I have done some searching around the forums and have seen others with this same issue but unfortunately haven't found an exact solution to my problem yet.

I like to have an exact count of all my dvds on hand, but box sets are proving to be troublesome. In the older version I used to just add the discs within the box set as their own movie and never had a problem with the total count.

I really like the ability to add the Main Box set and have the discs within it attached via the Box Set menu, but I don't like how it counts the Box set container as dvd. For example, The batman legacy will count the 4 movies within + the container as another equaling 5 total where the count should only be 4.

Currently I am not assigning a Collection # to the box set itself, I am only assigning one to the discs within it - So is there a way to count the total dvds by the profiles that only have collection numbers assigned to them or if there is a report or filter out there that would do the same.

Any other ideas or solutions would be welcome as well,

Thanks

Quoting Braanor:

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Currently I am not assigning a Collection # to the box set itself,

That's as close as you can get inside DVD Profiler.

If you want to go for broke you can always use XSLT:
<xsl:value-of select="count(/Collection/DVD[CollectionType='Owned']/CollectionNumber)"/>
This counts the number of <DVD>-entries that have a collection-number. If you don't have gaps that should be of course the same as the highest coll#.
<xsl:value-of select="count(/Collection/DVD[CollectionType='Owned']/ID)"/>
Counts <DVD> that have at least one DiscID, so Movie-Boxsets should be left out, TV-Boxsets should be counted.
<xsl:value-of select="count(/Collection/DVD[CollectionType='Owned']/Discs/Disc/DiscIDSideA)"/>
And for a little fun: this one counts the DiscIDs itself, thus giving you the number of silvery round objects that you own.

cya, Mithi