/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>9638132
I've been saving everything in the same "jp" folder since 2008. Someday I will organize all of the images.

>>9638145
pretty much this

it's a complete mess

one large folder called "downloads"

it has all my images, rar files, torrent files, isos, and other miscellaneous junk all over the place

the only folders are extracted rar files

>>9638153
How do you live

Main Touhou folder has:

Comics & Sequences,
Cosplay,
Illustrations,
Monochrome & Sketches,
Official Art,
Pairings & Yuri,
Porn,
Portraits,

and Reaction Images
subfolders.

Illustrations folder has scenery subfolder, and portraits folder(which is for all pictures with simple/no backgrounds and little to no interaction) has further subfolders for all the touhous/groups I have more than a couple pictures of.

(And the Touhou folder is inside general "Illustrations" folder which is inside the general "Images" folder, both of those are also subdivided into dozens other categories.)

>>9638153
are you me

I just shove everything in the pictures library. No folders or nothing other than having a typed file name for them.

>>9638132
Make a folder for each game. In each of those folders, make separate folder for every character that initially appeared in it.

>>9638159
This is a good idea, but I like being able to just reach in my folder and pick out a character instantly if I have to.

>>9638154
i dont know

i also randomly name certain images that i might need to find later

then i forget what they're called

so 60% of it is the default filename (12942343241 etc)

and 20% is actual filenames, mixed with the last 20% that is other files

i try not to post images often because it's a pain

What folders exactly? I have a lot of folders.

I got
Anime
Manga
Music and I got twosubcategories which are doujin and non-doujin.
Touhou, for this, I have a folder name characters which has each folder for the characters and another subfolder which has games and whatnot
Manga
Light Novels

>>9638176
What the HELL am I looking at here

This is just my Touhou folder.

By not having shit tier standards.

If you had decent standards, you would save only the pictures that really deserve a place in your heart. You would feel amazingly well every time you browse your picture folder and you wouldn't have that godfuckingugly mess of badly drawn Touhous and inconsistent artstyles.

If you have more than 500 pictures in your Touhou folder, you have terrible standards.

/Jp

Jp/Touhou/

At which point I have folders for each character and a folder for small groups (+3) and large groups (+7) as well as scenery and comics, strips and manga.

Images with up to three touhou characters go in all relevant folders.
Each character folder has their own 'Manga' folder which has it's own 'mini-manga' and 'H-manga' folders, should their be any specific to that character.

Oh, and I also have a 'The Strongest' folder which is reserved for images of any character that I particularly like.

Music, eroge, anime, LN etc:
Dump in 1 folder per year, do something like
[ アニメ/一般コミック/同人誌/同人音楽etc...] [yymmdd] [Studio name / Band name / writer name / singer name] Title

Pictures
http://yorba.org/shotwell/

>>9638208
I really doubt so.

>>9638198
All 10,636 of my Touhou pictures have a special place in my heart.

>>9638186
An image.

>>9638209
There's a time and place to get smart with me, and this isn't it unless you like the feeling of not having a nose.

>>9638198
I just get in the habit of saving pictures from characters I like.

>>9638220
Nue will be the death of me.

>>9638220
And this is why we have "waahh how do i undo this mess" threads.

Enjoy having a Touhou folder full of images you don't even love.

i only have a chen folder

>>9638232
But I love all the touhous.
Help me, how can I better control my habits?

Ive been slacking on organizing mine. I don't want it to get out of control.

>>9638217
face me

>>9638237
whoa
post snakr.jpg

>>9638198
> badly drawn Touhous and inconsistent artstyles.
Subjective

>>9638235
Just keep doing what you're doing. It's fine, you can sort them tomorrow.

>>9638241
Look kid, I don't want to start something you'll regret. I've broken a guy's formaldehyde before so you'd better be prepared for the lesson I'm going to give you.

>>9638252
Yeah, because this image is subjectively bad

>>9638248
here you go

>>9638272
sweet mother of balls

>>9638198
I have about 700 touhou images, and I love them all.

