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The other issues mentioned are being discussed in other threads, and I would suggest that you don't spread those discussions to this or other unrelated threads.
Regarding the online profile lists, as far as I know they are updated daily. I don't know exactly when, but if it's been more than a day since you last checked, you ought to see an incremental download. If you don't, then your local lists are most likely out-of-date.
There is of course the possibility that there are days when no profiles at all are added to the online database. And in that case you might not see a download. But in my experience that has seldom happened (at least before the server update).
Note, though, that just because you get an incremental update of the online profile list, that doesn't necessarily mean that there are any updates for your collection. You can still get "All DVD Profiles are up to date." | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 5595 |
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| If the incremental update works, then fine. The point is to understand what the OPL is, and that if the incremental update fails you're not getting the latest updates (if any). | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 5595 |
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A few days ago I posted this in the Facebook group "DVD Profiler Users", thinking that people there might not be reading the forum as closely as most of you guys here. Still, I guess it wouldn't hurt to post this info here as well.
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I have some new info regarding how to download the Online Profile List (hereafter referred to as the OPL). But just to make sure that we're all on the same page, I'd like to offer a short tutorial. Please bear with me if this is old news to you.
The OPL is a list of all profiles that are available in Invelos' online database. It contains some info on each profile. When you do an add by title, all the info that you see on that list comes from your local OPL (unless you click the Preview button - that data will be downloaded).
One piece of information in the OPL is the last change timestamp. When you select Refresh Updated Profiles, the online timestamps are compared to the local timestamps in your profiles, and if the online timestamp is newer, then that profile will show up as an available update.
The trouble that we are seeing is that when you select a function in Profiler than uses the OPL, Profiler tries to download an incremental update of the OPL. That means that it only downloads what's changed. Thus it's a much smaller download than a download of the full OPL. However, at the present, this incremental download does not seem to work. So, unless you do a full download, you'll still be working with the old OPL and will therefore not see any recent updates.
In earlier posts I have told you about two ways to get the full OPL; delete your local files or download it the way specified in the Knowledge Base. HOWEVER, it has just been pointed out to me that there is a third way: Click "Online/Refresh Online Profile List" while holding down the Ctrl key. I don't think this is documented anywhere.
Obviously having to download some 50+ MB of data every time you want to check for updates is annoying. Especially if you're paying for download traffic. So hopefully this problem will be rectified soon. | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 5595 |
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Quoting greyghost:
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Or just hold the Ctrl key and select Refresh Online Profile List... under the Online... tab.
This just downloads the complete online profile list, you still need to Refresh Updated Profiles as usual.
Hm, is that documented somewhere? I assume that it was implemented after Ken had written that article in the knowledge base. It's a pity Ken was so bad at updating the documentation. Or, in fact, documenting some special functions at all. Now much of it is just through oral tradition.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 30, Topic Views: 12318 |
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Quoting primetime21:
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Quoting GSyren:
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Quoting the Knowledge Base:
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You can download the online profile list directly from your browser and save it to your "My Documents\DVD Profiler" directory. The next time you start DVD Profiler, it will automatically import the downloaded file.
Download the file by right-clicking on the download link below and selecting "Save Target As". Then, browse to your "My Documents" folder, then into "DVD Profiler" from there. Save the downloaded file.
Download link: OnlineList.dod
This works! Just make sure you download the file into the directory indicated, and then restart Profiler.
Thanks I'll try this out! Do you still the chance to decide whether or not to include certain updated data?
It just downloads the online profile list. After that you can select Refresh Updated Profiles from the menu, just like before. | Posted: Topic Replies: 30, Topic Views: 12318 |
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Quoting the Knowledge Base:
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You can download the online profile list directly from your browser and save it to your "My Documents\DVD Profiler" directory. The next time you start DVD Profiler, it will automatically import the downloaded file.
Download the file by right-clicking on the download link below and selecting "Save Target As". Then, browse to your "My Documents" folder, then into "DVD Profiler" from there. Save the downloaded file.
Download link: OnlineList.dod
This works! Just make sure you download the file into the directory indicated, and then restart Profiler. | Posted: Topic Replies: 30, Topic Views: 12318 |
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TurboCLT 1.3.4
Well, no sooner than one bug is found and fixed, another one pops up.
