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Anonymous
So /e/, what kind of person you when it comes to collecting? Do you organize and tag everything in elaborate file hierarchies, or use third party image management programs, or do you just heap it all in some generic folder with everything else? Do you hoard it all, or clean up old stuff often? Does it go into a holding tank before being organized, or do you categorize on the spot, if at all?

I'm curios /e/, what are your file habbits?
>> Anonymous
I'm actually really super selective and only save things when I can get the complete set, and it has to be "high quality stuff", not some shit hcg or a fan doujin based on a show or other horrible fanwork.

Usually only stuff that was made for the sake of the "art". I rename everything to get rid of parenthesis and underscores and group names and shit, to give it all a pretty uniform, searchable organization. I'd say it's pretty organized but only because I keep it small scale.
>> Anonymous
obligatory "SAUCE ON OP PLZ OMG!"

but in seriousness, I try to save as little as possible, usually none, then I just start saving things in spurts when I decide I find a bunch of stuff I like. most of the stuff I save is zipped archives or usually full doujins, each doujin gets it's own folder, but other than that it's all kinda heaped together. I never delete anything, but I keep it small scale enough that it's not too hard to find waht I want to see
>> Anonymous
I just throw it all together in a folder. That way, it's like an adventure every time I search for a picture. =)
>> Anonymous
>>649434
Exactly. I save any picture I like, most into one large general folder. If I grab a whole thread, it'll get its own folder, but beyond that the only 'organisation' comes by virtue of images with a similar theme usually having been saved at around the same time as each other (from when I manually go through a thread).

Every time /e/ or /h/ fail me, I just take a dive into a random spot in the folder and get cracking. If I need a specific image, it doesn't take me too long to find it.. can usually remember roughly where they are.
>> Anonymous
>>649390

sounds like me, except i don't really sort porn that way - only movies, music, etc.

the stuff i get here goes in one big folder.
>> Anonymous
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>>649455
>Every time /e/ or /h/ fail me, I just take a dive into a random spot in the folder and get cracking. If I need a specific image, it doesn't take me too long to find it.. can usually remember roughly where they are.

I'm the same with finding things. I've always wanted to sort my folder into subfolders, I was going to when I moved everything to my new drive but I thought it would be too much work.
pic related
>> Anonymous
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I'm very picky about what I save. It either has to conform to my fetishes, or be so damn good that I cant help but save it. And when I save something, I keep it around forever unless I find a duplicate in my collection.
>> Anonymous
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Anytime I download something from a thread with a theme, I put it in a folder named after the thread (E.G., "thighhighs", "big tits"). That way everything's organized as I download it. It's too annoying to try and organize things if you download everything into the same folder. Something like the not4chan grabber or downthemall help with this.

If I'm just saving like one thing from a thread, and I don't want to go find whatever folder it's supposed to go into, it just goes into the random ecchi folder. At that point I'll probably remain there forever.

I also use a downloaded acdsee pro 2 to help organize and add tags and stuff. Previously I used picasa 2.
>> Anonymous
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As you can see, I arrange them into various folders. There's characters, series, anatomy and scenarios.
>> Anonymous
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I'm not picky about quality, but I am picky about the theme. I only have ~200 pictures that don't relate to my fetishes. The rest are categorized somewhat specifically...my fetishes are kept apart in different folders, but pictures that combine two or more specific fetishes are put in a certain folder.

This picture, for example, is categorized under "porn/drawings/pantyhose and spandex drawings/pantyhose and spandex masturbation." I have a separate folder for masturbation that does not involve pantyhose or spandex.
>> Anonymous
I typically save pics that I believe will aide me in my artsy endeavors. I save them and hardly look at them
>> Anonymous
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They have to be this good or better.
>> Anonymous
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if it has cocks it goes in the hentai folder, if it doesn't it goes in the ecchi folder, if its a doujin it goes in the doujin folder, if its a movie it goes in the movie folder. i never really needed to sort past that, i like to have as many pictures in a folder as possible so i can just fap and mash the arrow keys
>> Anonymous
All the stuff I fap to goes in one folder.
>> Anonymous
>>649434
ditto
>> Anonymous
if it's posted i save it.

no exceptions.
>> Anonymous
I think I'm unique in that I only save pics that I still want AFTER HAVING FAPPED. This keeps my collection small, tidy and, above all, high quality. Because honestly, we save lots of bad/generic pics while we're horny and it's not worth the hassle.
>> Anonymous
Anyone know of a program that could put custom tags on selected images? Would be a nice way to organize things.
>> Anonymous
>>649387
I only rename stuff I like, I save much but delete the crap just as fast. I have been searching for more of that girl in op's pic for a few months now I even /r/ed it a few times then gave up hope. seeing you post it not only made me instinctively save it but now I want more. so... do you have sauce?
>> Anonymous
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>>649863
vista
>> Anonymous
>>650267
And if you're not using Vista..?
>> Anonymous
>>650300
Punakea
>> Saging Jack !i1xIICM8a2
>>649536
source. I'm trying to keep my folders as organized as possible since i have recently reformatted.
>> Anonymous
While my folder is super organized, I realized that the bad part is that I go into them less, because it's harder to just look at whenever when I need to fap.