>>9638259
Bring t. I've seen all the Kung-Fu Panda movies 3 times, so I could easily beat you.

I have years old shit mixed in with recent stuff all in one place. That "cool stuff" folder was the attempt to move all my /b/ browsing days shit to one place that I did not want to delete (for sentimental reasons) but did not want to see the embarrassing shit any more every time I scroll through my pictures. I rarely use that folder.

Other than that the folders you see there are the only ones I have there so far. Everything else i just shove in there with no organization other than the filenames I give them.

Judge me as harshly as possible I am a masochist for these things and I want to masturbate.

>>9638270
Exactly. What you may think is "bad" I think is is nicely done and downright cute

>>9638272
ＬＥＧＯ踏めて死ね

>>9638292
Well fuck you fagstorm for having such terrible tastes.

I have a downloads folder. Almost all the folders in it were extracted from compressed folders. The only folders in it that I've actually made are four, for music, crossfades, Western-game related stuff, and downloaded-from-chans stuff. Everything else shares the big folder.

a mess

>First one to have neatly organised folders.

I kinda gave up on organizing my stuff until I invest in some external hard drives. For now, everything stays in the downloads folder.

>>9638346
I'm gonna be the first to put my dick in your neatly organized cornhole you country bumpkin

Deleted my folders and wiped my hard drive after I had a brush with the law that got me paranoid as shit. Starting from scratch again, for the third time.

Keeping the entire thing in a truecrypt container should keep the FBI from discovering my copies of chubby.jpg and flanfly.jpg

>>9638346
Nice, I like it.

>>9638346
My stuff is organized. minus the few images not in any folders.
>>9638176

>>9638383
> I had a brush with the law
Care to describe what it was like? did they phone you? break down your door? got pulled over?

>>9638394
Not /jp/ related so I ain't going to elaborate.

Only thing I'll say though is that getting arrested, even when the officer respects all of your rights and doesn't beat you or anything, is surprisingly the only thing my chinese cartoons has gotten realistically accurate in their depictions of.

Perhaps this is because half of all people involved in the business of making 2D content are either raging alcoholics or child predators.

>>9638440
I, too, hide my touhous in China.

>>9638445
That's ridiculous. So have there been several hundred cases of these now? I mean why would they come after you? How could you cause any harm to society?

There should be no reason for them to come here either. I am just a neet that wants to take it easy and be left alone. I have no interest in society.

>>9638323
>>9638383

Why do /jp/sies have this compulsion to save pictures of fictional characters eating hamburgers

I need to organize some more.

>>9638466
It's the latest hip new meme.

>>9638461
My arrest had absolutely nothing to do with what I had on my laptop at the time, although if I was a NEET I wouldn't have gotten myself into the mess that I did

Good gravy I had some excellent Remilia doujins in my old folder and looking back on all of it they were deleted in vain ;_;

>>9638466
WHATEVER DO YOU MEAN

burgers

>>9638466
I don't know, but I really hate the one with that pink haired girl eating the hamburger beside the window. The next time I see that I'm adblocking it.

I don't even have folders for some of my favorite characters.

I think I'll start categorizing them by game, Anyone feel like uploading their perfectly organized Touhou folder to Mediafire?

>>9638497
Tell me the important thing, what country are you in?

>>9638507
;)

>>9638516
Where the HELL is your suika folder dude?

>>9638527
>I don't even have folders for some of my favorite characters.

See, that's the problem. I don't want my folder to become to unmanageable so I've actually been put off saving anything as I just haphazardly saved anything before.

Guess I've got brain problems.

>>9638497
Also I forgot to mention that most mangaka have probably experienced the business end of the justice system through alcohol-related shenanigans

Cops in most jurisdictions only really actively hunt people who distribute, produce, or download massive amounts of 3D kiddie porn. 2D can get you arrested but in most circumstances people getting collared for 2D were caught because they dealt mainly in 3D

Some of them have subfolders, cr stands for cute/random, r stands for random. The others are names of the boards.

