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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantCalebAndCo
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Registered: October 6, 2008
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I'd like to see the Profile/Image Comparison window available under two sets of circumstances besides choosing it from the menus:

1) When opening a profile for editing and the "Refresh this profile before editing? (Recommended)" dialog comes up. I like to review the changes it would make before accepting them, so how about a "Preview Changes" button?

2) When contributing a profile change, having the window come up (at least as an option) would allow a last minute check before uploading the profile.  In my short time here, I have had to abort profile contributions a couple of times, make a change and submit again when I noticed something on the online submission page that I could have adjusted locally before submitting.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantSgtDetritus007
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Registered: October 23, 2008
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Quoting CalebAndCo:
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2) When contributing a profile change, having the window come up (at least as an option) would allow a last minute check before uploading the profile.  In my short time here, I have had to abort profile contributions a couple of times, make a change and submit again when I noticed something on the online submission page that I could have adjusted locally before submitting.

Having done what you describe more than once (in my short time here), I started doing "Preview Changes" locally to spot the differences, decide I like what I see, then do the "Contribute DVD Profile" thing.  Unfortunately, more than once in the "Preview Changes" window, I accidentally clicked "OK" instead of "Cancel", causing the online data to overwrite my carefully crafted changes, and replacing my data with the non-fixed online data.   (Yes, I'm aware of "Locks"...)

I see your idea working in the following manner:

1. We click "Contribute DVD Profile".
2. A window pops up (that looks exactly like the "Preview Changes" window), buttons changed to something like "OK - Contribute This" and "Cancel Contribution", pane titles "Existing DVD Profile/Image" (left) and "New DVD Profile/Image" (right) changed to "Proposed Changed DVD Profile/Image" (left) and "Existing DVD Profile/Image" (right).
3. Clicking "OK" takes us to same place that "Contribute DVD Profile" takes us now.

Not a "necessary" change, but I like it.  Good Idea there Caleb & Co!

Mike
“Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking.” — M. Poppins, 1964
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantCalebAndCo
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Thanks, Sarge.
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