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Collection list to NOT count duplicate discs?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantfrijoli
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I want to see how many movies I actually have, not how many discs currently owned. I don't want them to be gone from my total owned, but a filter would be nice.

Is there a simple way to filter this? I couldn't figure it out.

Thanks,
Clay
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Quoting frijoli:
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Is there a simple way to filter this?

Simple ... no.

Just some thought to ponder and functions to play with:
DVD Profiler counts profiles, not disc or movies, so you can start manipulating him there: press Ctrl&p and you'll see a "Count as" box.
If you don't use the Collection-Number otherwise you can additionally check if an profile should get such a number or not.
And if you press Ctrl&a to flag all profiles, you will always get the total shown at the bottom line of DVD Profiler.

E.g. I count and give Collection-numbers to Movie-Profiles and TV-Series-Seasons. I do not count, nor give Collection-numbers to Movie-Boxsets, thoses are only 'containers' for me or TV-Series-Childprofiles which I only keep for information.

So my "Total DVDs:" number is 830 as is my highest Collection-number, while with Flag-all I am shown that I have 1121 Profiles.

cya, Mithi
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Quoting frijoli:
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I want to see how many movies I actually have, not how many discs currently owned. I don't want them to be gone from my total owned, but a filter would be nice.

The default is not to count discs or movies but to count profiles. What exactly is the scenario, do you own multiple B-rDs of the same movie?

Profiler is above-average adaptable.
Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect]
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Quoting frijoli:
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I want to see how many movies I actually have, not how many discs currently owned. I don't want them to be gone from my total owned, but a filter would be nice.

The default is not to count discs or movies but to count profiles. What exactly is the scenario, do you own multiple B-rDs of the same movie?

Profiler is above-average adaptable.


I own multiple discs as in I have a DVD and a Bluray of of the same movie(combo set), also i have multiple disc sets as in one case with three discs(movie, specials, and digital copy)
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Quoting frijoli:
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Is there a simple way to filter this?

Simple ... no.

press Ctrl&p and you'll see a "Count as" box.
If you don't use the Collection-Number otherwise you can additionally check if an profile should get such a number or not.
And if you press Ctrl&a to flag all profiles, you will always get the total shown at the bottom line of DVD Profiler.

E.g. I count and give Collection-numbers to Movie-Profiles and TV-Series-Seasons. I do not count, nor give Collection-numbers to Movie-Boxsets, thoses are only 'containers' for me or TV-Series-Childprofiles which I only keep for information.


cya, Mithi

I don't see a Count as box when I press ctrl p
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Look just under the collection number on the Personalize DVD pop-up screen
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Quoting frijoli:
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I don't see a Count as box when I press ctrl p

Maybe I was a bit unclear, Ctrl&p opens the "personalize DVD"-Window which shows, among other thing, a "count as", see

If this key do not work try DVD -> Personalize

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I'm a huge fan of Tags, which gives you the ability to categorize things any way you want.
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Quoting frijoli:
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I own multiple discs as in I have a DVD and a Bluray of of the same movie(combo set)

Should default to 1 (profile), not 2.
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also i have multiple disc sets as in one case with three discs(movie, specials, and digital copy)

Should default to 1 (profile), not 3.

I still do not get the problem. Are you messing around with Child Profiles? Then delete them, or count them as zero (see Mithi's picture).
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You could also look at the Database Query plugin.  It will allow you to identify duplicate titles.  I don't recall if there's a way to get a complete listing, minus duplicates.  But if so, it can be saved to a flagset for use within the program or cut-n-pasted into something like Excel.
Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
Create fake parent profiles to organize your collection.
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Quoting frijoli:
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I want to see how many movies I actually have, not how many discs currently owned. I don't want them to be gone from my total owned, but a filter would be nice.

Is there a simple way to filter this? I couldn't figure it out.

Thanks,
Clay

Once you decide what the definition of a "movie" is, you will answer your own question. My gut tells me that is the underlying problem. For example, if you defined "movie" = a unique profile title, them bam!
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Thanks for all the replies.
I understand now multi disc sets are one profile. This helped a lot.

All i had to do was make all television shows and specialty discs count as zero and Voilà! Now I know how many movies I have.
Of course that makes my actual disc/profile numbers off but that doesn't matter to me.
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