Discus - 4.24

Boy I wish all produts were this simple; just a few files on the hard drive, doesn't touch the system or install patches or plug-ins or any other crud, and starts up in less than a second. I have Photoshop CS4 but when I want to whip out a label on my clever little DYMO DiscPainter, I can have a label printed by the time Photoshop has finished loading its 1000 plug-ins etc. Why do products have to evolve into 5000 files spread across 500 folders and are so delicate that the slightest re-arrange means a reinstall and then upgrading endlessly. I love the way Discus does its labeling job fast and easy and is ultimately very simple. I don't label every day and never read manuals so a product has to be simple for my taste and usage patterns.

I give it my highest recommendation.

Have used Discus since version 2. When I dragged the 4.21 update to Applications, it overwrote 4.20 then wouldn't open. Could not get 4.20 back.
After several download/install attempts (from different sources) I had to reinstall 4.12 from the disk.
The ART file is in the same folder. Tech support has responded but after a couple of attempts to fix the problem the comment was "Yes, that's strange. Log says it seems to be in a loop of some kind." Have not heard from them in two weeks. Anyone have a workaround?

....a phrase that is beautifully apt for those good folks at MightyMouse. It means "Buyer beware!!!" I'm not buying ANYTHING from this outfit without first receiving an ironclad guarantee that the product is not going to make my previous files obsolete.

Any of you who upgraded to Discus 3 will remember having paid good money for a product that should never have made it out of Beta. It took SEVERAL MONTHS for MightyMouse to wring the problems out and they did this on the money they obtained from suckers like me who trustingly upgraded to a product that wasn't ready to be put on the market.

In the same vein, they have now sent me an offer for Discus 4 upgrade that says: "If you are planning to get a DiscPainter, please send an email to support@magicmouse.com with the subject COUPON and we will email you back instructions on whatever special deal we arrange with DYMO." In other words, they have NO special deal and hope that if enough of their clients write in, they could PERHAPS cut one with DYMO. To me, it's just another example of their somewhat twisted thinking.

So....CAVEAT EMPTOR. I'm not buying anything from these guys without a hard and fast guarantee that what I'm buying is not (again) a pig in a poke.

Oh yeah, these guys are really smart too. They sent me an email that says: "If this email address for you is incorrect, please send your new email to sales@magicmouse.com with the subject new email, and be sure to include your older email address so we can figure out which one to update." If my email was wrong, how would I have received their message??? Duh!!!

I sincerely hope someone at Mighty Mouse reads this review. I don't even have the energy or desire to correspond with them on the subject.

It may be a One Trick Pony....but it does that one trick supremely well and with infinite variation and excellent result. Once you learn its quirky interface you will come to appreciate the quality of this app. It may be pricey, but if you do any real quantity of disk labeling, you will recoup your investment in a very short time and be pleased with the results.

.............for something that looks like a one-trick pony - even one with as many bells and whistles as this one appears to have. There's got to be something cheaper out there that works............