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no organisation...
pic related

I started naming and grouping my walls so that each folder would have the most walls in them. Example Starwars i went through all my walls any looked for anything that had to do with starwars. As i was doing this I found around 60 duplicates. most were the same wall just different sizes. now i know if they are any new black lagoon or chicks with headphones walls i don't have. I even combined some different groups to make 1 folder like I have a HaloHalflife, slayersSamuri7 folders i even have a GodziGokuGuyver or Godzilla,Gokuson,Guyver folder

I use danbooru ( http://trac.donmai.us ) ruby hard to install etc, but the php port should work as well ( http://trac.shishnet.org/shimmie2 )

Danbooru? I believe you just won the "best organizing system" contest. My stuff looks somewhat like OP's chaos, some structure will be a nice change. There's only one problem - I can't figure out where the download button is.

16:10 > anime > code geass > codegeass-1680x1050-03.png

Two folders: 4:3, and 16:10.

If I find a particularly large collection of one show, I'll make it its own folder within one of those. Otherwise, just thrown in there with the default numbers.

wallpapers -> animu
wallpapers -> non-animu

animu -> series name

non-animu -> landscapes
non-animu -> space
non-animu -> movies
non-animu -> comics
non-animu -> musicians
non-animu -> other people
non-animu -> animals
non-animu -> et cetera

I have everything in one big folder. Wallpaper randomizer ftw

Same, everything in one sorted by name folder sorted by name. Each wall is named by the show+a number so it's still easy to find.

Pictures -> (Here I have a few categories such as 'Anime,' 'Graphics,' etc.) Wallpapers

Pictures -> Wallpapers -> (Organized by series name, and if I don't know the series or it's not anime, it goes in the 'Misc' folder.

I got mine sorted by aspect ratios, content and size.

So, first:
4:3
Widescreen
Dual-screen
Triple-screen
Odd resolutions

The 4:3 folder is divided into Anime, Pretty girls and Other

After that, sorting is by standard resolutions.

I find it works well, although sorting 25Gb of wallpapers on those criteria took a while...

I have everything in one big folder (like many others), but all the images have default filenames. It gets kinda tiresome to find a specific wall that way. I'm thinking of making a wallpaper database application for personal use, although it's still in the planning phase... Maybe it would be useful for the average anon, too?

43 subfolders, 868 files. 514mb

ones at the bottom havent been placed in a folder yet, generally 1 or 2 from a series. If its not in a folder i give it a name. if it is , i just leave the generic number generated.

My documents/4chan/Wallpapers/Anime

Subfolders for a few shows, the rest in Anime folder with default numbers.

wallpapers and everything else is thrown in one folder after being given a proper set of tags

>>458530
That would be awesome! I'd love one!

>>458530
you should definitely write the script. tons of people would use it.

Any anons willing to make zip files of all or as many of their wallpapers and post it on rapidshit or anywhere better?

I split my stuff into different categories., and different resolutions for anime wallpapers.

Wallpapers > Series name (or themes large enough to warrant it get a folder here. Landscapes/Catgirls/OS-tan/ect.)

Most folders only go that far. Folders with 200+ walls then get organized by character. If still 200+ (thankfully only happened once) I have another set of folders, going off anything that can take off a large chunk out of the character folder.

Then I rename them based on the folder(s) they are in to something like "Azu_Kagura_01"

Mine are simply organized by interest or source.
Such as Women, or Gurren Lagann. Inside those folders they are organized by resolution proportions. Ergo Standard and Widescreen.

my 9000+ pics are sorted by series. if one series has many files then there are sub-folders such as "walls". i also have some general folders sorted by resolution.

the problem i have though is that i want a way to browse them more dynamically. sort of like a photo organizer but with a slightly different set of features. for a start, the ability to sort/search by resolution. i have been playing with a design of my own, but it will be some time before it is in anyway complete.

if anyone knows of any good image organizers / browsers i would be very interested. particularly if they can do stuff based on the resolution of the image (all the photo-orientated ones have have tried can't).

>>458469
Dozo
http://rapidshare.com/files/109644294/danbooru-rev1505.zip.html

All wallpapers I have are in 1 folder, only split by either Nokia 6555 (useless since I can just stick a couple of regular ones by Bluetooth), PSP/DS (for R4) & Dual-Screen.

No reason for me to make any extra folders.

how do the logistics of running danbooru or shimmie locally work out? do you end up with 2 copies of every picture or does it preserve file locations or something?

>>458721 the ability to sort/search by resolution

no one is going to highlight this feature because it was part of Windows 3.X and has been built into every OS since then...

