Quoting Magmadrag:

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Quoting GSyren:

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So yeah, it's just a listing. If it's no help at all, then sorry!

Well, I wanted to try... but I can't! I would need to export my (whole) collection to xml and export doesn't work anymore. It runs and runs... and at about 99 % the Error-Popup comes... I got an xml but with Zero KB size. So in this case I got no chance to try it.

Is there any chance that the tool opens the "Actors"-File in the programm folder (no idea if the DAT or the IDX is relevant) but this would avoid (the for me impossible) export

Maybe consider the possibility of testing the idea with less than the full export? One step at a time.

@mediadogg:
Sorry, I was a little bit too busy to go deep in all posts (trying to export an xml lasted a long time) and as it didn't work I forgot to answer you.

Export works neither with the full database nor with only a few. I had this problem in the past, and there was no solution to solve this.

So I need to find another way....

Well, the idea of the "fake profile" you mentioned is wonderful for two reasons: All the cast & crew with no BY could be added there, and if I keep the fake profile (I think about the wishlist), with the "repair database" I can remove all other cast & crew not used anymore (emptied by common name, correcting misspelling etc.)

I know the duplicates file... well, in theory this could be a good basic to handle this problem. So far it shows similar entries, but at least in theory (don't know the programming and processes working behind) it could be used just to find actors with birthyear.

I also don't know if it helps to "interact" with the program that way: I used the right click to filter actors to show only "names with birthyear".

Maybe (oh, if I would know how to program) the tool could work that way:
- I create the fake profile and start the tool
- The tool doesn't even need to check, if there is an version with no BY of any entry with BY
(- The tool uses the filter of "with birthyear only")
- For ever cast & crew with birthyear, the tool does like mentioned with the pictures before: "create new entry". If already available, the tool cancels the actual add and goes to the next name with BY

Is this an idea?

If you think we are converging on an idea, I will be using a "SubPlugin". This is a piece of code that is very easy to install and update, and much easer for me to code, test and maintain than a regular plugin.

But there is a catch. All subplugins are hosted by a master plugin called DVDPFauxAPI. This is installed only once and never again unless a bug fix is needed. From then on, you can run any and all  subplugins simply by copying one file into a specific folder.

So, before I start writing code, please verify that you can install DVDPFauxAPI plugin. It does nothing until you copy a subplugin file, which is automatically recognized and run. Easy. You can disable it and re-enable it the normal way, using Tools>View Plugins.

Let me know if I am on the right track.

Quoting Magmadrag:

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Well, I wanted to try... but I can't! I would need to export my (whole) collection to xml and export doesn't work anymore. It runs and runs... and at about 99 % the Error-Popup comes... I got an xml but with Zero KB size. So in this case I got no chance to try it.

That sounds like you need to run a database repair.

And if that doesn't help, do a test partial export in packages of 1000 profiles each and find the profile causing the export problems.

Did you try to export 1 profile? Maybe played with the options of what to export (leave out cast and/or crew for test)? Chose a different drive for the file?

I may not have the largest collection but it's not small either, so for reference: My ~7400 profiles export to a 163 MiB file in 2 minutes 50 seconds.

Quoting Magmadrag:

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I tried the version to export "1 file per profile".... but as this didn't last too long I stopped after about an hour (not even 1000 files/profiles then of more than 25.000)

No I meant just randomly flag 5 profiles and export those into one file. Does the export complete there?

The "F-Database" worked.... as I don't know if the backup then exports all cast & crew or only of the flagged F-Profiles, I can't say if the "BySpecial" of GSyren (thanks, at least I could try now) shows all actors missing the version w/o BY or only the 469 of the F-Profiles....

But even if they are all (so far) it would be hard to create each one manually.... that was the reason for my idea for a tool to do that job.

Quoting mediadogg:

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However if the xml export works for you, then my tool is not needed.

What GSyren created is "only" a listing. I hope I answered all your questions in one of my last postings?

And: I'd still prefer a tool which CREATES all the missing cast & crew w/o a birthyear for me (in the fake profile you mentioned before). So far it is "only" 469 entries to create... and doing that manually is hell of a job.

And if I think about that I am not done with the letter "C" of the birthyear-list and as I am actually only doing cast so far, there might be several thousands without a BY and that's simply too much to do manually.

So, dear mediadogg, the tool will be highly appreciated if it could do the job I would like it to and this way avoid countless hours of manual work.