Import Database - A lot happens when you press the 'Import Database'
button. It is an extremely easy way to restore your database files or to upload your Personal Server database files.
One thing to keep in mind is that your current database WILL be DELETED.
The first thing that happens is that your files are uploaded to the server. Assuming everything goes
well, your current database is truncated or deleted.
Next, all the information in your previously exported database file is imported into your online database and a message will be displayed
that your database has been updated.
Now there are two possible scenarios. If you had exported the database from Cinema Premiere Online, then we
assume all your cover images are still in the central directory on the server. The only exception is if we had
performed a routine cleanup on the website and at that time the cover image was not being used by anyone then it would have been deleted. In that
case, you can Edit the movie and 'Get IMDb Info' and 'Update Database' with the new cover image.
The second scenario is if you had exported the database from Cinema Premiere
Personal Server. In that case, it checks each movie in your database that
has an IMDb Id or an ASIN number to make sure the image cover exists in the central directory
on the server. If there are cover images that do not exist then an 'Update
Cover Images' button is displayed.
When you press this button, the required cover images are imported from
either IMDb.com or Amazon.com. To determine where to get the image
from, it checks to see if there is an IMDb id. If there is, it then
checks the the name of the cover image. If the cover image name contains
a '.M' then we get the image from Amazon as long there is
an ASIN number. If the cover image name does not contain
a '.M' then we get the image from IMDb.com. If there was
not IMDb Id, then we get the image from Amazon as long there is
an ASIN number. On completion,
'Import Cover Images Complete' will be displayed.
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