I keep child profiles for TV series, but they don't have any cast or crew in them.  I mostly keep them around just to track when I watch a particular disc.

If I didn't track disc viewing I probably wouldn't keep TV child profiles either.

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I'm with Gunnar here.

In fact I never even saw the point of child-profiles for TV-Shows.
For those who want to track viewing-events they are inaccurate since a disc (usually) contains more than one episode, for all others it just bloats the database.

The only thing that in this regard would make sense (to me) would be a child-profile for every single episode. Sadly DVDProfiler doesn't really support this, except by creating manual profiles which have to be kept local.

EDIT:
Now do you feel better already?

Quoting Lewis_Prothero:

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I'm with Gunnar here.

In fact I never even saw the point of child-profiles for TV-Shows.
For those who want to track viewing-events they are inaccurate since a disc (usually) contains more than one episode, for all others it just bloats the database.

The only thing that in this regard would make sense (to me) would be a child-profile for every single episode. Sadly DVDProfiler doesn't really support this, except by creating manual profiles which have to be kept local.

EDIT:
Now do you feel better already?

^This!
It would be a different thing if there were profiles for every episode, but that would be overdoing it a little bit.

Thank you all.  I’m feeling a bit better now. 

I’m going to slowly remove them as I watch them and stop downloading new ones, so it will probably take me years to purge them all.  It was auditing Season 1 of “South Park” that finally pushed me over the edge.  There were lots of existing differences between the parent and the disc profiles; and the parent itself needed so many changes made to it that the thought of transferring all of these to the rest was just too horrible to contemplate.  I enjoy auditing DVDs because it’s fun to do and I can indulge my special interest in the music used, but just moving/copying data about from one place to another is a chore.

I do have the feeling that for some reason I’ll suddenly want them back at some point in the future though.  It’s like when you spring clean and get rid of all the stuff you’ve been hoarding for years and then wish you hadn’t disposed of.

No TV show child profiles here. If they exist without the data existing in a parents profile, I merge all of the children into the parent. This has only happened to me once, though.

Just for kicks using a duplicate db I removed the TV Series Children.
I could do this with one operation because since TV Series and nest profiles came to the profile I initiated a set of flags to handle them.

for Box Sets
-  Parent Level One (Outer Level)
-  Parent Level Two (TV Series within a set of TV Series)
- Child (DVD Level)

for Television
- Misc.
- Mini Series
- Movie, Play, Opera
- Series

By selecting the Child and TV Series tags I could flag all the TV Series Child profiles and remove them with one operation. I t took about 30 min. for the profile to remove them.

Thus reducing the number of Owned profile from 21075 to 10836.
I did this only on the Owned list.

With all the haggling over what goes in every profile field, titles etc. I seriously thought about doing this.
I seems I will never get get all the of my profiles correct by my standard or by anybody else, I have just about given up trying.

For the db I wrote for laser discs, I tracked only the Title, UPC, Cost. Maybe something else, one of these days maybe I fire up my old 84 and check it out. I remember some place i have list of the output.
But then things were simpler in those days

Quoting scotthm:

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I keep child profiles for TV series, but they don't have any cast or crew in them.  I mostly keep them around just to track when I watch a particular disc.

If I didn't track disc viewing I probably wouldn't keep TV child profiles either.

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This.

...and this is exactly the use I see for them. I also have no cast, crew or hardly any other detail in them.

If we could track disc-level watched events in parent profiles, I'd get rid of them as well.

Another one here who has never used disc level profiles for TV shows; in fact I actively dislike them because it stopped us/me using the old (approved) method of using the first disc in a TV season to create the child profile for the Season in multi-season box sets (quite often, in the UK at least, each season of a 'complete series' boxset will have the EAN replaced with a 'Not to be Sold Separately" label) now I often have to make each season Manual and keep it local (or at least use separately released season data and modify the release/covers etc and lock a lot of the profiles down)