I found this missing in 3.0 but back with 2.4 you could reassign and tell it what # to start with. So let say you sold a couple movies or what ever let say you got a gap between 250-255 so you are missing 251-254 cause you sold them.

In 2.0-2.4 You could reassign renumber 250 and on starting with the # 250 and DVDP would renumber 250 to the end of your database.

In 3.0 you can reassign # but it will atomically reordering  it by title, purchase date or release date When all I want is a simple renumbering and not a reordering of my DVD's titles.

I can't see any difference between the two.

I may be missing something, but isn't that what the "Do not renumber" box is for?  He could check the box next to "Below" and enter '250'.

Randall, I really don't know what you want to do there.

You want to renumber your whole collection (or parts of it), but based on what? You have gaps you need to close? You have double numbers that need to be rectified?

If you want to renumber, you need to say what the basis is...

As I said, that should be covered by "Partial Assignment: Close Gaps".

I haven't used this in a while, so it could be that it does some additional minor things, rather than just decreasing the numbers as needed... But I could imagine (obviously not tested) that he Order By is only used for full reassignments.

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Randall, I really don't know what you want to do there.

You want to renumber your whole collection (or parts of it), but based on what? You have gaps you need to close? You have double numbers that need to be rectified?

If you want to renumber, you need to say what the basis is...

I Sold 26 movies DVD's from my main list starting at 250. All I want is to renumber 250,351,252 etc It can't be done in DVDP because it ends up reordering all the dvd by title, release date or date dvd was brought when all I wanted was a simple renumbering.

No reordering of DVD's  The close DVDP has to what I want I insert collection number (right click on a dvd then insterted then it will shift dvd by 1 number) I spent 10-20 mins renumbering them my self manual.

I don't see why you all don't get what I am saying.

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Quoting ya_shin:

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Randall, I really don't know what you want to do there.

You want to renumber your whole collection (or parts of it), but based on what? You have gaps you need to close? You have double numbers that need to be rectified?

If you want to renumber, you need to say what the basis is...

I Sold 26 movies DVD's from my main list starting at 250. All I want is to renumber 250,251,252 etc It can't be done in DVDP because it ends up reordering all the dvd by title, release date or date dvd was brought when all I wanted was a simple renumbering.

No reordering of DVD's  The close DVDP has to what I want is insert collection number (right click on a dvd then insterted then it will shift dvd by 1 number) I spent 10-20 mins renumbering them my self manual.

I don't see why you all don't get what I am saying.

As I have said before (I believe I understood the problem), Partial Reassignment with only Eliminate Gaps checked should do the requested task, almost anyway.

I have done this before and remember now that Randall is right. Besides closing the gaps the Order By is applied as well. I number mine according the sequence they are added to the collection. So choosing Order By Purchase Date will get me close to the result I want; only close, as occasionally items I order first arrive after stuff that was ordered after that.

In order to avoid renumbering too much stuff manually, I do it like this:
I export the collection as CSV (thanks Mark ) before renumbering and then again after renumbering. That will then allow me to find the few spots in my collection where the above described problem occurred and renumber those manually. Nor sure, Randall, how your collection is originally numbered, but maybe something similar might speed things up for next time.



So, I herewith second the request, that Partial Renumbering to Eliminate Gaps without using Order By should become possible.