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customgenres.dat error
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantpauls42
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yes.. I could sync I suppose. The problem is with making sure I'm always using an upto date copy. Since I tend to use both to update. I'll have a look at Allway Sync to see if it symcs in both directions.


Yes it does so, you can define also rules, and it shows what it will change, look good before you execute the syncing, and have the time for both computers synchronise regulary with the timeservers thruogh your Operating system


Well, I was playing with this last night. I had it to sync automatically when it detected a file change (and with a delay of 5 mins) but nothing happened (it didn't detect anything). But I did a manual check and it detected the changes. I.e when I tested adding one profile - nearly 40 MB's of files came up as needing to be copied. 

I'm a little disappointed by the size of the transfer. I can imagine doing a handful of tweaks in a evening, each one of which would trigger this transfer.

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Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions.
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the sync would be on this
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Mijn documenten\DVD Profiler\Databases to the location on the Vista machine were the database is? total size on the database for arround 1950 Profiles would be 70.5 Mb. That is anyway the amount that would travel over you're network back and forward using sync or direct use of the database on your vista computer?


Yes, I found about 40 MB. (The location of course is different for me since I moved the database to the E drive).

I'll try later on this evening with booting up my laptop and see how slow it is at transferring those files.
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Oh good.. I'm getting the error again on my desktop PC even though I've been syncing the databases between the laptop / desktop and not going across the network updating the files directly.

And I enjoy the small delay whilst the actors database gets synced across the network - all 300+ mb.
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syncing both ways or oneway direction to Vista?


both ways, although the last way (before the errors restarted on the desktop (XP)) was XP -> Vista.
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what happens if you let the DVD Profiler run in XP compatibility mode on the Vista, I think you can set this in the properties of the DVD Profiler exe (right click on the exe file)
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-compatibility-mode/


I haven't tried that. I'll give it a whirl.

I'm surprised that not one other person seems to have had this problem.
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Well, it's all sorted out now.

I did further investigation when I found that any custom genres were being silently ignored. I.e. I would apply them to profiles, shut down dvd profiler, bring it back up - new genres were missing.

When I tried deleting the file (so I could try and re-create it) I got a locking error.

I back up my data every night - and the program I use had apparently locked this single file so it couldn't be written to etc.

Annoyingly the lock seems to have lasted a week even though other files were being backed up automatically each night.

Alls well, that ends well.

Thanks again for the help I got - it enabled me to run down the solution. 
Paul
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