>>1768 Sorts how? Surely you don't mean the tags already attached to images on a booru? Tons of shit is horrible mistagged. To have meaningful tags for your own personal collection, they have to be self-tagged.

>>1769 You can tell Grabber to sort stuff into separate folders based on tags. It does take a while to learn how to use it.

>>1770 >Based on tags Sounds like it would only be useful for really broad folders, and you'd still have to comb over everything manually anyways to account for mistagging and quality. It also doesn't apply to things grabbed elsewhere. Boorus are often an ocean of shit, and I'd never just mass download images. I carefully curate my images, and sometimes just delete all the worst ones when a folder grows too large and can't reasonably be subdivided any further.

>>1771 That's true, I mostly use it solely for sorting by artist.

>>1772 I have a few folders dedicated to artists, but mainly I focus on content descriptors. I try to include artist name in the filename when convenient so searches just bring it up.

This probably is the only organized thing in my PC and life. Every other form of content or fetish is put in unsorted folders. Two folders lack icons because they're recent. >>1759 Every time I look at Hydrus I imagine that setting up a local booru would be easier than understanding how that software works. >>1762 Man, and I thought I had too many folders. How do you deal with cases where a file fits in two o more categories? >Is there an operating system that supports file tagging in this manner? macOS and elementary OS have tag systems, but I have never used them.

I have a doujin folder in my general smut folder and they're sorted alphabetically upon extraction. Non comic drawing material are stand alone in the general folder unless they're part of a set or something and I try to name/find the source of whatever I can save.

I just use hydrus. It's still a mess, but at least there's tags for a lot of the files.

>>1750 Series (Sex Act) So lets just say >Final Fantasy (Bondage) >Final Fantasy (Oral) >Final Fantasy (Solo Woman) >Final Fantasy (Vanilla) >Final Fantasy (Woman on top) and so on.

>>1783 >How do you deal with cases where a file fits in two o more categories? Point one out and I can tell you the logic behind category prioritization for that particular case. In most cases, it's because the exception category is something "rarer". Take red hair Kuppahime for example. Many images in that folder qualify for other categories, but the red hair is a rare enough easily identifiable trait that it deserves it's own category

>>1752 >trap subfolder under a futanari subfolder. How should organize the shota / yaoi and yuri folder? name it the degenerate folder? I don't have many fetishes Sometimes I regret having that folder.

>>1823 Make a Gay subfolder and put Yaoi and Yuri under it. Put Shota under the Yaoi subfolder if there's enough boy/boy love images in it and separate the anything straight in an /ss/ subfolder.

>>1823 >How should organize the shota / yaoi and yuri folder? |- Straight porn |- straight shota |- subsests of straight shota (x loli, x MILF, group sex, etc) in separate folders |- other subsets of straight porn |- Gay porn |- Yuri |- subsets of yuri (adult x adult, adult x loli, loli x loli) in separate folders |- Yaoi |- gay shota |- subsets of gay shota (x shota, x adult, furry, etc) in separate folders |- other subsets of yaoi (traps, bara, twinks, etc) in separate folders Depending on how much bisexual porn you can either make a whole folder for it or have subfolders inside of the yuri and yaoi folders.

It's simple. Don't. Why waste time on sorting old things when there's quality new things being produced at a faster rate than you could ever consume them.

How many terabytes of porn do you guys have? I was just going through deleting a couple 100gbs of javs I know I wasn't going to jerk off to again and I didn't need a complicated folder system to find what was where. Whats the point of even downloading so much porn?

>>1872 >What's the point of downloading art?

>>1874 >Why download art I know... I was there... But is it really all art, is it really all worth keeping? Archeologists destroy more than they keep and their whole job is to keep what they can. How many slightly different pots do you need to know what pots were possible for these ancient people? 'All of them? I suppose if you have the space for it... but you don't download tons of hentai because it won't be preserved.

>>1872 >How many terabytes of porn do you guys have? No more than 7GB (it's hard to tell the exact size because I have everything distributed in lots of folders). Aside from that, I have 20GB of cute anime pics (mostly shota and loli). >>1876 >you don't download tons of hentai because it won't be preserved Actually that's one of the motives I saved so many images. I save pics not only because I like them, but because sometimes they're extremely difficult to find or have straight up disappeared from internet. There's a lot of common stuff in my folders, but I don't want to get rid of them because there are rare images along with them.

>>1872 >How many terabytes of porn do you guys have? 2nd pic related organized by artist name. >Whats the point of even downloading so much porn? To have a small repository of lewd art where I don't need an internet connection.

