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0/0/0000 is not a valid date
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lyneren
Registered: May 21, 2007
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Help.Trying to make backup on my desktop,I get this error -result :No Backup.Release-Purchase-Last Edited spilling over with dates,still no go! I have tried the database repair,but that does not resolve the problem.What am I doing wrong.Please help me. lyneren
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantHalo2
Since Oct. 19, 2002
Registered: March 14, 2007
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Have you tried sorting your collection by release date then purchase date to try and find the title(s) that have a date of 0/0/000?
lyneren
Registered: May 21, 2007
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I have been using "View Columns" to make sure there were no open spaces, no 0/0/0000 anywhere.I even invented dates where they were missing.To no avail!!!
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Have you tried changing the Windows date format  in Control Panel|Regional Settings (or whatever that's called)?
Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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lyneren
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Have you tried changing the Windows date format  in Control Panel|Regional Settings (or whatever that's called)?

Thanks a lot ya_shin.My pc is now converted into the old well known american imperialism!!Either you do it our way or your happy funtimeed.The pc has gone AM-PM,--mm/dd/aaaa,and the backup is now running ok.I don´t live in the united steakes of America.But what to do,Profiler is a fantastic program.One more time---Thanks a lot    lyneren
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorSquirrelecto
Registered: March 13, 2007
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My Windows date format is set to UK format (dd/mm/yyyy), clock is set to 24 hour format, and backups work fine. 
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantlmoelleb
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Registered: March 14, 2007
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Have you tried changing the Windows date format  in Control Panel|Regional Settings (or whatever that's called)?

Thanks a lot ya_shin.My pc is now converted into the old well known american imperialism!!Either you do it our way or your happy funtimeed.The pc has gone AM-PM,--mm/dd/aaaa,and the backup is now running ok.I don´t live in the united steakes of America.But what to do,Profiler is a fantastic program.One more time---Thanks a lot    lyneren


It's just a bug, not a personal attack on you. I do not live in the US, I worked for many years as the top I18N specialist in one of the worlds largest software comany - and even I get it wrong now and then.

Open a support ticket specifying the exact format not working, and it might even get fixed.... unless other things have higher priority.
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Lars
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Open a support ticket specifying the exact format not working, and it might even get fixed.... unless other things have higher priority.


he won't be able to open a support ticket since he isn't a paying user..
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantlmoelleb
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Open a support ticket specifying the exact format not working, and it might even get fixed.... unless other things have higher priority.


he won't be able to open a support ticket since he isn't a paying user..


Oh well, then I guess a forum post is all that can be done - The current post will probaboly not do much good, as it does not contian any details on which format gives the problem.
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Lars
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorGSyren
Profiling since 2001
Registered: March 14, 2007
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I had the same problem recently (except in my case it was 0000-00-00), and I just could not find the offending profile. I had to restore a fairly recent backup and re-add the titles I had entered after the last backup.

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Gunnar
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Reg: January 30, 2005
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without backup, you're up a creek without a paddle (so to speak)

I suppose it is good that people are having issues backing up, at least the new users are using the backup feature instead of just complaining that they lost all their hard work.
lyneren
Registered: May 21, 2007
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I have now tested some 20 diff. formats from all over the world. Only the American format works on my pc.So what I´ll do is to turn ito American whenever I want to mak a backup.That done ,I´ll turn the pc back to the local format,not to complicate writing ect.ect.  Lyneren
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I have now tested some 20 diff. formats from all over the world. Only the American format works on my pc.So what I´ll do is to turn ito American whenever I want to mak a backup.That done ,I´ll turn the pc back to the local format,not to complicate writing ect.ect.  Lyneren


I'm using the UK format.
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I'm using Swedish format (yyyy-mm-dd) and it has always worked fine with the one exception mentioned above.
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Invelos Software, Inc. RepresentativeKen Cole
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Registered: March 10, 2007
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I've seen one other case of this where the date was somehow entered into an event (loaned, watched, etc).  I've added trapping for this in the next release, but the only way to correct this in the current version is to find the offending entry.  You can narrow it down by flagging half your collection and backing up the flagged entries.  Split the erroring half until you locate the bad profile.  In this way, narrowing down to a single bad DVD out of 3000 will take up to 12 tries.
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lyneren
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I've seen one other case of this where the date was somehow entered into an event (loaned, watched, etc).  I've added trapping for this in the next release, but the only way to correct this in the current version is to find the offending entry.  You can narrow it down by flagging half your collection and backing up the flagged entries.  Split the erroring half until you locate the bad profile.  In this way, narrowing down to a single bad DVD out of 3000 will take up to 12 tries.

Hi Ken.  Very simpel to solve using Your method.There it was:  Loan To/View History/DVD History:5/6/2007 Watched by me--And then one more entry:0/0/0000 Watched by me---- I want my mother!!!--I have tried to solve this problem for the last 3 weeks!  So now I´m back to dd/mm/yyyy.Thanks a lot Ken for a very good program.  lyneren
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