>>458428
You have to ask how to organize? Fail. But since you ask, I have main folders, and then a shitload of subfolders in Videogames, Anime, Artsy and Comics. Only 1978 walls so far.

Just run something like this locally http://konachan.com/post
Works for me. You can search for sizes, and tags. Also with all the ajax makes things easier to move and catalogue instead of folders and moving files.

If ruby is too complicated to install like this anon said >>458459 you can use shimmie, pretty much does the job, but no ajax, a little more rudimentary to work with.

There was akibakko too but the code is now closed source for now

>>458736
After they get on the database they are named after their md5 and copied to a /data/ folder. Then with the md5 of the image it's added to the database with tags.

I delete the external file after it has been added to the database as it's pointless to have two copies.

>>458500
fuck yeah

>>458762
ah ok i was wondering about that, been thinking about rocking out one for awhile but the lazy prevents me

During the week, if I get a wall that's the wrong aspect ratio or I jsut don't feel like sorting it at the time it goes to My Documents/Unsorted. At the end of the week I sort the folder out properly.

As for sorting, each theme gets it's own folder and each wall is named and numbered for that theme. For example: My Documents/Wallpapers/Hayate no Gotoku/Hayate 01.jpg Series' aren't the only themes, though, things like "Headphones", "Tech Girls", "Anime Angels", etc. are themes.

Any non-tag sorting method sorta fails. An Image could fall in multiple folders

For example >>456704

Well, if anon really wanted to know... here it is.
But relax, I have the same problem in sorting as the rest of you, as in these sorted folders contain about only 10% of the pictures on my computer, the rest are scattered god-knows-where.
Basicly, when it comes to walls, I just put them in the main section and sort out the junk after in other folders. 30.000 sorted, about a milion to go, lol

>>458899
This looks real neat! I like although wtf is metadata?

I have 2 folders tits and gtfo the gtfo

how'd you get the back of your folders black like that? i'd love a way to customize my folders to look fully black like that.

>>459236
in the classic theme:
1. right-click desktop - properties
2. appearance tab.
3. advanced btn.
4. ???
5. profit!

>>458766

My filing system is similar to this Anon's. Everything is filed, labelled, and numbered by anime name with no distinctions for actual image resolutions. If I have the exact same image with different resolutions,tints, or backgrounds, then I sort everything around so the images are all next to each other so I can easily check for future reference and have virtually no chance of saving doubles. All random/unknowns go into a Random folder where they're labelled and subdivided by themes like "Headphones", "Christmas", or under the name of the artist such as "Carnelian", "Tony Taka", etc. Whenever possible, I try to track down the game/anime/artist of my unknown images so they can be labelled properly.

It's a bitch to sort out at first, but once you get into the habit of labelling them as you get them, it makes images much easier to find. Hint: copy/paste helps cut down the labelling time, but if anyone knows of a faster labelling method which can relabel whole folders at a time, I'd love to hear it.

>>458431
How do I get thumbnails like this?

>>459245
use linux.

Is there anyone who uses a system based on tags rather than actual sorting. It would make life a whole lot easier, as everything could be placed inside a single folder.

In my pics folder i have a few sub folders like wallpapers, funny, 4chan, photoshop, materials, Made wallpapers, Cosplay... you get the point.

Everything is sorted except my wallpapers folder, which is a huge mess of randomness.

My pictures folder is quite small do to the fact of my hdd getting wiped.

>>458428
that tree view gives the illusion of a greek pillar.

>>458654
if you go to /rs/ and search the term instaset you can get many many desu and azu, will be working to improve my junk and boku and then do the rest

pic is my /a/w/ set which is about 1/4th overall. my art folder for example is much messier because it can be harder to get good folders for distinct categories (city, horizon, space, etc) where as /a/w/ are mostly a single obvious folder

also for those who do sorting by dimension, I find it easier to browse a folder and then sort by dimension

and if I am going to upload I make a dump folder somewhere else and copy what I need there and delete when done. i suppose in other situations that would be less than ideal but fwiw

>>458607
>>458627
Alright, I'll start planning how it should work. I won't be able to start on the actual project before a month or so, school's killing me. When it's done (or atleast a beta is ready) I'll make a thread about it in /w/ and /wg/.

>>459273
Exactly what I'm planning. Until my system's done, I guess that danbooru script should do the job nicely. I guess what I'm planning won't be too far off, but I hope to make it even more efficient and user friendly.

1. make good use of the delete key. Stricten your choice = save a lot of time, you can't use all of them anyway unless you are running a server for others.