>>1872 Around 3TB that I really need to sort. It includes a bunch of duplicate eroge and doujinshi, and a bunch of huge porn videos I only liked 3 seconds of and haven't gotten around to cropping yet. I wish there was an easy way to sort stuff through rare/not rare so I could nuke the common stuff and comb through the harder to find ones. >Whats the point of even downloading so much porn? Shit gets deleted all the time. Just because things live forever in the internet it doesn't mean they're easily accessible. Hoard everything. Also my internet is shit.

>>1876 >Archeologists destroy more than they keep and their whole job is to keep what they can. Physical things take up more space per thing than digital media. >How many slightly different pots do you need to know what pots were possible for these ancient people? That's not preservation for the sake of art, that's preservation for the sake of writing books about history.

>>1762 That's some big effort to type it for OP >Ambiguously lewd 271 Files I don't get it why people save so many picture of a sub genre >>1865 But you still save it anyway >>1872 >tb Only count 2D. 14 years browsing hentai here (only 9 after got wiped twice) and I'm still at 25GB) real people porn non-jav: 80GB but I'm cleaning up this year JAV: 20, I will shorten each into 10 second video

>>1895 >I don't get it why people save so many picture of a sub genre I didn't save those to go into the folder, I had them and they ended up going there. It was a necessary category between essentially wholesome and definitely lewd.

I don't understand people like this. Get an account just to fav. No upload, rate, comment. No nothing Before someone ask what I'm doing I'm rummaging through mutual fav. It turn out more often than not some people just faving anything they see

>>1946 It's like saving images but without saving them.

>>1946 And what happens when your site of choice has some crisis and all your shit vanishes into the ether?

>>1946 Doesn't work too well when some artists get big enough to force other sites to take down their art so they can keep it on patreon

you're fighting a losing battle with the folder system. Eventually you'll want tagging, aka the ability to assign multiple attributes to a single file. For that you should check out >>>/hydrus/

>>1990 That's the archive board. The official (up to date) place to go for Hydrus is the official thread on >>>/t/. And yes, Hydrus is wonderful. I used to have a soft upper limit on the amount of hentai I could have on my computer because the more I added, the harder it became to organize things properly. Hydrus essentially removed that upper limit, and now I can have an essentially infinite collection (well, until I run out of disk space) while still be able to organize everything. I wish that Hydrus-dev was open to contributions from others though. It would be able to be developed so much faster that way, especially since it's programmed in Python, but oh well.

>>2003 how quick is the tagging process in hydrus? Not sure if I'm willing to abandon my autistic folder system if it means going through everything by hand

>>2024 you can easily do a regex on the import to pull folder names and filename into into tags. but the best bet is to download files from boorus and similar sources that has tags already that is scrapable. There is also always the PTR which is a Public Tag Repo for all the files and all the tags that any Hydrus user might use. the PTR contains 1.2 Billion mappings involving 28 million tags, mapped to 77 million files. Most of the common booru/weeb/porn/imageboard space.... mostly.

>>1783 non faggots reply only

>>4395 Replying to prove I'm not a faggot.

>>1762 It's been over two years since I made this post. I have since deleted all these folders, because now I have them all in Hydrus, and this autistic unideal conflict of what should go in what folder and what categories should trump others has vanished. >If one truly wants ease of finding though, a tagging system would be best, so that you can simply tag images as you save them with terms you're most likely to search, and folders can be more general and much larger without being truly disorganized. If only I knew about Hydrus then, as it is exactly what I described.

>>1750 Is it ok for me to ask not how to organize my folders, but how to securely safeguard them from anyone else?

>>7076 Well, who are you scared of? If it's a sibling, family member, whatever then locking the computer every time you leave or giving the folder hidden status is enough. If you think you have a more dedicated nosy person like a maid who might look deeper then hide it on an external drive and password protect it. In all other cases (no judgement, you might just be living in a shithole that bans everything, this advice isn't just for you know what type of content) encrypt the drives either with Veracrypt on all OS's if plausible deniability is needed (read their manual and warnings first) or some other well vetted tool like LUKS on Linux. If it is on a phone then all local (not cloud) files are encrypted by default with your passcode on recent iOS and Android. With some older versions they can still unlock it if your phone is still on at the time though (in forensics this is called "hot mode" or the phone "being hot"), so either use something like GrapheneOS which mitigates this automatically or power down your phone ("cold mode") after using it for personal pleasure. Search up local laws regarding key disclosure.