Steven L. Dasinger

What Edition of CB are you using (Express, Pro, Archive)? Will you supply the steps you took? What were you using Quick Change for? What Find did you run before the failing Quick Change? Note: I just tried a simple quick change both on the normal grid and a Find result grid without a problem. I may have worked as I wasn't using the same change you were.

More like this then. Checked Automatic download, deleted exiting cover (and thumbnails. Used Add by Barcoded and this is what happens (see small image on the issue line on the left in the attached).

Fred, does this look like what you are seeing?

I tried this and verified that the app stops responding when doing a search.

No. On my (working) database, there is still no history. However, on a different (master copy) database, there is history (but since there is no inventory, all values are 0).

Delete or Move 1-A.jpg From: Pictures\O\Oni\Biker Mice from Mars (Oni) To: Pictures\O\Oni-Lion Forge\Biker Mice from Mars (Oni-Lion Forge) Delete of Move 1-A.jpg and 1-B.jpg From: Pictures\I\IDW\Hunger and the Dusk, The (2nd Series) To: Pictures\I\IDW\Hunger and the Dusk, The- Book Two Delete Bk 1.jpg From: Pictures\A\American Mythology\Moon Maid, The- The Three Keys (duplicate of Bk 1-A.jpg) This one is complicated: The title changed to 'Killing Machine, The (SHP) but the #1 there is different. This may be a preliminary cover OR a variant. Searches for this are inconclusive. For now, I am deleting it and, if a variant issue shows up, the cover will probably be added back at that time. Delete 1.jpg From: Pictures\S\SHP\Killing Machine, The - Book One of the Hand of God Another complicated item: 'Edge Magazine' published by 'Future Publishing' was deleted and contained 105 covers (starting with #263) There is another title 'Edge (Future)' published by British company 'Future'. These may or may not be the same title (#263 in the deleted title does not have a price on the cover but #263 in the British title has a price in pounds). Since all these covers seem to have (mostly) matching covers in the British title, I am just deleting the 'Edge Magazine' covers. Delete ALL (263.jpg - 380.jpg) From: Pictures\F\Future Publishing\Edge Magazine

I can't address your problem but the program and the database (and pictures/media) are separate items. You can uninstall/reinstall and it won't affect the actual database. Some things to check. Go to the ComicBase website and under My Account/Profile, check what is in the Known Database list (may have to scroll down). If you like, you can remove any/all entries, then, in CB, Run Collection Statistics (F12). This will resend your database name and id to the CB site. Also, check under My Account/My Comics see what (if any) reports have been uploaded.

By the way 1/F Thing From Another World issue has UPC of 84428400820400161 which matches what is in CB. and 1/H Frankie's Comics variant has UPC of 84428400820400171 which I have submitted as a correction.

Sorry, I missed that one. It is another company variant (this time Frankie's Comics) and I don't have the UPC for that one either. In the Issue, it lists the following (with my guess at CB Issue numbers): (1/A) Jorge Corona cover (1/E?) Gerald Parel Secret Foil Luck Variant cover (1/D) Jung-Geun Yoon Variant cover (1/B) Jorge Corona Foil Variant & (1/G) Unlockable Variant covers (1/H) Frankie's Comics Exclusive Variant (1/F) Things from Another World Exclusive Variant 1/C, a 1:25 Virgin Geral Parel cover isn't listed. At a guess, it is possible the 1/E is a foil cover and there is no non-foil issue. That would match what you have 1/E with a UPC of 84428400820400111 and foil cover. Most of this is guess work but it matches what I can find and what you have.

Actually, 1/G should have UPC 84428400820400151 Here are the UPC and Issue numbers in CB: 1/A 84428400820400111 Jorge Corona 1/E 84428400820400111 Gerald Parel (yes, they both have the same UPC) 1/B 84428400820400121 Jorge Corona Foil 1/C 84428400820400131 Gerald Parel Virgin 1/D 84428400820400141 Jung-Geun Yoon Virgin 1/G 84428400820400151 Jorge Corona Virgin 1/F is a Things From Another World variant and I don't know the UPC it uses. (technically 1/E should probably have been 1/B but it probably doesn't matter.)

