Basically, slide down the collection to fill in the gap.  Remove #5, #6 becomes #5, #7 becomes #6, and so on.

I would like this.  Since I order my collection ID's based on purchase date, I have a work around with a manual sort but this type of resequence would be very handy if I ever change that.

Or maybe the option to never fill-in a missing slot, to always grab the next highest number.

I'm afraid there are far too many obstacles and what-ifs for this ever to be implemented.

What if there are more gaps "along the road"? What if I deleted number #6 but there's no number #17. What happens with number #18? Will it become #16 or #17?

What if there are multiple entries with the same number "along the road", e.g. two number #42. Will one remain #42 and the other become #41 and if so which one will be which? Will both become #41?


Renumbering a sorted list is quite easy, but rather randomly decreasing numbers is a whole different game.

Just sayin'.

Quoting GSyren:

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Well, I absolutely do not want any renumbering when I delete a title. But as long as the default behaviour remains as is, I have no objection against any optional renumbering scheme.

Contrary to what the thread title might suggest, I would not want it to automatically reassign collection numbers until told to do so.  In this circumstance I just don't want it to make any other changes when reassigning numbers, and it would be nice to have that option available when/where a DVD is removed, as well as adding that option to the reassignment preferences.        -kd5-

I'm half afraid to remove Battlestar Galactica: Razor from my collection, the only 2 options available to me now are to Reassign Collection Numbers and let DVD Profiler rearrange or make changes to my collection as well, then go back and change everything back the way it was (major PITA), or remove the DVD and manually change numbers to fill in the gap left behind by removing it.  Since this is in the B's, that should take one hell of a long time, however if I do it manually I can be assured that nothing else will get changed. 

I'd rather there was a 3rd option.      -kd5-

Alpha/Numeric, A is 1, B is 2, etc.  In my collection, Battlestar Galactica: Razor is #34 of 477.  As I add DVDs, once entered in DVD Profiler I make a spot for it alphabetically by choosing the next DVD in alphabetical order, right-clicking on it, and choosing Insert Collection Number, which moves everything down 1 (or up 1, depending on which way you look at it), then I renumber the new DVD so that it is alphabetical (and numerical) with the rest of my collection.  In that way, I keep everything alphabetical and numerical at the same time.  It wasn't like that at first, I had probably 385 DVDs in alphabetical order and had been entering new ones and leaving them where they were, at the end of the collection, no rhyme or reason.  It took me a long time to rearrange things so each new DVD could be placed alphabetical in my collection.  Now all my DVDs are alphabetical (and numerical) and will remain that way as new DVDs are added.      -kd5-

Yes, but in an earlier post I said that it does other things too.  For instance, seasons of TV series and DVDs with multiple discs: each disc listed is number One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, etc.  Alphabetically those discs would now be out of order.  I tried to go through my collection and sort by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. so if I had to Reassign Collection Numbers, it wouldn't rearrange my work.  I got about halfway through and gave up from exasperation.  It's alot of work going through each one and renaming Sort Titles so that reassigning alphabetically won't mess up the order that I have them in.  I don't understand why there isn't an option to Reassign Collection Numbers without making any other changes, and that's what I'm asking for here.  Why not allow that some people might make good use of such an option?  I know that I would.  The best thing is that you wouldn't have to make use of such an option if you didn't want to.      -kd5-

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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Matter of fact I gotten into the habit of using extremely short sort titles.

Yup. I do that, too. Bones, Season 5, Disc 4 becomes "Bones S5_4". Friends, Season 8, Disc 1, Side A becomes "Friends S08_1A".

I rather not have it. I've good al my DVD's sorted on collection numbering. If adjusts the numbering al lthe sorting will have to be redone again.