Yup! All done,  steps worked nicely    Thanks!

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(1) Information from imported Notes was inadvertently added to Events Notes: Fixed.

confirmed, the ghost-notes are gone.

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(2) Verifed that currency values are converted correctly.

Not for me unfortunately.
Solution for the time being: I just switched Windows to 'english (US)' prior to the import and everything went fine.

Yes, the XML seems a bit odd at this point, but I don't know enough about 'well formed XML' to really have an opinion on this matter.

Is is possible for me to test a fix for this by switching my system to German?

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Is is possible for me to test a fix for this by switching my system to German?

Good question ... should be. If this test work you can send me the new PlugIn and I give it a spin on my virtual machine (so no worries that my system could break)

Oh man, I didn't see this post, so I prepared the first 3.6.1 release without the fix. Anyway, I'll start working on that for the next update.

Great work, many thanks! 

Version 2.10 Available

- Fixed error in Locality edit
- Fixed incorrect Locality dropdown values
- Fixed addition of extraneous blank custom media type
- Corrected divider import from DVDP XML
- Dividers correctly copied during cloning

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Can this plugin be used as a data scrubber to erase whole sections of a group of profiles? I would love to be able to get rid of the useless data that's homesteading on my hard drive.

I couldn't find any info in this thread concerning this.

Not sure. Can you give a couple of specific examples?

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I don't care about Easter Eggs info, subtitle & audio info and feature(s) info and would like to erase all of that info from all of my profiles. Then I could lock those fields and never have to worry about it again. All this info, only makes my backup file larger and I never view it.

Ok, based on my understanding of the way the DVDP iworks, you will save little or nothing by eliminating the data in subtitles, audio and features categories.

That leaves Easter Eggs and Other Features, which are text fields. They could both be readily added to BulkEdit. But before I do that work, here are a couple of other ideas to try first:

(1) Due to compression/encryption, I'd be willing to bet that small text fields virtually dissappear. To test this, perhaps you could create two blank databases. In each one, restore a previously backed up set of say, 10 profiles - selected to be full of Easter Eggs and Other Features. Then delete the unwanted data from one of the databases, and compare the sizes of the run-time and backups. I would be interested to know the results.

(2) You might also try creating a blank manual profile, and use the DVDP profile copy / paste of selected fields to basically wipe out the fields you don't want. Not sure if this works, but give it a try.

for documenting purposes:

If you don't have a single collection.xml but single-profile XMLs, you still can import them with a bit of preparation:
Go to a command-line (or "DOS-window"), switch to the directory where the XMLs reside type:
copy /A *.xml collection.xml

Open this collection.xml in an editor. Usually the structure of the collection.xml is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<!--DVD Profiler Collection Export-->
<Collection>
  <DVD>
  </DVD>
  ...
  <DVD>
  </DVD>
</Collection>
You'll notice that the opening and closing "Collection" tags are missing. Simply add them at the third and the last line of the file.
Now there is still the problem of the multiple
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
lines, which mustn't be present more than one time per file. Delete those with find&replace (leaving the replace-filed blank) and save.

Now the collection.xml can be imported into DVD Profiler with BulkEdit.