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Dear /w/, what do you use to keep track of your wallpaper collection? I've just looked at my collection for the first time in ages and it has grown into a behemoth monstrosity so large that I had to throw any dreams of a naming convention straight out the window. What programs do you use to sort and categorise your wallies? I use dupdetector and was using picture relate, but recently my trial for picture relate ran out.

Attached is the last wallpaper I pulled off /w/.
>> Kiwi_Commander
I use IR fan view, this program can rename batches of pictures and also put them in different formats.
>> Anonymous
I just organize my images by their series or artist. Unfortunately, my miscellaneous folder is growing rather large now because of all the stuff I couldn't find a source for, so I might have to divide it further based on the important features of the pictures, but I don't want to deal with the monstrosity just yet.
>> Anonymous
I don't. I just chuck everything in a single folder and don't bother renaming anything. Every now and again, I run GQView's duplicate finder over the collection to weed out duplicates.
>> Anonymous
Why do people need programs to organize their wallpaper collections? Creating new folders is a fast, easy, effortless way to organize them. For my anime folder, I have them sorted into folders by series unless I have less than four wallpapers of the series; then it goes in misc. Inside the series' folders, if I have more than four wallpapers of a certain character, they get a folder to themselves. If I'm ever looking for something specific, say dual screen walls or widescreen, I right-click and sort by dimensions and view thumbnails.

I really don't understand the problem people have. I mean, I have 8000+ wallpapers. Just sit down for about a half an hour and organize it, because you'd probably spend more time looking for, installing, and configuring a program.
>> Anonymous
>>198577
some of us (like myself) didn't organize their wallpapers from the start, and when we finally did decide "oh wow I've got 1000 wallpapers now, i need to organize them" it took us awhile to figure out a viable system to sort them

i know it took me nearly two hours to first sort my then-1500 wallpaper collection, first by anime/non-anime, then figure out which anime series i had wallpapers of

not to mention i have a miscellanious folder of my own with 300 papers that have no sauce on them
>> Anonymous
i don't organize my wallpapers.
I check the wallpaper folder for dupes ever so often with gwenview, ad i sync it to my other box with unison, but nothing more...
>> Anonymous
>>198577

While this is a good idea, I collect more than just anime wallpapers. Anime walls are easy to categorise, but even then the miscellaneous folder tends to get packed fast. Try sorting general and anime papers both in the same directory and you have yourself a whole new can of worms. Got a pic of a cute asian chick in a bikinin? Whats her name? What set is it a part of? Should I throw it in the 'japan', 'hot chicks', 'bikini' or 'people' folder? You get the idea.
>> Kono~
First I had a wallpaper folder. Then I added a 800x600+Others folder, for the oldest and smallest ones, usually things that were high quality enough to barely scrape in or were interested in getting higher quality. I also lumped in all the various dual, vert and widescreen ones. I should mention, this was started back when 1024x768 was big.
I'm on the verge of doing another big sort out of my collection, currently almost entirely named by series and number, splitting it into seperate resolution catagories, each ordered by series and number seperately, probably deleting the 800x600s and having a 1024x768+1280x1024 folder, one for everything above that in the same ratio, then one for all the oddball sizes.

I don't use other programs, since a good memory for pictures and a scroll through with it set to thumbnail view is all I need.
>> Kono~
Also, I'm tempted to highjack this thread to dumb in the aforementioned 800x600s that are shortly being deleted, to trim the fat of my collection. First one to tell me not to, dissuades me.
>> Anonymous
>>199218
Don't do it, you can use them on PDA or cell phones or any number of small screen electronics.
>> Anonymous
This one's on the quick and dirty side but...

1. View the Unsorted folder by thumbnail and Modified On. Thumbnails are quick and dirty ways to identify wallpapers without having to preview the picture. At least for me, similar wallpapers tend to be downloaded at the same time.

2. Go through the Unsorted folder and prefix any wallpapers you recognize with a tag in this order: a definite tag (eg. anime series or artist), a broad category tag (eg. ecchi, cag for "cute anime girls", 4chan), or a general description tag (eg. na for non-anime).

2. Create a folder for each tag. View the thumbnails by Name. If you see two or more pictures of the same tag, drag them to their folder. If you see only one picture, deal with it later; that Unsorted folder will *never* be empty while you download wallpapers, and it's tedious to drag and drop pictures one at a time.

3. Revisit non-definite folders occasionally and re-tag as you become better in identifying definite tags.

It's not perfect, but sorting wallpapers is a chore. I noticed that less than 5% of my wallpapers are in my Unsorted folder in the first place!
>> Anonymous
I have 111,717 images in 3,811 folder of Anime, Video game, and sorted artist images. Want me to rapidshit it? ROFL. 28.9GB

Oh yeah... that's not counting what's on another computer.
>> Anonymous
>>199593
who needs rapidshit when you can torrent?