Before realising that DVD Profiler was primarily a 'commercial DVD' database, I added quite a number of my own recordings, some personal and others recordings of broadcast films that I wanted to keep - many not yet released as DVDs.  My question is: How do I prevent any of these being accidentially uploaded.

The FAQ in the help-system says:
"I create my own DVDs and would like to add them to DVD Profiler. Can I?
Absolutely! Just add them by title, and deselect Download profile from Invelos. Note: DVDs added this way will appear in your online My Profiler collection, but cannot be contributed to the main online DVD Profiler database."
However, if I have already downloaded the profile (and then made changes to suit my own private recording), that option is no longer possible.

Similarly, if you notice differences betwen the profile contributed by someone else and the version that you have in your hands, but don't feel anything would be gained by contributing those differences.  How do you prevent changes made to your own database profile ever being contributed.  Two example I've found are: Cover scans being different and missing Audio Tracks.

In any case, if a contribution is made accidentally, it can always be withdrawned before it's processed.

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Edit: just noticed what you said about changing an online profile - again, removing the UPC code should solve this problem.

You can't remove the UPC, the program doesn't allow it.

The only way to ensure you don't contribute is to create a manual title then copy the data across. It's not as hard as you think as you can copy the big things (cast/crew/overview) as well as most of the individual fields. It's just the drop downs you have to repopulate 'manually'.

But as has already been said the contribution is not automatic, you have to consciously choose to submit and they can be withdrawn if you do it by mistake.

With all the questions you have to answer about the origin of the data, contributing "by mistake" is no longer an option.

I don't know why nobody has suggested it, but I assume this works:

Under 'General Info' where there's the hand with the disc (i.e. Contribute) if you right-click on that you have options "Contribute" and "Never Contribute".  I'm not sure it actually stops you from contributing, but it makes it less likely (the hand-disc greys out).

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...Under 'General Info' where there's the hand with the disc (i.e. Contribute) if you right-click on that you have options "Contribute" and "Never Contribute".  I'm not sure it actually stops you from contributing, but it makes it less likely (the hand-disc greys out).

Thanks W0m6at, that was an unexpected/well hidden find - even if it was staring me in the face.  I'll have to spend a couple of days clicking left and right on every icon/option in the entire program to see what else is there.
However,..... the 'Never Contribute' setting appears to be deactivated if you make a change to the profile, so I'm not sure I have that much faith in it.

"Never Contribute" does NOT prevent contributing, it simply removes the reminder that you have uncontributed changes.

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It fits the thread title, so I'll add this:


Just now I noticed that I have a pending contribution for "Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series".

I don"t know how it got there, as I have not made it consciously; accordingly there are no Contribution Notes. However, there is also no Withdraw link  

(Going to send PM to Ken...)

Sounds like a cancelled contribution at the web stage - they still appear in the list, but with no "received" in either profile or images.

I pm'd Ken about the same problem earlier this week.  I did however contributed and then and then just closed the web page without confirming.  As Lopek said, it stayed there with no status, no notes and no withdraw button.

What bothered me though is that other users could see it, someone even pm'd me about it.