Of course there are a few sub-folders in many of those folders.

I tried sub-directories by character once. I tried filenames too. That worked better.

For a while I even tried simply separating images into two categories.

The system that always worked best though was one huge clusterfuck of a folder, sorted by date modified.

I've been thinking about writing a script to purge old files if they haven't been renamed or moved, and setting it up to run once in a week or so.

>>9638466
I ate a JP burger today. Half of it is... oh, it's still sitting in my car, thanks for reminding me, I gotta go put that in the fridge.

It was tasty.

By game, by character.

>>9638567
I tried to find a new trip, but it's too hard.

>>9638573

Do you even shit ramen?

>>9638578
Please stop shipping Myon with your obscure fanfic characters.

>>9638613
Sorry, I'll try harder not to next time, I was only poking fun at ``Youmu Konpaku"

Well, this thread has prompted me to organize some things, but it's a daunting task. Even some of the "organized" folders have expanded to the point of needing further subfolders, and that's on top of some of the unorganized, general dump directories I have to wade through.

Still, e though my general folders are horribly unorganized with hundreds of images randomly thrown together, I have a kind of instinctive idea of where a particular image I'm looking for is located inside the mess. I hope organizing things doesn't screw this up.

I've probably got so many duplicate images, it really puts me off

Contains nearly 3000 images.

About 14,000 Images of mostly Touhou.

I see that page in your to-be-found folder, OP.
Fuck you. You'll get no help from me.

>>9638237
>Keisuke
I love you.

Are we talking about sorting Touhou images?
>>2012
>>Not having separate folders for each character
why.jpg

Seriously though, I downloaded someones collection a couple years ago and it had separate folders for each character, so I just built on that since then. I also have NSFW subfolders, a folder for group images and a few other things. My tips for organizing your collection:

1. Download images into the folder you want them in. -Especially- if you're downloading from a thread with images of one character or something, its easy that way and you don't have to sort it later. If you can't be arsed to sort it up front, don't expect to be motivated to sort it later, especially after it has become a huge pile. Except that...

2. If you download into one big blob, there is one method of sorting I do recommend: rate your images on quality. This avoids the problem some people were complaining about ("save only the pictures that really deserve a place in your heart"... LOL) ACDSee can do 1-5 ratings, Picasa can tag favorites, etc. If you do that, you can focus your effort on only sorthing the things you rated 4 or 5 star or whatever, since those are the images you really like. The other stuff? Throw it in a pile of unsorted images, leave it where it is, delete it, whatever.

>>9639546
TL;DR save your images where you want them to end up and sort your images based on quality. Here is what ACDSee looks like for me.

how much storage does an average /jp/ user have? I seem to have to little no matter how much I have.

>>9639574

That's awesome. Did you make the icons yourself?

>>9639582
http://www.thosetouhouguys.com/?p=1090

I sort my Touhous after general place/area where they live, then subfolders for every character in that place.
For example: Magic Forest > Marisa/Alice/Rinnosuke
SDM > Remilia/Flandre/Meiling/Sakuya/Patchouli/Koakuma
Characters without a fixed place, like Lumia, Cirno, Mystia and others gets a "Various" folder.

Also some various folders for "Pair" images and "Group" images(pairs/groups that are from different places, same place goes in their respective "area" folder) .
And one for ZUN memes.

I just sort them according to date

>>9639603
... neat.

I have a 500GB external that acts as my "primary backup". It holds ALL data.
I have a 120GB external that acts as "active drive". I use it for accessing files often. It is a mirror of everything the primary has minus games and anime series.
My internal drive is only for installed programs. That way if my computer ever goes kaput, I barely lose any data.

Every two or three months I sync my "active" to my "primary". Right now I've currently got a problem where it's been two months and my "active" started getting CRC errors and has trouble reading files. So I made an image of "active" and recovered most of the data. Now I'm comparing two months difference in files between active and primary using WinMerge. An exhausting task.

