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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorDorianGray
Registered: May 26, 2007
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As of now the program counts/sorts like this:
1
10
100
11
111
2
3
4
etc.

I would really like it to count/sort correctly.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorscotthm
Registered: March 20, 2007
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Quoting DorianGray:
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As of now the program counts/sorts like this:
1
10
100
11
111
2
3
4
etc.

I would really like it to count/sort correctly.

It will, if you "spell" the number correctly:

001
002
003
004
010
011
100
111

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Quoting DorianGray:
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As of now the program counts/sorts like this:
1
10
100
11
111
2
3
4

That's not true, the program sorts like this:

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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorMithi
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Quoting DorianGray:
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I would really like it to count/sort correctly.

It does sort correctly ... alphabetical 
For numerical sorting you have to go the way of the leading 0, as scotthm already mentioned.
The Sort-Titles are local, so you can fuc... change them however you like. 
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorsurfeur51
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I would really like it to count/sort correctly.

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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantmediadogg
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Registered: March 18, 2007
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The plugin Bulkedit has a padding feature for some fields. If you try it and the field you need is not supported, let me know and I will fix it. I plan to update Bulkedit sometime soon.
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantmediadogg
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The feature I talked about is already implemented for the Slot field. DVD Profiler does not honor the leading zeros in Collection Number. I tested it. I didn't get any responses, so I didn't make any changes to Bulkedit, but in the future if there are text fields other than Slot you want to use Bulkedit for, you can:

Using Multicopy Tool 1 (Column copy), with the overwrite option:
(1) Copy the Slot field to Work1
(2) Copy the field to Slot
(3) Right click - pad Slot with 0's
(4) Copy Slot back to field
(5) Copy Work1 back to Slot

Then File > Save Validated Changes
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorDJ Doena
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The feature I talked about is already implemented for the Slot field. DVD Profiler does not honor the leading zeros in Collection Number. I tested it. I didn't get any responses, so I didn't make any changes to Bulkedit, but in the future if there are text fields other than Slot you want to use Bulkedit for, you can:

Using Multicopy Tool 1 (Column copy), with the overwrite option:
(1) Copy the Slot field to Work1
(2) Copy the field to Slot
(3) Right click - pad Slot with 0's
(4) Copy Slot back to field
(5) Copy Work1 back to Slot

Then File > Save Validated Changes


If a movie starts with a number, e.g. 13 Going On 30, 11:14, The 13th Warrior then I will pad the number to 8 digits total.

The sort titles become

00000011:14
00000013 Going on 30
00000013th Warrior
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorTheMadMartian
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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If a movie starts with a number, e.g. 13 Going On 30, 11:14, The 13th Warrior then I will pad the number to 8 digits total.

The sort titles become

00000011:14
00000013 Going on 30
00000013th Warrior

I do the same thing, I just don't pad my numbers quite so high.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorAddicted2DVD
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Same for me.
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I do the same thing, I just don't pad my numbers quite so high.

Some of us must, since the amount of padding is dictated by the highest numerical title.

00000007 Faces of Dr. Lao
00000007th Voyage of Sinbad
00000012 Angry Men
00000039 Steps
00000101 Dalmatians
00002001: A Space Odyssey
00002010: The Year We Make Contact
00020000 Leagues Under the Sea
20000000 Miles to Earth

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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorDJ Doena
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Quoting DJ Doena:
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If a movie starts with a number, e.g. 13 Going On 30, 11:14, The 13th Warrior then I will pad the number to 8 digits total.

The sort titles become

00000011:14
00000013 Going on 30
00000013th Warrior

I do the same thing, I just don't pad my numbers quite so high.


I also don't have such a high number but I didn't want to risk buying a movie like 1,000,000 B.C. and then having to edit all my 2 Broke Girls, 21 Jump Street and 24 season and disc profiles.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorAddicted2DVD
Registered: March 13, 2007
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very good point... I currently went with 4 leading 0's. May have not been enough.
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I also went with 4 leading 0's (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). If I had to add more I guess I could look at it as, it gave me something to do.
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Using BulkEdit MultiCopy Tool 4, Regex + Math:

Regex Look for: ((^[0-9]+)(.*))

Check Math, Select CSharp  and paste the following script (not including "Quote:" of course):
Quote:

int paddedlen = 8;
int numlen = "$2".Length;
if (paddedlen > numlen)
{
    return (new string('0',paddedlen-numlen))+"$1";
}
else return "$1";


You can choose to output directly back into the original column (e.g. Sort Title), or to a Work column. Of course, you need to set the paddedlen variable to whatever you want.

Click "All" and go for coffee while the program makes the changes. When done, validate the results visually by clicking the sort header in BulkEdit, and if it looks good, just File > Save Validated changes.

Note that you can save and reload scripts if you want to reuse them in the future.
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I do the same thing, I just don't pad my numbers quite so high.

Me too, but since I have less than 4,000 titles, I just out out to four spaces. But I also add a couple of other twists, since I have trouble remembering how a number is handled within a title.

"Zero Dark Thirty" =
0000 Dark Thirty

"One Day in September"=
0001 Day in September

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest=
0001 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"2 Brothers & a bride: A Foreign Affair"
0002 Brothers & a bride: A Foreign Affair

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