Ouch!    If you have a recent backup, or if it works doing a backup (File / Backup Database) then I would suggest that you create a new database (File / Open Database / New Database) and restore the backup into that new database, and see if it works better. That will of course take sometime with a database of your size. And make sure you have enough disk space.

If the new database works OK, then you can delete the old one (File / Open Database / Delete).

If you can't get it to work this way, let us know and we'll take it from there.

Windows 10 tip
How to set apps to always run as an administrator on Windows 10

There is obviously something  very wrong.

I would suggest that you uninstall DVD Profiler and then install it again, and restore your backup.

And to be extra safe, I suggest that you use Revo Uninstaller (it's freeware) as it cleans up better than a regular uninstall.

Quoting mreeder50:

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Recently I changed DVDP to run as administrator. Then when I ran it, I had to tell my PC to allow it to run, by clicking "Yes". Slight pain in the butt. So after a few days of clicking "Yes" to allow it to run, I changed it back because the default user is me and I am an administrator. Then when I opened DVDP it had no images and it was not happy. No database repair or new DB would fix the problem, so I am now running DVDP with administrator compatibility and will deal with clicking "Yes" each time I launch it.

You might be able to fix this by manually setting the access rights on the folders that DVD Profiler writes to. There is probably a MSN article on how to do it. Make sure to use folder recursion so that all underlying files and folders get their flags changed.

Once you do that, you might gain access to the files once again with Profiler running non-elevated. I'm not entirely sure about this, but it is relatively safe to try.

@mediadogg:

Accodring to the size I have a little bit of disbelief as others "only" had their problems when the collection broke the 30.000 but who knows...?

I had the idea of kind of a technical solution, but I am not sure if this even is possible in anyway. I try to explain it step by step and you can tell me if you see any technical solution for that:
- As at home my DVDs are not all in the same shelf but divided over several boards by genre or other criteria, at least in theory I could split up my collection in profiler the same way to the 20 different boards I am used to place them
- Then I would need kind of a tool to handle all collections at the same time and which would have access to all of them altough only one is open
- The point above has the reason that if I care e. g. about common names, the wrong version of the name might be present and two or even more of my collections, but opening each one separately too search is much too time intensive

Size might cause some troubles, but after creating that new collection with exactly the same size as the one I had before, I won't believe that size is the reason for being so much slower now than before with the old one.
I've read several threads here about size discussions and - like mentioned before - real problem seem to start at 30.000+. And: Why does the program tell me something like "out of memory" as long as there is so much? Neither harddisk nor RAM are used in any "exhausted" way. I am sure that the inactivity of the technical support is the reason for that "send a report to invelos" is not even possible at the crash window?

And: With having new problems at least every week, what should I do than post a thread? Am I really complaining when I simply post facts? In no rule or conditions there was listed any size limitation. And you know how collectors are! Slowely but sure I have built the basement of my collection, now I can start to go deeper into some details. Sad to say, but as more and more problems come up and obviously never ever have a chance to get fixed, I might need to take a look for any alternativity to profiler which doesn't cause problems every week. This is a sad idea as I spent countless hours for thousands of contriubtions, but as it looks that here "the man behind the scenes" never wants to come back to care about his "child", I should focus my priorities on a stable collection tool and nothing else. Some might call this egoistical, but I'd like to say that the number of my contributions proves them wrong.

As far as memory, you can check the Windows Control Panel and Task Manager to see what is going on. You know that. If you are running 32 bit windows on a modern PC, even then you can only use only up to 4GB, regardless of how much you have in your PC. Maybe you know all that already.

Then we also know that DVD Profiler is a 32 bit app. So that could be an issue also.

Now your idea of an automated database swap is also something I have thought about. A plugin might be able to do something like that while maintaining some kind of status or working cache while switching. Seems like an interesting problem to solve. Is DJ Doena watching? What do you think - is it possible?

Dream on. But glad you figured it out. If you have more specific information that would allow something to be done, OK. But if you think we are all going to collect together and have a mass testing event - not gonna happen.

Oh, and if you have a specific warning, experience or advice about specific plugins or tools, then perhaps you could make posts in the relevant threads. Often, is is a collection of experiences together that allows someone to discover a correlation that leads to a solution.

Quoting Magmadrag:

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... as there were conflicts between BulkEdit (from mediadogg) and Duplicatesearch (from DJ Doena).  ...

Would you kindly give me a link to the forum entry where you previously reported the details of this issue?