I use Filemaker Pro to catalogue all my archives and I find it very effective and easy to locate the cds.
I use filemaker a lot too. Nothing fancy, just a simple database with notes about what is contained on any particular CD or DVD. I recently started using one of the new Epsons that will print directly onto CD/DVD (a 960). One of my FileMaker layouts is a CD label that includes one representative image from the shoot. I have a simple Photoshop action that preps and stores the small jpeg thumbnail. All I do is fill out the FileMaker info for the disk and pop it in the printer. Very quick easy to read labels and the FileMaker database is updated at the same time. I find I can locate a disk faster when looking for a particular thumbnail than when reading piles of label numbers. I use to do this only for disks I was delivering as my old CD printer was quite cumbersome. These new models are great and make my files look much neater and easier to use.
I'm spending too much (valuable) time burning to cd / dvd,
This can be a problem. I tend to let things pile up and spend much of a day moving archives to CD/DVD. You can speed up the job substantially with more than one burner. If you use Toast, simply duplicate the app and give it a different name. Launch both, select a different burner in each and burn away. That way you can be making two copies of a disk at once. I've done this with CDs under OS-X. I've not tried it with DVD. I seem to recall doing it under OS-9 too, but I'm not sure. Toast Titanium is required for this to work, as thats the only version that will work in the background. Burning disks on OS-X is also helpful in that you can continue on with other work while the disks burn with no real noticeable slow down.
Bob Smith
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