From what I can tell looking at these sites: Midtown Comics: https://www.midtowncomics.com/product/1751249 MyComicShop: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=45292925 The issues in CB are correct but the cover scans from #7C and 7D are incorrect (and probably don't exist). They may have been preliminary covers or they may exist (but with different UPC, probably). 70238269180600711 Rafael Dantas 70238269180600721 Rafael Dantas Tattered and Torn (CB has incorrect covers for these two) 70238269180600731 Trevor Grace 70238269180600741 Trevor Grace Tattered and Torn 70238269180600751 Zoe Stanley 70238269180600761 Zoe Stanley Risque

I can't find any mention of the oddly colored. It may just be an issue with a faded color or a printing error (but if a printing error there should be more of them and (probably) be mentioned somewhere). Sometime a single color can fade. If you look there are also differences in color in the stripes around their shirts (collar, arm holes and around the 'R'). So whatever color needed to be added to the yellow to make the brownish/burnt orange? color is missing (either faded out or not in the printing). Unless someone else can find more of these covers or mention of the reason, I would just try to replace the strange cover. PS I have a book where the color yellow faded out (just on the cover and not the back) making Green turn Blue, Orange turn Red, and Yellow turn White.

Delete or Move 1-A.jpg From: ComicBase Data\Pictures\O\Oni\E.C. Comics- Cruel Universe To: Pictures\O\Oni-Lion Forge\Cruel Universe Delete or Move ALL (1-A.jpg - 2-A.jpg) From: Pictures\M\Marvel\P\Predator Versus Black Panther To: Pictures\M\Marvel\P\Predator vs. Black Panther Delete or Rename 2.jpg to 201.jpg 13.jpg to 301.jpg 14.jpg to 302.jpg From: Pictures\K\Krause\Collecting Toys Delete or Rename 1964.jpg to Calendar 1964.jpg From: Pictures\P\Playboy\Playboy Playmate Wall Calendar

For #2, if it is saddle-stitched like most comics, Binding type of 'Staple' would probably be the most accurate.

Occasionally, the listed version number and the actual version number do not match. When this happens CB thinks there should be an update. This can be due something as simple as a typo (especially if the difference is something like 1232 and 1233). Or it is possible that a change was made but the download installer wasn't changed. Either way, the people a Human Computing (HC) should see this and correct the problem.

Star Wars: Inquisitors IS in CB (or at least my database). Check what you have set by clicking the 'VIEW' drop-down box and looking under 'Items To Show'. (See attached) You have might have 'Owned Items' checked'

Delete or Move 2-A.jpg From: Pictures\A\American Mythology\Hatchet Midnight Murders To: Pictures\A\American Mythology\Hatchet- Midnight Murders

Delete or Move 1.jpg and 3.jpg From: Pictures\A\Alternative\Caterer, The To: Pictures\F\Floating World\Caterer, The Delete or Move 1-A.jpg From: Pictures\Z\Zenescope\Man Goat & The Bunnyman Beware The Pigman To: Pictures\Z\Zenescope\Man Goat & The Bunnyman- Beware The Pigman Delete or Rename 1.jpg to 2019.jkpg then Move From: Pictures\R\Rebellion\Tammy & Jinty Special 2019 To: Pictures\R\Rebellion\Tammy & Jinty Special Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 38.jpg) From: Pictures\E\Ediciones Vertice\Fantom (Vertice, 1st Series) To: Pictures\E\Ediciones Vertice\Fantom (Ediciones Vertice, 1st Series) Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 23.jpg) From: Pictures\E\Ediciones Vertice\Fantom (Vertice, 2nd Series) To: Pictures\E\Ediciones Vertice\Fantom (Ediciones Vertice, 2nd Series) Delete 2.jpg From: Pictures\F\Funk-O-Tron\Double Take (Duplicate of 2-B.jpg) Delete 1-3.jpg From: Pictures\B\Boom!\House of Slaughter Delete 4.jpg From: Pictures\I\Image\M\Misery (2nd Series) (Duplicate of 3-A.jpg) Delete 1-D.jpg From: Pictures\A\AfterShock\There's Something Wrong With Patrick Todd (Duplicate of 1-B.jpg) Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 28.jpg) From: Pictures\E\Ediciones Vertice\4 Fantasticos, Los (Ediciones Vertice) To: Pictures\E\Ediciones Vertice\4 Fantasticos, Los (Ediciones Vertice, 3rd Series) Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 67.jpg) From: Pictures\E\Ediciones Vertice\4 Fantasticos-Fantastic Four, Los To: Pictures\E\Ediciones Vertice\4 Fantasticos, Los (Ediciones Vertice, 1st Series)

