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damienhaynes / TraktRater

TraktRater is a tool written in C# to help users transfer user episode, show and movie user ratings and watchlists from multiple media database sites around the web.
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Enhancement request: Import without ratings #155

Open ztevo opened 1 year ago

ztevo commented 1 year ago

Firstly - thank you for the app, its great and incredibly user friendly on Windows.

I suspect this may be a duplicate of https://github.com/damienhaynes/TraktRater/issues/57 albeit that issue was not entirely clear to me.

Issue

Currently an imdb template upload into Trakt, must include a movie rating in order for the movie to appear in the Trakt Watch History. This was an issue for me - I had used the imdb import on over 1,000 movies with a mix of rated and unrated. I did not have the capacity (or memory) to rate every film before uploading.

Enhancement suggestion

It would be good to be able to import movie history, without the need for adding a rating to each movie (albeit hopefully this was just a one-off exercise for me this time around, but may be a benefit to others).

I figured a work around that may be useful for others in the meantime (copied below for info) - but it is a little fear inducing as involves deleting all existing watched and rating history.

Workaround used

  1. Delete all existing movie watch history and movie ratings using Cleanup/Maintenance
  2. In Excel, copy all movies WITHOUT a rating into the IMDB template, with a placeholder rating (e.g. 10)
  3. Run the upload of the IMDB template. And confirm the results in Trakt.
  4. Delete all existing movie ratings using Cleanup/Maintenance, to remove the placeholder ratings. And confirm the results in Trakt.
  5. In Excel, copy all movies WITH a rating into the IMDB template, with a placeholder rating (e.g. 10)
  6. Run the upload of the IMDB template. And confirm the results in Trakt.