Managing a large collection of DVD-RWs with mixed content???

[Board Room]

Hi

I got my first DVD recorder in Feb 04 and have now amassed over 200 discs. I'm interested to know what methods people use to catalgoue their discs.

Its easy to keep separate discs for favourite programmes or specific categories eg, movies, wildlife/nature, current affairs, dramas and colour code the cover sheets etc.

But its the mixed content discs I'm having trouble with. I have many discs with mixed recordings and I'm often having a hard time trying to locate a specific recording on a disc as I cant remember which one!! Of course I write a note of the content on the case label but that doesnt help me much when I have a wall of discs that all look the same!

Can anyone help??

TIA

B R

[glockjs]

if your havin prob i would take the time to type an insert for each dvd.

me personally, i just write off the wall names on each so it's easier to remember since each is different

[skebenin]

Check out disk catalog software. It's been around as long as there have been disks - used to be popular back when floppies were big (they held so little, people would have huge collections of them).

For disks that have a large diverse collection of files, trying to catalog the disk with inserts is almost futile. There's too much and too little room, and as you've discovered, it's too hard to go thru a large collection to find what you're looking for. Just give the disks meaningless titles and rely on the catalog. One easy approach is to base it on julian date (year plus day of year - for example Feb 14, 2002 might be DVD02-045). If you expect to ever do multiples in one day, append a serial to the julian; DVD02-045-01. Using julian makes it easy to sort, but it doesn't really matter - just choose something you're comfortable will be unique.