Quoting Magmadrag:

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Well, as I have kind of "unknown" troubles with other plugins I might need to do was I tried to avoid: Format my system... and then starting at Zero.
I am scared of the time I have to invest until all software is back, but slowly but sure I don't see any alternative way

I don't know your circumstances, but my suggestion would be to get the cheapest little mini-PC, stick computer, whatever. Just for DVD Profiler. Don't mess with existing system.

Good idea. I don't agree that it is cheaper. time is money. And it is good to have a backup. That cheap PC stick I showed you is cheaper than a windows license or new SSD.

But yes, I will keep you posted on my tests with loading on another PC in my house.

For me, the installation works (Windows 11), somewhat. Installer runs fine after allowing it, the plugin shows up in the View Plugins dialog. However, it's not enabled. When I try to enable it I get an error: "The selected plugin's load function failed."

Ok, V1.6 of DVDPFauxAPI is uploaded. But I need to make a change in CCCreator to the dummy file creation function. Loading the Common Names and Accepted BYs works Ok.

Do you have these files?

Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 0639-2184

Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\DVD Profiler\Plugins\DVDPFauxAPI

06/14/2023  09:27 PM    <DIR>          .
06/14/2023  09:27 PM    <DIR>          ..
06/14/2023  09:25 PM            46,592 DVDPFauxAPI.dll
06/14/2023  09:27 PM            41,400 DVDPFauxAPI.tlb
06/14/2023  09:27 PM            6,248 unins000.dat
06/14/2023  09:26 PM          725,212 unins000.exe
08/11/2017  08:07 PM          119,296 XDMessaging.Lite.dll
              5 File(s)        938,748 bytes
              2 Dir(s)  108,762,705,920 bytes free

"Nice", that export of my collection even doesn't work at your machine... More and more I am in believing that it might be all those special letters which are too much for the old Windows-Standard

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And I'm convinced that it's something else. Those characters appear in so many profiles that it would have been discovered long ago if they caused problems of this nature. But the only known problem is that they display incorrectly.

The only chance to find out at least the first profile which causes troubles is to export every single one and check if it works. But with 28.000 profiles this is an unimaginable work.

My database is constantly and regulary repaired/cleaned up, so all data still is fine - except the export. And after trying nearly every idea of anybody what "it could be" without any change and spending weeks for that I gave up. Partially export works (DJDoena asked me to do it with just the F-Profiles), but to find out which profile IS the problem is timely much too intensive for me. Especially as I am quite busy these days with correction of all the wrong BYs in so far several hundred profiles. And I am only done with the actors up to "N".

Quoting Magmadrag:

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And I'm convinced that it's something else. Those characters appear in so many profiles that it would have been discovered long ago if they caused problems of this nature. But the only known problem is that they display incorrectly.

The only chance to find out at least the first profile which causes troubles is to export every single one and check if it works. But with 28.000 profiles this is an unimaginable work.

It is not. Just half it every time. Select the first 14k profiles, and export. If it works, the issue is with the other 14k. The 14k that fail, split into 2x 7k and try the export. Repeat until done. It takes 15 such splits to determine the problematic profile.