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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,804 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, I assume we all collectors had a life before the DVD Profiler.  What I like to know is: What was your solution to track and manage your collection before you discovered DVD Pro!  I started to use MS Excel and later MS Access! Lot of work to enter the data and create queries. When I discovered DVD Pro 2.4 I was electrified! What about you out there?  | | | | Thorsten |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used Excel to keep track of my collections. I still update my collections in excel in fact. The excel file still lists all the items i've removed from my collections. I do this for CD's and DVD's. | | | View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,745 |
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| Registered: May 14, 2007 |  Posts: 455 |
| | Posted: | | | | Collectorz.com. Until I got to about 400 titles then DVDP. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used nothing for 3 years until I got to about 150. | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 270 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used an old DOS program named Reflex. I used it for all my videos, Beta, VHS, Laser Discs and DVDs. Thanks to a friend, who told me about DVD Profiler.  | | | Jim
More than I need, but not as many as I want! |
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| Registered: May 9, 2008 | | Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've evolved over time:
I can not remember the name of the Comodore 64 data base program I used before going from C64/Amega to PC land. Think it was Compute Gazzate or somewhere. Had a VHS, Book, and Home Inventory database. This was 80s and early 90s.
dbase III / Clipper program I wrote for LDs and VHS mid/late 90s. I remember being happy about getting exospace so I could re-link it and make use of the extended memory on my 386SX-20 PC. All 2MB of my memory.......
Custom MS Access DB based on one of their samples for most of the early DVD time frame. like 2001
And now DVDProfiler |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Something very basic. Just a simple TXT file, couldn't even be bothered to use Word then! |
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  | Berak | | Bibamus morieundum est! |
| Registered: May 10, 2007 |  Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used Excel until my older brother "gave" me his liscense to DVDProfiler... You got to love the family... Thanks Jarle! | | | Berak
It's better to burn out than to fade away!
True love conquers all! | | | | Last edited: by Berak |
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| Registered: May 25, 2007 |  Posts: 263 |
| | Posted: | | | | Before dvd profiler I had about 350 dvds and did not really keep track of them, so on numerous occasions I would buy dvds that I already owned, which I soon got sick of doing. So that was the erason I got dvd profiler and then at the same time got new storage so I could easily see what I had.
These days collecting dvd's is like my sick obsession. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | At first (up to about 50 DVDs) I actually used nothing to keep track of my DVDs.
Then I tried to build up a database with Access and found it terribly inconvenient and went for a quest on a more satisfying solution.
Luckily I ended up directly with DVDProfiler 2.x in the freeware variant and bought the full version with the change to Invelos. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
Registrant since 05/22/2003 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is the first program I used to track DVDs... before I found DVDP I used a site called DVD Tracker... which was web based only. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 950 |
| | Posted: | | | | At first I voted nothing at all, then remembered that I had used Guzzlefish (is that the right name?), a web based program, until it went under. I found Profiler after that. | | | | Lori |
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| Registered: March 24, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,044 |
| | Posted: | | | | I didn't really track of them at all, then I "tripped over" the old Itervocative site and never looked back. Rory  | | | DVD Profiler for iOS as of 3/5/2013
DVD Profiler for Android as of 5/17/2013 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used nothing at all. But I had probably less than 30 at the time. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
Create fake parent profiles to organize your collection. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used nothing at all before Intervocative. By the time I first started using DVD Profiler, I had at least 500 discs to add. I've probably gotten rid of twice that amount by now by selling/trading over the years since!  | | | | Corey |
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