I sort by thread number, then topic.

I have got mine dated. Nothing really special, although my co ordination is a bit screwed lol

i sort mine by type(anime/game/misc), then by series, then by character, with all the images being renamed to the characters name followed by the image number. OC is named after the artist, and unkown images are given generic names or simply labeled unidentified.

>>1601894

How many images do you have total?

>>1601920
i have 980 images spread across 206 folders, totalling about 569MBs, a relatively small collection compared to some of the people around here. but at least its well organized

>>1601931

I'd love to see your collection in 10 years time, it would probably be the rarest thing in existence!

you don't even have a hentai folder :O

>>1601948

Oh but I do! I just keep it out of sight. Kind of like a guilty pleasure, plus If I ever have someone looking through my PC, I don't want them seeing 74GB of Hentai.

>>1601950
74 gb... holy crap, dump it on /h/

>>1601953
>>1601953

I have in the past. Now, I just save every full thread with DownThemAll!, and most of the time I just post in a pic here and there when people need stuff.

117 Directories with 7552 Files. Total 2,8GB
Mostly sorted by name of the series

>>1601948
I don't have a hentai folder, why would that be suprising or strange?

>>1601942
i hope it could be that good, i would hate to suffer a hard drive failure and have to re download and organize them all.

If I watched the series or I'm familiar enough with it I make a separate folder for it. Then each series folder has separate folders for characters, couples and groups. If I am not familiar with the character, or it's an OC I just put them in special folders... Like females and males. Females folder has different sub-folders as well; The problem is sometimes I have a megane maid and I start wondering if she should go in the megane folder...or the maid one. I usually put them in the one with less pics in it, but I need to polish this out somehow, it's annoying.
I also have folders for artists I really like. Like Tinkerbell or Jun.

>>1601974

I have an external HDD with the rest of the /c/ollection on it. When a month has passed, all that I have downloaded from /c/ gets backed up on the external, then I backup the contents of the HDD to the PC. So I a dual backup all the time.

I never considered myself a Hentai person until a year ago. I started getting right into it, and I felt ashamed for a long time. But meh, as long as my folder is hidden from the public, I haven't got much to worry about. If i lost it somehow, I wouldn't really miss it, tbh.

>>1601978

I have a folder for my favourite artists too!

I sort stuff in the image folder by series name. Then in the series folders are character name folders, sometimes folders such as "couples" or just group pics scattered next to those folders.
I also have a Randoms folder for stuff I don't know, are too small in my opinion to make a folder from them or are just OCs.
And the last is a folder called "e". That contains non worksafe stuff, images and manga alike.

I sort mine by board a, c, e, h, u and w
then i have folder with other themes (gifs, Doujin, Favorites, Games, Picture Packs and Videos)
then i have 2 other folders that are random unsorted folders that i havent got too. In total it amounts to 8.40 GB
That all being on my harddrive i have a backup using DriveCrypt on my external just incase.

>>1601978
I have a similar problem with megane maids and the like. I normally deal with it by putting the picture in whatever I like more. In the above case it would be maids.

I use a homebrew tagging system. For instance, the attached image is tagged
'image-character-sakura',
'image-story-ccs',
'image-size-3' (autodetermined from pixel count),
'image-artist-moonknives'
'image-quality-2' (meaning "average quality for an image with these other tags", so I'd have to give it a higher quality rating if it didn't have the 'moonknives' tag, which means I know it'll be good anyway)
'image-type-innocent' (ie. not ecchi or porn)

I've also got tags for fetishes, art styles and various miscellaneous ones.

I sort mine by series and then character.
Sometimes i go further and have more sub folders.
and I have misc folders such as one labeled 'C' where i put appropriate pictures in, but they don't really fit anywhere else. Sometimes it bugs me and i wish i knew what kind of folder to make to put some of the unknown pictures in. Also, I have a unorganized folder that is huge... I need to get around to sorting that out.

Most of my /c/ pictures go into subfolders in my 'Anime-female" folder. Whenever I get enough pictures of a certain subject, I add a subfolder for it, until then, they go into 'the rest'. 'Kimonos' and 'fantasy' got too large so they are their own folders now.
I never rename images, and sort by day.

>>1602154
i actually once thought of maybe making a second folder...that will have the two things as a subject. but that's just silly and i highly doubt i'll find that much material covering up two or three subjects at the same time

I sort my images by series or theme (in the case of my meganekko and anime MTG cards) and don't really bother renaming them.

Current status of my /c/ollection is 1582 pictures taking up 355 MB. Small I know, but I don't save every picture I come across either.

bump for interest

i dont i have 20,000 vocaloid images i need to sort through and none are repeats

>>1602441
Damn, I'm only up to 1035 pics of Rukia.

2.41 gigs 7,528 pictures

I generally download entire threads, and then look through the folder and delete all the pictures I don't want.

First I sort my pictures by either female, male, futa, genderless, and pokemon.

Next I generally have a lot of fetish folders and descriptive folders like "elves", "stockings", "partially nude", "guro", "general cute", etc. I also have fandom folders in each folder. In those folders I put different animes/manga/vidya gaems folders.

I like to be really organized. It takes a lot of time, but I don't particularly mind. When I wish to access a certain kind of image to post somewhere or to use for my own uses it isn't difficult to find most of the time.

Unfortunately no reference picture, or picture in general because my external hard drive that held everything on my computer just died.

sadface.jpg

By series name if available. If a certain series has relatively few pictures it goes in "other series." If a folder gets particularly big, or I have a great deal of just one character, I'll split it into character subfolders. For duplicate detection I use VisiPics.

I sort characters into their corresponding folders, and then go by numbers.
I sort other less easily described or random stuff into a loosely related subject folder.
If I don't know who the character is and/or the picture doesn't fit into a subject folder I throw it in either my Unsorted folder or the root.
I sort everything upon saving because I know if I don't do it then I'll never get around to it.

Overall, my Anime folder is only 365MB. Tiny, I know. But I only save pictures I really like and am actually going to look at again.

By artitst, using applicable booru tags ("(artist)" suffix omitted if present).

This folder contains the artists that made it past the latest quality sorting. (Yes, Range Murata was dropped. Fuck him.)

Anyone here use Linux, esp. Ubuntu? Is there anything better than Nautilus for organizing files?

i will tell you more tomorrow

>>1602537
First of all, this requires a DAYUMN

>>1601851
But I basically do mine in the same way. I'll make a folder either by the name of the character or by the show the character is in or by thread. It could probably use a lot of fixing up, but that'll take way too long. Oh, and then there's a lot of random stuff below the folders.
I also have a whole folder just like this that is desktop wallpapers since I started my 4chan adventures on /w/ then ended up here on /c/. Done in the same way

40.GB total

- a general folder with name tags (19.181 images)
- manga folder by genre
- folders by series and then character, couples, etc
- a folder of pixiv with original image numbers (18.218 images)
- a folder with new images waiting to be categorized
- folder of wallpapers by series

This should give an idea how I have mine - Series - Character - Category

I wish I could get rips of some boorus with tags embedded though.

I go by series (or if the picture is unrelated to a series, by category), and then by character. Sometimes I'll make folders for pictures with two or more specific characters if I have enough of them to warrant doing so.

I kinda just slam everything into whatever folder I saved a non /c/ image into last.

I usually save the pics in temp folder
and each weekend move the pic one by one to folder (by anime name, artist name, game name,..etc
some popular anime need further classify by charactor and mecha...e.g. code geass -> C.C., Karen, Boys, other girls, Mecha_codegeass, hentai_codegeass
about 1.5 hr to complete each week
quite boring and time wasting...

Name and tags.
And one folder for random stuff.