One of the more curious aspects of TapeTrack is how it displays tape information, and how this is often at odds with how people initially perceive how the data should be displayed.

Most companies who acquire TapeTrack have been performing some kind of tape management function for decades. Initially this management was associated with a mainframe and the management revolved around a Picking and Distribution List.

Each day the Picking and Distribution List would be produced, and it would comprise of 4 parts (presuming there were only two locations).

1. Tapes to be sent offsite to the vault (picking).
2. Tapes to be returned from the vault (picking).
3. Tapes to be received from the vault (distribution).
4. Tapes to be put away at the vault (distribution).

For each of the picking lists, there was a corresponding distribution list which had the exact same tapes on it.

Where each party had their own tracking process in place, either a spreadsheet, or some sort of home-grown application,