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Missing cast & crew
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorSrehtims
Registered: March 13, 2007
United States Posts: 1,796
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I had an interesting and frightening problem.

As I was moving some of my DVDs from a room where the floor was about to be tiled, I saw an interresting cover.

Martha was the title. On the cover, Rainer Werner Fassbinder the director. I wondered how many other titles by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. I set it aside, as I knew I would not remember the complete name.

Later after I moved the computer to a room that been already painted and tiled.

I entered the title Martha and selected tbe profile's crew information of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and only five titles popped up. I thought I had more titles by him than that. I remember more recent title released by Criterion. I tied the Collection List, Cast search, and seven different titles were listed.

Invelos, we have a problem.

I ran the repair under the executing profiler and got an error, the program was hang. I had to go to the task manager to terminate the profiler.

I ran the seperate DVD repair program, it listed an indexing error and stated that it fixed it. I just happen to notice a list of names flying by the screen while it was running, but didn't pay much attention to it until I restart the profiler and notice no cast or crew in any profile.

I next tried to restore the db, an error, then a tried previoous restore no luck. As you can imagine that by this time I wasn't a happy camper.

Then a stroke of luck, I tried to restore just one profile. That worked. The I tried the whole mess. and it executed.

It appears everything is back to normal, but with over 20,000 profiles who knows.

Both crew listings now agree and indicate that I have 12 films old Fassbinder.

Like I always tell the check clerk at the grocery store when she runs my credit card, I say you know you can't trust computers, I know I been repairing and programming them since 1960.
We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorscotthm
Registered: March 20, 2007
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Quoting Srehtims:
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I ran the seperate DVD repair program, it listed an indexing error and stated that it fixed it. I just happen to notice a list of names flying by the screen while it was running, but didn't pay much attention to it until I restart the profiler and notice no cast or crew in any profile.

Similar things happen to me often enough that I backup Profiler practically every time I make changes.  I can't tell you how many times my cast and crew have all disappeared after running a database repair (but only if that repair was preceded by a database error), and my database is just a small fraction of the size of yours.

I keep at least two recent DVDP backups handy at all times.

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