So I just pick folders at random.
>> eboat
>>650300
That's awesome. Too bad it doesn't work on my desktop where all my files are. =(
>> Anonymous
I like to find out the names of the girls. Then give them their own folder and assign a value to that folder based on how arousing they are and how many times I've fapped to that specific character.
>> Anonymous
>>650964
Right now Morrigan is number one followed by Tamamki.
>> Wileyfag
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I only save the highest quality ones I find; I'm fairly picky. But I just lump them all in the same folder. Sometimes I have to end up checking for cocks before posting to avoid accidental /h/ on /e/.
>> Anonymous
I tend to just throw them all in my vista user's folder to be sorted later, or in my actual porn folder to be sorted later. When I do get around to sorting them, drawn stuff goes in the "drawn" folder, photos go in the "live" folder, movies in the "movies" folder, etc.

I think I'm probably rare though in the fact that I use IrfanView to create randomized slideshows of all the pics I've saved, sometimes with various themes to each slideshow. And oddly enough, I tend to find myself thinking "holy crap, this picture is hot, I want it to come up in the slideshows more often"...which leads to me saving a single picture many times (usually two or three if I like it a lot, sometimes like eight or nine times if it's freaking amazing...yes, I have a problem.)

I've been meaning to get a bit more organized, though, as well as get rid of my duplicates.
>> Anonymous
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I pretty much just stick everything in one folder, save for my newer stuff. I empty the new stuff folder every other week or so.
>> Kebinu !GhiZeo/aQQ
I have obsessive-compulsive disorder (seriously). I start by separating artwork, doujinshi, manga, HCG screenshots and movies. Everything goes into a folder sorted by series, then by character. If it's not fanart it goes into folder sorted by artist name. It works if I know what I'm looking for but if I can't remember the name of the folder it's in things can be hard to find (my Artists folder alone has over 1300 folders).
>> Anonymous
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I just throw everything into an /e/ folder, /h/ folder, and /u/ folder.
>> Anonymous !8ghqWWKdv.
Most of my things stay in my to-be-sorted folder which is called purgatory.
>> Anonymous
I save any picture that catches my eye in a general folder, with a separate 'favorites' for the really awesome stuff. Every once in awhile when I'm bored enough, I'll smoke a few bowls and sort through the mess, organizing it into folders according to fetish. A good time killer.
>> Anonymous
You hath invoked my wrath
>> Testament
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>>651742
go fuck yaself Blue

hmmm, file habbits... i'm kinda very piccy about my files, if it REALLY interests me i save it, it goes into one big folder and gets a label and a number, there are several catagories in this folder with around 300 pics total, comics go in a seperate folder and sub folders for each comic.

pic provided is one of my fav pics, i'd post my fav, but it's not allowed
(furry)
>> Rogue Nigga !YDujGQLLRM
>>649515
Same here.
>> Anonymous
40 GB, 100,000 files grand total. The completely unsorted heap is 7,000 files. 60,000 files are in "single folders", i.e. thread folders or individual doujin folders. Most of the thread folders are labeled like "e649387 pantyhose" or something.
>> Anonymous
>>651836
And yes I want to delete a ton of crap, even in the stuff that is ostensibly sorted.
>> Anonymous
Also to add:

I don't use many 3rd party programs. I've used a custom program in the past to sort my heap into folders. Recently I've found "plumeria image sorter" which seems to do this job with a nice interface, but haven't tried it extensively yet. I've tried Picasa 2 but hate that it will forcibly search for new images constantly. Since I didn't use it to tag things I just abandoned the program.

I have some dupe detector progams but haven't taken the time to use them. I think it would be nice to integrate this directly into the browser, along with better file saving sorting behavoir.

So far have stay far away from tagging programs. I don't have elaborate hierarchies, so my sorted folders themselves are kinda big. I'd like to have tags (at least for the A+ stuff), but tagging is so dependent on having a good tagging program and a good viewer in one. I haven't found one that does either well.