The DVDpedia database and data folder

Your DVDpedia database information is kept in a folder called "DVDpedia" apart from the actual application so if you should delete DVDpedia.app from your computer by mistake, your data will be safe.

By default, the DVDpedia data folder is located in your Home folder under ~/Library/Application Support/DVDpedia. It contains the following files and folders:

• A Database.dvdpd file which holds all the data for your DVDpedia database in SQL format.


• Up to three backup.dvdpd files which are backup files of the original Database.dvdpd file. The program automatically updates these every month. (If you don't want DVDpedia to do an automatic backup of your Database.dvdpd file every month, open the application Terminal found in Applications/Utilities and copy paste the following line into it, followed by a return:
  
  defaults write com.bruji.dvdpedia NoAutomaticBackup -bool YES



• The Covers folder which holds all the cover images for your DVDpedia database.


• The autofill.xml file which holds all the information for your autofill preferences.

Additionally, the DVDpedia folder may also contain the following:

• A Templates folder which holds any export or print templates you customized or wrote yourself. This folder never gets overwritten by the program unlike the Templates folder inside the application which gets overwritten with each update.


• An InfoTemplates folder which holds any details view templates you customized or wrote yourself. This folder never gets overwritten by the program unlike the InfoTemplates folder inside the application which gets overwritten with each update.


• A Plug-ins folder which holds any plug-ins you downloaded from our Extras page or written yourself. This folder never gets overwritten by the program unlike the Plug-ins folder inside the application which gets overwritten with each update.


• A Database.pediadata file which was created as backup during the update from version 4 to version 5. You may delete this file once you've updated to version 5 and things are running smoothly.

• Quit DVDpedia.


• Move the DVDpedia data folder to where you'd like to keep it.


• Hold down the option key and start up DVDpedia.


• Click the 'Choose database' button, navigate to the new data folder location and select the Database.dvdpd file.

You can set up different data folders in the above manner to keep more than one DVDpedia library on your computer. Call the new data folder(s) whatever you like, it does not have to be 'DVDpedia'. Just make sure it is something specific so you remember which folder belongs to which database.

To see the location of your current data folder, go into your DVDpedia Preferences > General.

To move DVDpedia and its data to a different computer entirely, make a copy of the data folder and move it into the exact same location on the new computer, all while DVDpedia is NOT running.


To share a DVDpedia library between two or more computers, move the DVDpedia data folder to a location where all computers have access to it, like a public folder or a shared hard drive. The move works the same for all users as described in the section above.


If you're sharing a database between several computers but don't want all the users to have editing privileges, you can manage this via the Mac OS X permissions.
Change the DVDpedia permissions by selecting the DVDpedia data folder and choosing 'Get Info' from the File menu. Under 'Ownership & Permissions' you'll see that you (the User) can "read & write" to the folder. For the group, set the permissions to "read only".