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tikivideo:
It appears when PVD moves the article "The" to the end of the title, which I have selected, it drops the date in the parenthesis. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) is saved as: Nightmare Before Christmas, The, without the date.

rick.ca:
No. The two options are completely independent of one another. The prefix handler determines the format of the title—as it is stored in the Title field. The other option determines which fields are displayed in the list. So if you choose to put prefixes at the end of the title and display the list as %T (%Y), then the value saved in your Title field will be Nightmare Before Christmas, The and it will be displayed in the list as Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993).

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tikivideo:
Thanks for the response, Rick.  As I first posted, the titles of all my movies (over 2500) has the date in parenthesis in the file name.  I.E. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).avi.  My entire database created with using the older versions of PVD, has the list and the title saved in the following format: Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), The.

If I add (%Y) then the entire database of over 2500 movies now shows: Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), The (1993) with the date repeated in the list twice, but is properly display in the title as: Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993).

Only when the prefix article is moved, the date is dropped off in the list and in the title.  If the file name does not have an prefix, then the date is kept properly in the list and the title.

Protocol has changed with this version of the program.

rick.ca:
Sorry, but this is completely foreign to my experience with the program, and I'm unable to reproduce the behaviour you describe. Bearing in mind the appearance of the list and the recorded filename have nothing to do with the anything the program might do to the recorded Title, please describe exactly how and when the year disappears from the Title. If you believe the date is being removed, then it must have been there at some point. Can you identify the timing or the event that caused it to be removed? If the title does not include the year, what happens if you edit the record to include it? Is it removed again?

And it may not be relevant to the question—as you should be able to do so if you choose—by why are you recording the year with the title? There's a separate field for the year.

tikivideo:
Create a new entry by making up a title starting with "The" and ending with (2010) without (%Y).

For example: The Test of PVD (2010).avi - when the record is created, the list and title will show: Test of PVD, The, with the date from the file name dropped.

Now edit that record and manually input (2010) into the title: Test of PVD, The (2010).  When the record is saved the list and the title will show Test of PVD, The (2010) the way PVD used to save the list and title.  All previously save entries in my data base will show the date in this format.

Now if the title formatting is changed to include (%Y), then the entire database will now show in the list and title the following format: Test of PVD, The (2010) 2010).  Even titles that did not have the prefix moved and had been showing the date, will now all have the date repeated.

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