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Refresh Updated DVD Profiles - mass selection of "skip this update"
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantChazcdc54
Registered: March 19, 2007
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Unless I'm missing it or there is a work around, is there a way to select "skip this update" for all updated profiles listed for download?  I never found it in previous versions of DVD Pro and think this would save ALOT of effort. 

Right now all one can do is check "Select None" for all but that is lame because these updates will come back to haunt you the next time you click on Refresh Updated DVD Profiles.

Having just transitioned to Ver 3.0 and the new database, I'm encountering the same high volume of profile updates to process with the import of my prior db back-up from v2.4. I Select None and process as many as I can stomach at one time and come back for more later.

I'm hoping to finish tonight at which point I will be looking at Locking or Partially Locking my entire collection as it stands now.

I really have to assume there is a major problem with including this select all feature for Skip this Update in the past as it would appear to be a no brainer to me.

Any further info people?
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
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If you just don't want to deal with the updates now, just don't open that window.

If you meant, it is too much trouble to get through the long list in one time, then do this: Right-click on a title in the list and select Check None; obviously you will have to do this before you start the procedure.
Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantChazcdc54
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Think you're not reading me correctly ya_shin. Firstly, not opening the window leaves the problem for another time when further updates may accumulate.  I have over 900 titles.  That's just "sweeping it under the rug" for the present and creating more work for myself in the future.

Additionally, as I stated I'm aware of selecting Check None but that only excludes those titles (ALL of them in this case) from the present download. They will all show up again in the next! 

What we need is something whereby you may select ALL titles listed in the download for the action: Skip this Update.

I'm sorry but I thought I was clear here.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributormarcelb7
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I had the same thing, about 800+ updates on the first check. So I rightclicked a few hundred times and selected 'skip this update'.

Time consuming, yes. Problem, no.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantRifter
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I had the same thing, about 800+ updates on the first check. So I rightclicked a few hundred times and selected 'skip this update'.

Time consuming, yes. Problem, no.



Well, that is a problem.  I don't have time to sit and fiddle with right clicking several hundred profiles every couple of days.  There's no reason I can see why the 'Skip All Unchanged' can't be expanded to also allow 'Skip All'.
John

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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantChazcdc54
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Exactly my point. This was something I've thought about for a long time.  I don't think you can get off by saying, "well forget about refreshing profiles/images then."  One shouldn't ultimately ignore the refreshed profiles as there may be additional or more importantly, corrected data you missed for a field/section that was previously empty or under populated and I'm always on the look out for better image scans.

So, what to you say, Ken?
Invelos Software, Inc. RepresentativeKen Cole
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I hesitate to add this since mass skipping of updates will likely generate more back-and-forth submissions.  The issue at hand currently is the large quantity of updates, which has already calmed down a great deal. 

Most of what we're processing now are minor corrections (usually adding the new fields), and totally new submissions.
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorm.cellophane
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If you meant, it is too much trouble to get through the long list in one time, then do this: Right-click on a title in the list and select Check None; obviously you will have to do this before you start the procedure.

So are you saying if I want to check 25 now and leave *gulp* 1500 for later I can uncheck all of the boxes first, then look at 25, do the update...and then the next time I go in, those 1500 will still show up?

I don't want to skip them forever...I just want to break down the work into smaller chunks. Especially now with the volume of updates. 
...James

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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorTomGaines
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So are you saying if I want to check 25 now and leave *gulp* 1500 for later I can uncheck all of the boxes first, then look at 25, do the update...and then the next time I go in, those 1500 will still show up?

Yes, this is what the select none is mostly useful for. I have been doing it this way for a long while. I think the option was introduced in Profiler 2.4 or 2.3.


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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantpauls42
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Yes, this is what the select none is mostly useful for. I have been doing it this way for a long while. I think the option was introduced in Profiler 2.4 or 2.3.


Like Tom, this is what I have been doing for a long time. It means I can just spend an hour going through some profiles and then leave it to go back to later!

It would be very tiring to do them all at one time - and the temptation to just accept them all would be there.. 
Paul
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So are you saying if I want to check 25 now and leave *gulp* 1500 for later I can uncheck all of the boxes first, then look at 25, do the update...and then the next time I go in, those 1500 will still show up?

Yes, this is what the select none is mostly useful for. I have been doing it this way for a long while. I think the option was introduced in Profiler 2.4 or 2.3.

Where have I been? Can't believe I missed this. Thanks!

I just checked and I have 3,884 updates now. 
...James

"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan
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James, for the longest time I always dreaded big updates coming through, because it would take me hours to handle them. Until, that was, someone gave me that hint in the InterVocative forum. Now, when I start doing updates, the Select None is always the first thing I do.

3,884 to be done in one session; wouldn't even want to think how long that could take
Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorSrehtims
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I keep every thing locked except the wish list since i;ll probablely never buiy most of then.
I had over 4,500 it said had to updated. I checked a few dozen most were wrong the and most of the rest production date which was the same as I had. I usually have 100 or so updates. I go thru checking each one.  I also kije to see who the submitter was when they are extremely bad or good.

I got tired over seeing the 4,500 or so updates, so I lock everything except the production in owned list and let it update and came up with 14 updates. Most of those were in the ordered list which I checked one by one. At this point in time I don't worry to much about the TV series since they are almost all have to be fixed.
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Quoting Ken Cole:
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I hesitate to add this since mass skipping of updates will likely generate more back-and-forth submissions.  The issue at hand currently is the large quantity of updates, which has already calmed down a great deal. 

Most of what we're processing now are minor corrections (usually adding the new fields), and totally new submissions.



I don't see it doing that, Ken.  Most of the people doing these updates have their profiles locked down already.  I don't see them changing much in that regard except to add the new field data.

I do like to check the updates each week (or whenever) though.  I can usually tell just from reading the titles in the list if a change made is one I want to apply, and frequently I have whole updates that I skip.  Being able to say "Skip All" would be a big time saver for me, and I don't have that big a collection.  I can't imagine wading through several hundred changes every week like some of the guys do.

At the very least add a checkbox on each line we can ding to tell it to skip without having to right click,  etc.  Three clicks saved per line adds up to a hell of a lot of mousing over a large number of titles.
John

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Invelos Software, Inc. RepresentativeKen Cole
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I've added this as a hidden feature in the next version.  Hold CTRL when right-clicking to enable the menu option.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantantolod
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The old hidden feature trick eh?

I would like to see a Skip This Update button added next to the Edit Locks button on the evaluation screen.  I don't want to skip all updates, but when evaluating an update, if I don't want anything in it, a skip button there would take the step of right-clicking the title in the list.
Kevin
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