That is good to know... at least there couldn't be mast amounts of fake UPCs in the main database.

Cool it is, there is no other way to get automated data in this manual profile why not make a poll for it, they love polls.

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Just to play devil's advocate for a minute... what's to stop someone from using mediadogg's "profile cloning technology" to make many duplicate profiles and using the software for commercial purposes?

So what could these "commercial purposes" be?

No video rental store would use a program like DVDProfiler to keep track of its inventory! They would need a unique barcode for each copy of a DVD, manual profiles don't have a barcode (UPC/EAN).

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That is not really true. Things can be done many numbers of ways. I worked as a manager of a video store in my town for over 12 years and we never used UPC codes in any way what so every. Every single copy of every single title got it's own unique storage number. I could have easily made DVD Profiler work for our store if there was a quick and easy way to go from UPC/EAN to manual profile.

That is what I said, "They would need a unique barcode for each copy of a DVD"
This is what you said, "Every single copy of every single title got it's own unique storage number"

They mean the same thing!

Yes you could just put a sticker on each DVD with a number and do it all by hand, but in this day and age not using a barcode and barcode-reader seems a bit silly.

All of that aside, DVDProfiler is a profiler of DVDs, NOT an inventory control/sales/rental program.

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Ok, my head is spinning with all the pros/cons and issues. I'm just an old grunt. 

Anyway, here is something for those who want to mess with it:

BulkEdit V090 (un-released):

- Adds "Clone to Manual" to the Collections\Flagged menu. This will pick up from the highest M#### ... found in the database and start creating clones by incrementing from there.

- Adds "Clone to DiscID" to the Collections\Flagged menu. This will take the DiscID from DiskIDSideA and use it, along with locality to create a clone. Skipped if no DiscID found, or is ill-formed.

Note:
- No Cast/Crew
- Of course, all the personal info is copied, but duplicate location/slot/collection#, etc ????
- Oh, very important: you can't stop it, so be careful about flagging a billion profiles ...

You can of course load up the changed profiles by Tools\BulkEdit "Load Manual Profiles", will bring in any profiles with either DiscID or M##### ... as a profileID, to make it easy to complete the edits per the Wiki. I didn't check - if I don't support the fields you need, I can add them for editing of manual profiles only.

Not sure where to discuss issues - here is OK if OP doesn't mind.

If still too controversial, we can make it a "Contribution Members Only" tool, instead of general use, since I believe one of the intended uses is to assist in building episode-related box sets.

Anyway, please don't shoot me - I just like the challenge of writing cool stuff - I don't care too much about the decision as to whether it gets "released".

Edit: Updated to V0.90 to include copy of cover images and thumbnails. Don't really feel up to a poll, but I am leaning towards releasing this. If anybody has "severe" objections, I would appreciate a PM to share your reasons, so I can think about that, or discuss it here - no matter. One thing I would ask - if you do object, could you do me the favor of testing it, so that your perspectives are based on what actually happens instead of speculation. I'm sure there may be issues I didn't think of, or maybe even bugs that would prevent me from releasing it. Thanks in advance.

Edit: Released as V091. See the BulkEdit thread.

Ok, based on your PM feedback, I added copy of the images as well. No option - it just does it. If this clone feature is released I can easily make it an option. Meanwhile, I'm moving on to try and complete the CSV Import before the next 3.5 beta drop - I suspect that's when developers miight get the tools to start taking advantage of the new features in 3.5.