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	General information on this page This page contains numerous information on the program DriveScan Plus Please consider, that we cannot present all functions on this page. Thus, we don't describe all integrated dialogs and functions here.
	A tidy house, a tidy mind ... everybody knows this saying - but tidiness requires a lot of time in most cases. But it is not difficult at all to bring some structure into your media collection - DriveScan Plus is the optimal tool to support you in realising this plan. The program manages your entire collection - no matter if it contains 10, 100 or even 1,000 data media - and brings the desired structure into your collection by allowing you to sort the media in freely definable categories (as many as you want). For instance, you can save all CDs and DVDs you obtained attached to computer magazine XY in the category "XY-CDs, DVDs 2002-2004". Scanning a medium lasts between some seconds and a few minutes. So, your collection is digitalized in a short period of time. The duration of the scan process depends on the size of the medium you want to add to the database. If you have done this work once, you can navigate through the folders and files of any medium as you used to do in the Windows Explorer - with the slight difference that the corresponding medium has not to be inserted in or connected to your computer. Powerful search functions help you to find folders and files without difficulty.
	The program interface of DriveScan Plus We tried to design the user interface as Windows-Explorer-like as possible. The dialogs and program messages are self-explaining and make it easy to get used to the work with the program in a few minutes. In the upper part of the window you will find a toolbar which allows you to access the most important program functions with one click. The main part contains three lists. In the left one, all available categories are displayed, in the middle you see all media and folders of the selected category and the right one contains the corresponding files. In a status bar at the buttom of the window you steadily get some general information on the number of categories, media, folders and files. For further information click »here«.
	Scanning media To be able to have offline-access on your media, you have to scan them before. During this process, DrivScan Plus reads the folder and file structure (and some further information) from the medium and stores the data in a database on your local hard disk or on a network drive. The duration of this process depends on the number of files on the medium and varies between some seconds and a few minutes. The created files are very small - a large database with 300 media takes only about 30 MB disk space. You can influence the behaviour of the scan process easily by editing the scan optoins. You can for example scan the contents of zip files and information on MP3 files (ID3-tags) which makes it easier to find those data afterwards. For further information click »here«.
	Audio-CD support DriveScan Plus offers a fantastic feature which saves you a lot of money since you don't have to type whole track lists into your computer any more: After having scanned an Audio CD, DriveScan Plus accesses an online database that contains tousands of CD tracklists. There the program looks for your CD and loads a tracklist. Afterwards, the tracknames are saved as annotations for your files. Thus, you will find your songs in a second later on! For further information click »here«.
	Searching in the database A powerful and enormously quick search function helps you to find files and folders. A search in a database with 1,000,000 files lasts about one minute on a standard computer. The search functionality is divided in two tabs and can be influenced by lots of options so that only such files will appear in the search results lists for example, which have a specific filesize. Furthermore you can command DriveScan Plus to search in the entire database or you can select a certain category which speeds up the search process. For further information click »here«.
	Managing several databases You can of course define the location, where the program stores its database. So, it is possible to store the database on a hard disk but you can also choose an USB tick or a network drive. You can command the program to show you a dialog at startup, which allows you to select one of up to 10 different databases. Switching databases is also possible while the program is running. Therefore, you can separate your personal data from business data for example. For further information click »here«.
	Data exchange DriveScan Plus contains a function which allows you to exchange your data easily with other users of the program but it's also possible to create backup files of you entire database. Import and export feature assist you to create those files and to integrate the data in the program. Users of the program "CD-Catalog for Windows" can use this feature to import the complete CD-Catalog database in DriveScan Plus. For further information click »here«.
	Advantages of DriveScan Plus Not only CDs can be scanned but also DVDs, ZIP- and floppy disk drives as well as all other types of drives are supported Audio-CDs can be scanned and labeled automatically by accessing an online database to download the corresponding track lists. So, you don't have to type those lists by hand! Scanning media is much more comfortable now and works faster because of further automatization Media can be scanned again (interesting especially when working with CD/DVD-R/Ws) Scanning zip files is possible now (thus, increased quality of your search results) MP3-ID3-tags with information on title, album, year of publication etc. can be saved in the database Manage up to 10 different databases Files, which are scatterd over several media can be copied to the hard disk all at once (batch export) You can add comments to every folder and every file You can add a so-called media number to every medium, which makes it easier to locate the medium in your shelf for example. Search result lists can be saved and opened Both, the search results list and the statistics overview can be saved as .csv files and opened in programs like Microsoft Excel.