Directories
Some values belong to more than one movie: a director directs several films, a genre covers dozens, a shelf holds a hundred discs. Those values live in shared lists — directories — rather than being retyped into every card.
Two consequences, and they are the reason directories are worth caring about:
- Correcting a name in the directory corrects it in every movie that uses it.
- Everything you can group and filter by — the tree, the Show drop-down, the quick filters — works off these lists. A messy directory with three spellings of one studio produces three branches in the tree.
They all open from the menu. Two of them — people and friends — are full card systems; the other five are simple lists of values.
Every simple directory has Merge in its right-click menu. Select two entries that mean the same thing, merge them, and every movie that used either now uses one. This is the standard cleanup after an import.
In this chapter
- Names — Person cards: biography, photos, filmography, merging duplicates and splitting namesakes.
- Friends — The people you lend discs to, their contacts and their loan history.
- Media locations — Where the disc physically is: a shelf, a box, a binder or a hard drive.
- Countries — The list of production countries offered in the movie card.
- Genres — The genre list used by the movie card, the tree and the quick filter.
- Media types — DVD, Blu-ray, a file on a hard drive - the carrier the movie lives on.
- Quality values — Your own scale for picture quality: 4K, 1080p, camrip - whatever you use.
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