2. I use acdsee pro 2 to organize.
Can filter/group by tag, rating, (image/file) size, or other ways inside a folder;
Do quick search if you add keyword to favorite image (otherwise it can only search filename) etc.
DB Management (a DB would allow faster duplicate hunting)

but its not freeware

i organize all my wallpapers by hand.
i have my whole computer set up like this
i hate having an unorganized hard-drive

>>459359
In case I don't see the threads, how can I contact you?

>>459222
Information collected on certain files by Shareaza (P2P program). The folders with red icons are the ones I share, I'd share all, but last time I did that Shareaza crashed, LOL.

>>458530
i also have something like this in planning. i sort of have a proof-of-concept but AMT it only indexes files and records their resolution and hash code. The 2 main features i am working towards:
-play-lists: pre-defined lists of images for random desktop switching.
-tagging: needs no explanation.

though i suspect it will be some time before it is done. if i do ever write it, i will post it in /w/.

My wallpaper collection is organized like this
Wallpaper
Full Screen
Series A
Series B
Series ...
Wide Screen
16:9
Series A
Series ...
16:10
Series A
Series ...
Multi Screen
Dual Screen
Series A
Series ...

>>459417
When it's done, I'll put it in the downloads section of my website (www.praetox.com). I'll try to add a development log there somewhere.

>>459422
It's funny how everyone get the same ideas, although I mentally called it "wallpaper queue". Let's see who makes the best user interface?

use IDimager

>>459368
Most non freeware software can be found via BT with a keygen/crack.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1067261

Poster of >>458899 and >>459419 here, about >>459371, I relate to you, did all that by hand myself, but I'd be greatful for a software that helps me do this a lot easier. Hope some of the things posted here will help.
I don't like to be a tripfag or sorts, but I'll put an email to ppl who can provide what they think is the best image sorting program on the web. Thanks.

Wide
>Animu
>>Series
>>Assorted
>IRL
>Amerikan (anything not animu)
Normal
>
Multi
>

I sort them by series

>>459618
Bad end for a good thread.
To quote a Matrix line "Not here, not like this..." *flatline*

>>459368
any difference between Pro 2 and regular ACDSee 10?

>>458428

what theme is that

>>459959
windows classic. see:
>>459236
>>459241
and next time read the who thread before asking!

Sorted simply by series.

I usually browse the folders with Picasa if I'm looking for something, and use ThumbsPlus for finding walls to match a certain res. Also use AWC to properly make use of the collection.

>>460000
Damn, wasted the GET opportunity

Here's the whole collection, it's 960 MB in size. Everything that I don't know the sauce of or that's from a series I've not seen yet goes in the Unsorted folder

im the only person finding anything here
but its too much to make a new system~

>>460006
sorry, clicked on the wrong image.

jesus fuck christ you browse 4chan too much

fuck

>>460004
dude post the arjuna

pic related.
fuck cropping. i'm lazy.

>>460046
oh, and this. it physically moves the files when you move them among the folders.

>>460009
ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!

wow some of you need to get off the internets for once

c:\wallpapers
And I organize all of them depending on series; sometimes if I don't know where it's from, I'll just throw it directly into the Wallpapers folder.

pretty much as shown, animu by series, games and everything else by series, random, and $Incoming for saving new random shit I don't feel like organizing yet.

4,042 files in 109 folders, 2.45GB

>>460004
you mispelled Azumanga Daioh

Congratulations, you must have very little space on your hard drive and in your life hehe

>>458428
i still can't get my folders to look fully black like that. can someone tell me how to do it?

hey i posed some of those moe-tan ones XD

/r/ing megaupload / rapidshit of that rosario vampire folder i see

F:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Pictures\wallpapers <-- walls go in here lol

So... I have ~130k images... 33GB... Not sorted, tons of duplicates... Anyone got a good program that's relatively fast for detecting duplicates by similarity?

As for wallpapers? Probably like 4gb or so, mainly stupidly high res scans, with proper wallpaper ratios.

>Anyone got a good program that's relatively fast for detecting duplicates by similarity?
ThumbsPlus does a fairly good job, although it takes a while to create the database the first time you use it

>>460640
picassa can find dupes too
though it misses some and its a pain in the ass to actually delete the dupes

>>460651
Picasa only finds files that are exactly the same, so it misses a lot

if you want to just detect EXACT matches by hash code, then search for a program called clonespy. very quick and nice review interface. though it is designed for files in general rather than images.

I use SimiliarImages which is pretty good for close matches. I am always afraid to do automatic deletes tho

you guys are uber geeks.. organizing wallpapers... wow... realy that bored that you have to change your wallpaper 50 times a day.. i mean no one is there to see it apart from you...

