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I think I found enough workarounds to make it work.<br>
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Writing is hard for me because of vision problems. It is best for
me to list it out. Sorry if it sounds abrupt. I actually am very
grateful to find your program. I am using tellico on a Windows 10
Virtualbox and it works pretty well. I don't have all my old data,
but I didn't really need some of it anyway. I have transferred from
4 programs in 15 years, so I know the risks - still I want keep some
of it or I would be very sad. I was able to save all my collected
video image files links by massaging the data for which I am very
grateful.<br>
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1) Created a fake record and with a real title and fake data.
Update functions with "overwrite selected" NOT CHECKED never filled
empty fields on the fake record.<br>
2) Because it was a conversion, I tried to recreate and make a
correlation to existing fields. My misunderstanding. I looked at
the tellico.html files and I realized that importing data through
IMDB etc.. using fixed field names to populate the database. I used
a text editor to create a set of fields so they do not overwrite my
old data.<br>
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I am now updating through IMDB the "CAST" field which I could not
import. I will have to manually transfer the individual disks per
title in boxed sets, but I can copy and past that in a new table
field I created.<br>
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I used CSV to import. I wish my vision was better, because I think
I could have translated this better with an XSLT transformation
(Collectorz has a full XML export), but it was too difficult for me
to learn that without taking too much time. Online tutorials do not
cover XML to XML with lists well.<br>
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Thanks for still supporting HTML export which is what I really
wanted for backup purposes.<br>
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Ann<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/18/2020 10:26 AM, Robby Stephenson
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I am trying to convert an
old Collectorz Movies database, and I can get most of the
data into Tellico, but not the actors.<br>
I am testing with a small text export.<br>
I want to use the update function with IMDB to only
overwrite certain fields not all.<br>
I learned I had to change to title on the update to
something more generic. I saved my original title in another
field.<br>
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With "overwrite selected" CHECKED it overwrites a lot of
fields I don't want to overwrite.<br>
With "overwrite selected" NOT CHECKED it doesn't fill the
actors at all.<br>
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Is there a way I can modify this behavior?<br>
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<div>In the IMDB source settings, is the "Maximum cast" number
greater than zero? It also may be that your cast field may
look empty but isn't actually empty somehow, in which case
it wouldn't overwrite it. If you want to email me a test
file directly, I can take a look.</div>
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