Some thougths

Michael Polster michael.polster at gmx.net
Mon Mar 19 14:52:02 MDT 2007


First: congratulations to this great program. I use it to archive my dvd 
collection (in videos). So I regularily use the feature: adding new films with 
the wizard. Meanwhile the data (given for example by imdb) has grown up better 
and better. But when you have many entries in your database (for example > 250) 
and many of them lack only of some of the fields, you want to update your 
database.

Ok - even an update is possible... but unfortunately the entry is rewritten 
totally. Often it would be much better, if an update only does 'harmful' 
operations, or doesn't overwrite something.

I perhaps would do it in this way:

1) text in fields should never be overwritten.
2) empty fields, now given by import source, can be inserted without problem.
3) entries of longer lists could be appended, if exist entries in the import 
source, which (with a pattern matching algorithm of 90%), don't exist in the 
own database

I'm not shure if this would be possible? Perhaps with a switch in the 
configuration, not to overwrite existing data?

Nevertheless the possibility of 'healing' this (small) problem... thank you for 
this piece of software. I really love to use it.

Regards Michael Polster




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