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Episodes or child pages - setting up folders and files for scaning by PVD

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rick.ca:

--- Quote ---I realize they are the same program but... ones portable and one is desktop right?
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I have no idea why separate 'versions' are posted. AFAIK, they're identical. Maybe the portable version is packaged to comply with somebody's standard for USB stick installation.

By 'switch' we mean 'command line switch'. Run the program with a shortcut using '..\viddb.exe -portable' or use the portable.bat file provided.


--- Quote ---REGex is new to me...
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There are lots of introductory resources available (I believe the topic you found includes some). You don't have to become an expert to understand the rather straightforward use of regex for matching filenames.

chase:

--- Quote ---By 'switch' we mean 'command line switch'. Run the program with a shortcut using '..\viddb.exe -portable' or use the portable.bat file provided.
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Discovered that over the weekend actually - and today read your Help page - "
Getting Started" I highly recommend that to anyone reading this. It explains all you were talking about conserning the "switch"

I took a look at that RegEx tester - can't make heads or tails out of it... yet. Ididn't have time to explore RegEx this week-end. To be honest I'm not dying to jump into learning another scripting launguage. But will look at it.

I can certainly see why you stated you were at wits end trying to figure out some of it.
I thought i had it figured out - it scaned all the files correctly - put them in the right episode number which correlated to to the software version number and even added the episode titile!

So I set out and renamed 200 files - and it worked beautifully but noticed I missed naming the second to last file correctly - renamed it correctly and rescaned and ...BAM!
The whole thing fell apart.. ???
It wouldn't scan correctly anymore... no matter what i did... even deleting the database didn't work, so I gave up at that point.

I do have a data base i started with it - I manually put in the episodes and make corrections - good enough for the moment - scanning includes most of them and does put them in some episode headings - faster than doing each by hand for sure.

So I'm still happy with PVD. and will work on learning more about Regulaur Expressions as I go. My interest is in learning the software and expressions I need to use for them - more so than the database, I'm sure you understand.

I did take a look at the templates as well - they are going to be real easy to come up with new ones. I optimized a few I had downloaded from here  - corrected one of them and will post them in a new thread for everyone.

I really want to get my hands on the gui template and change the artwork... make it more modern.
As i did with things like the Stars and tool bar this morning...

You might like the new Rating artwork - I made the stars into a meter - like on a sound board. or amplifier. I'd like to make it better / different still - but i need the gui template for that.

Hey thanx again Rick for all the help.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---I really want to get my hands on the gui template and change the artwork... make it more modern.
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AFAIK, there's no such thing as a GUI template. What you've found in the \Images folder are likely the only elements that can be modified by the user.

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