@ Selta : Did you try 0.5b? Do you still have problems with saving your collection?
I have it downloaded and installed, but haven't had hardly anytime to use it yet. It's looking like I won't get to more organizing until maybe this weekend. I will definitely let you know what I find
Do I have to have all the card scans in the same directory?
To answer the last question, no. Under the Option menu, card scans submenu, you need to put all the right settings in. You'll have to set the scan directory to /drive_letter/Magic/Full/, and checkmark the "setcode-named directory for each set". Then, make sure you have "by name" selected in the card nomenclature.
After that, you'll likely need to re-name all of your folders. So if you have, say:
/drive_letter/Magic/Full/Gatecrash/Act of Treason.jpg
You will need to change the "gatecrash" part to the set code, in this case GTC, so it'd end up looking like:
/drive_letter/Magic/Full/GTC/Act of Treason.jpg
And so on, for each of the sets. Once you do that, the scans should show up - they work for me, except cards with Æ in them for some reason (like Ætherize).
Your file is corrupted. The cumul part of the file, to populate the cumulated data grid is almost absent. that's why the cumulated data grid is no more synchronized with the comprehensive data grid.
Please retry to create and save the collection with the last version 0.5b. I fixed some bugs in the section building for collections linked to the sorting, especially if the alphabetical sort is performed using non-english languages. Tell me if you still encounter the issue.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I will download 0.5b and use it.
I just had an issue this morning with a collection actually. I have 1306 cards entered. Some of them, (for example, slaughterhorn), if I have 3 NM and one EX condition from the same set, save, and go back in, the entier slaughterhorn entry ends up missing. It seems to be worse if I just hit "save" versus "save as" and do an overwrite, but it happens I'll say 75% of the time.
Starting tomorrow, I'll be entering about another 4,000 cards over the next few days and will report anything I find then.
One last suggestion - the drop down on the first screen - make it just a select drop-down, rather than a text entry box. Personally, I find it easier to click the drop down box, rather than having to click the little arrow.
One work around I have found is that if I have a corrupted collection and want to fix it easily... I just create a new blank one, then do an "import collection". After doing that, it seems to be fine, for a bit.
I almost wonder if it would be better to use a SQL DB (MS SQL Express, SQL Lite or similar)? Seems that might curve some of the corruption, and allow you more flexibility in the program - rather than write calculated data (such as total cards) to the DB/file, you can just do SELECT COUNT(*) statements.
I have not been able to get card scans to show up. How do I get them to work please?
Have you downloaded all of the card scans? Double check your settings under The Vault then as well and make sure everything is correct. It took me about 10 mins of messing around before I got it to work.
I'm having a couple of odd issues with The Vault. I began putting my collection in over the weekend. I got a decent chunk of it done and decided to stop. I saved it and went on my way. When I came back, I noticed that it didn't save a lot of my entries. I re-entered one, saved, and re-opened, and it was fine then. However, now the "Number of cards" and "Number of different cards" is incorrect. It only shows Number of cards: 4 and Number of different cards: 1. I then entered another card, saved, and exited. It saved the changes, but now shows "5" and "2" for the counts.
For giggles, I tried changing the sort option from "By color" to "Alphabetical". This throws an exception error: "There is no row at position -1". I'm assuming my .tvc file is messed up somehow?
Here's a link to a ZIP that contains my .tvc file: www.resting-blade.com/My_Collection.zip
I'm going to be adding some 5200 cards to this in the next few days, with a few thousand more possibly in the weeks after that, up to a total of about 53,000. I really like the idea that I can track what I have, and this interface is appealing to me for the most part, so I'm hoping that these small "glitches" are uncommon :). Before this weekend, I did a test entry, saved, and exited, and the collection was blank when I went back... the .tvc file was 0kb, so The Vault just didn't save that time (of note, to "save" I exited the app and said "yes" to the pop-up asking to save, I did not do File - > Save Collection).
I have it downloaded and installed, but haven't had hardly anytime to use it yet. It's looking like I won't get to more organizing until maybe this weekend. I will definitely let you know what I find
To answer the last question, no. Under the Option menu, card scans submenu, you need to put all the right settings in. You'll have to set the scan directory to /drive_letter/Magic/Full/, and checkmark the "setcode-named directory for each set". Then, make sure you have "by name" selected in the card nomenclature.
After that, you'll likely need to re-name all of your folders. So if you have, say:
/drive_letter/Magic/Full/Gatecrash/Act of Treason.jpg
You will need to change the "gatecrash" part to the set code, in this case GTC, so it'd end up looking like:
/drive_letter/Magic/Full/GTC/Act of Treason.jpg
And so on, for each of the sets. Once you do that, the scans should show up - they work for me, except cards with Æ in them for some reason (like Ætherize).
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I will download 0.5b and use it.
I just had an issue this morning with a collection actually. I have 1306 cards entered. Some of them, (for example, slaughterhorn), if I have 3 NM and one EX condition from the same set, save, and go back in, the entier slaughterhorn entry ends up missing. It seems to be worse if I just hit "save" versus "save as" and do an overwrite, but it happens I'll say 75% of the time.
Starting tomorrow, I'll be entering about another 4,000 cards over the next few days and will report anything I find then.
One last suggestion - the drop down on the first screen - make it just a select drop-down, rather than a text entry box. Personally, I find it easier to click the drop down box, rather than having to click the little arrow.
One work around I have found is that if I have a corrupted collection and want to fix it easily... I just create a new blank one, then do an "import collection". After doing that, it seems to be fine, for a bit.
I almost wonder if it would be better to use a SQL DB (MS SQL Express, SQL Lite or similar)? Seems that might curve some of the corruption, and allow you more flexibility in the program - rather than write calculated data (such as total cards) to the DB/file, you can just do SELECT COUNT(*) statements.
Have you downloaded all of the card scans? Double check your settings under The Vault then as well and make sure everything is correct. It took me about 10 mins of messing around before I got it to work.
For giggles, I tried changing the sort option from "By color" to "Alphabetical". This throws an exception error: "There is no row at position -1". I'm assuming my .tvc file is messed up somehow?
Here's a link to a ZIP that contains my .tvc file: www.resting-blade.com/My_Collection.zip
I'm going to be adding some 5200 cards to this in the next few days, with a few thousand more possibly in the weeks after that, up to a total of about 53,000. I really like the idea that I can track what I have, and this interface is appealing to me for the most part, so I'm hoping that these small "glitches" are uncommon :). Before this weekend, I did a test entry, saved, and exited, and the collection was blank when I went back... the .tvc file was 0kb, so The Vault just didn't save that time (of note, to "save" I exited the app and said "yes" to the pop-up asking to save, I did not do File - > Save Collection).