Catalogs
Each time a tape is mounted, Canister will create a Catalog for it. Canister Catalogs are special folders containing tiny stubs for each file on your tape, and are mounted as a read-only virtual drive each time Canister opens.
When Canister is open, all Catalogs are available as a virtual drive called LTO Archive. This requires a driver installation which Canister will prompt for. If not, download the installer directly from our servers. To access catalogs without a virtual drive, Alt-Click the Catalog icon in Canister (top-right).
As Canister creates a Catalog when mounting a tape, which is updated after each Archive, old Catalogs are archived as well and moved into a hidden folder named LTO Tape (serial).history
To see previous generations of your Catalogs, enable Show Hidden Files in Finder with the shortcut Shift-Command-.
To clean up the Catalog, or remove for instance test entries, you can open the original location where the stubs are saved by Alt/Option-Clicking the Catalog icon in Canister. This will open Finder in ~/Library/Application Support/Canister/Catalogs.
Currently, it's not yet possible to use Catalogs to tell Canister which files to retrieve. This is on the roadmap, together with importing and exporting of Catalogs.
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