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Joe Schmo:
Hi all, I'm new to the forum and love this program.

I've noticed, while building my movie database, that:

1. When an actor or actress has an apostrophe in their name (ie O'Neal), each movie entry creates a new "actor" file for them.  So if I have three movies with, for example, Ryan O'Neal, on the people side of the database there will be three separate entries for him instead of one.

2. Trying to delete this actor's name from the "Actors" field does not always work.  After clicking "Apply Changes" the name most often shows back up.  If I edit the name, like try to just delete the apostrophe, the old name comes back next to the new one.

3. I have the same issue with apostrophes in the studio field causing separate studio entries.  So if I have four movies attributed to the same studio, instead of all four being under a single studio list item, they are individualized.  Here too, I can't just delete the studio name and replace it with the name minus the apostrophe.  If I do try to overwrite the original studio name,  the old and new name appears when I apply the changes.  To work around this I have had to clear the movie master and start over, making sure I change the plugin so that it doesn't populate the studio field.

I wonder if anyone else has run in to this issue before? It seems that the only fields this happens are actors and studios.  It may happen in the Director field but I haven't come across any Irish directors yet.
Any Ideas?

Thanks   

AimHere:
Yes! Someone else has this problem, I'm not just losing my mind!!! ;D

I realize this is an old thread, but I'm having the same problem as Joe.

Using an apostrophe in a field like Studio seems to cause PVD to create an entirely separate internal record for that studio, so that if you switch to Tree View grouped by studio, you see multiple groups with the same studio name, one for each movie assigned to that studio. And once a movie from the studio with the apostrophe has been added, the studio cannot be changed or removed... edit the movie and clear the Studio field, then click save, and the studio comes right back. Change the Studio field to something else entirely, and PVD acts like the movie has TWO studio names, the original (with the apostrophe) and the one you tried to change it to. Delete both studios from the movie record and the one with the apostrophe comes back again!

I now have 44 movies from the same studio, and every one shows up in its own separate group when "grouped by studio". I can't find any way to get them all grouped together under a single "studio" the way they're supposed to be.

I don't know how long this has been going on, but I suspect it's been awhile. Using PVD 0.9.9.21.

Any idea how to fix this?????

Aimhere

AimHere:
Two weeks since my last post, and nobody has any ideas???  :(

I really would like to solve this problem and consolidate all of the separate group-by-studio instances for the studio in question. But more to the point, I'm afraid that every time I add a NEW movie from this studio, PVD is going to end up doing the same thing again (i.e. consider the studio as a completely separate entity from the existing instances of that studio, despite the name being spelled exactly the same, and make it so that the studio name cannot be changed or deleted).

I don't understand what's causing this problem in the first place. Why would it matter if a studio name (or any other field) has an apostrophe? And why won't PVD allow it to be changed after the fact?

Aimhere

nostra:
Have you guys tried the latest beta? As I can't reproduce the problem there...

AimHere:

--- Quote from: nostra on September 27, 2013, 09:36:28 pm ---Have you huys tried the latest beta? As I can't reproduce the problem there...

--- End quote ---

I've been holding off on the latest beta until it was out of beta...  :)

Guess I'll give it a whirl.

Aimhere

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