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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 94 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hello everyone: I've been investigating a little bit while my son and I watch Order of the Phoenix. I successfully "shared" the database between my main PC running XP Professional and my Vista Laptop. My XP machine houses my collection locally. I was able to accomplish the task by sharing the folder on the XP machine, and opening a "new" database on the Vista Laptop (connecting to the DB through the XP share). I did a test by adding DiscIDs on my Vista Laptop. I went back to the XP machine, and the the DiscIDs showed up. If you are able to share drives and know a little about networking, you should be able to accomplish this. I got stuck on permissions, but once I figured those out everything fell into place. Now, I'm sure that there are some problems with this. Obviously, the "main pc" has to be turned on so the other PC can connect to the share. And I was careful to shut the program down on one PC before I started it on the other PC. I have no idea what would happen if the DB was access at the same time. (The time space continuum would fracture or something, I'm sure.) I will be happy to give any pointers, but I guess I should put in the disclaimer to be careful not to lose data, make sure you do a backup first (um ... do as I say not as I do  ), etc. I guess this would be helpful to sit and watch a movie and do edits to the profile. Hope this is useful to someone. I've seen similar thread, but they always say "make a backup and move the backup". Figured this was worth a try. Rink | | | | Kittens give Morbo gas. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | There are no problems with the way that you are doing it. You do need to shut down the db from the 1st PC before you can access it from the 2nd otherwise you will get an error.
I don't do it this way since I prefer to keep the separate backups - version on my PC - version on my laptop and version on backup drive. But that's just me preference.
One thing you do need to look at is keeping any layouts that you use copied to both PCs (and plug ins which these use). | | | | Paul |
| | Registered: June 12, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | What you describe should work just fine, and you are right you probably want to avoid accessing the DB from the laptop and desktop simultaneously. It might work, but might also destroy things.
I have my data drive on my desktop shareable by my laptop (and only my laptop) and keep a synchronized copy on both machines. The advantage is when i travel the laptop has a complete database available.
When i return home i can run the sync software and the desktop is caught up. (And it must be shutdown on both machines or the sync will complain about "files in use"). | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
| | Registered: June 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | I do the same as you tweeter but only if I cant turn my main PC on. I keep a copy of the db fairly upto date for picking films and reference using syncback.
If I'm doing any editing on the laptop while watching tv I use remote desktop to access profiler and the db. With my laptop being a pentium 3 profiler runs very slow on it so running it on my pc through remote desktop gets around this. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MarEll: Quote:
If I'm doing any editing on the laptop while watching tv I use remote desktop to access profiler and the db. With my laptop being a pentium 3 profiler runs very slow on it so running it on my pc through remote desktop gets around this. interesting idea. I hadn't thought of using remote desktop (or any other remote control software). (And like you I use the laptop when I'm watching TV) | | | | Paul |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting rink_no2: Quote:
Hello everyone:
I've been investigating a little bit while my son and I watch Order of the Phoenix. I successfully "shared" the database between my main PC running XP Professional and my Vista Laptop. My XP machine houses my collection locally. I was able to accomplish the task by sharing the folder on the XP machine, and opening a "new" database on the Vista Laptop (connecting to the DB through the XP share).
I did a test by adding DiscIDs on my Vista Laptop. I went back to the XP machine, and the the DiscIDs showed up.
If you are able to share drives and know a little about networking, you should be able to accomplish this. I got stuck on permissions, but once I figured those out everything fell into place.
Now, I'm sure that there are some problems with this. Obviously, the "main pc" has to be turned on so the other PC can connect to the share. And I was careful to shut the program down on one PC before I started it on the other PC. I have no idea what would happen if the DB was access at the same time. (The time space continuum would fracture or something, I'm sure.)
I will be happy to give any pointers, but I guess I should put in the disclaimer to be careful not to lose data, make sure you do a backup first (um ... do as I say not as I do ), etc. I guess this would be helpful to sit and watch a movie and do edits to the profile.
Hope this is useful to someone. I've seen similar thread, but they always say "make a backup and move the backup". Figured this was worth a try.
Rink Profiler is not really network aware per se. Windows is doing all the work in what you describe. It would be nice if it was network aware, with collision avoidance and record locking, etc. | | | John
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| | Registered: May 29, 2007 |  Posts: 189 |
| | Posted: | | | | I remember seeing quite some time ago that some people were running DVD Profier off of USB drives. I'm not sure if this is still possible as folder locations have changed to the database being stored in "My Documents". | | | Peter
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 550 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting falcon2099: Quote:
I remember seeing quite some time ago that some people were running DVD Profier off of USB drives. I'm not sure if this is still possible as folder locations have changed to the database being stored in "My Documents". I ran it that way for a while, but not since the newer version of the software. I did it because I had Profiler on my desktop at home and wanted to do stuff while are work without having the program installed on my work computer. I have since bought a laptop that has Profiler and the desktops only function is streaming to my Xbox and TV. | | | Schultzy - http://www.michaelschultz.net
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