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My anime/hentai image collection is fairly unsorted, about 41,000 images and 1,000 folders. The most unsorted portion is the root folder which has a dumping ground of about 6,000 images plus 200 "New Folders" which correspond roughly to not4chan grabs when I want to save an entire thread.
I don't think an all tags solution is ideal. You want sequential images from the same set/same magna to be in the same folder, and you also want them to be sequential in file listing. This makes browsing your collection using your OS's default folder explorer and default image viewer simple. Also sequential images are usually downloaded at the same time, so there is no extra effort in categorizing the sequence.
But using only folders isn't ideal either, because it makes it hard to find obscure images like: -"pictures where the girl has band aids over their parts" (this not really numerous enough for their own folder) -"panty shots" or "schoogirls" (this will almost always overlap with another category, from ecchi to futa)
I haven't tried using tags yet (haven't found a decent program), but a hybrid folder & tag system would probably be ideal: Use folders for categories that are largely disjoint (so there is minimal confusion on how to sort them) and lots of images each (so that your categories are sufficently broad). Also make a rule on how to handle overlapping categories. e.g. tentancles should probably 'override' catgirl if the image happened to contain both. On the other hand, if it was a tentacle image with sailormoon girls it should probably be overiden to the sailormoon folder. You would rely on a tagging to find things that fit into many folders or don't have a folder, but you still have the folders if you just want to browse, say, virtually all your tentacle stuff for a quick fap.
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