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buah:
rick.ca,
Thank you for further advises and suggestions.

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Regardless how bad my English looks, I assure you that my first post is fully complied with your penultimate post. I got my dilemma afterward. After your last two posts, it is confirmed to me that I understood the use of given filters, so I'll delete parts of my previous post, cause I don't want to confuse other users, or to mislead them. I'll do that after you agree with it.

This is how I did it.
1. I titled all videos I had according to IMDb "standards": Title-as-shown-at-IMDb%20-%20Original-Title-as-shown-at-IMDb%20(Year-Shown-at-IMDb).
2. I cataloged them for years with "WhereIsIt?" mainly, alongside with many others too in order to finally find the one that suits my needs.  
3. I finally found it - PVD.
3. I exported all data (without "Path" field) from those catalog software I used, to Excel.
4. Didn't scan any file, just imported data from that table to PVD (I don't have them on HDD, and to scan all DVDs again would take a year at least).
5. Now I'm preparing to mass-download online data.
6. I can't do that because I won't be able to track movies I own because of the nature of importing data from MS Excel (couldn't be able to apply any given filter that will match wanted result).

I got an idea: I'll import all data again, but I will import MS Excel "Media Location" data (it's actually DVD case # in which video is) to PVD's "File Path" field (column). So, I'll get their actual path (not the "Path" from they were supposed to be scanned), but will be able to apply PVD's "Movies on Hard Drives" and "Movies on Removable Drives" in order to keep track of owned movies.

After that, any new entry (5501, and successive)  is already meant and planned to be scanned from HDD, or removable media.

Your opinion on this is greatly welcome.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---I got an idea: I'll import all data again, but I will import MS Excel "Media Location" data (it's actually DVD case # in which video is) to PVD's "File Path" field (column). So, I'll get their actual path (not the "Path" from they were supposed to be scanned), but will be able to apply PVD's "Movies on Hard Drives" and "Movies on Removable Drives" in order to keep track of owned movies.
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This is exactly what I would have recommended. Again (for the sake of others reading this), this is why one should consider carefully exactly how each filter works rather than be swayed by the what the menu captions suggest they do. Because the "path" filter is based simply on the existence of data in the Path field, it can be used in many different ways.


--- Quote ---...so I'll delete parts of my previous post, cause I don't want to confuse other users, or to mislead them. I'll do that after you agree with it.
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Please be careful in deleting parts of a post that has been responded to—that can make the thread even more difficult to follow. If you're concerned about others being mislead by something you've said, it might be better to strike it out and/or add a comment like:

[Edit: The following is incorrect—see subsequent post.]

buah:
rick.ca,

Thank you for your time, suggestions and patience. It was very useful to me!

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