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GsyLaunch 2.8.1
The most annoying things for me just after a program has been released are if I find a bug, or if I realize that I have overlooked something obvious that would have made the program better. In this case it is the latter.
The difference between an ordinary shortcut and a UWP shortcut is that GsyPlayer still needs the UWP shortcut. You can't just delete it. But you can move it away from the desktop. And that's what I initially suggested that the user would do. But for some reason I overlooked the (in hindsight blindingly obvious) solution to let GsyPlayer copy the entire shortcut to some suitable location and use it from there.
So in GsyPlayer 2.8.1, if you drop a UWP shortcut into it, the program copies the shortcut into its appdata folder and uses it from there. Thus you can delete the original shortcut and keep your desktop as clear as you like. So for the user it works just the same as dropping a regular shortcut (or an exe file).
In addition I have made two cosmetic changes. I don't know how to find out what the process name of a certain UWP program will be, so I cannot tell if it is running or not. So for UWP programs, the "Prevent double run" switch in the properties will be disabled. And the tooltip for the button will always have a grey background.
And as usual, if you have recently visited the web page, you may have to refresh your browser to see the latest change. | Posted: Topic Replies: 27, Topic Views: 33181 |
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Thanks woodg! I overlooked changing the web page. I will fix that.
And I'm glad you find GsyLaunch useful. That makes at least two of us.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 27, Topic Views: 33181 |
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GsyLaunch 2.8.0
It's been some time since I did anything about GsyLaunch. The one thing that annoyed me was that I couldn't figure out how to add shortcuts from UWP programs (such as programs from Windows Store). Well, I finally figured out how to do that.
There are a couple of things that you need to know, though. I have documented them in the help file. And there is now a menu item for the help file, so you don't have to browse through the files to open it. | Posted: Topic Replies: 27, Topic Views: 33181 |
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Quoting ObiKen:
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When you start DVDP, a "Temp" folder is created in the username/AppData/Local/DVD Profiler/ folder on your Windows PC.
After opening the initial profile in DVDP, the program creates two temp files (with .DAT and .IDX extensions) in this Temp folder.
I do see those two files there, but they are always there, not created when I start editing. They do seem to get modified when I edit something though. | Posted: Topic Replies: 6, Topic Views: 311 |
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| I think what you’re seeing is a PM block. That shouldn’t prevent you from seeing their contributions. | Posted: Topic Replies: 11, Topic Views: 416 |
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I agree. And what makes it even more scary is that this person has 1660 accepted profile contributions. One has to wonder how much crap that they have gotten accepted into the online database ...  | Posted: Topic Replies: 11, Topic Views: 416 |
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| Odd! I don't see that happening. There must be something else that is interfering. | Posted: Topic Replies: 6, Topic Views: 311 |
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Sounds great!
Just a thought for Magmadrag: since the only optional data that you need in the export probably is Tags, you can uncheck all the rest. I did a quick test, and it reduced my export file by almost 70%. | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 1325 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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I'll bet if you dump your xml file into Claude, you could analyze anything within seconds.
That's a thought, but I wonder if the free version of Claude can handle his xml file? He has over 34,000 profiles so the exported file is going to be huge. Worth a try, though. | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 1325 |
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| Not sure what Magmadrag's issue with tags is. Tags are available in ProfilerQuery (provided that you include them in the xml export, of course). | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 1325 |
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Sounds complicated 
Still, I'm glad that you found ProfilerQuery useful. Best of luck! | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 1325 |
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I'm not sure I quite understand your problem, but maybe this can be helpful?
If you (supposedly) set count to zero on all child profiles, you can add a filter on child or parent to make sure that
a) All child profiles really have count as = 0
b) All non-child profiles have count = 1 | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 1325 |
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Quoting T!M:
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If I'm going to "IMDb to DVD Profiler Transformation Data" in the "Edit Config File" menu, it immediately throws an error.
Same here, but I get this:
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Just FYI, in ProfilerQuery you can list Count As, and you can also filter on Count As, so you can get a list of profiles where it is not set to one.
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I tested the latest version, and got no errors on scanning, but also got no data.
So, just a reminder, if CastCrewInfo isn't working you can get cast and crew with TmdbInfo.
It's not quite as advanced, but it is better than nothing (and it doesn't need constant updates since the Tmdb API doesn't change). | Posted: Topic Replies: 776, Topic Views: 71700 |
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I initially voted based on the screenshot, but after revisiting the thread I have changed my mind.