For the Scanner, if you bought it from Human Computing (HC), you can contact support to get it working (there should have been instructions). If not, they may be able to let you know what settings you need to look for. NOTE: To test the scanner, open up a text editor (i.e. Notepad) and scan into it. This will allow you to see what the scanner is picking up. Using the Scanner. There are two ways to use the Scanner: 1) Attempting to Find issues (1 at a time): Click in the 'find' box at the top of the window (there should be gray text of 'Series name or barcode in it). Assuming that barcode is in ComicBase (CB), the display should bring up the issue. If it does, you can set the Qty to 1 (or however many copies you have) at a minimum. This will indicate you own that issue. You can also enter other information (i.e. Grade, Cost) if you like. 2) Adding multiple issues. NOTE: You didn't mention what Edition of CB you have. This option may not be available in the Express Edition. Select Menu item Items->Add by Barcode (or CTRL+I). Click in the box next to 'Barcode' at the top of the window. Use scanner to scan the barcode of an issue. A) It will find it and add it to the list. or B) It won't find it. If B, you can either put it aside and deal with it later or click the 'Lookup...' button and navigate to the Title/Issue to select it so it is added to the list. (I find it easier to deal with these later (espescially if you are not sure of the Title).) When you are finished scanning, I would suggest making sure the Check box 'Display items after saving' and/or 'Mark Added Items' are checked (you can also use the 'print divider labels for new titles' if that is what you want to do). Then click Save. NOTES: 1) While the Issues are in the list you can change the Condition, Cost, and/or Selling Price, if you like. It may be easier to do after Save and have the added issues displayed. 2) If you have scanned in issues of different Types (Comic Books, Books, Magazines), only one Type will be displayed after saving. This is because ComicBase (CB) can only display one type at a time. I haven't tried this personally, but, I have been told that using the History drop-down (top middle of the main window that looks like an circular arrow with clock hands) to display the other Types. Or, if you chose the 'Mark' option, you can do a Find in the different Types for issues that are 'Marked'. Sending to Heritage: There is a Menu item Internet->Request Collection Evaluation that will send information to Heritage to get an evaluation. Getting information to other web sites: There is a menu option File->Export for E-commerce... but I don't know much about it. Someone else might supply more information or contacting Support could get you more information. Other options are: Export which allows you to send selected (by you ) columns to a Comma or (preferred) Tab delimited text file (which can be added to a spreadsheet, if you like). Run a Find to display issues you want, then high-light the cells of the grid and use Windows CTRL+C / CTRL+V to copy / paste the information (you can either display only certain columns or delete the extra columns in spreadsheet (easiest way). Possibly you can run various Reports (Collection Overview, Collection Report, etc.). This is some basic information. If you have something else in mind, a more detailed request would help.

There is not a way to export the Publisher. However you can display it, then use windows Copy paste to get the information. The basic steps (I am doing this from memory from a few years ago but the basics should still work) are: Background information. There are two types of Find that CB uses and each has a different display.\ A Find on Issue fields (this includes Advanced Find) returns Title, Issue Number, and other information. A Find on Title fields returns Title, Publisher, and other information. To get Publisher you need to use a Title Find. Basic steps Get the Issue information. This can be by using Export or you can do Issue field Find, then copy/paste the information. Then get the information into Excel (Import or Paste). Next run a Find using Title fields. To get all of your collection, you can do something like Find Title Field IS GREATER THAN and put a 'space' (press the space bar) in the text box. At the bottom , there is a drop-down box to include either All, items IN or items NOT IN your collection. Select IN your collection. When the Find results are displayed, click in the top Title cell to highlight it. Then scroll all the way to the bottom, press and hold the SHIFT key then click the the last Publisher cell. This should highlight all the cells in the two columns Title and Publisher. Use CTRL+C to copy the highlighted information. Go to Excel and Paste in this information. Next you need to use Excel skills... There is a way to 'join' the two lists you have (one with all the Title, Issue numbers and the other with Title, Publisher) into another list based on Title being equal. I don't recall exactly how to do this but it wasn't too difficult. Google search should give you information on how to do this. PS If you run an Advanced Find (displays Title, Issue information), you can access the Publisher with ComicTitles.Publisher in the Items Where box. For example, this will return only Marvel Titles: ComicTitles.Publisher = 'Marvel' NOTE: For Books you would use BookTitles.

