New in this version: compressed catalog files, exclusion list, hidden file skipping.
Changelog:
- Catalog files are now by default compressed to save space. There are stored as zip archives. It can be disabled in Options>Cataloguing>Write zipped catalog files. This version supports both compressed (.zip) and uncompressed (.xml) catalog files. Previous versions support only uncompressed xml files. Zipped catalog files from this version can be manually uncompressed to be loaded in the previous version of JDiskCat.
- New option: skip hidden files and folders. Note: some system files are not displayed in Finder on MacOS, but can’t be detected as hidden by java. These items can also be added to the exclusion list to be omitted.
- Definable exclusion list: file and directory names that won’t be included in catalog files.
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I just ran across this the other day, and I’m starting to archive my external hard drives. I’ve got about 20 of them cataloged so far. Mostly using it in Linux Mint.
I just wanted to say that I appreciate what you’ve created, and this appears to be a very useful program. It helped me to find an interesting anomaly in one of my backups. I had a file that had a 0x7f character embedded in the file name. that caused your program some discomfort.. Which I do not blame it for. It would be nice in a subsequent version if you would actually display the file name in question instead of just the normal traffic, error dump, but I wrote a little bash script to find the file so I could rename it.
Anyway, all in all, it’s a pretty good cataloguing system. I use a mix of one, two, and 4 TB drives, and while searching is a little slow. I guess that happens when you have 100,000 directories on a single drive. Lol. I wanted to let you know that I very much appreciate this program. It is useful. Thank you.
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Here’s a fixed version: http://mrsebe2.bplaced.net/jdiskcat_beta/jdiskcat_1.5.1_beta_17-04-2026.jar
Somehow the 0x7f character wasn’t correctly escaped by the xml encoder. I’ve also fixed missing corrupted file notice for compressed catalog files (it worked for uncompressed catalog files). I’ve also added more detailed error messages.