What is the best way to move my DVD Profiler database to a new computer?

Using the online option is not really a good way to backup. It's more of a last resort way.

Start DVDP and choose File -> Backup database.

Save the file toa flash drive or a network drive.

Then on the new computer, install DVDP and then choose File -> Restore database.

I recommend creating a backup as an archive, but you can simply copy some of the file structure over to the new computer.

The main directory is the following, but the others are optional depending on what you have.

<drive>:\Users\<user account>\Documents\DVD Profiler\Databases

If you have customized your layout from the standard default, you can copy over the following file:

<drive>:\Users\<user account>\AppData\Local\DVD Profiler\layout.dpl

Thanks for all the tips. Sounds like backing it up to a flash drive (I guess I could use a NAS drive too?) would be the best option and then restore from there.

I did find me old registration data on here which is good as I had no idea where that was originally saved.

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...backing it up to a flash drive (I guess I could use a NAS drive too?)...

Anything that your old computer can write your backup file to and your new computer can read will do. Whether that's a NAS, cloud storage, a removeable disk (USB/flash/SD card, USB/portable hard disk, ...). Just check the size of the backup file when created to avoid problems...
Though paper tape punch and floppy disks are a bit outdated I'm afraid         

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Though paper tape punch and floppy disks are a bit outdated I'm afraid         

HAHA  paper cards and tape were way before my time.  I did use a bunch of floppies both 5.25" and 3.5" way back then though.  I remember when Windows NT was on floppies.

Beat you, I remember installing Windows 3.0 from Floppy Disk. Then from then on the tedious upgrades though to now Windows 10 1903.

So who's the oldest grumpiest    IT-person in this thread?

In my early twenties when I was studying physics and IT at university, started using mainframe computers using paper tape and 8 inch floppy disks (mini computers, one interfaced by the legendary —and noisy— Teletype 33) as well as punched cards and a TSO terminal for the mainframe. Had my personal back-up storage on DEC-tape. Programming in Algol60, Fortran, APL, PL/1, Pascal, DEC PDP assembler and not to forget IBM mainframe JCL — byzantine unless you really understood the hardware...
The PC arrived at that time. Started out with a Commodore 64 doing my own word processing (and of course games). Migrated to a proper PC, though not from IBM, OS was DOS, I think it was v3.0. If memory serves me well it relieved me of about 15,000 Dutch guilders, at current (!!) conversion rates 6800 € (±7000 $ or ±6600 £).
Also in my profession as IT consultant, using the first usable (IMHO) PC graphic interface: GEM, using a very good CASE tool which I never saw matched on Windows. 5 inch floppy disk era, no proper alternative. No internet, just Compuserve text based dial-in interface.
Worked for a telco when mobile phones started to be more affordable and common, from 1997 onward. Mind you, the smartphone era was still a decade in the future then.

I know there are still other 'ancient ones' active on this site, but who?

Oh well, guess I'd better 'fess up also. Background very similar to eommen, starting on DEC PDP machines with paper and magnetic tape while in EE grad school. Went on to join IBM in 1970 and first assignment was on IBM 1130 with 2250 display and "light pen" (pre-mouse). Wrote a prototype of electronic spreadsheet in Fortran, before Apple, Lotus and Visicalc had a clue. Went on to building numerous mainframe based prototypes and client / server with System 7 (with a teletype keyboard). Meanwhile, in a little garage in California ... well suffice it to say that the spreadsheet never took hold by running on a mainframe. IBM finally caught up, and even recovered from the disastrous plane crash that killed nearly the entire brain trust of its PC strategy. I eventually became a PC specialist and client / server systems architect, designing and selling systems to the NYC Finance community. I've messed with every kind of computer from DEC to Data General to IBM to Apple to HP to Radio Shack - strangely not Commodore, not sure why. And I've worked on DEC assembler and "FOCAL", IBM Assembler, Fortran, CICS, TSO, MVS and IBM Unix. I still have a 20 pound IBM "portable" PC in my attic, along with one of the first RISC-base laptops, using the same chip that Apple machines used for years, before they switched to Intel.  (OMG, I just participated in co-opting this thread. Apologies to the OP, I just noticed.)