Delete or Rename 1.jpg to TPB.jpg From: Pictures\E\Echelon\Melody of Vengeance Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 11.jpg) From: Pictures\T\Tundra\Tundra Sketchbook Series To: Pictures\T\Tundra\Sketchbook Series, The (Tundra) Delete TPB.jpg From: Pictures\E\Essential Sequential\Book of Outrage, The- The Art of Frank Cho (duplicate of TPB 1.jpg)

Delete or Rename 1.jpg to 47.jpg 2.jpg to 48.jpg 3.jpg to 49.jpg Then Move From: Pictures\F\Fantagraphics\Birthright To: Pictures\F\Fantagraphics\Critters Delete or Move ALL (1.jpg - 1-C.jpg) From: Pictures\M\Marvel\L\Lords of Empyre- Emperor Hulking To: Pictures\M\Marvel\L\Lords of Empyre- Emperor Hulkling Delete or R 1-B.jpg to 1-D.jpg 1-C.jpg to 1-E.jpg Then Move ALL From: Pictures\A\AfterShock\Maniac of New York- Don't Call It a Comeback To: Pictures\A\AfterShock\Maniac of New York (Vol. 3) Delete or Move 1.jpg From: Pictures\C\Critical\Quarel, The To: Pictures\C\Critical\Quarrel, The Delete or Move 1/A.jpg From: Pictures\I\IDW\Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes-Usagi Yojimbo- Saturday Morning Adventures To: Pictures\I\IDW\Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-Usagi Yojimbo- Saturday Morning Adventures Delete or Rename 19.jpg to 19-A.jpg then Move From: Pictures\T\Titan\Official Xena, The- Warrior Princess Magazine To: Pictures\T\Titan\Xena- The Official Magazine featuring Hercules Delete 4.jpg From: Pictures\I\Innovation\Group Larue, The (Mike Baron's-)

I don't believe there is a way to easily get a list in the same order outside of CB. Or at least not directly. This may or may not help you depending on what you are doing or trying to accomplish (need CB Professional or higher). CB has a 'hidden' title column called AlphabetizedTitle. This is used by CB to get the Titles in the displayed order. Instead of using Export, you can run an Advanced Find, then Copy/Paste the result column into Excel (note you still can't use Excel to sort as it will change the order since it won't have AlphabetizedTitle available). To get a list of all the Comic Book Titles/Issues you own: Run an Advanced Find with: WHERE I.[QtyInStock] >= 1 ORDER BY ComicTitles.AlphabetizedTitle, I.[ItemType], I.[IssueNum], I.[Variation], I.[Printing] Select All with CTRL+A Copy with CTRL+C In Excel, Paste with CTRL+V NOTE: If you only want Title and Item #, you can just select those columns by Click in the first Title cell Scroll to the bottom and with the SHIFT key pressed and held, click the the last Item # Cell. Then Copy (from CB) and Paste (to Excel) If you want more columns, you can either copy all the columns then delete what you don't want from Excel or use menu item Setup->Columns to View to only display the columns you want before selecting all (either with CTRL+A or Selecting the first row/first cell and the last row/last cell with SHIFT pressed and held). Finally this is just for Comic Books. If you need Books and/or Magazines you would use: BookTitles.AlphabetizedTitle MagazineTitles.AlphabetizedTitle PS You will want to format the Title and Item # columns in Excel as 'TEXT' so they justify correctly.

I am not sure I have a clear picture of what exactly you need. Did you bad hard drive contain the program, you database or both? Normally, the icon on your desktop is the Program and not the actual database. Having said all that... If not already done you (may) need to reinstall CB. Database are located by default at C : \Users\<logon-id>\Documents\Human Computing\ComicBase Databases. NOTE: You can locate the database any where you like (even on a different drive). Copy the database backup to the default location (or the location you may have been using) AND Rename it to the normal database name you were using. Do NOT open a database with (Backup <timestamp>) as part of the name (or you will get backup of backup in the name and it gets messy). Installing the Program should put the icon back on your desktop. To open up the database (where ever you put it), you can double-click on the actual database name. This will open it up in CB and remember where it is when you close and reopen CB. If this doesn't help, I will more specific information.

Yes, titles designated as 'Light Novel's are either text only or text with illustrations and should be Type Books (at least in all cases I have come across).