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Database Problem

Woodster5000 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:33:47 +0000

I've been using Filmotech since Marh 2026 and I have been very pleased with the results. I have over 600 DVD/Blu-Ray discs.

I added 10 new discs two days ago and backed up the library. Having completed the additions I exported the library to my iPhone and iPad with complete success, both showing 628 titles.

I have come to add additional discs and on opening Filmotech the screen showed I only had 267 titles, I tried to restore the last backup from two days ago and it just showed the same number of titles (267), in fact every backup going back to March 2026 was the same 267 titles.

I have checked all the settings and cannot see a problem other than in the Media section of any of the 267 titles it only shows DVD. When I check the Profiles in Settings it shows the four profiles i have created namely DVD, Blu-Ray, Combined DVD & Blu-Ray and DVD Audio. The breakdown two days ago was as follows:-

DVD 502

Blu-Ray 103

Combined DVD & Blu-Ray 12

DVD Audio 1

Total 628

I am compoletely at a loss as to what has gone wrong, any assistance would be gratefully apreciated.

Other simple databases for collectors' films and music CD's

JohnDB — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:16:24 +0000

I use and value Filmotech - I use it to keep an inventory of my movies. Input is fast and it is simple to use, with links to many international information sources on films, although I have yet to write a report script. Other collection database movie app's are more complicated because they do more e.g. ripping or other collection types. I am looking for a free or inexpensive, fast, Windows, simple CD music equivalent of Filmotech. Here again many apps do more than I want e.g. buying and selling and so are more complicated. Of course there is discogs, which is fairly simple to use for just keeping an inventory. Possibly there is Koingo's Librarian Pro 8. Again I want simplicity, input to be fast, and an international set of information sources, as well as coverage of different types of music. Any suggestions?

Webpublishing

Nagra — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:07:24 +0000

Hi Filmotech and Greetings to everyone here,

I successfully uploaded my filmlist to my existing website. So far so good.

But then I was wondering, if it is possible, to have the film-database "inside my wordpress-theme", with the theme-menue and everything. Right now, I have my filmlist on a seperated, external page that does not has the look of the other pages.

Am I missing something in the configuration, or is this the only way, to have a filmlist published?

Regards
Jo

File Names

LordP — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0000

When I import the movies on my hard drive, the names appear as still having 1080p, 720p, Documentary, etc. This makes searching for information very difficult. Is there a way of ignoring some words, mass editing some words, either during importing or after importing?

For example, I have this: 2040 2019 Documentary -- when I search TMDB, the entire NAME is 2040 2019 Documentary, and I have to delete everyting after 2040, and then add the year below '2040' - this is very time-consuming.

Why is the movie search failing now?

dwallace7456 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:05:20 +0000

I'm using windows 11 latest release, and I attempted several times to add a movie (that is in the IMDB database), but I continually get an http error 202 with 0 files found. Is this due to the latest Windows 11 patches, or something else? thank you.

Filmotech on Surface Pro X

schweg — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:27:50 +0000

I have been using and enjoying Filotech for 5 years. I have a Surface Pro X that runs Windows 11 on ARM (Snapdragon procesor) MySQL has a Windows 11 version. Anyone have suggestions how to get the program to run on this machine? Thanks, Tom

Suggestions for Filmotech

Roy Racing — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:24:08 +0000

Hi Filmotech and other movie enthusiasts!

Sofar I am happy with your catalogue program, but I do have 2 wishes. I know it might not be possible or maybe just very much work but I can always suggest.

1. I would like to be able to make a "Wish list". And if I buy them I can easily switch them from the wishlist to "All my movies"

2. A colomn with "Last seen"

Ofcourse there are a lot of other options that would be nice but I understand that it is expensive or impossible:
Auto sync between phone and computer
Editing list (and send that from phone to computer
Adding movies by scanning the barcode

And I am sure other users could think of even more great options...

IMDb (TV Series) script not working

mvcosta — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:16:05 +0000

As of today, all the searches bring no (0) results.

Statistics

Mishmash — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:39:18 +0000

Why is it that for 'Year' and 'Genre' most of the statistic percentages fall into the 'Other' category? The Year input is always the same 4 digit format throughout my catalog. Thanks

HTML Tags: App to Website

NeonJack — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:28:24 +0000

Hi! I notice that I can add HTML tags like to entries in the app (for example, in the "Features" field), but when I publish to a website, those are stripped out. Is there a fix for that?