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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | It may just be me and I've been unlucky but has anyone else suffered a massive studio corruption for 'all' their titles?
It seems to be similar to the crew corruption that a lot of titles suffered early on but this time Studio A is replaced by Studio B in all cases (eg. All BBC entries become Universal etc.). I think it happened when I did a Repair Database (the repair certainly didn't fix it) or when I did a backup on machine 1 and a restore on machine 2.
I thought all the problems with Repair had been sorted out, is this not so?
Luckily I had an older backup to go to so it is alright now, at least on one machine (haven't had a chance to re-restore on the other yet) but for a while it was rather messy! | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: May 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 54 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
It may just be me and I've been unlucky but has anyone else suffered a massive studio corruption for 'all' their titles?
It seems to be similar to the crew corruption that a lot of titles suffered early on but this time Studio A is replaced by Studio B in all cases (eg. All BBC entries become Universal etc.). I've just suffered much the same problem, except in my case, every single title with 2 entertain Video set as the Studio has changed to blank. I noticed it after I performed a backup - and this isn't the first time it's occurred either, though it is the first time I've been able to pin-point exactly when it happened. Is this a common 'bug', or only an occasional glitch.  |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Is it possible that you've accepted a profile change recently where instead of replacing BBC with Universal (as an example), the user has accidentally changed BBC to Universal in the list? Or does that only affect the local database? | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
Is it possible that you've accepted a profile change recently where instead of replacing BBC with Universal (as an example), the user has accidentally changed BBC to Universal in the list? Or does that only affect the local database? This should only affect the local database. How should the program recognize the difference between a sinlge entry change and a change of studio in list at the download of a profile? (But the idea was not bad) | | | | Last edited: by VirusPil |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 950 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've had several studios replaced by another one in my database as well. Unless I'm adding them to a blank field, I don't touch them, so something else must have been the cause (In other words, I didn't accidentally override one studio with another). Unfortunately, I have no idea when this happened so I don't have a "clean" backup, but whenever I make a change to a profile now, I have to double check to make sure that the studios are correct and not some random ones before I submit.
Wish I could add more information, but as this field isn't one I use a lot, I don't know when the damage occurred... | | | | Lori |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have suffered from this bug as well. Like analogueman, 2 entertain Video (the first studio name in my list of Studios) was replaced by - in my case - a non-existing studio.
I reckon this is the remnant of an earlier bug in the Studio section which was fixed a few releases ago. | | | | Last edited: by dee1959jay |
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| Registered: May 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 54 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
I have suffered from this bug as well. Like analogueman, 2 entertain Video (the first studio name in my list of Studios) was replaced by - in my case - a non-existing studio.
I reckon this is the remnant of an earlier bug in the Studio section which was fixed a few releases ago. Yes indeed, in the past I've also had all my 2 entertain Video entries replaced by strange studio names. It seems to happen quite randomly too. Hugely annoying when you have several hundred 2|entertain titles in your database, and they all have to be redone by hand - I've spent the evening doing just that!! Oh brother...  |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
I have suffered from this bug as well. Like analogueman, 2 entertain Video (the first studio name in my list of Studios) was replaced by - in my case - a non-existing studio.
I reckon this is the remnant of an earlier bug in the Studio section which was fixed a few releases ago. I agree, I occasionally find 20th Century Fox (at that time my first studio in the list) replaced by Hungarofilm Budapest (who never got that many movies as 20CF published on DVD), but it seems to be an "old" problem and no new instances occur. edit: Correction! I just found a new case, and that happened just after a database repair which I think caused the problem in the first place. | | | | Hans | | | | Last edited: by Staid S Barr |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting analogueman: Quote:
Quoting dee1959jay:
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I have suffered from this bug as well. Like analogueman, 2 entertain Video (the first studio name in my list of Studios) was replaced by - in my case - a non-existing studio.
I reckon this is the remnant of an earlier bug in the Studio section which was fixed a few releases ago.
Yes indeed, in the past I've also had all my 2 entertain Video entries replaced by strange studio names. It seems to happen quite randomly too.
Hugely annoying when you have several hundred 2|entertain titles in your database, and they all have to be redone by hand - I've spent the evening doing just that!! Oh brother... You can replace a studio name collectively in the Edit function. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | That is indeed how I have tackled it too. Just edit whatever nonsense the programme inserts.
However the last time it happened wasn't THAT long ago, so I don't think the problem has been fixed already. | | | | Last edited: by dee1959jay |
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| Registered: May 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 54 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote:
You can replace a studio name collectively in the Edit function. Indeed you can. However, that doesn't work if a studio name is collectively removed from hundreds of entries and replaced with a blank, as happened to me yesterday.  What would be helpful (and this is a suggestion for a future update perhaps) would be the ability to add a single studio from the list to a defined (flagged) block of titles/movies in one easy shot. That would have saved me the hassle of manually adding 2 entertain Video to the hundreds of individual titles in my database in which they mysteriously vanished from. Hopefully that all makes sense.  |
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| Registered: May 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 54 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
However the last time it happened wasn't THAT long ago, so I don't think the problem has been fixed already. You're right. This has occurred to me under at least two different versions of the program, so whatever bug is causing it still exists. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's not exactly a bug.
It's what happens if you're editing studios without clicking "New" first. In this case the program simply overwrites the first entry in your studio listing.
Other than expected the text field at the bottom of the studio editor is not for search, but for direct editing of the highlighted studio. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: May 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 54 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ..: Quote:
It's not exactly a bug.
It's what happens if you're editing studios without clicking "New" first. In this case the program simply overwrites the first entry in your studio listing. Nope. I wasn't editing studios. In fact, I wasn't editing anything. I simply performed my regular back-up, shut the database down, and low-and-behold... when it was opened up again, every title in my database that used to have 2 entertain Video in the Studios was now blank. Certainly looks like a bug to me, and as mentioned above, it isn't the first time it's happened either. |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ..: Quote:
It's not exactly a bug.
It's what happens if you're editing studios without clicking "New" first. In this case the program simply overwrites the first entry in your studio listing.
Other than expected the text field at the bottom of the studio editor is not for search, but for direct editing of the highlighted studio. If that were true, the inserted name should at least have some resemblance to a newly entered studio. Which was not the case whenever it happened to me. So there must be more to it than just that. |
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