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Registered: June 2, 2007 | Posts: 26 |
| Posted: August 26, 2009 6:12 PM | | | | When I fire up the DVD Profiler app and try to add a DVD the application downloads a Online Profile List, its only 15 mb but it takes ages to do it, can i stop this happening and what is the consequences of stopping it?
thanks | | | _______________ Steve |
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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,918 |
| Posted: August 26, 2009 6:48 PM | | | | I don't recall if it's possible to disable it but it's downloading all the updates to the master list of UPC's and Titles. It's done to ensure that you can add any profile that's in the online database - and you can't if it's not in your local copy of the master list. |
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Registered: May 22, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,033 |
| Posted: August 26, 2009 6:51 PM | | | | the online profile list is the list of all the movies in the database. It needs this so when you go to add new dvd you get the list of titles. It should only need to download the complete file once and thereafter just download updates to the file.
If you are constantly stopping it from downloading then it will download the complete list every time you go to add. Just let it finish once. and then the future updates will be much smaller (the longer you go without adding a dvd or refeshing profiles the larger the updates will get).
also, the speed at which it downloads will be limited by your connection speed. It only takes about a minute or 2 to download for me.
-Agrare |
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Registered: June 2, 2007 | Posts: 26 |
| Posted: August 26, 2009 6:58 PM | | | | i dont stop it, i let it run through each time but it pulls it down once, fully every time i add a movie, the file is 15mb and it takes about 5 minutes and i am on a 10mb connection. | | | _______________ Steve |
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Registered: May 22, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,033 |
| Posted: August 26, 2009 7:18 PM | | | | something is going on because it shouldn't need to download the whole thing each time.
Is there any limit on your profile directory that would cause the online list to be deleted when you close profiler?
-Agrare |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,295 |
| Posted: August 27, 2009 7:55 AM | | | | Quoting sjp1966: Quote: i dont stop it, i let it run through each time but it pulls it down once, fully every time i add a movie, the file is 15mb and it takes about 5 minutes and i am on a 10mb connection. Sorry this isn't may not help much but I have heard of this problem before but can't recall the reason. It should (as Agrare says) only download the few Kb of updates once you've had a full download once but obviously there is some problem which is forcing a full download each time for you. When DVDP is open and after the download check the path: C:\Documents and Settings\"your name"\Application Data\DVD Profiler and see if there is are files OnlineList.dod and OnlineListSel.dod (about 23Mb each!) If so (and they should be there; this is the info that should have just been downlaoded about the online Db) see what happens when you close the program. What happens when you open it again? If they disappear then this is wrong! I would suggest if you find any of the above check the permissions you have to write to certain folders in case files are only being held temporarily. As a work around you could try copying the .dod files (if thwey are there!) to somewhere safe and then manually putting them in the right place before opening/before the download begins (there is an option to disable it temporarily I think) so the program (hopefully) sees them there and just downlaods the updates as it should. Other than that try opening a support ticket and see what Ken says! HTH | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,774 |
| Posted: August 27, 2009 8:38 AM | | | | I also heard that deleting them (OnlineList.dod and OnlineListSel.dod) could help. After that Profiler once downloads the whole ~23MB file and after that you'll only get a few kb-sized updates every day. | | | Last edited: August 27, 2009 8:38 AM by SpaceFreakMicha |
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Registered: June 2, 2007 | Posts: 26 |
| Posted: August 27, 2009 8:45 AM | | | | thanks people, ill try this tonight when I get home. | | | _______________ Steve |
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Registered: March 10, 2007 | Posts: 4,282 |
| Posted: August 27, 2009 10:39 AM | | | | See the #2 entry in our FAQ linked below and give that a shot. | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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