-> See Cool wall -> Right Click -> Set as background -> ????? -> Profit

Noobs.

>>460640
Alright, thanks! I'll give it a shot. I was using Duplicate Finder, Duplicate Image Finder, Image Comparer and some other ones... they took forever to compare images.

>>460753
"Aww, shit. I liked the old one better, I wish I'd saved it..."

>>460753
No one gives a shit what you think.

Against my better judgement, I decided to start on the image database. It is far from completed, both feature-wise and design-wise... Does anon like what he sees, or does anyone have suggestions?

>>460925
i like it alot and would love to help - it already looks better than my feeble attempts. out of interest:
-what is it written in?
-how does is store the DB?
-can it take into account existing directory structure along side tags? (e.g. on import auto tags based on folder names)
-can i get a copy to test / play with?
(i write the yuki.scr screensaver so can at least provide technical bug reports even if i don't know the specific language used)

I wrote a script last night which intelligently downloads every wall on /w/. It maintains a database of metadata, which threads it's read, which posts it's seen, such that it only downloads thread pages or images when it hasn't seen them before.

When it downloads an image, it hashs it and checks if there's an existing hash for that image. If there is, it links the post's image entry to the pre-existing image and discards it.

The initial dump of /w/ done last night took about half an hour, downloading about 1200 images (taking up 1GB of space). I ran the script again this morning, took about 5 minutes to fetch all the new stuff. It's kind of slow because it fetches them in a linear manner, one at a time. Not the fastest for downloading, but it's nice on the server and easier to deal with code-wise.

The next logical step is to add useful image metadata to the database -- image resolutions, most frequent color in the image, average color in the image, etc. Eventually I'll probably write a tag system too, but it's a bit of a nightmare to even attempt to tag (what will be) thousands of images by myself.

Ultimately, I might hook this archiver up to some fat pipes (if I find a set of pipes fast enough) and write a web interface that's actually intuitive and easy to use. So you could search for red wallpapers with a 1.6 aspect ratio of minimum size 1280x800 and it would be able to pull those up, without any human help.

If I ever find some fat pipes, you guys will be the first to know :(

>>460934
>what is it written in?
I'm currently studying C#, so it's written in C# Express.

>how does is store the DB?
I haven't done that much planning on the DB structure yet, but I assume it will be an xml-ish textfile containing all essential info.

>can it take into account existing directory structure along side tags? (e.g. on import auto tags based on folder names)
As of now, you are able to choose what subdirectories it should implement in the imagename/tags, and how it should be formatted.
For example you could get "4chan, anime wallpapers, azumanga" from this path:
c:\images\4chan\wallpapers\anime\azumanga\
Like this: "[2], [4] [3], [5]".

>can i get a copy to test / play with?
(i write the yuki.scr screensaver so can at least provide technical bug reports even if i don't know the specific language used)
Ofcourse you may, but right now it's next to nothing more than a basic GUI. I'll try to implement some more functions during next week, so there'll probably be a beta ready about then. Love your screensaver btw.

I gave up a long time ago.

>>460934 me again.
>>460936
have you considered using SQLite? i have used it in several project with great results. plus if you ever want to up scale it is very easy to replace with MySQL or similar.
also, can it used the high-speed image loading interface that the default windows image viewer uses? I know there is an API into it, bit is a little fiddly to figure out. (the default one loads images faster than any other viewer i have tried.)

>>460942
I haven't messed about with SQL stuff before, but maybe I'll take the plunge with this project. However, wouldn't that force the user to install an SQL server in that case?

When it comes to image loading speeds, I guess It's not the fastest thing in the world right now. Currently it clocks in at 2-3 seconds to load 16 images. The thumbnails you see on-screen are the actual images though, so when you want to see an image up close it's loaded instantly (as long as you cba to wait for the thumbnails). Thanks for the idea of using explorer's image loading API, I'll have a look at it when I get time.

Last minute note: It currently uses 25mb of ram whatever you do with it. I don't know if this is good compared to other tools like it - should I try to reduce it even more?

>>460962
Another recommendation for SQLite (it's what I used for >>460935). SQLite is great because there isn't a server. Everything you need is linked into the project -- the database is a single file you "connect" to. For an application where there will only be one connection accessing a database, SQLite is key.

Additionally, it'll give you a good opportunity to learn SQL syntax, something that's really universally useful.

One folder, thousands of wallpapers

>>461226
This. I tired to be more organized but failed. They're just all in one folder now.

>>461001
>>460942
You've convinced me - I'll try to base it all on SQLite. Finding and editing information are much faster there from what I've heard, and it's always an advantage to know moar methods. Thanks.

