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| Registered: January 16, 2008 | | Posts: 5 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi.. I love the program first off!! I am putting all my dvds into it now. Just having the wife read the UPC to me and I type it in and it is working great.. My problem is I have the discs in cases. Five cases. I want to be able to see what case it is in while looking for a movie.. I thought the slot/location function was the way but I am having to do a lot of clicking just to enter the slot number for each movie. I only have about five hundred movies but it looks like this will take me a life time..
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Should I use another method to identify the case the movie is in.. For example. I see the movie "Trains" I need to know what case it is in to pull it from that case... Thanks for any help, JRouche..... |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | The location fields is what that's intended to be used for.
Pick up a USB CueCat from ebay for under $10 (last I checked). Your wife will love you more for it. |
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| Registered: January 16, 2008 | | Posts: 5 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for the USB cuecat suggestion. Thats not even an issue. We did the first hundred in a matter of minutes.
My issue is entering the location. Entering the location in the location field takes four clicks and typing the location. I would love to be able to highlight and tag all highlighted items to have their location fields populated with what I type in a window.. If it takes me approximately 20 seconds to update every DVD thats 2.7 hours working non-stop. Gotta be a better way.. JRouche |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | First of all Welcome to the Asylum!  A quick and easy solution, if you only want to differentiate between the 5 different cases, and not a specific location in that case, would be to use tags. Create tags for each case, using the menu Tools/Edit Tags. After you create the tags, Flag the set of DVDs you want to assign to Case1, the use the menu Collection/Flagged/Edit Tags. Tick the box for Case1 and all profiles you had flagged are now tagged as being in Case1. Once you have set all of your tags, you can filter on the tags, and at your leisure personalize the profiles with more detailed location/slot information if you want. For some more ideas of how other people are using tags, see this thread. Hope this helps. | | | | Kevin |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 630 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have not counted the clicks and do not have access to DVD Profiler right now, but I just want to make sure - are you aware you can access the personalization screen directly when entering the DVD? While it is still not ideal it would be better than first entering the DVD, then go back to each DVD setting the information (agian, I am not saying you are doing this, just wanting to make sure in case you didn't notice the more direct option). | | | Regards
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 |  Posts: 189 |
| | Posted: | | | | To quickly get to the Personalize menu for a DVD, simply select it and press CTRL+P. I'm assuming you're doing one case and then moving onto another. This would mean that the "Location" field for each would be the same. Simply type it in, then select it and copy (CTRL+C) it. Then on subsequent DVD of the same case just select the "Location" field and paste. (CTRL+V). | | | Peter
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| Registered: January 16, 2008 | | Posts: 5 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting antolod: Quote:
First of all Welcome to the Asylum!
A quick and easy solution, if you only want to differentiate between the 5 different cases, and not a specific location in that case, would be to use tags. Create tags for each case, using the menu Tools/Edit Tags. After you create the tags, Flag the set of DVDs you want to assign to Case1, the use the menu Collection/Flagged/Edit Tags. Tick the box for Case1 and all profiles you had flagged are now tagged as being in Case1.
Once you have set all of your tags, you can filter on the tags, and at your leisure personalize the profiles with more detailed location/slot information if you want.
For some more ideas of how other people are using tags, see this thread.
Hope this helps. Thanks alot!!! I think for the time being I will use tags to identify which case a dvd is in... As long I can determine which case it is in I can find it.. The slot/location is the preferred method. Just gotta find a day to do it.. Thanks!!! JRouche |
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| Registered: January 16, 2008 | | Posts: 5 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting lmoelleb: Quote:
I have not counted the clicks and do not have access to DVD Profiler right now, but I just want to make sure - are you aware you can access the personalization screen directly when entering the DVD? While it is still not ideal it would be better than first entering the DVD, then go back to each DVD setting the information (agian, I am not saying you are doing this, just wanting to make sure in case you didn't notice the more direct option). You know what, it doesn't work for me, maybe a glitch.. We are entering some right now. And the last screen that pops up is the "personalize dvd" screen.. The slot field is there but believe it or not I cannot get to the field. Can't tab to it, can't mouse to it.. can't select it at all..strange.. Thanks, JRouche |
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| Registered: January 16, 2008 | | Posts: 5 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting falcon2099: Quote:
To quickly get to the Personalize menu for a DVD, simply select it and press CTRL+P. I'm assuming you're doing one case and then moving onto another. This would mean that the "Location" field for each would be the same. Simply type it in, then select it and copy (CTRL+C) it. Then on subsequent DVD of the same case just select the "Location" field and paste. (CTRL+V). I did it your way cut/paste and it does save one step. Its four steps.. CTRL+P, select the location field, CTRL+V, enter. Not too bad.. I just hope after all this work I never loose all the data.. I save the database multiple times in a few places (locally and on dvd) so I think Im safe.. Thanks for the help.. JRouche |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting JRouche: Quote:
You know what, it doesn't work for me, maybe a glitch.. We are entering some right now. And the last screen that pops up is the "personalize dvd" screen.. The slot field is there but believe it or not I cannot get to the field. Can't tab to it, can't mouse to it.. can't select it at all..strange.. Thanks, JRouche Unfortunately you can't access those fields until a disc has been added to the profile. So you pretty much have to wait until after you've downloaded the profile from online. I think someone's requested for this to be changed, so it can be done while adding DVDs, but at the moment we can't. |
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