>>9639752
I used to sort all my images by creating folders by hand i.e. "/images/japan/touhou/embodiment of scarlet devel/patchouli/patchy.png"
But then I discovered a firefox addon that lets me save images from danbooru-likes with a single click, and it folders and names them automatically like "booru/copyright/character (artist).extension"
Problem is half my files are one or the other. Do I IQDB all my old images and re-save them, or sort all my new images into the old folders?

I sort by locations, then characters. I only program I have is with my comic folder. It's daunting to pick out and delete ones that I may already have in my doujin folder (and man, do I have a shitload of those).

>>9639758
Use a program like Dup Detector. Find and delete dups from your old folders.

>>9639930
Dupes aren't the problem. I use visipics to get rid of them all. It's just that there are unique pics in both "old" and "new style of sorting. Just not sure what to go with.

I have one 東方Project folder and everything else goes in the main folder
I don't look at the pictures that often so I don't really care

>>9639758
>>IQDB all my old images and re-save them
Unless your collection consists of like 5 images, there is no way in hell I'd do that. I would either move your old hand-sorted images into the directories created by the extension (if you like the way it sorts them), or vice-versa if you prefer the structure you made. Or, you could just let them both coexist.

BTW, what is the extension?

>>9640128
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/danbooru-downloader/

Takes a minute or two to setup to your liking, but afterwords you are golden.

Under Touhou I have

Doujinshi
Games
Music

In my pics folder I have

Cute
NSFW
Other

>>9639505
If you love keisuke too then I love you too.

Here's a link for a 4can downloader. It can watch threads and download without attenence. If anyone wants it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fourchan-dl/

Pictures
Porn
Wallpapers
Photoshop
Reaction images

>>9643793
Wow, I really should get this keyboard fixed.

THQ/Dark Crusade/Data/Guro
THQ/Dark Crusade/Data/Games
THQ/Dark Crusade/Data/Other
Warcraft 3/Autorefresh/Other

>>9643793
Uh that's not chanthreadwatch

http://sites.google.com/site/chanthreadwatch/

>>9643887
What's it like to be 14? Get yourself an external HDD or even a USB stick.

Obsession with collecting images.

>>9644201
Meh, close enough

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hoards images. I still got 2,000+ left to either sort/delete... I can't bring myself to delete all of them either, I feel like I may look at them again but I never do.

Am I the only one who saves all images by Artists?

Though yeah... it does take an extra work to sort out all the images by Artists.

>>9644281

I never save enough of an artist's pictures to do this. I usually keep their Gelbooru tag in a notepad though, sorted in favorite artists, sfw, and nsfw. I'm too lazy to bother with a Pixiv.

I split into category folders and name with a tag or two, and give an artist a folder if I collect a good amount of their works. I've got new stuff to be sorted piling up daily. On top of that there is heaps of pics I didn't bother categorizing from before I knew my collection would grow this large.

>>9644281
I do... Honestly, I feel like its probably the best way to sort images. It's very consistent (very little crossover) and I'm more likely to enjoy images based on a particular artist if I already know I like his style.

>>9644289
Post your list or upload it somewhere? I'm curious. . .

Don't sort folders. Sort of pixiv bookmarks instead.

This is four years worth of pictures saved up. I dump mostly everything into the assorted folder. If I put my manga/doujinshi folder in there it'd be alot bigger but I didn't manually save those. I've gotten tired of saving pictures so now I mostly save only the good ones. They usually go in somewhere under the cute folder in /a/ random.

I deleted alot of my older folders and I do not regret it as it was alot of stupid crap. I've yet to delete alot of it hiding somewhere in here.

I have a 500GB HDD for all anime related stuff. There's a folder for animes, these are sorted by name and subgroup.
The other folder is for pictures (unsorted but all tagged) the third is for hentai (unsorted but some folders, mostly tagged)

Higher levels are where files are saved, deeper levels are where they're stored. Everything has a place and if it doesn't, it can easily be created. This is an older shot of everything. I've since added an OS-tan archive.