I'll take a break from dev'ing until wednesday though, I really need to study for my math exam. Still open for suggestions, so keep on telling me what you want in the app!

>>461349

there is no spoon

>>461358
wat?

No one using the vista tagging system? Right now mine is organized in folders by series and such like most people. But I've just started tagging in vista and it seems to work aldrig thus far, only tagged like one category as of yet through :P

>>461408
Not that many people use vistaids, including me. I can't wait for >>460925, it looks like win

Maybe you could combine chanmongler and imgdb? That way it can mongle threads and get tags automatically. A coupon for one free internet awaits you if you pull that off.

>>461489
That is a brilliant suggestion, my good sir. I second this suggestion.

>>461489
interesting, though of course all img's DL'ed and not user-reviewed would have to be tagged as such. i am sensing the need for more formal project control system... sourceforge project anyone?

I just keep a folder for each show/video game/etc and within each folder are a bunch of images, a /w/ folder and /e/ folder (which is actually a mix of /e/ and /h/)

30 gigs of 4chan shit so far

>>461408
I dont know about the vista system. I dont really tag my shit. I wish I could tag it as I download it, rather than having to dig through gigs of shit to do so.

>>461550
That's actually one of the features which pImgDB will implement. It will parse the Image URL directly from the browser (much like Chanmongler) and prompt you for information as it downloads.

>>461546
If you meant that it should have a big common DB of image tags, I don't know whether that's such a good idea. We're talking about /b/tards here, and they love to mess things up (bad tags on purpose). Also, I'm not really sure about Sourceforge - I was going to see how quick I could pull this off on my own once I get started, something like a personal test if you will. But great to hear that you want to join in, maybe I'll set up a SF-project later on.

>>461489
I was thinking of that myself, but I'm not sure whether that would work really great in reality. I'll give it a shot.

damni dont want to retype what i just wrote

don't worry about /b/tards doing bad tags, when it reads them you just need a batch strip and batch rename feature. (besides /w/ackos seems to get along a lot nicer with everyone)

what I would love is if download 100 pics from a thread just based on the tags with one or two clicks I could have them move to the correct directory (ie [default path]/[series]/[character/[res]

And also work in reverse, getting tagged based on the directory it is in.

check mp3taggers for more ideas

>>461568
Okay then, I'll try to add some kind of tag-share system... I guess everyone would be happy if it's possible to choose whether it's active or not.

My plan was for pImgDB to move all the images to the same folder, and have the structure based solely on the tags. That way there wouldn't arise any problems due to foreign charsets. Maybe that's not such a good idea?

Tagging images based on their folder structure is alreadu a central part of adding images. That part is just about done, so atleast that's for sure.

Thanks for the tip about MP3 tagging software, maybe it'll be a good source of ideas.

>>461559
Say what now?

>to move all the images to the same folder, and have the structure based solely on the tags.

You mean all the images would be in the same folder with no subfolders and everything is tag based?

Imagine this, you have a folder with 10,000 images and someone says 'I want the Bebop with his ship in space' and you use the util to find it and it's file 124423442134.jpg and you go to upload it and you have to select that file from the 10,000 others in that folder. Ugh.

Of course if that isn't what you mean tl;dr

Also! Can you borrow some code from Dumpchan and/or XchanDump to make an uploader?

Anyone got a simple guide for dummies (first timers) trying to set up a database using MySQL? I'm using, , MySQL and PHP5. Trying to install, Shimmie2 ( http://trac.shishnet.org/shimmie2 ). I have everything else set up except imagemagick (which I also need help with). Any links are appreciated!

ohhhhhh another thought - the ability to rename the file based on the tags and hash code so you download file 1241234132.jpg but then click click and it becomes FSN-Saber-1280x1024-3db57e2.jpg

>>461651
That's not going to be a problem. See, I've added an export function. You can export a single file, a set of selected files, or all the search results to properly named files with a good folder structure whenever you need to. That way uploading stuff becomes a breeze. Does that justify the means?

Also, about the dumping - I never borrow code, but I plan to implement an uploader at any rate. It will probably not be implemented in the first version though, so don't hold your breath.

>>461674
What I wrote above is highly relevant. :P

>>458722 http://rapidshare.com/files/109644294/danbooru-rev1505.zip.html

I wish I had some sort of clue as to how to install this :O

I dont have too much anime but here is my pic

>>458530
Software originating in MY /w/? Someone better archive this shit.

>>461733
Request posted, head over to 4chanarchive to petition. DO IT, more of you!

