Haven't seen this discussed much and I'm betting many users don't think or know much about it.
In your installer web interface, ("preferences" tab) there's an option to store a System Snapshot. In essence, it backs up many parameters pertaining to your movie collection that you could otherwise lose if you have to reload disks.
Taking a snapshot stores a small backup file securely on your disk array (not on your PC) that contains things like where your "Paused" markers are in your movies, what collections each movie belongs to, your Favorite Scenes, any manually-changed movie metadata or cover art, your passwords, scripts, music mix albums, etc.
These are all things you'd lose if you had a system problem that caused you to have to reload your movies and music.
It takes just a few seconds, and a single click to back up your system snapshot every month or two... doing so could save you a TON of time if you ever have to reload your movies!
Here's another way to use System Snapshot to save time. I'm busy freeing up space on my drives by removing supplemental disks to hundreds of my movies. As you may know, there's no way to remove only disk 2 of a movie, you have to delete the whole movie and reload only disk 1. Doing that takes away all your favorite scenes, as well as what collection(s) each movie belonged to. So I did a System Snapshot, deleted a few dozen multi-disc movies, reloaded the single-disc version, restored from Snapshot and everything about my collection is back - paused markers, collection membership, favorite scenes. Piece of cake. (And now room for 50 more movies without buying more drives!) Without System Snapshot save/restore, I'd have had to reload my FSs, manually reassign each of those movies to the collections I had them in, etc.
--josh
In your installer web interface, ("preferences" tab) there's an option to store a System Snapshot. In essence, it backs up many parameters pertaining to your movie collection that you could otherwise lose if you have to reload disks.
Taking a snapshot stores a small backup file securely on your disk array (not on your PC) that contains things like where your "Paused" markers are in your movies, what collections each movie belongs to, your Favorite Scenes, any manually-changed movie metadata or cover art, your passwords, scripts, music mix albums, etc.
These are all things you'd lose if you had a system problem that caused you to have to reload your movies and music.
It takes just a few seconds, and a single click to back up your system snapshot every month or two... doing so could save you a TON of time if you ever have to reload your movies!
Here's another way to use System Snapshot to save time. I'm busy freeing up space on my drives by removing supplemental disks to hundreds of my movies. As you may know, there's no way to remove only disk 2 of a movie, you have to delete the whole movie and reload only disk 1. Doing that takes away all your favorite scenes, as well as what collection(s) each movie belonged to. So I did a System Snapshot, deleted a few dozen multi-disc movies, reloaded the single-disc version, restored from Snapshot and everything about my collection is back - paused markers, collection membership, favorite scenes. Piece of cake. (And now room for 50 more movies without buying more drives!) Without System Snapshot save/restore, I'd have had to reload my FSs, manually reassign each of those movies to the collections I had them in, etc.
--josh
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