Well see title pretty much.

I have used/played around with it a long time ago. I haven't bought dvd's/blu-rays a lot recently and haven't added things in ages. I do remember finding them very vague.
I know they are like individual movies from sets but how do they work exactly and can I use them the best?


- What gets used from such profiles? All the information? For reports and such. Ratings, ticking labels and all that.

- With certain dvd's (double disc or double play I guess) it also asks to download child profiles. If I select yes are they always empty of all information? And if I don't want them can I set that somewhere? Because they do autodownload (ask to ofc.) everytime you autoupdate the list.

I know I am (a bit) vague but I have a hard time formulating my exact question(s) (further) so if anyone can say something/anything I would be gratefull.

I just know I find them very annoying from time to time and I can't really explain it. 

Wheeeee. 

The best way to get aa hang of parent/child profile is to look at some them. You can down load the in the wish list and easily remove them after you've looked at them. Sorry they're R1.

Examples
Different movies in a box set
The Actuality Dramas of Allan King UPC 715515064217

Same movies
Das Boot UPC 043396379688

TV series on Blu-ray
Glee: The Complete First Season UPC 024543695882
this has the discs ids filled and credits in the parent, I don't usually do this, and it isn't necessary to even have child profiles maybe this why this profile does because the original contributor did it that way and somebody else added the child profiles later..

Movie blu-ray combo pack
Of Gods and Men UPC 043396380967
the Blu-ray as  the parent.
the dvd as a child

I have to admit to being at least as confused as the OP. Leaving movies out of it for now, let's just talk about TV shows. I've seen some seasons of the same show, some with child profiles which have the Disc ID instead of a UPC, some which have discs identified by ID with no children, and some with no children OR discs. Which is the correct way, or does it come down to individual preference? I'd at least like my database to be consistent, but which way is best?

If it should be using children, would I need to delete the disks from the parent or can you use the same ID in both places? (I think I've noticed that when you insert a disc while Profiler is running, it will select the profile that contains that disc, unless it doesn't recognize it.)

Thanks for ANY help here.

Quoting SampleAndy:

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I'd at least like my database to be consistent, but which way is best?

That's for you to decide, as Jimmy said: It's pretty much a matter of preference.

As the contribution rules say: the main profile (Season) has to contain all Information. If and how deep you go in is up to you.

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If it should be using children, would I need to delete the disks from the parent or can you use the same ID in both places? (I think I've noticed that when you insert a disc while Profiler is running, it will select the profile that contains that disc, unless it doesn't recognize it.)

You don't have to, but if the behavior of DVD Profiler upon inserting a disk isn't to your liking you can.

I for one go to disc-level, mainly because of "watched". I never seen a whole season of a series in one day so it seems neater to mark the discs. After I watched the whole season I mark the season watched on "date of purchase" for filtering purposes.

cya, Mithi

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1) IS it possible to do that?

Not quite sure if I got correctly what you wish to do. Is it:
a) Copy the data from one profile to another
b) Change the UPC of a profile in your collection

For a)
Open the profile editor of the source profile
Open the "Cast"-tab
Rightclick into the Cast-list and choose "Copy"
Close the source profile
Open the profile editor of the target profile
Open "Cast"-tab
Rightclick into the Cast list and choose "Paste"
Proceed in the same way for the Crew-listings

For b)
DVDProfiler menu "DVD -> Change UPC ..."

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2) Am I doing something stoopid in my search attempts? I don't know if I've ever gotten a result or if I always get an error. I'm going to go search for help on search techniques now.

No you are not too stupid to use the "Search"-function. It is notorious for time-outs.
Experienced users are usng the advanced search of Google (add "site:invelos.com" without inverted commas to your query).

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Thanks Silence.
What I was trying to accomplish was a fast and dirty way of copying a profile. I thought I would download a valid profile, and then change the UPC to the generic manual code.

Ahh,
never tried this, but I'm quite sure it isn't possible.

So you'd have to do it the other way round:
- Create an empty manual profile first
- Download a profile with the data you need
- Copy the data as suggested above

if you want to copy all the profile details from one profile to another, using the dvd menu - select COPY (when the source DVD profile is selected).

and on the destination profile select PASTE.

You then get a menu of all the items you can paste into the new profile (and one of the options is everything).

e.g. tHis is quicker that copying cast & crew separately.

I'm at work so of course don't have any access to the program so I can see the exact wording - but what I've said should be sufficient information.