>>461733
Wouldn't be the first time. A few months ago we got an original program that automatically dithers walls and converts them to low-res pixellated walls with old CGA color palettes. A bit of nostaligia. Pretty cool to play with.

>>461747
Now THAT's awesome. Do you happen to have the link still?

>>461733
Did you forget all about the Yuki screensaver? Well, maybe that doesn't qualify as "software", but still.

I bet OP is full of himself now.

another thought about the uploader part, if you download files from a thread using it it should remember the hash and then when you go to upload and you tell it send 'these 20' who should notice which ones are already in the thread and remove them automatically

>>461687
You aren't the only one...

>>461758
I went and made an embedded rar twice (forgot about minimum res the first time) only to discover you can't post them here :\ So I uploaded the file here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J3ZB81AU

>>462087
Oh, I forgot something rather important. You'll need to point the program to the folder with the images via the command line. The easiest way for any layman to do this is to create a new .txt file in the folder with CGADither. In the file write on the first line:
CGADither.exe <path>
where <path> is the directory of the images. For example:
CGADither.exe C:\Wallpapers

Save and close the file and then rename it to a .bat extension like "CGADither.bat". Now you can run the program via the .bat instead of the .exe file.

oh yeah, uploader should know hen the pic is too small or large for the board

>>462153
>>461871
I'll get it all added somehow, thanks for all the great suggestions.

>>462087
You can upload embedded rars, you just have to use a custom binder program - www.encyclopediadramatica.com/PFBind
Thanks though, this'll be awesome.

>>462228
>pFBind
I guess from the name that you made this as well. Seriously dude; how much time did you waste on creating progs for anon? And where do I see a complete list?

>>462231
Yeah, that's correct. My way of relaxing is by writing stuff, and I've felt like doing apps for 4chan lately. I haven't wasted that much time on it though, maybe 1 day an app or so? Anyways, you can get everything (except for loic and scid) on praetox.com.

ok so for the tagger what I would like is a one-click mode:

Say you have 100 Azumanga group pics but there are different people in each one. I tell the program I am tagging Osaka pics, it gives me the Windows-explorer-esque thumbnail display of the files in the directory and I just scroll through and each pic I click gets tagged (or what until the end to do a batch if the proces takes more than a second)

Also you should be able to multi-tag this way so I could start with all the ones that have Osaka and Chiyochan and Tomo etc. As may tags as possible at once.

also we should be able to change the size of the thumbnail display so sometimes you have them little 20x20 or 800x600

and a sort by number of tags so that we can easily get all the no-tag and few-tags together to see what should be added

ah, and for tag display there should be a 'display number of characters' setting so you can tell it for example to just show the first three letters of the Series Tag to see 'Azu' instead of 'Azumanga Daioh'

>>462321
It's funny how we always have the same ideas. As of now, you select all the images just like in windows explorer, then you right-click one of them and select "Append tag(s)". That way the existing tags of each picture (if any) retains, and it will just append whatever you enter.

Also, about changing size - did you notice the text field to the left in the screenshot? There you can select how many thumbs you want displayed vertically, so that's already covered. ^^

I really liked the "sort by number of tags" idea. I've already added a "tag orphanned pictures" feature, but that only covers the pictures with no tags at all. Your method sounds much more efficient.

Finally, for the "display number of characters" idea - I guess that could be nice in certain situations. Sure, I'll drop it in.

LOL fan va moget o sortera sådär! xD

>>462461
Sorry but I don't speak moon.

can you have the tags organize alphabetical? and perhaps we can set a standard using characters like ^ and # and _ for Series and Dimension and Character

>>462929
That sounds like a good idea. Even though how each user tags their stuff is up to them, I guess I could add a list of "suggested tagging conventions" at the very least.

I don't think there would be any need for a resolution tag though; there will be an option to only show images within a certain resolution range while searching.

>>462461
That was swedish, but I didn't get all of it either.

>>462929
danbooru.donmai.us (and related) allows for different types of tags (e.g. artist, character, general, etc.). what do you think?

>>463040
That's something that I've missed out on completely - I just assumed that my idea was somewhat like danbooru. Maybe I should have a closer look at it before making claims like that. At any rate, I'm rather suruprised I haven't thought of doing it like that myself. Ofcourse it's much more efficient than having a common tag field - I'll do something about it as soon as I resume the development.

oh i thought we already talked about different types of tags when i mentioned the mp3 systems which have specific fields and then a general comments type (which should also be included)

>>462461
Translation: LOL damn mature to sort that way

>>458428
Originally, I had my wallpapers completely unsorted, but when they started numbering in the hundreds, I decided to speperate them by source, then after consideration I sorted by resolution. Now I have to sorted by catagory and source and style.
I Currently have 2,011 wallpapers

too many paths to show...

