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buah:
Rick,

You'd be right if I were first deleted it. But, as I wrote twice, first I had a movie, than imported bio and that's how he disappeared from the actors list. JCVD, btw, is the last movie in my list.

Nostra, I made some screenshots, then I discovered that I had JCVD invisible record, and after updated bio, I guess, that invisible JCVD record got only his credits for the movie - actor, producer, etc, but his credits from the visible JCVD were gone. I deleted invisible JCVD record with CTRL+YES and updated all, and everything seems ok now. It was important information for me that you couldn't reproduce the problem, meaning that something was locally wrong.

How I discovered I had invisible JCVD record? In his bio, that movie's font wasn't red-colored, but only blue. How I got that record - don't know.

Thank you guys.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---You'd be right if I were first deleted it.
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Sorry—I've corrected my misspeak above.


--- Quote ---How I got that record - don't know.
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I don't think this is a particularly unique occurrence. It might be a bit too puzzling for most users to bother complaining about. For a large collection in which filmographies are being maintained, it's actually very likely an invisible record exists before a movie is added. If such a record is not recognized being identical—as the "new" movie is added—a duplicate will be created. Unfortunately, the filmographies of people associated with the movies but already in the database will remain connected to the invisible duplicate record. It's even more common with series, where duplicate records are created intentionally so filmographies will show the year of first appearance rather than the year the series started. As has been discussed before, a better design is necessary.

buah:
Rick,

Thank you for additional explaining of the issue. Someone once said that recognizing the problem is 80% of solution that resolves that very problem. And I think we recognized it, explained it and solved it here very effectively in a few posts. Please consider to spin it off as a separate topic with title, for instance "Missing people in movie credits after updating biography", or something like that.

Thanks once again.

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