Lending a movie

Discs come back more reliably when the program remembers who has them.

Lending

  1. Select the movie and press F12, or choose Movie › Loan/Return, or use the right-click menu.
  2. Pick the person from the friends directory — or type a new name, which creates the entry.
  3. Set how many days they get. The due date is worked out from that.

The movie is now marked as lent out; the list shows it and the card names the borrower.

Loan entire media in Preferences makes lending work on the disc rather than on the film: everything sharing the same Media label goes out and comes back together. That is what you want when one disc carries three films.

Returning

Press F12 again on a lent-out movie and confirm. It can also be done from the debtors side: F5 opens statistics, and on the Debtors tab a double-click returns one movie or all of somebody's movies at once.

Who has what

Quick filter › Show LoansEverything currently out.
Quick filter › Show OverdueOnly what is past its due date. The program also warns you about overdue discs by itself.
Statistics › DebtorsThe same information organized by person.
Directories › FriendsEach person's card, with what they have now and what they had before.
Tools › Loan historyThe complete record: every loan, by movie or by person, with the dates lent, due and returned.

The history keeps growing on its own; entries can be deleted individually, or the whole history for one person cleared, from the friends directory.

A friend's card holds an e-mail address, and there is a button on it to write to them — convenient when a disc has been out for four months.

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