It said to look at the documentation of my OS (Windows 7). Well, now when I try to open DataCrow, I get an error message that says that it doesn't have permissions to access the modules of the database, and that means the user doesn't have permissions (but I'm the only user of this laptop and always have been). Well, yesterday, I went to go eat, and I left my laptop on with my DataCrow database open. It did that with my previous, dead laptop, and it's doing the same with this one. But I've found that if I have too many external devices connected at once, it seems to cause those dreaded blue screens. So I've been gradually recreating my database in DataCrow just in case. The first 2 book database alternatives I looked at can't do that at all. One thing that makes Book Collector so quick and easy, is that it can go online and search for listings of your books to get all the data about it (title, author, publisher, subject, genre, format, page count, illustrator, etc). I found a couple of book database software that could work, except that I'd have to re-input all of my books all over again by hand to recreate my Book Collector database (and the other software I looked at don't seem capable of importing Book Collector). I have some commercial software to organize my collection of books Book Collector thankfully, they haven't gone out of business, but after being burned by Living Cookbook going out of business, I've been looking for open source, portable alternatives, just in case. Preferably portable versions that I can have on thumb drives or external disks that won't vaporize when another PC dies on me. Oh yeah, you can also export your list to text, HTML, XML, iPod Notes, or Pam/Pocket PC.As I mentioned in another thread, my old laptop died and some of the companies I had bought some software from have gone out of business, so I may have lost access to them.īecause of that, I've been trying to find open source software similar to a lot of the programs I like to use. If it wasn't for GameCollector I probably wouldn't have as big a collection as I do, simply because there wouldn't be as good a way to keep track of it all. And yes, it does show you a count of what you have for each platform, as well as a grand total. Or, you can just leave it all blank and just put in title and platform. And you can sort your entire list by any of these fields. I use one to add DP's rarity values to mine. There are even a couple of user defines fields that let you add other kinds of info to the listings. It can also keep track of what you loan out to friends, if you do that sort of thing. Publisher, developer, release date, platform, media type (cart, CD, etc.), pictures of both the front and back of the game boxes, descriptions of the game itself, where you bought it, what you paid, all kinds of stuff like that. You can add all kinds of information to your listings if you want to. That way when I get some obscure import I don't have to worry about it being in any database already. With GameCollector, you can search their database of games if you want, or you can completely ignore that and just add in whatever you want to your own list manually, which is what I do. I used to use IGN way back when, but after I got my Game King I knew I needed something different. Really not as user friendly as the other database options and lacks a lot of the bells and whistles, but it suits my needs perfectly and it's a bummer that Aypok seems to have lost interest in continuing development. Sadly, the ability to edit data once it's been entered isn't available (unless you access the database by some other manner), so if you botch an entry (or want to add more information), you'll have to either delete it or get comfortable poking around with whatever else you feel like using (I like phpMyAdmin because it's what I have available!). When you're all done with that, delete the setup_ogl.php file and you're ready to start adding games and systems to the ol' list. You'll need to create a mySQL database on your server, enter the database name, username and password in the connection_details.php file, and then open up setup_ogl.php in your browser to go through a couple of mostly automated steps (and then creating a user account). Here's a copy of 0.6.4 if you want to mess with it. That looks pretty cool, if only I could find it.It's a bit daunting to set up the first time if you've never played with mySQL databases or anything before, but if you've ever installed something like Wordpress on a webserver then you'll be just fine.
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