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Tool: BirthYearFinder
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorGSyren
Profiling since 2001
Registered: March 14, 2007
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Another birth year tool? Really?

Yeah, and this one is a bit special.



When you add a birth year to a person in your local database, that birth year is applied to all your profiles that contain said person.

However, that doesn't update the same profiles in the online database. So, a lot of your profiles will be more correct than the corresponding online profiles. You may find some of them just by happenstance, but is there an easy way to find all? There is now!

This program goes through all your profiles from an XML export of your collection. For every profile it checks if there are names with birth years that matches the names in the List of accepted BYs. If there are, the corresponding online profiles are downloaded to check if the birth year is missing there. And if it is, it gets listed as you see in the above illustration.

Read all about the features in the Help file! Note that this program needs mediadogg's plugin HTTPJolie!

BirthYearFinder 1.0.1

By the way, the time of day when the run is estimated to be done (16:52:43) is in 24 hour format in the illustration. I haven't tested changing my system settings, but since this is from a standard Microsoft function, I assume that it will be shown in 12 hour format (like 4:52:43 PM) if that is your system setting. If not, get with it and learn 24 hour time! 
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 Last edited: by GSyren
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorGSyren
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Oops! Typical!

A late change in the program screwed up the double-click to select in Profiler. It's so frustrating when I think I have tested everything and then as soon as I have released the program, I find a bug. Oh, well, such is life. 

Anyway, fixed in  version 1.0.2

PS. If you have already visited the download page, don't forget to refresh your browser if the page doesn't say 1.0.2.
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Gunnar
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorGSyren
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BirthYearFinder 1.1.0

Working with BirthYearFinder I realized that I wanted some more features. So here they are:

I found that saving the result to csv and loading it in a spreadsheet wasn't as useful as I had thought, so I added the possibility to save the result as a json file that could later be re-loaded into the program, thus still having the link to the forum post(s), and the possibility to double-click to select in Profiler.

I also added the possibility to search the title and person in IMDb from the context menu.

I now save the path where the xml was loaded from and where the result was saved, so you get the appropriate initial directory for loading and saving. No having to switch back and forth in the dialog.

And I fixed a problem with deleting rows in the result. And I made the icon look better.
And I hope I won't have to release a new version again tomorrow. 
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorGSyren
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OK, I couldn't help myself ...



I really wanted to be able to group all entries from the same profile together. This makes it more convenient to see which names come from a certain profile, so you can fix them all and then contribute. This meant that I had to use a 3rd party datagrid. A bit more work to get everything to play the way I wanted, and a bit larger download. But I think it was worth it.

You can delete all items from a group by right clicking a row and selecting Delete entire group.
I have also made some other minor changes. The help file has been upgraded to reflect this.

BirthYearFinder 1.2.0


Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Gunnar
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