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rick.ca:

--- Quote from: searay on December 30, 2012, 09:10:48 pm ---I have been using PVD for several years. I have not added any new movies to my database since 2010. I wanted to update my video collection in PVD but I have run into a problem. When I tried to import the data for "The Mist"2007 from IMDB my PVD crashed. When I open it again all my data is gone. How can I recover all my 211 movies that I had in my database? I am using Windows 7. I have donated money twice because I love the program.
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Check the data file. Hopefully, it's size will suggest it still contains something like 211 movies. If not, you'll have to restore from whatever backup you may have. If so, start the program and make sure it loaded that file (as indicated by the title bar). If the movies still don't appear, make sure Filters and Search are cleared. If that doesn't help, set Filters for 'invisible'. This may show a very long list. Check it carefully to see if your movies are included. Let us know what you find.

searay:
Thanks, I was able to get my database back.

jrb1021@gmail.com:
I am having the same issue, and that fix didn't work.  The data file shows a file with 1688KB of data.  There are approximately 1000 movies in my collection.  The program worked yesterday when I last added a title.

On launching today, it shows 0 movies.  Resetting filters, ticking "not visible", making sure search is blank/cleared hasn't changed anything.  It still says 0 movies.  It was a tremendous amount of work inputting all these originally, and has been an ongoing project keeping them current.  Help!

jrb1021@gmail.com:
I am attaching a screen capture of what happens when I now try to open the database.  Do I need to uninstall/reinstall?  Get a different program?  As stated, this worked perfectly until I added my last title yesterday.  I now cannot access any titles, add anything new, or do anything else with this program.  The amount of work required to completely recatalog my collection is overwhelming, and not something I really want to have to do.

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rick.ca:

--- Quote ---The data file shows a file with 1688KB of data.
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That suggests an empty database.


--- Quote ---I am attaching a screen capture of what happens when I now try to open the database.
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The error message says the database is already in use. If the same error is happening, use Task Manager to see if there is already a viddb.exe or some other process running that may be accessing the database.

If the program is unable to find or use the last used database, it will create another at the default location—which is what the error message is referring to. It obviously shouldn't overwrite an existing database of the same name. Are you sure your original database does not have a different name or exist in some other location? Try the installation folder. If not there, search the computer for '*.pvd'.

I'm guessing PVD may not have shut down properly. When you started it again, it was unable to open the last used database because it was locked by the first instance. So it opened a new, empty database. Hopefully, the original database still exists somewhere.

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