Hello, we’re glad to announce that the new version of WinCatalog was released. The version number is 2023.1.
The new version can now grab text from PDF files having the text layer and make it searchable just like it did for text files. The thumbnails of first pages are here as well.
Good news for photographers: WinCatalog now contains a new processing module for RAW files and can process RAW files (CR2/CR3, DNG, NEF, ORF, and other types) much faster than previously.
The ability to limit the number of thumbnails per folder was added to all types of files having thumbnails.
The new version contains other minor improvements and bug fixes.
Upgrade
This is an intermediate upgrade. The upgrade to WinCatalog 2023 is free for everyone who has a valid license for WinCatalog 2021, WinCatalog 2020, or purchased a Lifetime Major Upgrades option in addition to the main license.
If you purchased a license for WinCatalog 2019 (meaning the full license, not the upgrade from a previous version) you’re eligible to upgrade to WinCatalog 2020/2021 for free, therefore the 2023 version is free for you as well.
If you are a registered user of any version prior to WinCatalog 2019, you can purchase an upgrade to WinCatalog 2023 at a special upgrade price. Please click here for details.
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To download WinCatalog 2023.1 please click here. You do not need to uninstall a previous version of WinCatalog. Just install the latest version over the existing one.
Posted on: December 22, 2022
This week we celebrate WinCatalog’s 21st birthday. The age of majority for humans, but not for the software. We have a lot of plans for future updates, including a total UI redesign, adding new features, extending and improving existing ones.
But now it is time to light candles on a birthday cake and say thank you to all of you for your support and feedback! For a lot of features, you suggested during these years, for your comments and suggested improvements!
And, finally, Happy Birthday, WinCatalog!
Posted on: October 12, 2022
Hello, a new update for WinCatalog was released on August 9, 2022, the version number is 2021.5.1. The update fixes a critical issue when WinCatalog grabbed, but didn’t display media information for video files. We apologize for the inconvenience.
In addition to the fix WinCatalog now removes unnecessary whitespace from text fields when grabbing Exif tags, and grabs GPS coordinates (Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude) from photos (if available).
Spanish (Latin America) translation was actualized.
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To download WinCatalog 2021.5.1 as a full package please click here. You do not need to uninstall a previous version of WinCatalog. Just install the latest version over the existing one.
If you have already downloaded and installed WinCatalog 2021.5, you may download just the reduced package containing only the modified binaries (8 MB). WinCatalog 2021.5 is required to be installed previously: → download the update.
Posted on: August 9, 2022
Hello, we’re glad to announce that the new version of WinCatalog was just released. The version number is 2021.5.
WinCatalog can now grab Lens information from photos. However, WinCatalog still can’t search using this information it can only display it. The next version (WinCatalog 2023) will have the ability to search using any field, including lens info.
Some of the processing modules in WinCatalog (when processing PDF files, archives except ZIP files, and ISO files) need to create temporary files during the scanning process. By default, WinCatalog uses the system TEMP folder as a location for these files. Now you can specify a custom folder for temporary files by your choice. You can find this option on the General Scanning page individually for each scanning profile. By default, WinCatalog continues using the system TEMP folder.
The ability to limit the number of thumbnails and cover images per folder was added. Sometimes it is needed to have just several thumbnails from an image folder, especially, if the folder contains similar images or sequential shots. This option helps to reduce the catalog file size. The limit may be set individually for pictures, RAW files, thumbnails generated from video files, and cover images grabbed from ID3 tags of audio files. All limits are turned off by default, you can find the mentioned options on the File Processing tab individually for each scanning profile.
The next new feature is the ability not to follow symbolic links. Symbolic links work like shortcuts to folders and can be used, for example, to have the same folder in different places in the file system (the folder may be located on another drive or a different computer in the local network).
Previously, WinCatalog cataloged these folders as normal folders, which caused duplicating files (once when processing the original folder, and second when processing the same folder via symbolic link). Now WinCatalog can process these folders just once, however for compatibility with previous versions (in order to have the same behavior as in the previous version), the option is turned off by default.
The size of the symbolic links is set to 0, this excludes cases when having one or more symbolic links increases the total size of the data stored on the drive.
You can find the option to exclude symbolic links from the scanning process in the Excluding section of the General Scanning tab. As with all other scanning options, it should be set individually for each scanning profile.
WinCatalog displays symbolic links using the green folder icon and always shows the Target (where the folder is actually located) in comments:
The option not to follow symbolic links is on the General Scanning page of a scanning profile:
The update contains other minor improvements and fixes.
Download
To download WinCatalog 2021.5 please click here. You do not need to uninstall a previous version of WinCatalog. Just install the latest version over the existing one.
Posted on: August 8, 2022
Hello, we’re glad to announce that the new version of WinCatalog was just released. The version number is 2021.4
The update adds a new data source for Audio CDs: in addition to MusicBraiz.org, GnuDb.org is now available (unfortunately, without album covers, because GnuDb.org doesn’t have them but with the ability to select from several results if multiple entries are found in the database). Now you can select one out of three options: MusicBrainz.org, then GnuDb.org if found nothing in MusicBrainz. This option is the default out of the box. Two other options restrict WinCatalog to use MucicBrainz.org only, or GnuDb.org only.
A bug was fixed when it wasn’t possible to save scanning profiles imported from .json files.
