The problem I’ve found with archiving either photos or critical busienss data to DVD and removable hard drives is searching them later and managing the physical media library. The same with my flash cards, I never know what’s on them.

I now use a product called Datacatch Librarian www.datacatch.com It catalogs or indexes all my removable media and extends the Windows file management system so that you are seamlessly searching for files stored on removable media within Windows.

So you search for online and offline photos in the same standard Windows search; you even browse the thumbnails of photos stored on your DVD’s. You manage the physical media in exactly the same way your put a Word document in a newly created folder, you locate your discs in a storage container icon on your desktop AND it tells you what slot their in.

The best bit is because it looks and feels like Windows there’s nothing new to learn, it just the same as searching and organizing folders in Windows, very cool and worth a look.