ROFL, ummm try the DVD Drop Down Menu/Change UPC

Now it is recommended that you never simply clone data by changing the UPC but always check that the data for the NEW UPC is correct, INCLUDING Cast and crew. Believe it or not, such lists are not necessarily always the sme across regions and verisons. One of the most notable of these is Con Air which one lists Dave Chapelle and another lists David Chapelle. So always verify the data for accuracy,

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You would be surprised.

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There is a reason for that... the main profile on boxsets (except for TV Series) are supposed to be basically empty. We have child profiles per disc that we create for the movies.

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Great idea!    I've been using DVD Profiler for a VERY long time, and I still have box sets that lack any, or all, information for cast and crew. Basically, I've given up hope that they'll ever have complete information. 

In addition to what Pete said, this is a user built database.  If there are profiles that have been empty for a long time, please feel free to enter the information and contribute them.

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To go into more detail... each disc has it's own profile created by the disc ID. As long as those profiles are entered into the Boxset Content field of the parent (Boxset) profile it will ask if you want to also download the child profiles when you add the boxset to your collection.

You can also tell it to download for sets you already have in your collection by going the parent profile you want to get them for and goto...

Online --> Refresh DVDs from Invelos --> Check for Child Profiles

or...

Go to the parent profile and click Ctrl + F12

Check for Child Profiles  Can't find this.  I also see that none of my movie box sets profiles have disk info in them. I am trying to add this info for Back to the Future box set. I was able to get the disk ID for the 1st movie, but not the Bonus Materials ID. And for some reason my DVD drive will not read the second disk. With the disk ID for the 1st disk, I don't see the link for Check for Child Profiles. And Ctrl + F12 did nothing. Would be nice if this was a little simpler to do.

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yeah... but be sure to go over the Rules first... for example... Boxset profiles are not supposed to have cast and crew.

Looks like it is best not to buy box sets. I hate blank profiles, I am sure most feel the same. Well with any box set I can do it with, I'll just take them out of the box, add them to the profiler and take away the reason for buying a box set. And that is to have less entry's in the profiler and all the movies for a series in one place.

I like the way the Boxset works as well, Pete. I have a record of both the Boxset and the contents, it doesn't take away anything for me, it instead ADDS much.

For Rom, contrary to your belief adding everything into the Boxset actually detracts from the whole. Yes, you can locally add your cast and Crew data, but that is ALL that you will have. There are numerous Boxsets which contain films which have different specs, Video, Audio, Features and so forth. In a single Profile you CANNOT capture that data. You have no way to define what Features are contained within what film, you cannot define that there is both a 1.85 film and a 2.35 or which ones are which. You can capture the TOTAL Runtime but you cannot capture the individual runtimes. All of these factors were carefully considered when the boxset system was designed. There is far more to be gained for the Community as whole, than there is by your preference, but you are absolurtely free to do what you wish locally, this what makes Profiler such a strong program...all you have to understand is that the Online serves many 10s or even hundreds of thousands of users, not just a few. We once had a sort system which you might have liked, the Online was sorted by users, this sounds wonderful BUT inreality it was a nightmare. We would have user who reasonably wanted to sort all his James Bond together,now he showed no understanding of the purpose of the online and the larger Community, along comes Romzarah andhe can't find Thunderball bnecause he is looking for the TITLE, not some arcane sorting system that has been imposed upon ALL by one user, so he isn't looking for James Bond 4, or 004. Ken eventually made a public comment that from hereon, while sort was still defined by users, SORT=TITLE, this didn't stop people. So, eventually Ken had to make Sort a personal selection and sort for the Online would be handled by him.

So, you can do whatever you wish locally but there is a much larger community to be concerned.

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I thought I explained the reason for the blank Boxsets. As for BTTF, that Boxset, at least for Region 1 US was set up long ago, you shouldn't have to do much more than download the data.

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