Lost covers - still on machine

[sullyjs]

I am running DVDpedia 4.6.8 On a a power PC mac. I have lost all of my covers for my DVD library. I looked in application support - and a folder labeled covers is in there - but for some reason the app does not see this images.

How to fix? Upgrading to the latest version of DVDpedia may not be the answer - as I am getting ready to move my collection to a iMac with system 10.7.4

Thanks in advance - Sully

[Nora]

Check in your DVDpedia Preferences/General under the 'Data folder path' heading that the program is actually using that data folder and not a copy located somewhere else.

[sullyjs]

DVDPedia was looking at the wrong destination for the database file and covers. However - now that it is looking at the default Application support folder - and the covers folder is in the correct place in that location - I still do not get the covers when I open the database. Any further suggestions?

The last thing I want to do is manually replace all of these images!

[Conor]

The easiest thing is to have DVDpedia download all the missing covers. Simply select all the movies without covers (you can use a smart collection with a no image rule) and then control click on the cover well on the bottom left of the main screen and select "Download from" an appropriate site.

If you moved the covers from "Documents" to "Application Support" and DVDpedia is not seeing them, it means that the database are different and you would want to copy the "Database.dvdpd" file as well with DVDpedia not running. If you go this route instead of the above download covers then please rename the previous "Database.dvdpd" file and keep it safe. As changing the database file means changing all the information you might now have and it might not be the database you wanted, but from your covers count Documents was the one with more covers.

Since you have the correct information I encourage you to try the first suggestion that is simpler.