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Dealing with movie duplicates

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AimHere:
In my testing just now, I stumbled across a helpful tool in PVD... Filters/Advanced/Show All. By being able to see both visible and invisible movie records side-by-side (and searching for the titles that had been removed by the test optimization), I found that the movies in question DID have duplicate records. In some cases, a single person (out of half a dozen or more) had an extra entry for the movie in their filmography. In other cases, the duplicate was listed under a director's or producer's filmography, when previously I had only been considering actors. D'oh!!!  ;D

I still don't know why PVD's optimization would delete the visible record instead of the invisible one, though. The dupes I saw appeared to have the same URLs (for IMDB) as the visible ones. Many of my movies have multiple URL's, though (from both IMDB and ADE), maybe that has something to do with it?

So, I deleted all the "invisible" duplicates I could find, and now I'm doing another test optimization (again, with "Delete movie duplicates" selected) to see what happens.  It's so slow, though, with that option... updates to follow...

Aimhere

AimHere:
Success! The number of visible movie records didn't change after this optimization pass. PVD did delete 368 movies, but they were all invisible ones.

I guess now it's just a matter of preventing future duplications.

Aimhere

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