Backup often, pal, I generally run a backup after each disc, just to be safe.

Skip

I understand your frustration. It happened to me once before.

One tip:
- as Skip said, backup often
- also, when I start working on updates on a profile, first thing I do is lock that part of the profile. That way, I'm sure my work won't accidentally be overwritten from updates

One reason I like using Goodguy's Credits Editor is that I can save the cast/crew as an Excell file (or the data in XML format.  That way, I have the data off line so to speak and don't have to worry about losing all my work by inadvertently downloading a profile from the main database.

If I didn't have Excel (which Goodguy's editor uses) I would use Tom Gains Cast & Crew editor to do the same thing.

I recommend using either of these two tools instead of doing cast/crew credits within Profiler.  Even though you can now cut and paste within the Profiler program, you still can have your work "go away" with a single update -- and you won't have any way to recover it short of recovering an earlier profile from your last Backup.  But you may not have done a backup between the time you buiilt those long cast/crew lists and overwrote the profile with an update.  If you had the data formatted outside of Profiler (as an Excel or XML file) you could easily replace the data you lost in the program.

I feel your pain Movieman.  I have done many a cast/crew contibution, and have done the same thing.  All the hard work *poof* gone.  I now do as Skip said: Backup after every 2 or so contribs.

Eric