So I upgraded to OS X Tiger, and made a back-up of all user data. Not the programs, because I like these upgrades to also get rid of downloaded programs I never use and get the latest version of what I do use.

To my dismay I learned the hard way that DVD Database X stores it data under /Applications, and not under /Users/Joe/Documents/Whatever. This is something I would like to recommend, at least as an option!

Call me stupid (only once will do), but there is more than enough to keep track of already (in the world I mean) not having to worry about the location of DVD data.

Being moderately pissed off I decided to weigh my options again. Having to enter 140 films AGAIN (merging IMDB with Amazon information) I, for once, didn't care about the $15-25 I would have to pay to move to another program that wouldn't make me loose my data like this.

I tried DVDAttache and DVD Sphere, but I didn't get the wealth of info I was used to. I also saw that Database X had a newer version, so I tried this one again too.

Of course it helps I am more familiar with it, but the merging option of IMDB and Amazon is what convinced me once more. I guess I really want a movie database more as a DVD database. So I don't care about all sorts of details, but don't want to live without the complete cast-info for example.

I also found that some other things had been improved. Most importantly it no longer automatically opened in Cover View mode.

But installing the newer version I had problems getting covers, which I solved by changing the permissions of the images directory (sudo chmod 777 images). Never had this problem before though, and I guess I caused this problem myself playing with older versions (with existing but empty database file).

Then, as I am back with the program now, I have two wishes, one of which is standing somewhat longer:

1. I like DVD Database X to remember how I left the view. When I like my films ordered according to year, it should not always list them alphabetically according to title when I open it again.

2. This might be out of your reach, but amazon and imdb don't generally have the exact same title for the same film. Looking for 'Gerry' on imdb works, but adding and lookup with amazon gives erroneous results. Searching on Gus van Sant on Amazon _does_ give a list including Gerry (Gerry [2003]), but doing a look up with imdb on "Gerry [2003]"doesn't give any results! And at this point I loose the merging feature.

Ideally I would be able to modify the title field in order to be able to merge.

Which leads, indirectly, to suggestion 3., which is that I have the look up button also when editting an existing entry (not only when adding a new one). Regardless on what information a film holds, I would like to be able to _add_ information to it automatically using internet look up.

So much for a critical user that returned to base, somewhat against his will.