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| Registered: June 15, 2007 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | I had to reinstall windows but luckily I had previously backed up my DVDP collection of 150 DVD's.
However I've just reinstalled DVDP and tried to restore the backup and my backup.dpb file shows as zero bytes in size with the error unable to locate file, so I checked another file called backup.dpb.bak and this is over 5mb in size.
I tried to rename the bak file to just backup.dpb but that doesn't work either, i get a data error message! Now I'm really stuck.
I have an xml export taken before the reinstall of windows, can I use that to rebuild the DB in some way, even if only in part? |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | You didn't upload your collection so that option's out. Same with no mobile.
Worst comes to worst, you can do what I did when all I had was an XML when upgrading from version 2 to version 3 - open up the XML and copy-n-paste the UPC data into DVDP. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | See herewhich will allow you to import a list of UPCs into dvd profiler. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting jmwhooper: Quote:
I had to reinstall windows but luckily I had previously backed up my DVDP collection of 150 DVD's. Backup how ? On hardrive or website?? | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | What version of DVD profiler 3.1? 2.5? did you have your collection online at intervocative website? | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
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| Registered: June 15, 2007 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm running version 3.0.3 which I used for both the backup and the attempted restore. I didn't have my collection online.
I'm guessing the backup.dpb.bak was an earlier backup that was replaced by the newer backup.dpb and that i should have been able to recover that file by renaming it without .bak, is that right? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yes it should have worked that way. Download version 3.1.0 (Build 1151) from forum menu download. | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: April 4, 2007 |  Posts: 882 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
Quoting jmwhooper:
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I had to reinstall windows but luckily I had previously backed up my DVDP collection of 150 DVD's.
Backup how ? On hardrive or website?? jesus, how about actually reading a post before responding? He even mentioned the file extension... | | | | - Jan |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | or you could try Version 3.1.1, build 1167 from the beta release testing | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
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