290427 files in 4914 folders.

>>9644434
>responding pic


pls get the fuck out back to /b/a/v/

>>9644451
>animes

I work like this, every Japanese game or anime gets a folder with art in it and everything that is vaguly Japanese related gets re-named so I could easily find it and put into the root of the folder.
Everything else gets it's own folder but I stopped saving and using pictures that aren't somehow /jp/ related.

Also, images saved from Danbooru are automatically tagged using the extension.

>>9645180
Please post this image.

>>9645198
Good eyes.

>>9645204
fuck i was so close
http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=little_busters%21+noumi_kudryavka+bed

>>9645204
Thank you.

>>9644420
pastebin: 7FVLUMSZ

The +'s indicate artist I look at often, for easy access.

I was actually surprised when I found Konnpyakuyoumu007's tag, both his ridiculous name and that he drew lewd images. I first saw his art on a video somewhere on Niconico.

HOW DO YOU GUYS NAME THEM IN THEIR OWN SEPARATE FOLDERS?

satori1
satori2
satori3
satori4
...
etc?

i try to come up with some short description but i can't come up with that many.
i should just have /v/ help me name them.

>>9645274
Ugh, I hate when people use "witty" file names that are just actually really unfunny sentences.

>>9638176
>>9638176
how do you black explorer????

>>9645296
>"witty"
>just actually really unfunny sentences.

Sounds like /jp/.

>>9645366
Shoe polish.

>>>/wg/4667225

>>9645274
That's too much work. Sorting by place and character is enough.

>>9645254
Nice, thanks.
>>Konnpyakuyoumu007
Oh. . . I didn't know his name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcxYSsCxxEA
His videos seem so cute and unassuming.

Holy shit. I see lots of organization methods, but am I the only one who doesn't save pictures at all? I have some archived artbooks, and nothing else.
What's the point in saving all those pictures?
Of course the question is not for the obsessive hoarders. Those guys I can understand; I hoard certain things too. Just not pictures.

>>9645424
I never post without an image so it's good. It's also fun to save images of something you like.

>>9645424
It's just collecting art to look at. I don't know. It doesn't seem that strange. Especially if you really like the artist and/or series/character it depicts.

Then there's collecting porn image, which is useful for obvious reasons.

>>9645452

>>9645424
It's also nice to have copies onhand in case the artist decides to take down their stuff or the site goes down or something. Although that might fall under the compulsive hoarding category

>>9645472
It's a good idea. I hate how many artists take down things from Pixiv, or from their website, or even just things being lost to bit rot or other failures.

Anyway yeah I fall into the "obsessive" category, I mirror a couple of artist's websites that I really like, and also recently found a thing to mass-download from Pixiv. So hopefully I won't have any more kamS moments.

>>9645452
Eh, nowadays the internet provides pictures in virtual realtime. Saving video is one thing, but pictures?
And for porn, maybe it's just my habits, but whenever I'm in the mood I just search for new material. Saving things is uhhh... strange. That's just me, though.

I have a "cute" folder with a "Touhou Project" sub-folder, a "Random-2D" folder, an "Image-board" folder, a "Scenic" folder, and a "Wallpaper" folder. There's some other folders but they are not /jp/ related. Also, I save very few pictures, no more than 10 in my Touhou folder.

>>9645424
Some of the pictures I save also relate to 4chan. This may sound dumb, but 10, 20 years down the road, I'll look through my pictures and get nostalgic over bawson, bird cooking, meido, and whatever else comes along. I'll forget you /jp/.

>>9645542
I don't think it sounds dumb, I practically live with 4chan so it's not easy to not get attached to this place and looking through images from a long time ago make me feel somewhat nostalgic.

Picture semi-related, I'm not that much of an oldfag. Also, 2006 was six years ago.

Everyday I find it harder to delete old files that came from 4chan. "My internet histories" and all that.

>>9645548
I just realized I have spent almost a third of my life here.

Folder/directory tree structure is obsolete and only continues to fall apart with more content. tagging is the way to go.

