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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 26 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi
I want to be able to save a copy of my DVD Profiler to an External HD or Flash Drive in case my computer is corrupted/stolen etc.
Is this possible?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | You can always do a database backup to either an external HD or Flash Drive.
This protects your collection data.
You can always re-download the application from this site and restore your database if your computer is corrupted/stolen. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 26 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
You can always do a database backup to either an external HD or Flash Drive.
. I want more than saving an Excel spreadsheet. I want to save the actual DVD Profiler Database 3.5.1. Is this what you mean? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kanamint: Quote:
Quoting hal9g:
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You can always do a database backup to either an external HD or Flash Drive.
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I want more than saving an Excel spreadsheet. I want to save the actual DVD Profiler Database 3.5.1. Is this what you mean? Yes. In the application itself, select File>Backup. You can then tell it exactly where you want to save your backup file. Be sure to select full backup. This is not an excel spreadsheet. It is a backup file that can only be used to restore your database into DVD Profiler. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,804 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kanamint: Quote:
Quoting hal9g:
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You can always do a database backup to either an external HD or Flash Drive.
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I want more than saving an Excel spreadsheet. I want to save the actual DVD Profiler Database 3.5.1. Is this what you mean? The backup has the native DVD Profiler format (*.dpb). This can be restored with the Profiler! Edit: hal9g was faster!  | | | | Thorsten | | | | Last edited: by kahless |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 26 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for your help but when I saved it to my external hard drive I could not open the file. It seems to now be encrypted. It brings up a messgae "Windows cannot open this file" Is this how it should look?
Will I now be able to download this onto another computer that has DVD Profiler? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 120 |
| | Posted: | | | | That's how it is supposed to look. Start DVD Profiler and use 'file->Restore database' to import the backup.
/Jimmie |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kanamint: Quote:
Thanks for your help but when I saved it to my external hard drive I could not open the file. It seems to now be encrypted. It brings up a messgae "Windows cannot open this file" Is this how it should look?
Will I now be able to download this onto another computer that has DVD Profiler? This is simply a backup file. It is not the application itself. If you are trying to install the application on an external HD or Flash Drive, you would have to install the DVDP application on that device and then restore your back up file. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 26 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
Quoting kanamint:
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Thanks for your help but when I saved it to my external hard drive I could not open the file. It seems to now be encrypted. It brings up a messgae "Windows cannot open this file" Is this how it should look?
Will I now be able to download this onto another computer that has DVD Profiler?
This is simply a backup file. It is not the application itself.
If you are trying to install the application on an external HD or Flash Drive, you would have to install the DVDP application on that device and then restore your back up file. So you mean I download DVD Profiler software onto the External Hard Drive and then I restore the back up? Can I use the same Registration Key to download DVD Profiler onto an External Hard Drive? |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 26 |
| | Posted: | | | | OK so I just downloaded it onto an External Hard Drive except when I went to run it it said that it will install DVD Profiler 3.5.1 on my computer. I don't want to install it on my other computer. I want to be able to take it to work to show some people and I am not allowed to load software on a work computer. Please help |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 27 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kanamint: Quote:
OK so I just downloaded it onto an External Hard Drive except when I went to run it it said that it will install DVD Profiler 3.5.1 on my computer. I don't want to install it on my other computer. I want to be able to take it to work to show some people and I am not allowed to load software on a work computer.
Please help What you want to do is to upload your profile online. Since you are unregistered, this option is only available up until you enter more than 50 DVDs. It has been a long time since I've done it, but I believe you select Online>DVD Profiler Online... logon and upload. Once it is uploaded, you can use your browser at work to go to the link http://www.invelos.com/DVDCollection.aspx/kanamint to see your collection. No programs to install. Hope this is helpful. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 26 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Halo2: Quote:
Quoting kanamint:
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OK so I just downloaded it onto an External Hard Drive except when I went to run it it said that it will install DVD Profiler 3.5.1 on my computer. I don't want to install it on my other computer. I want to be able to take it to work to show some people and I am not allowed to load software on a work computer.
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What you want to do is to upload your profile online. Since you are unregistered, this option is only available up until you enter more than 50 DVDs. It has been a long time since I've done it, but I believe you select Online>DVD Profiler Online... logon and upload. Once it is uploaded, you can use your browser at work to go to the link http://www.invelos.com/DVDCollection.aspx/kanamint to see your collection. No programs to install. Hope this is helpful. I am not unregistered! Now I don't want to show people as per the online facility. I want to be able to show them on a computer with the whole DVD profiler available e.g. reports, themes etc etc. Is there someone here who can help me? |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,456 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kanamint: Quote:
Is there someone here who can help me? There are details of software operation that are being overlooked. There was an old thread somewhere that went into this idea. I don't think it was successful. At any rate, one obviuos issue is the interaction of the software with the operating system. DVD Profiler stores information in the windows registry. This information persists across sessions and reboots. So, even if Profiler is actually stored on a USB drive, at some point it would have had to have been installed under the OS and registry values stored. Furthermore, certain paths that Profiler uses are relative to the OS installation. Suggestions: (1) Explore one of those remote PC packages. You can then logon to your home PC from a web browser anywhere and run Profiler on your own PC. (2) Use DVD Profiler Mobile. Don't have a compatible phone? Buy a used one off eBay or something. It doesn't have to be used as a phone - think of it as a fancy thumbdrive that runs "Profiler". | | | Thanks for your support.
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| Registered: October 15, 2008 | | Posts: 58 |
| | Posted: | | | | I tired to host DVDP on ny external HD and on my Flashdrive with no success (I was hoping to go from one computer to another.) The best bet is to always do a backup (as we should do anyhow) and, if something happens, just download the program again and restore your database from the backup. |
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