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Support / Trouble wit the "Owned" filter
« on: January 21, 2011, 03:24:10 pm »
If I set an item as "Not owned" i.e. on wishlist, it does appear correctly when I apply filter "Not owned", however it also erroneously appear with all the owned films when I apply the "Owned" filter. I have tried removing the reference for the file location on my HDD (as it was before I deleted it). Is this a bug? If not what is causing this behavior?

Thanks


EDIT: I just tried the same with the "Loaned/Not Loaned" and "Bookmarked / Not Bookmarked" filters - same result unfortunately. Correctly shows up when using the including filter, incorrectly shows up with the non-tagged items when using the discluded filter.

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Support / How do I deal with long-running documentary series?
« on: May 06, 2010, 03:23:31 pm »
First off nice job with the PVD application. Your work is much appreciated ;)


My whole use of PVD is cataloging documentary films that I have watched. I regularly watch new docs off my harddisk, and I want to be able to rate them and store this information. The idea is to have a database of all the docs I have seen, and be able to filter, group and search them. Especially important is it view a specific genre/tag/group (for example Science, Physics, Evolution, War etc., I use "categories" for this) and then sort them according to my own rating.

My big problem right now is with long running documentary series such as BBC Horizon or PBS Nova. These are designated as TV series in IMDB, therefore each documentary film in the series is an episode when importing the whole doc series off IMDB. Now when I rate an episode, I've found that it will not show up when do various kinds of searches and group-viewing. How do I deal with this?

I could decide to make them all movie entries instead of episodes, that would solve the problem of them not showing up in "grouping by categories" for example. But on the other hand the thing I love about PVD is how various information is fetched from IMDB directly to the entries. Is there any way do do this smart? Or any easy comprehensible feature that I can request and put on my features wishlist for the developers?



The only suggestion I can think of is to add a simple on/off option in preferences to include or exclude episodes from searches and groups? Now to distinct between independent episodes (such as Nova or Horizon) and episodes in (2-part, 3-part, 8-part or whatever) documentary miniseries, a filter could be made to view only entries with ratings - then "additional rating" could be used for episodes of the same coherent mini series, and ordinary "rating" could be used for long-running documentary series of wide ranging independent subjects?

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Support / What happens when IMDB gets updated?
« on: May 06, 2010, 12:32:20 pm »
The episode listing on BBC's longtime running documentary series "Horizon" is a mess on IMDB. First, only about 1/4 of all the episodes are listed. Second, of those that are listed, only two are designated to the correct season (1 and 32 respectively), all the rest have no season info. Someday this will be corrected and new episodes will be added (I may help do this myself), but my question now is:

What happens if you import Horizon (1964) from IMDB now, put ratings on a bunch of the episodes now listed under "Season 0" (on IMDB: Season: unknown), and later it's updated and put into other seasons etc? Will my personal ratings for the episodes be preserved?

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