Use your notes or your tags for this kind of information. The reason that we cannot do this is for reasons related to businesses which would have multiple copies of titles, there are people who can explain this much better than I. But this a personal program. So in this area, each user is on his own, in handling,..me I find they make excellent Christmas/Birthday Gifts.

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Quoting Strop:

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I would like the ability to have the same profile in the database more than once.

Reasoning.

1. I currently have many duplicates in my collection (bad memory when buying).

2. I keep track of my collection and my childrens collections in four separate databases.
    - If there was a field that I could stipulate the owner i.e. Mine, daughter, son, Peter and I could have duplicate profiles I would only need one database which would allow me to use DVD Profiler Mobile (can only handle one database).

Regards
Strop

You could use just one "master" database and have tags to identify who the owner is. 

Then you could copy it to muliple databases for your childrens collections and purge the ones that don't apply by filtering on the tags and using flag to mass delete the ones that don't belong to them. 

Then you could still use DVD Profiler Mobile on the "master" database which would have all of the DVDs.

Quoting Strop:

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I would like the ability to have the same profile in the database more than once.

You can sort of do this with a workaround...

1. Download the profile per normal
2. Select it in DVD Profiler and in the menu go DVD -> Change UPC...
3. Replace the existing UPC with something non-standard. I'd recommend 100000000000 for the first time you do this, and then 200000000000, etc. for subsequent additions.
4. Download the profile again.

The net result is that you will now have the profile twice in your Db. Once with the proper UPC and once with your renamed UPC from step 3. The downside to this is that any updates done to the profile will only be reflected in the version of the profile with the proper UPC.

NOTE: Do not try to contribute the profile with the replaced UPC code. It most likely wouldn't get accepted, but there's no need to risk contaminating the online Db with bogus profiles.

KM

Quoting northbloke:

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Or try Mediadogg's Bulk Edit plugin, which allows you to convert profiles to proper manual profiles, which cannot be contributed - even accidentally.
Though as Astrakan says, this is only a workaround - not a solution.

Would you please advise how I can achieve this in Bulk Edit as I cannot see and option to change to manual profile in bulk edit.

Thank you

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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flag the profile you want to clone

right click on the title in the collection list window, select flag

from DVD Profiler menu: collection

flagged

clone to manual

select Locality

select Copy Cast/Crew

you should now find the cloned title in the owned with an UPC/EAN: Manual DVD #000000000001

Thank you works a treat.
Now I have to work out how to filter to show only profiles or manual profiles.

Regards
John

Quoting tkinnen:

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Zatoichi - The Blind Swordsman DVD Collector's Edition

OMG another Zatoichi fan! He always gets his man - and the girl ... 

Why not, did not think of it, but it is practical. Once the manual profiles are in DVD Box profiles, you no longer can get them sorted out in the UPC/EAN column.

you already give the answer yourself, and I agree

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- Tag "Manual Profile" added to cloned manual profile to assist in filtering.
- Tag "DiscID Profile" added to profile created from Disc ID to assist in filtering.