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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Posts: 4 |
| | Posted: | | | | hi all,
I'm fairly new to this program and I haven't found a solution yet. Maybe a kind soul is able to help me :-)
I have my own DVD's - and I have the ones I got when my Dad died. I wanna put them into my collection - but I want to have them separated so that I see immediately if a DVD is mine or was his. Is there a way I can do that? The only thing I came up with is that I tag his DVD's - but to me that's a bit uncomfortable.
Any help is appreciated. Thx in advance
regards... |
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| Registered: September 29, 2008 |  Posts: 384 |
| | Posted: | | | | You could do this in a couple of ways. One being with the use of tags. Just create a tag and mark each of your Dad's DVDs so that you can easily sort them in or out of your collection. The other route would be only if you are using the new Beta 3.6 which hopefully will be fully released soon (hint hint Ken  ) which allows you to set up "Custom Collections". These are like having a whole new Tab in the vein of the All, Owned, Ordered, Wishlist tabs. You can label them what you want and even pick an icon you'd like to have represent that tab. I for instance use one for my Video Game collection. Works great!  Oh and welcome to the forums!  | | | | "The perfect is the enemy of the good." - Voltaire | | | | Last edited: by Vittra |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Posts: 4 |
| | Posted: | | | | thx - this custom collection thing sounds good Now I'm looking forward to the new beta  I love the program so far - glad I found it... the price is worth it oh - hope my English isn't too bumpy - it's not my native language  |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RahelAbberline: Quote:
oh - hope my English isn't too bumpy - it's not my native language I wouldn't have known if you hadn't said that! It's better than most native speakers.  |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | A third method would be to create a complete new database for the DVDs of your Dad.
This is quite easy via DVDProfiler menu "File -> Open database -> New ..."
You'll get a complete new database which is completely independent from your old one.
The disadvantage to the tab solution (ver 3.6) is , that DVDProfiler can only open one database at a time and you sadly cannot open two instance of it. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RahelAbberline: Quote:
oh - hope my English isn't too bumpy - it's not my native language
Don't worry it can't be worst than mine |
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| Registered: April 4, 2007 | | Posts: 883 |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 1,982 |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Another possibility would be to catch the "second" collection in Ordered or Wishlist.
There is a way to rename.
But you get the "normal" use of this lost. (I can't test yet, perhaps you don't have all possibilities of the program in these tabs) |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Posts: 4 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
A third method would be to create a complete new database for the DVDs of your Dad.
This is quite easy via DVDProfiler menu "File -> Open database -> New ..."
You'll get a complete new database which is completely independent from your old one.
The disadvantage to the tab solution (ver 3.6) is , that DVDProfiler can only open one database at a time and you sadly cannot open two instance of it. hey, haven't thought of this, sounds great - thx, I'll try that :-) |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Posts: 4 |
| | Posted: | | | | thx for all the help - it is much appreciated |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RahelAbberline: Quote:
Quoting goblinsdoitall:
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A third method would be to create a complete new database for the DVDs of your Dad.
This is quite easy via DVDProfiler menu "File -> Open database -> New ..."
You'll get a complete new database which is completely independent from your old one.
The disadvantage to the tab solution (ver 3.6) is , that DVDProfiler can only open one database at a time and you sadly cannot open two instance of it.
hey, haven't thought of this, sounds great - thx, I'll try that :-) Another disadvantage of this is that you can only have ONE on-line collection and that you won't get updates for the collection you did NOT put online. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
Another disadvantage of this is that you can only have ONE on-line collection and that you won't get updates for the collection you did NOT put online. Not quite correct. You cannot vote on updates to profiles that are not in your online collection. But you can update them the usual way. At least that worked with my testing database from some time ago. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ah, OK. Sorry - my mistake. | | | | Last edited: by dee1959jay |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | No problem. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | You can create separate collections with 3.6, which should be out soon. | | | | Last edited: by Ace_of_Sevens |
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