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Quoting Boykin:

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If there are actory in my locad db that are not in the master headshot db, will I have screwed up profiles if I resotre the master headshot db?

If you are asking, if actor "John Doe" is in your local database, but not in the Master Headshot db, then will the actor "John Doe" get deleted? Thus screwing up your local profiles. I would think the restore function would only add/modify existing actors. (I hope)

That is exactly my question.

No if you have an actor headshot that is not in the headshots master file you will not lose your headshot.

If your not 100% sure back up your cast / crew first.
Select to do a backup ...de-select everything esle but cast/crew (last option)
give the backup a new name good example (boykinheads.dpb)
that will save your current cast / crew as it is now.

You also use this way to export the cast crew to send to Juoquim for him to include your headshot into the Master File so as to share with the community.

Hope this helps

Steve

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P.S. I recall someone memtioning a way to "repair" the database to eliminate unused actors - can someone remind me of that or point me in the right direction?

If I understand correctly, if you do a database repair, then it will eliminate all actors that you do not currently have assigned to movies in your local database.  This will not only cleanup the unassigned actors, but you will also lose the headshots for those actors.

For example:

John Brown (Headshot) - assigned to Matrix
John White (no headshot) - assigned to Dukes of Hazzard
Jack Black (Headshot) - not listed in any movie locally
Jack Smack (no headshot) - not listed in any movie locally

If you do a database repair, Jack Black and Jack Smack will be removed from your local database along with Jack Black's headshot.  If you later add the movie Orange County starring Jack Black, he will no longer be removed during a database repair, but you will also no longer have the headshot until you either add it manually, or restore the headshot Master once again.

I hope this makes sense.

Juoquim,

Thanks for the information - what you say does make sense. I see the downside of losing the headshots of unassigned actors ... but in my case with over 2,700 films listed there should not be many missing. (I hope)

Thanks again for the great work. I may try add some heashots myself and send you a file as you suggested.

Brian

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Thanks!  I'm glad it is working so well for everyone.  Once we get it cleaned up, it should work even better.

Keep in mind that if you add a DVD that contains an actor you previously deleted during a database repair - you can always do a restore of the Headshot Master to reclaim the headshot followed by a database repair to clean out the riff-raff again.

obvously this only replaces the headshot with the one from the headshot master. If you have a special one that you added yourself then you will lose this.

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obvously this only replaces the headshot with the one from the headshot master. If you have a special one that you added yourself then you will lose this.

Not necessarily. You can just select to keep all existing images, and it weill then only add the ones you don't already have.

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Should pin this thread I nearly missed it.

You don't read the forums several times a day??!!??

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Quoting MarEll:

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Should pin this thread I nearly missed it.

You don't read the forums several times a day??!!??

I almost missed it, too, but I've been offline for a couple of days.

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Soryr, my bad.

no problem - I was just wanting to clarify it for others who might come in and read the thread..