This is just something to think about Ken. Perhaps a change in the way the program handles image files.

Right now, with the utilities, you can clean up any images that are left over from DVD's you don't have in your collection. But it doesn't do anything with the images that are overwritten, that I see.

I was looking through the image folder today looking for the cover to a certain DVD so that I could apply it to the child profiles I had made (it was Cosmos, btw), and I found out something peculiar.

In the image folder, there are multiple copies of image covers for the same title. in my case, there are sometimes four front cover images for a single title. When I look at them closely, I see that they are covers that are not being used anymore, because newer and better ones had been submitted and I had downloaded them. So even though DVDP replaces covers in the individual profiles, the program doesn't allow for the old cover to be deleted. I didn't do a really close count, but I know there were over 50 images that are not in use, that are just taking up space on my hard drive.

(I suppose I could just delete all the image files and re-download them, but - unless I took precautions - I would lose all my custom covers.)

I would think there should be a way for the program to automatically delete a cover image once it has been replaced, thus saving space. How about it?

And in the same sort of vein.... is there a better naming convention for the covers? perhaps by the profile title? "Bambiback.jpg", "Bambifront.jpg"?

Thirdly, when there are child profiles of a box set/television set, and there are no individual covers scans, current rules state to use the covers from the box. Is there a way to just have the profiles point to the same single image file, instead of having a separate file for each child? Again, it would save space.

Just my thoughts, and ideas to make this already great program even better.

I don't know, but there are more than one. There are multiple copies of some covers.

I currently have 861 titles in my collection. But the images folder shows 3386 image files (148 megs of space). That does not include the Thumbnails folder. However, the same thing happens in that folder as well. Duplicates.

Take LA Story. I have 012236187875b, and 012236187875f  which are both front covers. I can only assume that was from when the title was on my wish list, and the front cover was used for both sides.

What's funny is that I have the back covers, can see them in the program, but can't find the files. for them.

That may be where the problem lies. I have more fronts than backs. On all the multiples, the UPC/EAN are the same, but then b or f (which I know means back and front).

But there should be a way for the program to take care of this, and there should not be a huge disparity in the number of covers vs. number of actual titles. If I've got 500 titles, and covers for each, I should have 1000 image files.

In this program I think it's a bug. If it was Windows, I'd call it a "feature."   

If you read the second paragraph in my original post, I did that already. I do that once a month at least.

I might have figured out the duplicate images, but i still have 4 times as many image files than i have titles.

Unrelated and related alike, you could edit the parent profile and copy the cover from there and then paste it into the child profiles.

I have 971 profiles and 1877 image files. Seems ok to me.

One thing I didn't do is use the same image directory with both programs.
I restored the database into v3 which created a new cover directory.

Don't forget all the EAN's changed from v2 to v3. So all the old images would have had the wrong name..

Quoting Voltaire53:

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Not that I'm sure how the numbering can make this possible but anyway... have you tried:

Tools -> Options -> Utilities -> Clean Images Directory

?

never knew that existed - good eye.

Np worries; I noticed on 2.x that if I deleted a title from my Db and said "yes, delete the images" when it asked, it never did (or so it seemed to me) so that's when I discovered the Clean Images which did the trick.

Glad to be of help to anyone who hasn't found that one until now!