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Installing and Configuring CathyĪfter you’ve downloaded Cathy, extract the single file Cathy.exe to a safe location. He’s done an admirable job tending to the little project over the years and still routinely updates it a few times a year.

Optional: 1 copy of Cath圜md for automated local index updating.Ĭathy is a simple and free tool that the author, Robert Vašíček, originally created back in the 1990s to catalog his collection of MP3 files.

What Do I Need?įor today’s tutorial you’ll need the following things: How light weight? The apps take up less than 200k of space and even indexing every local, network, and detached storage device in our entire office only yielded a collection of file indexes around 30MB in size. Instead you’re going to enjoy dead simple searching, lightening fast catalog creation, and all in a lightweight and portable package you can pluck right off your computer and take with you.

You won’t have to perform any arcane edits to Windows, force Windows to jump through any indexing hoops, or any of the other nonsense many guides make you put up with in order to just get Windows to acknowledge that the file “Taxes 2009 1040.pdf” actually exists somewhere in your constellation of data storage. Today we’re going to show you how to index everything from your network shares to your flash drive to the backup hard drive you pull out once a month. If you’ve come to depend on that lighting fast local search that tools like Everything provide, it can be extremely frustrating trying to find files that are beyond the reach of such tools. Once you start dealing with multiple disks, removable media (such as data DVDs, flash drives, backup files on USB HDDs, etc.) and network shares, however, searching gets progressively more difficult if not impossible.

There are great search tools like Everything from VoidTools that rip through your master file table in a fraction of a second to find exactly what you’re searching for. When every single file you have is stored directly on your computer, it’s easy to find what you need.