Ok, as usual I went and bought some software without actually testing it out and now I'm trying to figure out how to do a couple of things.

1) I have 2 copies of some DVD's and DVD profiler keeps telling me that it is allready in the database and that I can't add it again.  Any suggestions?

2) How do I edit multiple records? For instance, I would like to be able to highlight many records and then change the genre of them to what I want.

3) I have DVD shelves in various rooms and I have the DVD's numbered but they are not unique numbers.  for instance, I have a shelf in my great room and the dvd's are number from 1-700 and then I have another shelf in my bedroom that is also labeled 1-700.  Neither of these shelves are complete, but what I would like to be able to do is enter in all the dvds from the bedroom, and then tell DVD profiler to start the collection number at 1000 and then enter in the dvd's from the great room, and then tell DVD profiler to start at 2000 and enter the dvd's from my den.  But then at a later date when I start adding more dvd's to the bedroom, I would need to be able to start at the number that I want again.

4) How can I reimport data back into DVD Profiler?  I have found the export to XML but I can't seem to find the import button.

5) Is it possible to access the database?  Most of my problem would not be problems if I could access the database from a SQL client.  Any suggestions?

Any hints or tips on how to do some of the things that I am looking to do would be greatly appreciated.

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3) I have DVD shelves in various rooms and I have the DVD's numbered but they are not unique numbers.  for instance, I have a shelf in my great room and the dvd's are number from 1-700 and then I have another shelf in my bedroom that is also labeled 1-700.  Neither of these shelves are complete, but what I would like to be able to do is enter in all the dvds from the bedroom, and then tell DVD profiler to start the collection number at 1000 and then enter in the dvd's from the great room, and then tell DVD profiler to start at 2000 and enter the dvd's from my den.  But then at a later date when I start adding more dvd's to the bedroom, I would need to be able to start at the number that I want again.

As 8ballMax says, just use the location and slot fields in Personalise. You can use location to store the room, and slot for the number. Duplicates are allowed so there's no problem with restarting the numbering.

That is not good, now that I have locations how do I move them to the new locations without having to edit them one by one again?

Also, is there a way to "set" the location so that I can tell it "bed room" and then scan like 200 records and then change the location to "great room" and then scan another 200 records?

In what way have you entered the locations now?

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2) How do I edit multiple records? For instance, I would like to be able to highlight many records and then change the genre of them to what I want.

flag them and go to Collection -> Flagged, there are some, although very limited, possibilities to manipulate them in one sweep.

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3) I have DVD shelves in various rooms and I have the DVD's numbered but they are not unique numbers.  for instance, I have a shelf in my great room and the dvd's are number from 1-700 and then I have another shelf in my bedroom that is also labeled 1-700.  Neither of these shelves are complete, but what I would like to be able to do is enter in all the dvds from the bedroom, and then tell DVD profiler to start the collection number at 1000 and then enter in the dvd's from the great room, and then tell DVD profiler to start at 2000 and enter the dvd's from my den.  But then at a later date when I start adding more dvd's to the bedroom, I would need to be able to start at the number that I want again.

Not quite sure about the Collectionnumbers, but I would create tags for the different shelves in the first place. So you can filter on those tags.

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4) How can I reimport data back into DVD Profiler?  I have found the export to XML but I can't seem to find the import button.

No. For data-backup (and that should be made regulary) use the backupfunction.

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5) Is it possible to access the database?  Most of my problem would not be problems if I could access the database from a SQL client.  Any suggestions?

No.

cya, Mithi