Quoting olivercat:

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I can't repair because I can't open a database to repair it

Try doing it externally. Go to your start menu and you should have a DVD Profiler folder in there somewhere. Within the folder is the link "Database Repair Utility."

Or, you can go directly to the file which is by default at C:\Program Files\DVD Profiler\DVDProDBRepair.exe (or "Program Files (x86)" for 64 bit versions of Windows.)


Quoting olivercat:

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also the list of reports seems to have disappeared, it may be a coincidence but I think it happened at to same time I updated to version 3.8.2,

Assuming you do a full backup of your database, reports are backed up along-side the movie/cast/cover/photo data. Once you can load the database, the the reports should be there as well.

Is this a database separate from the "default" database that Profiler created automatically when you first installed the program (a new one you created and gave its own name?) If you installed the new version over the old version, there's a chance it should have remained, but if you did an uninstall before installing the new version, then you likely deleted the database that you had going.

It's always important to create backups (File -> Backup Database) before making installation changes.

So anyway, let's give this another view. Find your 'My Documents' folder and in it should be the folder path "...DVD Profiler/Databases/Defauilt"  Go into that folder, then 'Images' and see if the covers for the images in your collection are there. If not and there are are any folders other than 'Default' go into them and check the same.

If they are not found at all, then your collection is gone unless you have a backup. (I see that you uploaded 5 movies to your online collection; you can retrieve those back to your computer, but it overwrites what is currently showing in the database that you have open, so I was making that a last resort (if nothing else worked.)