I’ve already covered backing up your DVD and CD collections using cathy.exe. Strangely enough, I ran into a problem with my own advice. Sure, I’d made backups using cathy.exe then I switched computers. I’d already backed up my backups, meaning that I’d put my cathy folder on a DVD. The question now was, where is that DVD?

Here’s a tip that will save you all kinds of grief. Zip up your cathy folder, that would be the one that contains the cathy.exe files and also the files that cathy creates when it catalogs your DVDs and CDs.

Once you have the cathy.zip file, or whatever you want to call it, email it to yourself. Better yet, take my advice in a previous post and use gmail drive to send the zip file up to your gmail account.

This is a very short post but, to me, a very important one. Now I can access my latest cathy.zip file on whatever computer I am using, simply by opening my email account. Thanks for reading!