Game Collector Manual
for Windows edition
Welcome to Game Collector Download and Install Navigating the Main Screen Adding and Editing Games How to search your Collection Adding Games Automatically Adding Games Manually Barcode Scanning Importing from text Adding Hardware Managing your wish list Field Defaults Editing Multiple Games Editing Games List Items and more Find Cover Image Update File Links Adding a box set Managing Loans Customizing Game Collector Sorting your Collection Custom Field Names Custom Views Edit, Merge List Items Activating Connect Sync & Share Synchronize with Connect Linking your games for Connect CLZ Games for iPhone/iPod CLZ Games for Android CLZ Games HD for iPad Printing a Simple List Using the Filter screen Updating Game Collector The Statistics Screen Print screen Keyboard Shortcuts Creating a Backup Import From Text Data Submission Guidelines Validating Game Collector
Synchronize with Connect
Game Collector Connect is our online software for publishing your Game Collector database online. After uploading your database to Connect, you can access it from any computer and from any online mobile device and you can share your game list with friends and family, by just emailing them a web-link.
Create a free trial account here.
Upload your collection to Game Collector Connect
Like most things Collectorz.com, uploading your collection to Game Collector Connect is also very easy.
- Start game Collector and click: Connect > Synchronize from the main menu.
- Enter your Connect user name and password.
- Click 'Upload to Connect' to begin Synchronizing your Collection.
A list will now appear showing all additions to your collection. The first time you sync, everything will appear in green. In future if you upload you will notice that changes appear in yellow, and removals in red. As you can see below a summary is provided on the right hand side. Click 'upload to Connect' to complete the process.
A message may appear:
More information about linking games can be found here.
Uploading Images
After the games have been uploaded, game Collector will try to upload cover images for your titles. The images are restricted to 500kb in size, if your images are larger than this, they won't be uploaded.
Download your collection from Game Collector Connect
Downloading your collection back from Connect works almost the same as uploading to Connect.
- Click Connect > Synchronize from the main menu.
- Game Collector may ask you to link unlinked games in your collection. Select "Yes" if it does. More information about linking games can be found here.
- The Synchronize Screen pops up. Fill in your Connect User Name and Password.
- Now click "Download from Connect".
Now you have to tell Game Collector which changes to your local software database (the one on your computer) you'd like to process. The intended changes are shown in that screen, and automatically checked.
- Green: Add. This game will be added to your local database on your PC.
- Orange: Change. This game will be changed in your collection (because you apparently changed some data in your online collection).
- Red: Remove. This game will be removed from your local database on your PC.
Don't want some of these changes happening to your local database? Simply uncheck the box in front of the change.
Click "Download from Connect" to make the changes final on your online account.