I've successfully created dummy boxsets for organization before, but I'm having trouble with this one. I've created "Universal Classic Monster Collection" and added The Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Phantom of the Opera, but Dracula, The Invisible Man and The Wolf Man do not show up in the selection list. Any suggestions where I could look for the problem?

I recently did a database repair... ok, I JUST did a database repair, but that was no help. I've tried searching the forum, but got a timeout, even when only searching the last 30 days.

Thanks

They are all in the Owned category. I didn't intentionally add them to another boxset, but I may have done it by accident. Is ... but then the profile wouldn't show in the open, would it. hmmm...

They MAY have been in a boxset in my wishlist until I got them. Would there be a field in the profile record that might still have boxset information in it?

Karsten,
It looks like that might just be the problem. The only thing is, I'm at work and really shouldn't be playing here. I'll check that out, and post as soon as I'm done for the day.

Thanks to you, and to you, Ace!!!

Well, THAT was an interesting little problem. I don't think I'm going to forget it anytime soon.

Karsten, we were right. Someplace in the profile record, is information which tells the system that the profile is a member of a given boxset. This was probably done to keep a manufacturer's boxset and its children together, but it didn't work well here. I moved the "hidden" profiles back into my Wishlist, and they all disappeared into the original "dummy" boxset. I was then able to remove them from the boxset, move them to the Owned category and add them to the desired "dummy" boxset. Mission accomplished! 

I took the safe way, and removed everything from the boxset. If I had removed the boxset, would it have deleted all its children, too? I suspect that it would warn you first, and if you were dumb enough to continue, you would lose all the information.

Ace, I'm not sure what you meant in your post. I played around in the system for a while. I took Dracula's Daughter from the boxset Universal Monsters and moved it from my Wishlist to my Owned movies. I then could not add it to any existing boxsets, which was my original problem. I clicked All, and then I couldn't find the profile ANYwhere, until I thought to look in its original boxset. Dracula's Daughter, which looked like a normal profile in my Owned movies was still a member of the boxset Universal Monsters in my Wishlist. I hope that makes some kind of sense, because I have no idea how to explain it more clearly. 

One more thing... back in my original post, I asked where I might be able to look for the problem. I tripped and fell on the answer: if you edit the "hidden" profile and click on [Box Set Contents], at the bottom of the page, below the list of possible profiles, it says "Box set content of: Universal Classic Monster Collection [Manual DVD #91]." I'm guessing that if you have a normal profile, that field is null (or blank) and if it IS part of a boxset, the field contains the ID number of the boxset.

Anyway, thank you both for your help. I don't think I could have done it without you. 

(stupid login timed out while I was researching the problem. This is actually the second time typing this.)

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if you edit the "hidden" profile and click on [Box Set Contents], at the bottom of the page, below the list of possible profiles, it says "Box set content of: Universal Classic Monster Collection [Manual DVD #91]."

nice find, wasn't aware of that (or have forgotten it )
I took the liberty to shamelessly take the knowledge of this thread to put it in another DVDProKB:Community article.

cya, Mithi

If you right-click on the thumbnail and select Move To, one collection will be grayed out. Then don't move.

edit: Just checked this and it works in other tabs, but not in All.

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If you right-click on the thumbnail and select Move To, one collection will be grayed out. Then don't move.

edit: Just checked this and it works in other tabs, but not in All.

And not in Owned. Do not have Ordered or Wish List, though.

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edit: Just checked this and it works in other tabs, but not in All.

Staid, I found that just a little while after I'd posted my question. 
For me, it worked in all cases: I selected a profile that I knew was in my Owned list, and Owned was greyed out. I selected a different profile that was in my Wishlist, and Wish List was greyed out. I selected a profile that was in my Ordered list, and Ordered was greyed out. This worked the same way, using both the R-Click menu and the DVD menu. I was just wondering if there were an icon or something in the record that would indicate it, without having to do anything. (shrugs)

Mark, I appreciate your suggestion, but it wasn't really a problem, more of an oh-by-the-way. But while you're here... 

Exactly what can you do with your Database Query? Is it read only, or will it let you go thru the database and change things? One of the things I'd like to do is go thru in a table view and mark all the profiles that I've watched, instead of having to edit each and every record individually. Is something like that possible, either with your program or some other???

Thanks again, to all.