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Best way to organize your collection?
12 years ago
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Not sure if anyone will read/respond to this at all, but I'm cleaning up and sorting my various hoards of data. Movies/TV is fairly obvious, and Music I've got a working scheme, but I've never really hit on a good way to sort my image collection. Of course, if I had tag support built into my filesystem, I wouldn't have an issue, but since I'm still sticking to ext4, I need to come up with some folder scheme that at least works without becoming too unwieldly.
The odd part is I can't find any discussion on this for the life of me. Maybe it's just from not finding the magic words to search for, but I tried FA's forums too and even that came up nada. For reference, I apparently have almost 19k images, adding up to 5.2GB. Given the limitations I'm facing(lack of tag support), do I do it by content? By artist? And of course the fun that comes with things in different categories...
For example take http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11540868/ - Should it go under Fantasy/Nambroth? Furry/Nambroth? Furry/Dragon? Furry/Dragon/Nambroth? Furry/Dragon/Feral? How to best store it to make it easier to find on a whim? Add the adult art on top of that which adds even more categories and permutations... having a folder for all wolf/leopard for example would be overkill.
If there's a good, free, Linux-based image program that has decent tag support, that might help reduce the load somewhat, but I still need to organize the bare files to be able to find something without it. I wouldn't turn down any suggestions in that regard either, however.
The odd part is I can't find any discussion on this for the life of me. Maybe it's just from not finding the magic words to search for, but I tried FA's forums too and even that came up nada. For reference, I apparently have almost 19k images, adding up to 5.2GB. Given the limitations I'm facing(lack of tag support), do I do it by content? By artist? And of course the fun that comes with things in different categories...
For example take http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11540868/ - Should it go under Fantasy/Nambroth? Furry/Nambroth? Furry/Dragon? Furry/Dragon/Nambroth? Furry/Dragon/Feral? How to best store it to make it easier to find on a whim? Add the adult art on top of that which adds even more categories and permutations... having a folder for all wolf/leopard for example would be overkill.
If there's a good, free, Linux-based image program that has decent tag support, that might help reduce the load somewhat, but I still need to organize the bare files to be able to find something without it. I wouldn't turn down any suggestions in that regard either, however.
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