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Does anyone catalog their icons?

With the bevy of icons we collect from IB alone, I'm guessing that people around here aren't limiting themselves to just IB icons. I have too many and I can't keep track. When I have need of one, I can't think of the set that might contain it.

Does anyone save a soft- or hardcopy catalog of your icons?

And if so, how do you do it?

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Posted by silente on Jul 25, 2007 in Blab | 14 comments

austingirl on Jul 25, 2007

I seem to have the same confusion. If you figure out how to catalog...please leave a note in my box. ;)

JBVisions on Jul 25, 2007

You can use Google Picasa which is a free download. It's huge but it finds every graphic you have on your machine and puts them in an album arranged by folder. You can move them around and set up web albums.

There's a lot in it and I really haven't spent a lot of time looking at it but I guarantee it'll find stuff you never knew you had.

silente on Jul 25, 2007

I've used Picasa at home for my photo collection. Didn't know they handled ICO files as well. I'll have to check it out.

I am concerned about them not being able to segment into different libraries though. If I 'member correctly, you CAN disable individual folders and folder trees but you can't save that setting as a distinct "library" of items. Thus allowing you to have a "Icons" library and a "Photos" library.

I'll check it out though. Thanx.

bjendrick on Jul 25, 2007

I haven't actually created a library of icons as yet, but when I do, I use the Microangelo Librarian. Very nice in that it can comb a directory of files, and pull out any ICO resources it finds. Very fun to point at the C:\Windows\System32 directory, or at the C:\Program Files\ to see what's in there.

However, I know it's not the best software out there when it comes to editing icons & such.

ftapao on Jul 25, 2007

I use Pixadex for everything but the IB icons.

bjendrick on Jul 25, 2007

Pixadex is for Mac, anything for Windows that might work better than Microangelo?

Stratification on Jul 25, 2007

I keep looking at Pixadex, haven't taken the plunge yet though.

elnitido52 on Jul 25, 2007

Picasa cannot handle IB icons since they are too small, it can handle IconShock icon because they have a maximum size of 256x256 pixels.

JBVisions on Jul 25, 2007

Thanks El that's useful to know.

rubylily on Sep 19, 2007

I use IconWorkshop from Axialis.com. It does much more than just catalog icons, images, etc. They have a trial download, but it's been well worth the purchase to me.