Getting Organised - DiscCatalogMaker

Ancient Cuneiform Writing

My organisation programme goes on. I have now managed to feed almost my entire collection of data/software/odds and ends, M-Discs, DVDs and CDs through the DiscCatalogMaker programme which is indexing the whole lot for me. I’m hoping that my M-Disc archive will last for decades though perhaps not millenia like the really old technology, cuneiform script on clay tablets.

I’ve given each disc a unique number and all the discs are now in numbered sleeves in an aluminium box. So, if I need “that DVD that came with that xyz” years ago I can just search the catalog for it, get the disk number and fish it out. No more wondering where I put the disc which would always have been “somewhere safe”.

Same goes for video clips and photos on discs. The great thing, for me anyway, is that I can find everything and there is no single point of failure where I could lose the whole lot.

One of the main drivers in this was to avoid having everything stored in the cloud as I simply don’t need immediate access to this stuff so I didn’t want to be paying for long term storage. The more important stuff (old videos and photos) is now on the apparently very stable M-Discs, we’ll just hope for the best now.