Hello,

what about a portable version for use with usb-sticks?

I've got a copy of my database on my 4gb pen drive.

Works great for moving my collection between home and work pc's.

Just install dvdprofiler on both and with the ability now to have mutiple databases, just have a database on your pen drive.

Yes it was possible with previous version of DVD Profiler. We can have a little script to copy reg info when starting DVD Profiler and update/delete them when we close DVD Profiler to delete all trace from the computer.
But now with some directories in My Documents\DVD Profiler (Flags, Layouts, Reports, translations) and until we can't change the path where we install this directories, it's impossible to have a portable version of DVD Profiler.

Cyrille

This would be great if it could be done...
It'd be much better than having several versions of the database and trying to work out which one is the most up to date.
I don't know how hard it is to make an application portable but this would be a great bonus if it could be done

Yes, I meant 'portable application' -
I use DVD-profiler at work and at home - so always one version isn't up to date.
Would it be a great job to develop?

Quoting omueller:

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Yes, I meant 'portable application' -
I use DVD-profiler at work and at home - so always one version isn't up to date.
Would it be a great job to develop?

I had 2.4x and later 2.5xbeta installed on my Lexar Lightning and was able to run it with InstallAnything.  For some reason the 3.x won't work with InstallAnything (or its replacement, Argo).

I do have my database being stored on my Lexar, but the other user mods (reports, add-ons, etc.) need to be manually synced between both work and home desktop.  It would be nice in a future release to be able to modify the paths for these locations.  I'll post a request over at Ceedo to see if they can't work their code so functionality is returned to Argo.

Cam

What's the cheapest smartphone / PDA that the mobile product runs on? Is that a viable workaround?

There is an easy workaround to accomplish this.

Setup DVD Profiler. Instead of C:\Program Files\DVD Profiler as a destination, choose X:\DVD\DVD Profiler, where X: is the drive letter of your memory stick.

On your memory stick, create a subfolder DATA. In here you will copy the database of the program

For Windows XP, copy all folders from C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\DVD Profiler into X:\DVD\Data
For Windows Vista, copy all folders from C:\Users\username\Documents\DVD Profiler into X:\DVD\Data

Now launch Regedit, and browse to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Invelos Software\DVD Profiler

Change the following registry key: LayoutFileName to X:\DVD\Data\Layouts\4 Rows.dpl
Again where X: is the drive letter of your memory stick.
Close Regedit

Now open your memory stick with Explorer and goto DVD\DVD Profiler, and double click on DVDPro.exe

Click File --> Open Database --> Browse  and browse to X:\DVD\Data\Databases\Default\Collection.DAT

Now click OK

Go back into the Open Database window and select the "old" database (located on C and click delete. Warning, this will also delete the files of your hard-drive, so make sure you have copied your full database to your memory stick before deleting it.

Now, start Regedit again and browse to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Invelos Software. Make sure Invelos Software is selected in the left column. The select file --> export --> type DVDPro.reg as filename. Save this regfile to your memory stick.

On the second pc, doubleclick on DVDPro.reg to import the settings. If your memory stick has the same drive-letter on the second pc as on the first, the program will work.

Otherwise, update the following two registry keys with the correct drive letter:

AppPath
LayoutFileName

You will have to open the database on the correct drive letter once, to update the database path.

You should now be able to plugin your memory stick in 2 computers and allways have the latest db.