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Remember last choice when doing a bulk download.

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ALADProd:
I'm sorry if this already exists or has been addressed...but...

How about a feature that will remember your last optional choice when doing a bulk download.

i.e., I select 50 movies or people to download.  Some will invariably come up withe multiple choices.  Since I can not see/manipulate the main window behind this window, I always choose "skip" and will go back to it later.   How about a check box saying to always use "Skip" on errors during this download?

Also occasionally I get a socket error (only when downloading from IMDB).  How about the program ignoring those erros and moving on to the next download in the list instead of forcing me to click "OK" every time.

rick.ca:

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Bookmarking.


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Silent mode.

If it helps, bookmark the items you're working on and set the bookmark filter. Select all and run the plugin(s) in silent mode. That will take care of all the ones that don't need your input. Turn silent mode off, and run them again on the remaining items. While you wait the 30 seconds or so it takes each download, amuse yourself by reviewing the results of completed downloads.

ALADProd:
I figured the answer would be a simple one.    But that leads to another possibility.   

When downloading data about people, 30% of the time it is not able to choose the correct person.   Many times those can be picked manually pretty easily.  It's a shame that the program can not utlize the movies you have in the database for each person to help figure it out.   IE, actress Anne Bancroft. I have 3 movies that have her as an actress.  It would be great if it could look at the names that it finds and see which one meets the criteria as being an actress in those three movies.  Put perhaps that type of sophistication is not possible.    For now I just ignore those ones, becuase there just isn't enough time to look each one up manually.

rick.ca:
While it's possible to add people independently, normally, one would add a movie, and then the people associated with that movie are added to the database. At that point, only their name, URL and the movie they were in are recorded. After adding some movies, you would then update the people that have been added to download information about them. But all of these people already have a URL. There is no choice to make—the information is downloaded directly from the referenced page.

Can you explain more clearly what it is you are doing to produce this result?

ALADProd:
Sure....
First I entered the movie title manually.
Second I download the movie data from IMDB.  This supplies the actors/actresses.  They are "hidden" by default.
Third I click on the actor/actress I want to have the data on.
Fourth, I download the actor/actress info from IMDB.   In some cases there are similar names so it does not know who to pick so it shows multiple choices. 
Fifth, I put a check mark next to the correct one and complete the download.

What I'd love to see happen is where if there are multiple names, perhaps it could choose the correct one based upon the movie(s) that are already associated with that actor/actress in my database.

In my previous example, Anne Bancroft was listed as an actress for 3 movies.  No other data on her was listed as I've never done a download of her data itself.  When I choose her and select to do the download, it provides a list of different people because it does not know which person I want.

I've attached 2 screen captures.  First showing the info prior to downloading and the 2nd is the window I get when it doesn't know which person.  If the program had the capability to compare the choices with the info in my database (actress in those three movies) than it should be able to determin which is the correct listing. 

I've never really used the people feature until now.  With 713 movies, it amounts to a lot of people.  After downloading just the A's, B's and C's, it leaves 1017 people that it could not automatically choose the correct one.  Sadly that is just too much to do manually by having to figure out the correct one from a list on each entry.

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