Posted by: rick.ca
« on: September 18, 2009, 08:39:46 pm »Quote
I don't remember if I held down CTRL.
If you didn't Ctrl-Delete before, you may have Deleted twice—the first would make it invisible, the second would delete it.
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I remember that updating the record from IMDB did nothing
Updating the movie should have added the person—as an invisible record. Maybe you just missed it, although it should have reappeared in the movie credits.
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If I have created invisible people how do I make them visible again though?
Right-click on the person in the list and select Always show. Delete to hide again. Use the filter to set whether or not to display "invisible" records (yes, the terminology is confusing—but there's nothing complicated about what's happening).
To recap how people records are managed when the Show people added from movie credits is not used:
- Updating movie records adds people as invisible records. They're invisible in the sense their only purpose is to show the person's name in the movie credits. No other information is recorded, and they're therefore hidden in People View.
- Credit links will go to either the person's IMDb page, or their record in People View. The Click and Ctrl-Click behaviour is set at Preferences - Miscellaneous. So you have a choice if you want to see any information about the person. If you elect to view their PVD record, the link will take you to People view and make the record visible. You can then update the record to download the IMDb information. Now that the record is visible, its link colour (in the movie credits) and click behaviour will change.
- Once a person's record has been updated, the downloaded information cannot be removed. The record can, however, be made invisible by "deleting" it.
- To minimize the amount of people information maintained in the database, never update the records. If any information is required, use the link to go to the person's IMDb page. If any records are made visible (because their links were selected), make them invisible again by deleting them. With this approach, you would generally not use People View, and you should never see credit link of a different colour (denoting "visible" records).
- Alternatively, one might adopt an ad hoc practice of making records visible and updating them only for their "favourite" people. Once such records are made visible, they could be updated as a batch. Unfortunately, they can only be made visible one at a time—either by using their link in a movie record or selecting Always show. Also, as mentioned, once information has been downloaded, it cannot be removed from the record.