rick.ca,
First of all, thank you as for your suggestions considering personal reference as for your usually fast reply and as I said earlier: it's not that PVD is the best of it's kind (which is true) that matters to me, but that it suits
all my needs. That's why I posted such a topic in this and not in "Feature..." forum: because I felt I only needed support to figure out how to get the result I want.
Second, I found a flaw in my previous posts, if it matters now: I meant "Group
operations" and not "Group
options". Silly me!
Third, as I finished testing PVD on a single entry ("The Shawshank case"
, and while we're waiting for an update for an imdb.dll regarding "Top 250 Rank" issue, I decided meanwhile to test PVD on a multiple movie entries. And that's how this topic emanated.
The status of the owned filter is determined by the existence of data in the Path field.
Important thing to say here is that I imported 5500 movie entries from MS Excel table without such a "Path" column in that .xls file.
If I understood your statement quoted above, please let my screen capture first talk instead of me:
1. I don't have a path for "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" as you can see. I applied "owned" filter (also seen) and it still appears on list?
2. I downloaded data for "Mesrine..." movie from my collection (it's "Path" is not null), and I got an extra "Gangstars - Gangstars ()" entry (light blue coloured one in the left pane). Don't have it in collection, don't have a path for it, still "owned" filter applied, still "Gangastars" visible, and in the "owned" list? I applied "Refresh" also.
3. No matter I additionally applied "Visible" advanced filter, the result is the same - all movie entries shown: "owned" ones (physically in my collection) and "not-owned" ones (not physically in my collection), and all are "marked in database" (is it the term?) as visible?
In buah's case, I see no reason (yet) why the existing filters—used in the "normal" manner—will not serve his needs.
I know that this issue is too trivial, because primarily and main purpose of any software of this kind is to manage and maintain one's collection. Regarding that, I'm definitely doing something wrong - either setting up PVD's preferences, or improperly using existing filters, while at least, all PVD components I use were up-to date, but I just don't know what.
The experience says that sometimes rephrasing the question can help resolving problems, so please allow me to do so:
After mass import online data in silent mode (or not, it produce the same unwanted result for me) for 5500 movie entries and getting hundreds of thousands new entries, how to manage to get shown only a list of movies I own - those 5500, regardless the fact that I don't have "Path" field filled in for them, without deleting extra entries gotten?
Please if it's needed consider here as a separate issue above screen capture regarding applied "owned" field didn't impact on not-having-"path"-movie-entries, in terms of "how it should be after online importing" and "how it is in buah's case after online importing".
I want you to know that I read your previous post several times before, and several times during writing this post ensuring that I didn't misread something. Thank you even for your patience to reach the end of this post, not to mention if I get a reply.
Cheers