Greetings,
Is there anyway to set a timeout value when I'm updating sites?
If I try to update many sites and one site an not get data, the whole process hangs.
I would like for the update process to skip a movie if it has trouble retrieving it's data and continue with the next int he list.
Is this possible?

isomari wrote:Greetings,
Is there anyway to set a timeout value when I'm updating sites?
If I try to update many sites and one site an not get data, the whole process hangs.
I would like for the update process to skip a movie if it has trouble retrieving it's data and continue with the next int he list.
Is this possible?

It's not possible at the moment, it's very dependent on which data source you're querying.

robbystephenson wrote:

isomari wrote:Greetings,
Is there anyway to set a timeout value when I'm updating sites?
If I try to update many sites and one site an not get data, the whole process hangs.
I would like for the update process to skip a movie if it has trouble retrieving it's data and continue with the next int he list.
Is this possible?

It's not possible at the moment, it's very dependent on which data source you're querying.

IMDB. Why does it hang on certain movies?

isomari wrote:IMDB. Why does it hang on certain movies?

I can take a look - are there one or two movies that it repeatably hangs on?

No, Any movie that it can't retrieve data from it hangs.

isomari wrote:No, Any movie that it can't retrieve data from it hangs.

I can't repeat that so far, so it'll be tough to debug...so it's not any particular movies, just random ones? That makes it sound like a network issue or something similar.

Thanks for your quick replies.

Even if it's a network issue, it would have been nice if the program timed out and continued with the next movie in the list rather than freezing.

isomari wrote:Thanks for your quick replies.

Even if it's a network issue, it would have been nice if the program timed out and continued with the next movie in the list rather than freezing.

True.

If I had hair, I'd be pulling it out by now . I was using tellico years ago. I loved it. No problems whatsoever. Eventually I moved to gcstar because it had commandline tools which I needed to work with a program I wrote to do all kinds of crazy things with the database. Then a few months ago, gcstar suddenly refused to bring out cast details for movies from imdb even with the patch that was floating around the web. So I came back to tellico which was no problem for me at all even though I had to recode a great deal of my app. When I imported my 2000 plus movies into tellico, it went surprising well except many movies had no cast even though the cast was there in the original gcstar database.

No problem, I just update those movies and get the cast. Sounds easy right.
No way. There are over 500 movies that need updating and in theory I should be able to tag them all and let it fly.

But noooooooooo! At any particular time, tellico will freeze. So if I highlighted a group of 10 movies and 7 get updated and the 8th hangs, I have to restart and the 7 that were updated are never saved,

I thought it was because tellico froze if it couldn't find data for a particular movie but that's not the case. I just did an experiment. After it got stuck again , I noted the movie and restarted with that same movie and it retrieved the data with no problem.

Over the past few weeks, I've been updating the same group of movies over and over because of this and it's **** me off. Am I suppose to do each update one by one for over 500 movies? If so this is ridiculous. Can anyone shed some light on my problem? PLEEEEEASE

not happy
iomari

isomari wrote:Then a few months ago, gcstar suddenly refused to bring out cast details for movies from imdb even with the patch that was floating around the web. So I came back to tellico which was no problem for me at all even though I had to recode a great deal of my app. When I imported my 2000 plus movies into tellico, it went surprising well except many movies had no cast even though the cast was there in the original gcstar database.

I'd be interested in hearing which version of Tellico you were using there, in case I can fix that bug with importing cast information from gcstar. One problem is that gcstar doesn't save the actor/character name information in a consistent format, so it's tough to match correctly.

isomari wrote:But noooooooooo! At any particular time, tellico will freeze. So if I highlighted a group of 10 movies and 7 get updated and the 8th hangs, I have to restart and the 7 that were updated are never saved,

I thought it was because tellico froze if it couldn't find data for a particular movie but that's not the case. I just did an experiment. After it got stuck again , I noted the movie and restarted with that same movie and it retrieved the data with no problem.

Some websites do throttle access that has characteristics typical of an automated process. Tellico just doesn't handle that well, yet. I'll try to see if I can improve things. For the moment, I don't have much to suggest as alternative, other than smaller groups of movies to update at one time.

Thanks for your honest reply. I will try to adjust.
The version of tellico I used to import from gcstar is the current version 2.3.9.
The gcstar version is 1.7.
Your explanation about throttling makes sense. I guess I'll just have to accept this for now. However It would be nice to have a way around this.
Also if the import from gcstar worked better, I would only have to deal with about 20 or 30 movies that I couldn't get the imdb cast info from back when I was still using gcstar. That would also solve my dilemma.

Thanks for your quick response as usual.
iomari

isomari wrote:Also if the import from gcstar worked better, I would only have to deal with about 20 or 30 movies that I couldn't get the imdb cast info from back when I was still using gcstar. That would also solve my dilemma.

Would you be willing to send me your GCstar data file, (privately if you like or if it's big), so I can take a look and figure out why Tellico is missing the cast import? With my small test file, it did work ok, so I'm not sure what the problem is yet.

Sure, give me your email.
Also how can I view my movies by the date which I entered them?
Assuming you can fix my import problem, I need to add all the new entries I made since import.

isomari wrote:Sure, give me your email.

robby [at] periapsis.org

isomari wrote:Also how can I view my movies by the date which I entered them?
Assuming you can fix my import problem, I need to add all the new entries I made since import.

In the column view, if you show the "Date Created" field, you can sort on that.

Thanks again.
I've sent my gcstar file to your email.
Meanwhile I found another small quirk. Some of my movies don't have a running time. When I update, the running time it remains blank for many of them but if I search for the movie as a new addition it brings out the running time. Is this a bug, a feature, or am I doing something wrong?

iomari