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rick.ca:

--- Quote from: jrb1021@gmail.com on January 14, 2013, 06:46:56 pm ---It looks like there are 7 now.
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There's only one MOVIES.PVD and, from what you've said, it seems fine now (i.e., it contains ~ 1000 movies). If that's the case, it won't help to investigate the OLD file (it's probably the new file you entered the 150 records into) or delete anything. I don't recall the circumstances in which an OLD file is created, but it surely has to do with a new database being created with the same name as an existing one.


--- Quote ---RecentFiles=L:\MOVIESBU0112.PVD|\\localhost\C$\@GMT-2013.01.11-19.26.35\Users\JayBee\Documents\Personal Video
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Do you have any idea what this is about? Were you trying to access the database remotely? As I mentioned before, that could lock the file, force the local PVD to create a new file without deleting the old...

gaz:
I came here because this same thing happened to me today. All of a sudden the database disappeared following an application error in PVD.
I had watched a movie from within PVD and then closed PVD. I then reopened PVD because I wanted to edit a couple of details about the video. There was an application error on opening, and the database showed 0 movies. It was down to 1688kB in size. I hadn't made any backups, but fortunately the crash must have created a movies.pvd.old file which I was able to rename and retrieve all the data.
It was scary. Only 76 videos in there so far, but that'd still be an awful lot of work to have to re-enter.
The .old file is handy, but it might be a nice idea to see if it could be possible to change the behaviour that seems to make PVD want to create a new database that overwrites the existing one.

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