The “end of the scanning process” sound was returned back (but turned off by default). This option was removed in the 2021.1 version based on feedback, but after making the changes, we started to receive requests to add it back. So, now this option was added back and includes now four different sounds: a Tibetian Gong, two melodies, and the classic Ta-Da sound. Of course, the option isn’t limited by these four sounds, and you can use other sounds you have.
Korean translation was actualized.
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To download WinCatalog 2021.4 please click here. You do not need to uninstall a previous version of WinCatalog. Just install the latest version over the existing one.
Posted on: July 8, 2022
Hello, we’re glad to announce that the new version of WinCatalog was just released. The version number is 2021.3
This is a maintenance update fixing minor issues: it wasn’t possible to cut text from the Search field because autocomplete fired each time. Pressing the CTRL+A in the grid view selects all entries (as previously) but now doesn’t display the ‘no matching entries found’ message. The catalog file converter from the Advanced Disk Catalog file format now supports XML files larger than 4GB. Clicking the red [X] button on the main window doesn’t close WinCatalog now if the scanning process is active. The Italian translation was renewed. Other minor issues were fixed.
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To download WinCatalog 2021.3 please click here. You do not need to uninstall a previous version of WinCatalog. Just install the latest version over the existing one.
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Hello, we’re glad to announce that the new version of WinCatalog was just released. The version number is 2021.2.1
The release fixes the bug when WinCatalog ignored the options not to calculate checksums/hashes for files smaller than, and for files greater than a certain size. The default values for these parameters were used instead.
If you have options to calculate MD5, CRC32, or SHA256 turned on for at least one of your scanning profiles, it is recommended to download and install the update. Otherwise, you may skip it.
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To download WinCatalog 2021.2.1 please click here. You do not need to uninstall a previous version of WinCatalog. Just install the latest version over the existing one.
Posted on: April 8, 2022
Hello, we’re glad to announce that the new version of WinCatalog was just released. The version number is 2021.2.
This is a maintenance update fixing issues with displays having scaling factors larger than 100%, it wasn’t possible to correctly select fields for duplicates finding.
Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown keyboard shortcuts were added to switch tabs.
Dependencies of the processing modules were updated to their latest versions.
The support of MXF files was added to the Media Info processing module.
System requirements changed. The Scanning Module, ZipBackup module, and the Scanning Options UI now require .NET Framework 4.8 (rather than 3.5 as in previous versions).
Several minor bugs were fixed.
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To download WinCatalog 2021.2 please click here. You do not need to uninstall a previous version of WinCatalog. Just install the latest version over the existing one.
Posted on: April 4, 2022
Hello, we’re glad to announce that the new version of WinCatalog was just released. The version number is 2021.1.
The scanning module was optimized to reuse the same programming objects when generating thumbnails, and as a result, the scanning speed was increased for cases when the scanning module grabs a large number of thumbnails for various types of files.
We started a large task of redesigning WinCatalog to make it look modern and fresh. The redesign will result in a completely new version later this year, and now as the first step of this process, the Scanning Options window was redesigned. It doesn’t have a dark theme yet (in order to comply with the other parts), but it is large monitors friendly and works correctly on screens with large scaling factors.
Other changes related to the scanning process. Now you can have individual thumbnail size options for different processing modules, so you can set one thumbnail size for pictures, another for RAW images, music album covers, PDF documents, video thumbnails, book covers, etc.
No more black frames for thumbnails. Thumbnails for images that may have transparency are stored in PNG format. It requires more space on the disk, but as a result, you get a better picture, especially for monochrome images (converting them to JPG often produces just black squares). WinCatalog continues using JPG format for storing thumbnails for image formats that don’t have transparent parts.
The “ta-da” sound and the setting of playing sounds at the end of scanning were removed. Both were there since Windows XP times.
The Select Folder window (that one you see when clicking the Add Folder button) can now display hidden folders (for example, C:\ProgramData). Another addition is that it now allows adding entries by typing or pasting Paths, even if these paths can’t be selected in the Tree View above.
Another important feature: jumping to files in the Grid View. Start typing in the Grid View and the first item with a name that begins with the entered text will be selected. The search is case insensitive, so just start typing. A small hint will appear showing the currently entered text.
Upgrade
This is an intermediate upgrade. The upgrade to WinCatalog 2021 is free for everyone who has a valid license for WinCatalog 2020 or purchased a Lifetime Major Upgrades option in addition to the main license.
If you purchased a license for WinCatalog 2019 (meaning the full license, not the upgrade from a previous version) you’re eligible to upgrade to WinCatalog 2020 for free, therefore the 2021 version is free for you as well.
If you are a registered user of any version prior to WinCatalog 2019, you can purchase an upgrade to WinCatalog 2021 at a special upgrade price. Please click here for details.
Download
To download WinCatalog 2021.1 please click here. You do not need to uninstall a previous version of WinCatalog. Just install the latest version over the existing one.
Posted on: February 18, 2022
Hello, since the last week we started to receive a lot of questions asking if WinCatalog is affected by the log4j Java Security Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105).
Fortunately, it isn’t. WinCatalog or any of its parts are not based on Java and do not use log4j library in any form (original, or ported to another programming platform or language). So, WinCatalog is not affected.
Posted on: December 20, 2021