This time it was names with quotation marks that didn't work properly. | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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TurboCLT 1.3.3
Fixed a bug that could cause the profile count in Crew Roles to be incorrect if more than one name had been searched (or loaded). | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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Oh my, seems I totally missed this goodie, even though you have using HTTPJolie. Nice work.
Thank you! HTTPJolie has opened so many possibilities without me having to create a plugin for each of them. It lets me concentrate on the new functionality instead. It has been a game changer for me!  | Posted: Topic Replies: 20, Topic Views: 24955 |
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DpOnlineBrowser 1.5
Click on the image for video.
The search is now done in two phases. Phase 1 (the 6 leftmost columns) takes its data from your local online profile list, so it is quite fast, since no download is involved.
Phase 2, the remaining 4 columns, requires a download for each profile. This is done in the background, and you can see in real time how each row is being updated. This is much slower.
While phase 2 is performed, all the other functions of the program are functional. In phase 2 you can also have the program highlight profiles that are in your collection (see the two profiles in the illustration). You might think that this would be a simple thing that could even have been accomplished in phase 1. Unfortunately this turned out to be more complicated that I expected, and it also slows down phase 2 a bit further. Because of this, I have made this function optional. You can turn it on or off in the settings.
A note on the Amazon search. Popups like cookie prompts (or other prompts that come before the normal website) hinders the paste of the UPC in the search field. The same might go for login prompts. Once you are logged in and "cookied", the search should work.
Happy Easter everyone! | Posted: Topic Replies: 20, Topic Views: 24955 |
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No worries, Marty. Any questions regarding my programs are welcome. It tells me that someone wants to use the program. That's always good to hear.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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Quoting mreeder50:
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I don't seem to be able to get TurboCLT 1.3.1 yesterday or 1.3.2 today. I get the message "File wasn't available on site".
Try refreshing your browser. F5 or Ctrl-F5. | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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TurboCLT 1.3.2
I found a sneaky little bug that I fixed. And while I was digging into the code I also implemented an option to turn the dropdown history on or off. Note that it will come into effect the next time the CLT page is loaded into the program.
I should also confess that the hyphen problem turned out not to be a bug in Microsoft's Dictionary control after all, but a side effect of some other code in my program. Microsoft is by no means perfect, but I shouldn't blame them for something that was actually my own fault.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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I have found the dropdown history to be useful.
Well, I figured thar the average user wouldn't need to lookup the same person multiple times (like I did during testing). But I'm open to making it configurable, if you or anyone else requests it. It's not a big deal. | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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TurboCLT 1.3.1
I had to do some dirty programming to work around that hyphen problem. It seems to work fine now, but please report any anomalies that you find.
Dropdowns turned off. Required a little guesswork, so hopefully this will work as intended. | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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The inability to lookup values that contains a hyphen (minus) appears to be a bug in Microsoft's Dictionary control. Not sure if/how I can work around that. I look into it further.
The dropdown is a "feature" of Microsoft's WebView2 browser control, so nothing that I have purposely introduced. I agree that it is annoying. I'll see if it can be turned off. | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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Hi Marcel,
I will certainly look into that error.
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Also, it looks like your searches are cached within the app
Could you elaborate on that? | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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Quoting jurgen42u:
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Does anybody has the Server Error in '/' Application error? When viewing your online collection you 'll see this error in your last added or top profile, in my case The Conan Chronicles Collection: Limited Edition. When viewing at your main screen with the 5 last added movies in your list, the last added one has a broken picture symbol.
Any solution to this problem?
I don't see this problem in my collection, or in any other collection that I have checked, except yours. I would suggest that you run a database repair, then edit something in that profile (just so it's flagged as changed), then re-upload your collection. See if that fixes it. | Posted: Topic Replies: 11, Topic Views: 9386 |
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Hi
Having problem uploading my Profile to Online directory.
When I try to connect I get following mssg
"A File Access Error Occurred" and stating it cannot access my Database ??