So now it’s even less definitive at 13 to 10.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 1404 |
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TmdbInfo 3.1.1
If you used TmdbInfo together with my tool CastCrewCheck, selecting Copy Cast or Copy Crew could cause en exception.
Fixed in this version. | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 2105 |
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Ah, yes, I remember you. We may have had a difference of opinion some time, but I don't recall anything that would have deserved a ban. Still, given the level of response from Invelos (for anything, really), I think it's unlikely that you'll get that reversed.
If you really want to get back into contributing - which I would very much welcome - your best bet is probably to pay to upgrade this account. It's not a lot of money, but I understand if you think it's a bitter pill to swallow. I hope you do, though.
Best of luck either way! | Posted: Topic Replies: 9, Topic Views: 1643 |
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| What, if I may ask, was your original user name? | Posted: Topic Replies: 9, Topic Views: 1643 |
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I would just like to point out this from the rules:
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If a user is following the Contribution Rules and his/her data is accurate, and the contribution replaces data which is inaccurate or violates these Contribution Rules, a "No" vote is considered an abuse of the voting privilege and should be avoided when possible.
This means that you should vote by the rules (as they are), not by your own preferences, or opinions on what the rules ought to say. I can understand that crediting the director as Anthony M. Dawson in a profile with the title "Antonio Margheriti & The Jungles of Doom" seems odd, but that is what the rules amount to. Bitching about it won't change that. | Posted: Topic Replies: 20, Topic Views: 2409 |
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| Your account info says "Registered: April 3, 2026", so it looks like you registered a new free account rather than logging in with your old paid account. If so, that would explain your problems. | Posted: Topic Replies: 9, Topic Views: 1643 |
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I just recently learned about Windows built-in snipping tool. It quite good, and the best part is that it contains OCR scanning. And it does that surprisingly well. Better than any other free OCR program I have tried. It makes contributing overviews really easy. Some of you probably know about this tool. but I bet I'm not the only one who has totally missed it. Windows-Shift-S brings the tool up.
There's only one small hitch. Its OCR scan includes new lines, so you have to take those out before you copy/paste the overview into Profiler. I prefer to do that in LibreOffice writer. I just hit Ctrl-H for Replace, select "Regular expression" and replace \n with a blank. Replace all, and Bob's your uncle. I'm sure you can do something similar in MS Word. And I suspect that there are text editors that can do the same, but the advantage of doing it in a word processor is that you can get spell checking at the same time, just in case the OCR gets something wrong - which hardly ever happens (in my experience) unless the scanned text is really hard to decipher.
It doesn't do drop caps very well, but that's easily fixed manually. And cursive is a bit iffy, but you seldom see that on back covers.
Now, if you need help in finding profiles in your collection that don't have an overview, you can try ProfilerQuery or ProfilerMissing. Now you have no excuse for not fixing those missing overviews. Go forth and contribute!  | Posted: Topic Replies: 0, Topic Views: 322 |
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Quoting cronosmantas:
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Because of this, I’ve decided to step away from contributing to the Invelos system. It’s disappointing, especially since there are already so few active contributors. But I’m not willing to continue putting in this level of effort—for free—only to have it dismissed due to one person’s opinion overriding the rules.
I understand your frustration. It is disappointing that the screening is not done better. However, I would ask you to reconsider stepping away. I presume that you would make these changes for your own collection anyway, so contributing them wouldn't be that much more work. If they get declined, just shrug it off and continue as before. It will only be a very small percentage of your contributions that will be incorrectly declined. We need every contributor. Your work is highly appreciated by the rest of us, even if Invelos doesn't always show it. Please don't give up! | Posted: Topic Replies: 20, Topic Views: 2409 |
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BirthYearNeeded 1.1.1
A minor bug fix and some tweaking.
When you had loaded a previously saved result, changing the filter options (radio buttons) would either cause an exception, or reload a previously loaded XML export. These buttons are now disabled if you have reloaded a result, since the saved result only contains the items as filtered at the time of saving.
Tweaked Show post in birth year thread to make sure that you always get the latest post even if the birth year list has been recently updated. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 1121 |
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BirthYearNeeded 1.1
Just two improvements:
I take IMDb lookup one step further. If I find the movie in TMDB, I try to find the actor/crew in its listing. If I find them, I use the IMDb ID for that person to look up their individual page on IMDb. If for some reason you don't want that, just uncheck "Go to person page in IMDb if possible" in Options / Settings.
If there are multiple posts in the birth year thread about a person, Show post in birth year thread will now show the last post rather than the first. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 1121 |