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Registered: May 17, 2007 | Posts: 31 |
| Posted: | | | | I'm not going to complain about shelling out $30 for access to admittedly the best DVD community database available. But now after the conversion and cleanup, I've still got over a dozen, non-UPC discs that I cannot find in the database (by name or by disc ID), and therefore can no longer display online. Some examples: The Thief (DE), What Price Survival (HK), The Horseman on the Roof (HK), Trio (RU). Also, several of my previous contributions do not allow the download of high-res covers. Where did all that hard work go to? Some examples: Codename: Dancer, Commander Hamilton. My two bits... |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,005 |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 1,339 |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 736 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting piscesx: Quote: I'm not going to complain about shelling out $30 for access to admittedly the best DVD community database available. But now after the conversion and cleanup, I've still got over a dozen, non-UPC discs that I cannot find in the database (by name or by disc ID), and therefore can no longer display online. Some examples: The Thief (DE), What Price Survival (HK), The Horseman on the Roof (HK), Trio (RU).
Also, several of my previous contributions do not allow the download of high-res covers. Where did all that hard work go to? Some examples: Codename: Dancer, Commander Hamilton.
My two bits... Here's a few tips: First, you need to open the flagged list of uncoverted UPCs. If they are uncoverted Disc IDs, use the change UPC option (under DVD>Change UPC) and convert the disc. You may find the DVD is in the system. If it isn't, you can upload it. This will put the disc back in the system and you can access it in your on-line profile. Plus, Ken is planning to merge the old 2.5 database with the 3.0 in the near future. Many of those titles will likely be making a return appearance. As for the low-res images, do you still have the high-res versions on your computer? You can try uploading them again. Are you sure that someone didn't replace them in the past? You wouldn't believe how many times people upload terrible covers when perfectly good ones were already accepted. I can't tell you the number of times people who have uploaded watermarked images with "copyrighted materials" in them, despite perfectly scanned ones in existence. If not, maybe someone else with those profiles will upload them again. Or they could return in the merge, which is currently underway. | | | Last edited: by synnerman |
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Registered: April 4, 2007 | Posts: 888 |
| Posted: | | | | I guess his problem is his wishlist where disc-id only profiles didn't get converted. I have over 100 of those and it is indeed a little bit annoying but knowing they are there (locally) and knowing there's nothing Invelos can do about it (user-build db) I'd never complain about it | | | - Jan |
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Registered: May 17, 2007 | Posts: 31 |
| Posted: | | | | Cheers for the comments, guys, but what part of "work" did y'all not understand? All the entries and scans in high-res I'm "complaining" about were in the previous database, now they're not. And all I'm hearing is recontribute / upload again. I don't have most of the scans I did, and I can't understand how profiles like "The Curse" could have completely disappeared. I've just reloaded it again w/o proper scans, but the time this takes... <sigh> BTW: The app sports a shiny new interface and gee-whiz features, but the online HTML templates are the same simplistic ones. |
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Registered: April 17, 2007 | Posts: 1,091 |
| Posted: | | | | piscesx, all the missing profiles are currently being transferred over from the old database, so there's no need to stress. They'll be in this database soon enough. | | | Adelaide Movie Buffs (info on special screenings, contests, bargains, etc. relevant to Adelaideans... and contests/bargains for other Aussies too!) |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,279 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting piscesx: Quote: I don't have most of the scans I did, and I can't understand how profiles like "The Curse" could have completely disappeared. I've just reloaded it again w/o proper scans, but the time this takes... <sigh>
Because at the time Invelos started it was totally seperate to IVS and Ken did not have access to the old database. Go take a look at the threads on the IVS forum around the legal action and you may understand why. As Wombat says the old database is now merged with the Invelos one as the legal dispute has been resolved and Ken now owns DVD Profiler and IVS. Press the refresh online list button on the add dvd page in 3 and you should find your missing profiles. | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | Don't assume that the titles he/she are referring to will be transferred, they may not be due to illegal UPC#s or any number of other reasons.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,022 |
| Posted: | | | | Can he not just copy his local high res image from 2.4 and paste it into his profile on 3.0?? | | | |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,294 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting richierich: Quote: Can he not just copy his local high res image from 2.4 and paste it into his profile on 3.0?? Yes... apparently that's lots of work... | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 278 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote: Quoting richierich:
Quote: Can he not just copy his local high res image from 2.4 and paste it into his profile on 3.0??
Yes... apparently that's lots of work... To be fair to him THERE ARE OVER A DOZEN OF THEM!!!! How will he find time for that quantity?!!? | | | Guns don't kill people. Hammers do. |
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Registered: May 17, 2007 | Posts: 31 |
| Posted: | | | | hmm, we seem to have some sarcastic data-entry masochists within the community. i recall a 'database' being a place where you store data, not lose it. and 'data migration' the process of moving data from one place to another, again w/o losing it. of course, in a perfect world. but, 'nuff said. gotta get back to re-scanning all those covers and re-contributing all those profiles. |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,022 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting richierich: Quote: Can he not just copy his local high res image from 2.4 and paste it into his profile on 3.0?? This was a serious response - it would be your quickest solution | | | |
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