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Even easier, but not as gratifying

Thanks for the advice. The local web server is a great idea! I think instead I will use a "brute force method".... I will write a small VBscript which will modify my Movies.xml catalog file. Since the pictures are not stored in this file (only the links), it looks like a pretty simple text...

Thank you for the reply. My case may possibly be different, as I am not trying to actually load picture data into the database. I am just trying to load the location of the picture.

Another question for the experts: I now have my ANT catalog in XML format, with pictures linked in. I need to replace about 1200 of these pictures, and I am trying to do it through a simple ANT .ifs script. Each new cover is of the format "C:\some_directory\Original Title -front .jpg", so ...

Thanks. I just thought of another way: I found the AMC2CSV command line utility... I believe I could call this utility from my VBscript, which would create a csv file. I could then control Excel from the VBscript to open the excel file, then delete the columns of the data I DON'T need.... This would...

Thanks Antoine. I thought about using something like AutoIT, but I cannot see an easy integration into VB. I am pretty new to VB, but I don't think it has powerful read functionality (unlike C/C++) to process/parse a binary. I've only been using it for text files. Probably the easiest way will be fo...

Hi, Thanks for the great program! I am in process of writing several scripts to aid in my "media management." Currently I MANUALLY export several fields from my ANT DB to a text file (call this DATA.TXT). I then open DATA.TXT from within a Visual Basic script for some further processing. I...