Was working fine until today :-)
Cheers
First rule of DVD Profiler:
Whenever something unexpected happens - run a database repair. | Posted: Topic Replies: 25, Topic Views: 16372 |
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Quoting Lowpro (from an old thread):
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There are 3 options when creating a database with the mobile app, "Connect to DVD Profiler for PC", "Connect via DVD Profiler Online" and "Local Database". The "Local Database" type does not provide for syncing your collection with DVD Profiler for PC or DVD Profiler Online. You'll have to change your Connection Type first by selecting the "Databases" menu item. From the "Databases" screen under the "Databases" option select your database. On the next screen select the "Change Connection Type" option. From there you can change your connection type to "DVD Profiler for PC" or "DVD Profiler Online".
If your collection only exists on your iPhone select the "DVD Profiler Online" connection type.
Once you've changed the connection type to "DVD Profiler Online" return to the "Databases" screen and select your database from the "Update Database" option. From there log in to your account. Once logged in you'll be taken to the "Select Update Task" page. At the top of the page there are options to "Upload" from your iPhone or "Download" from DVD Profiler Online. Below those options you're shown a comparison of the database on your iPhone versus your database online. Select the "Upload" option.
Once uploading the database from your iPhone you'll have the option obviously to download your online database to your iPhone if you ever need to. With your online database in place you could then download it from DVD Profiler for PC if you want. Once downloaded to DVD Profiler for PC you could even start syncing locally between DVD Profiler for PC and your iPhone, occassionally uploading from "DVD Profiler for PC" to "DVD Profiler Online" keeping your online database updated as well. You'd do this by either creating a new database on your iPhone using the "DVD Profiler for PC" connection type, then downloading your DVD Profiler for PC database to your iPhone or instead change your "DVD Profiler Online" connection type to "DVD Profiler for PC" and start syncing.
So basically you cannot copy your entire phone collection to the PC via wi-fi. It can only be done through the online. Only after that will the wi-fi sync work as intended. If you cannot upload to the online from the phone, then you're out of luck, I'm afraid. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 3087 |
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TurboCLT 1.3.0
Now shows Alternate names and Names from common name thread. See help file for more info.
Profile entries color coded. Green = name found in normal Profiler name credit (no Credited-As). Red = name found in Credited-As.
Searched name highlighted in Display profile so it's easier to find.
Also fixed some cosmetic anomalies. | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 14860 |
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The announcement from Ken Cole on Feb 25 triggered a lot of jubilations from people who had missed Ken for these 6+ years. But was it actually posted by Ken himself, of by someone else at Invelos? And what does it all mean? Well, I can only speculate.
The good news.
Investing in new servers must surely mean that Invelos isn't ready to throw in the towel on DVD Profiler.
The not so good news.
It's been more than a week, and the system is still only partially working. No further announcements. How long will this take? This is severely hurting Invelos' and DVD Profiler's reputation, something that we truly don't need right now.
The Android news.
"We're aware of the Android app absence, and will be working to resolve soon." Some have taken this to mean that the Android app will be updated to support newer phone models. While I would like to believe that it is so, I suspect that it just means that they'll try to get the same old app back on Google Play Store.
The bottom line.
I would truly like to think that the announcement was made by Ken himself. However, Ken designed the backend system, and he is the one who knows it inside and out. The fact that it takes so long to fix it makes me think that Ken is not involved. I would absolutely love it if Ken was actually back, and even more so if it meant that some updates to the programs were in the making. But alas, I am cautiously pessimistic.
What do you guys think? | Posted: Topic Replies: 9, Topic Views: 7617 |
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| Never mind. Looks like Greyghost found a better solution here. | Posted: Topic Replies: 0, Topic Views: 1476 |
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I tested renaming my OnlineList.dod and OnlineListSel.dod, and sure enough I could not download new versions of these, and could not add new titles. Renamed back and everything worked.
So it would seem that unless you have uncorrupted versions of these files, you're currently out of luck.
Hopefully this will soon be fixed. | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 6008 |
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I'm surprised to learn that so many users have problems adding new titles to their database. It works just fine for me. This makes me think that there is one of two explanations:
1) This only affects some titles.
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2) There is a problem locally for those who experience this problem.
The second explanation seems the most likely. So probably something went wrong when you tried to access the online database while it was down. And it would seem that it's not something that gets fixed by a database repair.
So, in order to find out where the problem lies, I would suggest the following first step.
Create a new database (File / Open Database / New Database). Can you add a title to this new database?
Can anyone let me know if this works for you? | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 6008 |