Least that's what I think.

What of that anon who was making some tag-based library? It'd be easier than a local gelbooru.

>>9648466
That's a good point I guess, but I never really felt like it was worth much effort tagging images since the booru's already do that.

That aside, is there any program that lets you browse booru-style using (IPTC or whatever) tags? Its easy to write them in but without an easy way to search and browse based on them it seems kinda pointless.

>>9649022
Oh, that reminds me, it's slightly off the subject of saving images but in case someone wants to have their own crappy booru:
booru.org

>>9638153
Hello me, how are you doing?
Though recently I moved the folders/non-image files from Downloads into a separate folder. Haven't done it for my other two main folders though.

I have a tendency to save A LOT.
I don't sort, just smash everything in a folder.
One folder got 2657 pictures...

You guys might want to check out this Hydrus Network thing, it's made by some guy on /g/ for people like us who can't organise their images for shit.
http://hydrus.x10.mx/

>>9649063
Another folder got 1500 images.(But also Yotsunoha CG)

>>9649022
Lightroom does tagging but I never bothered. You can tag batches of files. This is what it looks like after you've tagged a few and do a search. The tags with an asterisk aren't matching between the selected files (the ones that are lighter in the main area).

>>9645472
Hah, that's one of the reasons why I started saving every image under the sun. Back in what, 2008? an artist I absolutely loved on deviantArt eventually stopped updating her page and didn't come on this oekaki very often, then said she was probably just going to take down all of the images on her dA and leave. I'm so glad I saved those images when I did, she took everything down the following day ;_;

>>9649078
Why do people even do that?

>>9649097
I'm not really sure, it's fucking dumb.
Her account is still up, but there's no sort of contact information or which site she uses now or anything. And reverse image searching her old art does fuck all... It sounds like I'm some sort of creepy stalker, but I just want to see if she's doing well and how much she's improved over the past four years ;_;

I had downloaded everything to my desktop and done so for ~4-5 years. My desktop would literally be covered with archives and other shit. When I needed to reformat I would just throw everything into a 'desktop' folder, back up to another drive, and then continue the process. After doing this for a few years I had accumulated three layers of desktop folders (/desktop/desktop/desktop). If you ever saw that one picture of a desktop with eroge shortcuts filling the entire screen and the wallpaper used was of the heroines from さくらむすび then thats what my desktop looked like all the time but with eroge shortcuts, archives, folders, and other shit.

I felt I needed to organize it all and now its so satisfying knowing that all my manga, music, pictures, etc are finally not some clusterfuck mess desktop and actually organized. Some of my larger stuff, like music, are now on their own hdd separated from everything else. I had to hold off downloading shit off PD from C82 just to get it all done.

Had some nostalgic moments looking through all the shit I had from years ago while organizing it all.

>>9649142
>Organizing
You're a God.
I can't even organize my 3000+ picture total, a lot in different maps.

I have all sorts of "cool" Mugen pics, but they're all spread over in maps I don't even know anymore.

>>9649169
>>9649169

>>9638578
Get cracking, I just crunched a case sensitive 7-character trip in some 8 hours. Just let 'er rip.

>>9649078
Who was it / what's the dA?

>>9648466
If you know what you're doing then the folder structure never fails. Also, why not use both?

>>9649065
It's too much work and not enough reward to use right now. Future features are going to make it worthwhile though.

>>9649482
http://supervomit.deviantart.com/

>>9649065
oh damn, I remember that program from... must have been over a year ago at least.

>>9649553
still not good? that sucks

I stopped saving touhou images because they're all on YOUR_FAVORITE_BOORU, and even if all the boorus go down they're still on pixiv.

>>9638466
you don't like them anon-san?

>Windows at home

>>9651191

I just shove everything into generic folders. Sorting everything into character/type-specific folders seems really pointless to me because you can't just dive in. I would use tags instead to be able to selectively search when I want, but I have way too many images for that to be feasible. Currently sitting at ~16000 images spread out in 8 folders.