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| Registered: October 15, 2008 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi,
Is it possible to have Profiler installed on both desktop and laptop but share a common database?
Regards,
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | yes, but only 1 computer can access it at a time. | | | | Kevin |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | You can easily change the default location of your database via DVDProfiler menu "File -> Open Database ...". But as Paul said, only one user can access it at a time, so it's probably better to use a synching tool for the two databases. | | | 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 9, 2008 | | Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Petros Arnoldus: Quote:
Is it possible to have Profiler installed on both desktop and laptop but share a common database? Since I only do updates on my desktop I upload my collection from my desktop and then one a week or so download it to my Laptop for when I travel/use in different room. |
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| Registered: June 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,208 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
You can easily change the default location of your database via DVDProfiler menu "File -> Open Database ...". But as Kevin said, only one user can access it at a time, so it's probably better to use a synching tool for the two databases.  | | | | Last edited: by MarEll |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
You can easily change the default location of your database via DVDProfiler menu "File -> Open Database ...". But as Kevin said, only one user can access it at a time, so it's probably better to use a synching tool for the two databases. I just share the database on my main PC and use that from both the laptop and the desktop PC. no problems | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: October 15, 2008 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks everyone - most helpful
Paul,
When you say "share" do you mean simply point each PC at the DB file?
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Petros |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 9 |
| | Posted: | | | | My Daughter and I share a backup file on our LAN.
Not an eloquent solution. Certainly not automatic and not idiot proof.
However, if there is a catastrophic failure, the other computer is intact with a complete database.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Miles Archer: Quote:
My Daughter and I share a backup file on our LAN.
Not an eloquent solution. Certainly not automatic and not idiot proof.
However, if there is a catastrophic failure, the other computer is intact with a complete database.
I was going to make the same point. If you keep two separate databases, you're covered in the event you lose one computer. If you have the database on one drive and two computers share that location, you should have some other backup plan in mind. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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