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Multi Column List Display on DL1 Duplicated on DL3

DL1 has a list display that shows title, author, release date, purchase date, location . and check box for the book has been read. Can this be accomplished with DL3?

I am happy and would stay with DL1 if I could migrate my old library on an old iMac (mid 2007) onto DL1 on a new (mid 2017) iMac running Sierra.

I have spent several hours attempting to do this to no avail. Read a number of suggestions but still frustrated,

It would be worth the $40 to get that display with my old library collection.

Thanks.
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  • Absolutely you CAN do this. It's a YES to all your questions.

    Firstly get a USB memory stick of a reasonable size and plug it into your old Mac.
    Now go DL3>File>Export and export your data as a DL1 file onto your memory stick. (or export it onto your desktop then drag it onto your memory stick.)

    Load up DL3. You'll have to buy it first because the trial only allows you to have 25 items in DL3. I also suggest you buy it from the DL3 site, rather than from Apple Appstore. It will save a lot of hassle if you ever need to reinstall because of a fault developing.

    Then take the USB stick and put it into your new computer.

    Now in your new DL3, go DL3>File>Import>DL3 file.

    It should import straight away.

    To see the list view, there is an icon at the upper left of the DL3 window.
    If you want to tailor what is seen in the list view, just Control+Click in the header and you can select various options.

    I hope that helps.
    Best regards, David
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  • David

    I appreciate your reply, but I still don't see how to customize the list view.

    The Control+Click displays the same menu that the tool bar "ITEM" displays and, after checking each choice on the menu, am still puzzled.

    Again, thanks for any insight you can give me.

    Joe
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  • See if this helps. It's DL3.
    I've just done it myself, so I know it works!
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  • I’m ecstatic
    You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

    I would never discovered this without your help.

    I was following your instructions, but clicking in the wrong spot. I was clicking below the title line and coming up with a different menu. These graphic instructions are excellent. Thank you. I like the fact that this procedure gives one the flexibility to add "series" and "number" to the list.

    (I also discovered the Ctrl+Click works on DL1)

    I found it curious that the "purchase date" is in the format "9/25/16, 12:00 AM" but the "release date" is "Sep 25, 2016". Is there a way to change this?

    Again, my gratitude.

    Joe
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  • Thank you. I am so proud of my little self! I'm glad I could help.

    Now...your next question....Re: dating your collection.

    There are THREE types of dates in DL3.

    1. The Release date of the item. (imported from Amazon)
    2. The Creation date (ie when you added it to your DL3 database.)
    2. The Purchase date (which defaults to same as the Creation date unless you edit it)

    The Delicious Library team are, to my knowledge, US based, so I imagine that they will naturally use the common US date format of Month/Day/Year.

    The 'Purchase Date' is the date when you add it to your collection. You can change ANY part of this date individually, ie day, month or year, but you can'r seem to change the format. I suspect this is REGION based, based on the settings on your computer.
    (I'm in the UK so it seems to give me the UK format in this field.)

    I'm confused about the Release date format. I imagined at first that, as it is part of the data looked up by DL3 on Amazon, that DL3 would import the Release date details from the particular Amazon database that you have searched in. ie If you located it in Amazon US, it will import in US date format. (or Amazon UK etc.....)

    However....Editing the Release date: I have just tried this, and if I type in 02/03/1971, it adds it in the format 02 Mar 1971. BUT... If I go into my iMac's SYSTEM PREFERENCES and change my LANGUAGE & REGION from UK to USA (and therefore this changes the DATE format), if I then repeat the exercise, DL3 now accepts the date 02/03/1971 differently, and inserts it as 03 Mar 1971.

    So, from the above info, you can tell that I'm not yet sure on that detail....

    If you don't know the day and month of each 'release date' which I guess is the case for CDs LPs books etc., then you can either ignore the fact that DL3 shows this info, or if you have loads of time on your hands, you could make a habit of changing this for all items to 01 Jan (and the year)

    Are you in the USA?

    I DID find this previous question on DL Forum, which might help but the answers are complex and I am taking my time wading through them in gumboots: :-)

    https://getsatisfaction.com/delicious...

    Once again, I hope this helps you.

    Best regards, David
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