Lost all my PVD data after upgrading?

[ruffa]

Hoping someone can help me, i lost all my PVD data about 6months back, because it happened a while ago i'm not 100% sure which order things happened but i'll do my best to explain.
I had been using the old 9. version of PVD for 10yrs+ and upgraded to Windows 10 which may have  been the start of the problems, i think i noticed some odd behaviour in PVD, i then seem to remember comming to this website to upgrade to the latest version of PVD in an attempt to fix, then next time i went to go into my database to my horror it listed 0 films! i've not been able to get them back since and have no idea whats happened.

I did have a HTML and .bak files of my old database from a few yrs back but these are missing 200+ films and i have tried to restore these backups within the latest PVD i have installed just so i have something to work with but they will not install for some reason i always get errors so currenty the only access i have to my work is via the HTML which isn't great. I have tried uninstalling the latest verison and tried installing every version of PVD in order to get one of my backups installed and none of them work, i'm kind of desperate right now just to get PVD working again, not bothered what version i have as i dont use the scripts or internet i only want it for PC use.

As far as i know the PVD data is saved in the exe file, the one that my desktop PVD icon would point to(hope thats right) if it's not could someone tell me where the PVD data for my files sits on the computer?
I do remember moving some folders off my hard drive to make space at one point so there is a possibility i may have moved something which caused the problem(i need to check this) but after comming here and reading the probs with win10 and software versions i'm thinking maybe the issue relates to me upgrading PVD and maybe not doing it properly or something.

Hoping someone might recognize this problem i have, any ideas appreciated, thanks

[Ivek23]

First, download the pvd09.zip file from this address

http://vvveasy.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pvd09.zip

and unzip it to one of your hard disk or external hard disk partitions. Then in the folder run PVD with portable.bat file. When PVD opens, a movie.pvd file may already appear in the same folder) and you may save it. Only now use copies of saved movies.pvd.bak and restore your saved movies.pvd.bak files. This is the only way to see if these files may not contain any errors, making it impossible to recover the data.

Test this to see what the PVD response will look like. Then it will be easier to advise on possible solutions.

[ruffa]

Thanks for your reply and sorry for the late reply i got locked out of this forum by making a password change and it seems the mailing system on here is broke, i didn't get any confirmation email to reset password and ended up locked out, i think it must have timed out after so many days and it's let me back in now.

I tried what you suggested and PVD loaded up with no films so i imported an old backup which worked, which was great! so i immediatley exported into all formats as a precaution.

But next time i tried to load the database up i found that the version had returned back to V.10 (?) the latest version, not sure how thats happened as i ran the same bat file from within the zip folder for V.9 so very strange. I've not been able to get it working since.

I should probably try re-unzipping the zip file and doing it again but wonder why it reverted back to a newer version when it shouldn't even be on my system although i may have the newer version in another folder on the PC somewhere, not sure if this will interfere with it.

thanks for your help

[Ivek23]

But next time i tried to load the database up i found that the version had returned back to V.10 (?) the latest version, not sure how thats happened as i ran the same bat file from within the zip folder for V.9 so very strange. I've not been able to get it working since.

Based on what you have described, I suspect that the next time you launched PVD, it was updated to the latest version. You may have been presented with a window to update the program and have accidentally confirmed.

I should probably try re-unzipping the zip file and doing it again but wonder why it reverted back to a newer version when it shouldn't even be on my system although i may have the newer version in another folder on the PC somewhere, not sure if this will interfere with it.

Yes, try again, and when you open it, first find in the settings where the program update box is and uncheck it. just repeat what you did for the first time. Hopefully now it will be just fine and it will work now. Then report what happened.