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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