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Quoting SpikyCactus:
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I sometimes wonder if the ability to clone profiles to generate new profiles is more trouble than it's worth.
I feel the same. That's why I wrote ContributionLookupPlus to facilitate following contributions back to the original first contribution.
In order to check cast and crew I use CastCrewCheck, taking the starting point either from the current profile, or from IMDb via DJ's CastCrewEdit.
Although I have to say that checking crew for newer films can be a headache. You may have to read through many hundreds of credits in an end credit roll that may take 15 minutes or more. Why they insist on crediting everyone from the director down to the person who empties the waste paper baskets (only a slight exaggeration) is beyond me. | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 7990 |
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DvdpScheduler 2.6.6
Something, most likely a Windows update, has caused a certain command in AutoItX to stop working. This made DvdpScheduler hang after it had finished a backup. You had to close and restart it for it to start working again. I had hoped that the latest version of AutoItX had fixed that, but apparently not, so I had to find a work-around. This now works as intended again. | Posted: Topic Replies: 25, Topic Views: 26692 |
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Quoting Wigram:
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Was it a new profile? In my experience, provided the upc from the back cover and the profile id match, anything goes in the first approval. The rational is that the community hawks will correct it in later submissions.
I doubt that. You don't normally check the contribution notes when you download a profile. At least not unless something really stands out, like lots of uncredited cast. So the problem wouldn't be noted until someone contributes an update, which may take a long time (if ever). And in the meantime people could copy the incorrect cast and crew into other profiles. I find it hard to believe that Ken would have approved such an "anything goes" procedure. | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 7990 |
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| Well, it's possible that it was elevated to manual screening, but the screener just made a mistake. | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 7990 |
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| That doesn't look like US locality. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 3075 |
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Thanks to the help from ObiKen I have found and corrected the problem.
So here is BirthYearCheck 4.7.1 - The Even Finaller Fixeder Chapter! 
And a PS to all: You really should check out mediadogg's HTTPJolie plugin if you haven't already done so.
It really improves many of my tools! Especially BirthYearCheck. | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22045 |
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Quoting ObiKen:
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I'm not sure if this is relevant ...
Of course it is relevant! I really want my programs to work for everyone. I have PM'd you. | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22045 |
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Just FYI, I have created a blog that describes some of my tools. I did this mostly so I could link to it from the Facebook group
DVD Profiler Users. I figured that some of the participants there may not have kept up with what's happened in the tools department.
You guys here hopefully have kept up, but just in case, you can read the blog here: DVD Profiler tools 101. | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 1929 |
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BirthYearCheck: The Final Chapter.
Oh, promises, promises. Well, I think I can at least guarantee that you won't see BirthYearCheck Part 5: A New Beginning.
Anyway, the reason for this update is two-fold. First, I realized that the Exclude fix from version 4.4 had somehow been unfixed (or, perish the thought, it was never really fixed at all). Now it is really fixed.
Second, I realized that I have the short term memory of a goldfish. While using BirthYearCheck, when I selected Search title in IMDb and I had clicked on the correct title in the title list that came up, I hit ctrl-F to find the person I was looking for and ... I forgot who it was I was looking for. I had to switch back to the previous tab and check. Duh! I thought that it would be so much easier if the name could be searched automatically once I came to the cast/crew listing in IMDb.
After implementing that search function, I went through my collection like butter on a hot tin roof. Or something. Maybe this is really the final chapter. 
So, I give you - ta daa! - BirthYearCheck 4.7 | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22045 |
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My Life is Murder. Aussie crime show with Lucy Lawless.
I thought I didn't like Lucy, but it turns out I was just Xenaphobic.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 99, Topic Views: 21426 |
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Quoting mreeder50:
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I do run DVDP and BYCheck in elevated mode. Should I remove that and try again?
That would be my suggestion. | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22045 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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GSyren tools use TCP mode to send commands, which does not require DVD Profiler elevation.
Just to clarify; in TCP mode you should not run DVD Profiler in elevated mode. A program in normal mode cannot communicate with a program in elevated mode. Theoretically, running both my tools and Profiler elevated ought to work, but it didn't work when I tried it. I didn't put any effort in finding out why, though. | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22045 |
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BirthYearCheck 4.6
"You didn't think this through, did you?" 
