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Remember last choice when doing a bulk download.
Anson:
--- Quote from: ALADProd on January 18, 2010, 07:12:40 am ---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.
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At this point, the hidden entries should already have an URL leading to the correct IMDB record.
The picture you appended to your post only showed few fields (name, movie list). please go to the options and check that all checkmarks are set, including to show the URLs. Or start edit mode which shows all fields (not to change anything, but only to check whether the URL field was set)
I didn't do this yet myself for my movies and thus i said "should have an URL".
If it hasn't, there was either something wrong, or PVD couldn't get the URL (because of changes in the IMDB layout, outofdate plugins, whatever), or this would be a very important missing/broken feature in PVD (in the IMDB plugin).
At least for movies, PVD uses an existing URL instead of the title to download data for a specific movie, and people should be handled the same. The IMDB page for a movie lists the actors with links to them, and those links could/should be imported into the (hidden) people list.
I don't know how PVD (or more specific the IMDB plugin) adds new people records to the database, but it probably does this "by name" and not "by URL" since the latter might require an extensive slow search of the PVD people database. As long as only one internet database like IMDB is used, this might be no problem since IMDB always uses a unique actor name (if necessary, something like "(I)", "(XXIV)" etc is appended to the name) and in the rare cases of name changes, the URL to the people would still be the same old URL.
For movies neither such an appendix (I), (XXIV) nor the type (series, movie, game, etc) is saved, and thus there might be problems on a few people when their name changes, when there are some actors (or other professions) with the same name, etc, but that should be relatively few cases only, and even for those few cases, there should be at least one URL (if overwritten by other people with the same name) or several URLs (a list of all URLs for correct people), but never URLs for other people, and never no URL. in no case there should be 1017 people with no or multiple URLs when downloading actors with letters A-C for 713 movies.
anyway, back to the important fact in this reply, as said above:
At this point, the hidden entries should already have at least one URL leading to an IMDB record.
--- Quote ---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.
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if there already is an URL (from step 2, see above), it should directly "download by URL" only that specific record and never have to get a list of "actors by name".
--- Quote from: ALADProd on January 18, 2010, 07:12:40 am ---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.
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Doing this search later would be very complicated, but the URL should already have been saved when the people record was created from getting the movie data, making it unnecessary to look for the movies again.
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---They are "hidden" by default.
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This suggests you've not selected the option "Show people added from movie credits." Without that selected, obviously no people are shown. I've never tried it, but maybe the URLs are not recorded either (there logically being no need for them). If this is the case, then you must have changed all your people records from invisible to visible—as shown in your screen shots.
If this is what has happened, it will be more trouble than it's work to try to fix the current state of the people records. And this is what I would do:
* Permanently delete (i.e., Ctrl-Delete) all people—visible and invisible.
* Make sure "Show people added from movie credits" is selected.
* Make sure all people and movie fields are set to "visible."
* Review this post about restricting credits, and set your preferences accordingly.
* Turn on Silent mode.
* Update all movies to re-download credits.
* Update all people.
It seems daunting—and the downloads will take some time—but there will be a URL for everything and they will therefore run unattended.
ALADProd:
That did it.
I deleted all people (nearly 30k), made sure I had all the fields showing for the movies and re-downloaded all my movies. This correctly added the people with their urls. Now I'm downloading the people.
My only guess is that the vast majority of the movies were added before this capability was established.
Thanks a bunch.
Of course now it will take many hours to download all the people data.
I'm sure that with 713 movies and 30k people, I've got a small database compared to most, but it still takes time. :-)
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---My only guess is that the vast majority of the movies were added before this capability was established.
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I hate to be cruel, but I can't resist... 8)
This announcement...
--- Quote from: nostra on March 14, 2008, 10:29:15 pm ---The 0.9.8 beta is out. Please note that if you want all the persons from movie credits to be visible in People database you'll need to enable the option: Tools -> Preferences -> Miscellaneous -> Show people added from movie credits
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...is immediately followed (two months later!) by...
--- Quote from: ALADProd on May 14, 2008, 03:07:54 am ---Please forgive my ignorance here. I'm not a programer and have no clue what SQL is and such. I too use the Grid view often. I'm just starting to use the program and I find that using the grid view a whole lot easier for maintenance.
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I guess you were too distraught over the loss of Grid View to notice. ;D
ALADProd:
Oh wow. Pulling messages that is nearly 2 years old. Kinda makes me feel foolish. :-)
Now that this is solved I've only two more issues that are bugging me...
Dates. Many do not show ages correctly, especially when birth date is in the early 1900's. IE: Born in 1948 and died in 2001 shows an age in the 40's. :-) I'm sure it's some setting I have wrong.
Those darn poster popups when viewing people. It is irritating to the extreme when it keeps poping up when ever the mouse stops...even when I'm nowhere near that line.
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