Database tasks
Everything in this chapter is about the collection file itself rather than about the movies inside it: where it lives, how to get data into it, how to keep a copy that survives a dead disk, and how to keep other people out of it.
One collection is one .amm file. You can keep as many as you
like — films and home video, yours and your father's — and switch
between them from .
If you are setting up for the first time, the order that saves the most work is: create the database, import whatever catalog you already have, then scan the drives for the video files that are not in it yet.
In this chapter
- Creating a new database — How All My Movies stores a collection and how to keep more than one.
- Opening a database — Open an existing collection, switch between collections and use the recent list.
- Importing a collection — Import from Ant Movie Catalog, DVD Profiler, Movie Collector, Movienizer, EMDB, My Movies, Kodi, Plex, Emby, CSV or Excel.
- Appending from another database — Merge selected movies from one .amm collection into another.
- Making a backup — Manual backups and the automatic multilevel backup that runs for you.
- Compressing the database — Reclaim space in the collection file and repair it after a crash.
- Password protection — Protect the whole collection with a password, or only protect it from changes.
- Working over a network — Share one collection between several computers on a local network.
- Sharing your collection — Show the catalog to somebody else: a web page, a PDF, the mobile apps or the collection file itself.
- Collection statistics — Counts, charts, the total value of the collection and who owes you a disc.
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