Said me to myself, when I started updating birth years for real in my collection. I realized that I needed to flag the entries that I updated so I could contribute them later. But of course I forgot to do the Ctrl-F in BirthYearCheck before I did the update. And after the update, the row was already hidden. I could, of course, unhide the hidden rows, but that would kind of defeat the purpose.
The solution was obvious. I should let BirthYearCheck flag them automatically when an update was performed. So I implemented that. Settings updated:
Now you can decide to flag all updates, or just the ones that you set to 9999 (or none at all). And I must say that I really should have thought of this from the beginning. It makes fixing birth years so much easier. Well, live and learn.
Just remember, if you already have flagged items in Profiler, clear them before you start updating. Save them first if you need them later. Just don't mix flags that you set for different purposes.
Remember, you need HTTPJolie (or if mediadogg cooks up something compatible for FTP). The program will work without it, but these functions will be disabled. | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22045 |
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You cannot synchronize directly between two instances of the iOS app. You would have to upload the collection from one and then download it to the other.
I you have a PC and Wi-Fi, you might consider getting the Desktop program. Through Wi-Fi you get 2-way synchronization, so you can sync both your iOS apps against the Desktop. And the desktop program offers a lot more features than the iOS app does. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 2574 |
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BirthYearCheck 4.5
When I realized that I could update cast and crew through HTTPJolie, I thought that updating birth year directly from BirthYearCheck would be easy-peasy. Well, as it turned out, it was quite a lot more work than I had anticipated. But I got it done. You do need HTTPJolie to use this.
So, when you select Update birth year you will be prompted for a new birth year.
The combo box will contain the birth years from the birth year list (and 9999), but you can enter any year.
You can't remove the birth year (limitation in the DVD Profiler API), but you can set it to 9999 and remove it manually later.
If the same person occurs more than once in the cast, all occurrences will be updated. The same for crew.
As always, do read the help file, especially the topic regarding this feature.
You can, of course, use the program without HTTPJolie, but this feature will then be disabled. | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22045 |
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Registered January 6, 2001.
I can't believe it's been over 22 years.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 25, Topic Views: 9976 |
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ProfilerQuery 5.0.2
Fixes the "Case Type Missing" bug. | Posted: Topic Replies: 296, Topic Views: 36378 |
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It seems that there is a bug in ProfilerQuery that can give you an empty or incorrect result after you have run a query once.
For now, the fix is to reload the export file.
This is on my to-do list to correct.
Update: The problem seems to be limited to when "Case Type Missing" is used, so not as severe as I initially feared.
A fixed version (5.0.2) should hopefully be available tomorrow. | Posted: Topic Replies: 296, Topic Views: 36378 |
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BirthYearCheck 4.4
As promised, I have fixed so you can exclude profiles with BirthYear after Production Year, as explained in the previous post.
I have also added two more items in the context menu for Possible invalid BYs:
- Show contribution notes.
- Show available birth years.
The latter show a small window like this:
In case you don't feel that you need to read the whole post in the birth year thread. | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22045 |
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The iOS app is available in the app store. But I would say that it works best as an extension to the desktop version. If you have a PC, it's a dirt cheap alternative; it's a one time cost as opposed to My Movies and Collectorz.
As far as I know there is no comparable one-time cost iOS app. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 3357 |
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| If you can make that second part export file available to me, I'll analyze it to see if it gives any indication as to what the problem is. Preferably zipped to make it smaller. | Posted: Topic Replies: 168, Topic Views: 10698 |
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Quoting Magmadrag:
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I opened the problemous part with the Analyzer - and all works fine. Do I have to do anything else than "open" to find a possible error? Or does this mean that the problem is part of the (my?) CCViewer?
I doubt that the problem is is CCViewver. Did you try to run it through ProfileMergeGUI? If so, did it throw an error? | Posted: Topic Replies: 168, Topic Views: 10698 |
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| If it works without an error message, then that means that the file contains all valid XML. So no help, I'm afraid. A closer inspection of the file might yield something. Maybe mediadogg has some idea … | Posted: Topic Replies: 168, Topic Views: 10698 |
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Well, the corrupt part 2 might possibly give you a clue as to where the problem lies.
I have a tool for analyzing broken export files; DpXmlAnalyzer.
It can give you something like this:
Hopefully the first error that it finds points to the problem profile. No guarantee, but worth a try. | Posted: Topic Replies: 168, Topic Views: 10698 |