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Your life before DVD Profiler
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantkahless
TaH pagh taHbe'!
Registered: March 14, 2007
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Well, I assume we all collectors had a life before the DVD Profiler. 

What I like to know is: What was  your solution to track and manage your collection before you discovered DVD Pro! 

I started to use MS Excel and later MS Access! Lot of work to enter the data and create queries. When I discovered DVD Pro 2.4 I was electrified! What about you out there? 
Thorsten
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorcvermeylen
Registered: March 13, 2007
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I used Excel to keep track of my collections. I still update my collections in excel in fact. The excel file still lists all the items i've removed from my collections. I do this for CD's and DVD's.
View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm

Chris
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorDJ Doena
Registered: May 1, 2002
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No I have not, I had only ten or so DVDs back then.
Karsten
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantleo1963
Registered: May 14, 2007
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Collectorz.com.  Until I got to about 400 titles then DVDP.
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorm.cellophane
tonight's the night...
Registered: March 13, 2007
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I used nothing for 3 years until I got to about 150.
...James

"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributoreaglejd
Registered: May 8, 2007
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I used an old DOS program named Reflex.

I used it for all my videos, Beta, VHS, Laser Discs and DVDs.

Thanks to a friend, who told me about DVD Profiler.
Jim

More than I need, but not as many as I want!
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributortkinnen
Registered: May 9, 2008
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I've evolved over time:

I can not remember the name of the Comodore 64 data base program I used before going from C64/Amega to PC land.  Think it was Compute Gazzate or somewhere.  Had a VHS, Book, and Home Inventory database.  This was 80s and early 90s.

dbase  III / Clipper program I wrote for LDs and VHS mid/late 90s.  I remember being happy about getting exospace so I could re-link it and make use of the extended memory on my 386SX-20 PC. All 2MB of my memory....... 

Custom MS Access DB based on one of their samples for most of the early DVD time frame. like 2001

And now DVDProfiler
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorArdos
Registered: July 31, 2008
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Something very basic. Just a simple TXT file, couldn't even be bothered to use Word then!
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorBerak
Bibamus morieundum est!
Registered: May 10, 2007
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I used Excel until my older brother "gave" me his liscense to DVDProfiler... You got to love the family...        Thanks Jarle!
Berak

It's better to burn out than to fade away!
True love conquers all!
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorjadedoz2007
Registered: May 25, 2007
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Before dvd profiler I had about 350 dvds and did not really keep track of them, so on numerous occasions I would buy dvds that I already owned, which I soon got sick of doing. So that was the erason I got dvd profiler and then at the same time got new storage so I could easily see what I had.
These days collecting dvd's is like my sick obsession.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorLewis_Prothero
Strength Through Unity
Registered: May 19, 2007
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At first (up to about 50 DVDs) I actually used nothing to keep track of my DVDs.
Then I tried to build up a database with Access and found it terribly inconvenient and went for a quest on a more satisfying solution.
Luckily I ended up directly with DVDProfiler 2.x in the freeware variant and bought the full version with the change to Invelos.
It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?


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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorAddicted2DVD
Registered: March 13, 2007
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This is the first program I used to track DVDs... before I found DVDP I used a site called DVD Tracker... which was web based only.
Pete
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorLJG
Registered: March 14, 2007
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At first I voted nothing at all, then remembered that I had used Guzzlefish (is that the right name?), a web based program, until it went under.  I found Profiler after that.
Lori
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorrorymatt
Registered: March 24, 2007
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I didn't really track of them at all, then I "tripped over" the old Itervocative site and never looked back.

Rory
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantMark Harrison
I like IMDB
Registered: March 13, 2007
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I used nothing at all.  But I had probably less than 30 at the time.
Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
Create fake parent profiles to organize your collection.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKatatonia
Retired Profiler
Registered: March 13, 2007
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I used nothing at all before Intervocative. By the time I first started using DVD Profiler, I had at least 500 discs to add. I've probably gotten rid of twice that amount by now by selling/trading over the years since!
Corey
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