Chapter 2. Quick start

Table of Contents
Scanning
Finding

After reading this you will be able to find any file or directory by its name through your entire collection of cd's. When you will have a few scanned CDs, consider reading Chapter 3

GTKtalog is composed of two main screen parts which let you browse the currently opened catalog. The left frame shows the disks. Each one can be browsed in order to select a subdirectory. The right frame shows the files and directories of the selected directory in the first frame.

The first scan will create a new catalog before proceding.

Scanning

For each cd you add :

While scanning your cd, GTKtalog will show a window to stop the current scan ... don't click :). When the scan is finished, the window disappear and the cdrom is ejected. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the GTKtalog window shows the evolution of the scan process.

If you get the message box "Could not mount the device. Is the CD player empty ?", please read the TOCHANGE faq TOCHANGE to solve the problem. It's a quite common error for a first start and it should not prevent you from using GTKtalog.

Consider clicking on the "Save button" after scanning a few CDs. This will avoid you rescanning them in the case your computer crashes, your processor stops ... Choose a location on the disk and click on "Ok". A progress bar in the lower right corner of GTKtalog lets shows the evolution of the save process.

You can exit anytime from GTKtalog clicking on the "Exit" button.

If you have modified your catalog but not saved it yet, a box will ask you what to do. Answer :