog 4.1 is here

We’re glad to inform you that a new version of WinCatalog has been just released. A few bugs have been fixed, new features have been added.

WinCatalog displays properties of a video file Now WinCatalog can grab basic information about video files like resolution, frame rate, duration, codec information, etc.

The search feature has been improved: now you can limit search results by a single brunch. The new option has been implemented as a search filter “Look in”.

New interface languages have been added: Chinese Traditional, Dutch, Indonesian, Italian and Korean.

The upgrade to version 4.1 is free for all users who have already purchased WinCatalog 2011, 2012, and 2013 and for those who got WinCatalog 2013 via the GOTD offer.

You can download WinCatalog 2013 here.

The new feature of filtering search results by a single branch is on the picture below:

WinCatalog filters search results by a single collection branch

Have a nice August!

Posted on: August 1, 2013

I simply love this program...

“I simply love this program. It has all things that makes a great program:

  • easy to setup and use,
  • nice “explorer” like interface
  • powerful ways to catalog and search your backup data

If you have thousands and thousands of DVD-Rs and have constantly to find a specific file among them, this is the program for you.”

Edward C J Wang

Posted on: May 13, 2013

A new update of WinCatalog 2013 (version 4)

WinCatalog Version 4 A new version of WinCatalog has just been released. The version number is 4. The new version contains two major improvements.

The search feature has been redesigned. The search for duplicates has been moved to search filters and now you can filter the results and keep only duplicated items.

The ability to group search results is now available in a regular search.

The second major improvement will make happy photographers. WinCatalog 2013 can now create and keep thumbnails for RAW images. There is a large number of digital camera and image types supported. The extensions list: .raw, .cr2, .crw, .nef, .tif, .nrw, .kdc, .raf, .pef, .mrw, .3fr, .dcr, .dng, .erf, .arw, .orf, .mef, .mos, .rw2, .sr2.

One more bot of good news: the upgrade to version 4 is free for all users who have already purchased WinCatalog 2011, 2012, and 2013.

You can download WinCatalog 2013 here.

The screenshot of the search results demonstrates both new features:

WinCatalog 4 new features

Posted on: March 23, 2013

I was able to consolidate several hard drives in short order

“Great program - finds “lost” files in a heartbeat. I was able to consolidate several hard drives in short order. Thanks WinCatalog”

Barbara Blackwell / posted on Facebook

Posted on: March 1, 2013

The program is very fast indeed

“The program is very fast indeed. My catalog is already more then 1 Gb (1.241.161 to be exact) and is responding very direct.”

André Meester

Posted on: February 26, 2013

Good software for cataloging discs of any kinds!

“Good software for cataloging discs of any kinds!! CD’s DVD’s Bluerays hard drives, USB drives, SD’s, just about any and all used it for years here in our recording studios!!”

Kerry Spencer / posted on Facebook

Posted on: February 21, 2013

Best software for catalogging external harddrives

“Best software for catalogging external harddrives…”

Cindy Conrads / posted on Facebook

Posted on: February 20, 2013