>>463226

>>463226
this might give a better idea

I sort my wallpapers by the Anime / Source from which they came (if there is no anime, then the artist fulfills that tag) and then sometimes by the characters in them.
(Example, if it is a single character wallpaper with Nagato Yuki from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, I put it in the folder "\4chan\anime\wallpapers\Suzumiya_Haruhi_no_Yuutsu\Nagato_Yuki"
So I have the folder structure as follows:
4chan>type_of_image(anime/other)>resolution(wallpaper/other)>Anime/Artist>Character(if only single character in image)
I find it works pretty well for when someone tells me "I want a Yuki Wallpaper" or "I want a C.C. wallpaper" and I can just pull up the folder and say "Which one?"

>>463450
As an added note, if I do not know the artist's name or the series name, I go to picture characteristics, like if the character is wearing glasses, or if it's a catgirl, etc.
I label those folders misc_catgirl or misc_glasses, etc.
On a side note, I usually prefix my misc. folders with "z_" so they show up after the sorted stuff, so I would have z_misc_catgirl or z_misc_glasses, etc.

ignorant anon here.
how does one get their interface to look like OP's?

>>463475
Seconded. Is that some kind of Aero or WindowBlinds manipulation?

>>458428

iphoto

>>463563
Dosnt look to dissimilar to mine. Im guessing its just a standard windows theme with modded colors and text.

I had 'bblean' (blackbox) running on mine when i took screens before

I used the eyedropper tool in MS Paint to emulate OP's theme, and improvised on what we don't see. Use pFBind to extract it from this image.

>>463648
Thanks

How's it going? Any progress?

Fuck yeah

A central picture dump depository folder first when not in sorting mood, than when I get around to it (rarely), categorize by genre, series, origin, or "other" depending on the wallpaper.

>>463972
how might I ask you make vista pretty like that?

>>463967
I've been playing about with SQLite lately (what I might use to power the database itself) to see if it's worth it. I'm going to keep doing that for a few more days to make sure, then I'll resume the work on the application itself.

Everything might progress a bit slower than what I'd initially hoped for though; due a sudden change of plans my spare time will be cut somehow short. I'll do what I can, but there might not be any beta releases for quite the while yet.

Also, excuse me my horrible grammars - I'm dead tired atm.

>>464063
hay just remember that you are doing this as a favor to anon, so no pressure! take your time. RL is more important. its not as if we are paying you for this ^^.

only one thing we need to know: what space should we watch? :D

Pic related. Sort it when you get it.

More awesome.

>>464141
where can i get that is it a normal plugin?

>>464186
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/614

>>460000
wat

>>464257
Wasted opportunity. I got 444444 for fucks sake and didn't notice until after. Shittiest day of my life, no lie.

>>464139
My wallpaper organization is simply horrible, so I'm also doing it for my own good. But okay, I'll try to keep that in mind. :P

If I don't manage to get it done before this thread dies, I'll put it up in the software downloads section of my website (www.praetox.com). Who knows, maybe there's more stuff you'll find useful there?

>>463630
>>463648

ignorant anon thanks you for your time.

My Pictures>4chan>Walls>Non Anime Walls/Anime Walls>Anime Walls. I dump it all in one Anime Walls folder, I don't like organizing and I suck at it and I'm too lazy to sort by series.

Mine's 4chan - Wallpapers - Anime - Show - Resolution. It takes way too long to sort the images, so only about half is sorted (4gb).

Wallpapers folder. That is all.

I just dump them all in a folder and let a program choose which one to display at random, usually set to change every 5 minutes or so

anons who dont sort are selfish because when someone says I wouldlike such and such howare you going to deliver?

>>465270

Not really. I could always painstakingly look for it manually. Oh and let me tell you....

I am VERY generous.

I have a question is there a program that can batch rename files to their md5 sum.

I ask because I've started to rename my random pictures like that and I might start doing that to my wallpapers to stop exact duplicates

i usually have one folder for some smaller images from 4chan, then one folder thats all 4chan usually wallpaper sized and larger, and one folder for moe.imouto.org
i have wallpapers i actually use in one folder and its not very big since im a bit picky with wallpapers sometimes. i usually use xnview and sort by width and find one thats larger than 1920x1200 and crop or make/clean up my own

basically i only use what i can use and whats displayed is controlled by wallpaper master.

>>465444
If you can wait until pImgDB is done, you can use that as a batch renamer. It automatically renames the images to their MD5 checksum, and puts all of them into the same folder.

>>465271
credit card number. naow.

XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

Oh damn, I forgot that 4chan filters credit card numbers now.

>>465544
XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

>>465547
well, I'll be damned.

Yep, I got my own personal danbooru too. I use it for my entire animu wallpaper folder. Run it off my webserver.

>>465548
sweet really

4863-4635-9781-1584

>>465551
damn it

uh guys how do you delete posts?

>>465553
Uhuh.... If thats not fake then its funny

rofl what a huge bucket of fail right there, reminds me of that one guys social security number failure

I say: bitch, you only need one wallpaper.

>>465551
thanks i just bought a new computer

lol i saved a screen of that, so i can make a fail poster of it :)

>>465651
i was gonna do that but couldn't think of a punch line
it'd be great if the next post after <<465631 was it didn't work for me

20GB sorted by Size, divided into to 500 picture folders
Size -> Folder#1 -> pics

i just sort mine into whatever series it came from. if i dont know, just throw it into my /w/ and /wg/ folders

for the ones i make, i just throw it into the folder that says wall pngs, so i dont lose them in my huge abyss of files from my website and /e/

the new folder shit is just unsorted

>>465657
old joke is old

How's things going with the database?

For general series related wallpaper or several characters in a group
>\animu\series\wallpapers

For wallpapers depicting only a single character
>\animu\series\character\wallpapers

~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Cars
~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Planes
~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Landscape
~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Space
~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Anime/<Series> - for generic show stuffs
~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Anime/<Series>/<Character> - for single char stuffs
~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Anime/Hot - symlinks for favorite hot walls
~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Anime/SwordGirls - symlinks for sword girls
~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Anime/Unknown - for stuff I liked, but didnt get sauce on & original works

>>466640
dam you for having symlinks! you just had to rub how much i want to get away from windows.

>>466686

Don't know how well this works compared to symlinks; http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

~Pictures\Wallpapers

Simple.

with windows live photo gallery u can add tags to all your photos

>>458530
Had the same idea about a year back and started writing it then...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/imda/
But seeing the amount of downloads it had so far i gues it either sucks or isnt what people want...

>>466808
/me downloads to have a look

>>466808
That looked rather good, although I haven't tried it yet. I don't see why it's not more popular than it is, unless it's not that user friendly... I hope pImgDB won't run into the same fate.

Anyways, the app has been progressing slowly. I'm basically done with the GUI now, and I've started on the coding of the import function. Right now I have a feeling that it'll be quick and easy to get done, but due to tests I guess it'll be somewhat done within a few weeks.

I find a combination of ACDSee and VisiPics to solve most problems. Now the only problem I have is if i should put pics from say Ragnarok in the video game section or in animu section.

lol

>>467419
Well main reason i posted it on Sourceforge is in the hope of getting some feedback to improve it, but gues that was in vain...

Goodluck with your app

I have two folders--one for 4:3 and one for 16:9. Every file in those is named with the series name and a number.

a sorting program would be nice, but I doubt I could be bothered tagging all 20000 images

Here's a little update.

Mass import function is completed, I'm about to start on searching. Group tagging and live tagging is yet to be started on. Gotta dash, so post's kinda short.

>>467932
Just wandered in from /wg/. I'd appreciate if you post there as well when you're done with your program!

Love, Anonymous

screw wg

2 folders:

pr0n

non-pr0n

'nuff said

>>463226

wtf is "Evengelion"?

>>468458
evangelion*

Search feature's coming along nicely (atleast I think so). Is there anything I've forgotten to add to the search menu now?

>>467946
Ofcourse - I'll give you a holler as soon as it's done (or nearly so).

>>468667
Filesize limits perhaps? (Smaller/larger than X kb/mb)

>>468667
looking awesome. can't wait to try it!
and i would not don't bother with where in the string the search term is found. if you do want add it, make it determined by *. e.g. *chan = must end in chan.

>>468667
It should be a wildcard search. Text anywhere in the gilename, though I suppose you could add Starts and Ends with options.

hey when you get most of sorting tagging stuff added could you add in a wallpaper changer that could use tags to find images. so I could have a tag for sfw and nsfw and then the wallpaper changer could be set to only use sfw tagged pics when i need safe walls and such

>>469439
great idea

Top: iPhoto
Bottom: Pictures and Anime folders w/ custom background

>>469439
The idea is to make everything heavily tag-based, so I guess that will pop up sooner or later. Thanks for the idea though. Even though the wallpaper-changer is not the top priority on my todo-list, I'll make sure to have it done within the next few versions or so.

In other news, I've done a quick project site for pImgDB. As of now it contains a bit of information, some screenshots, and a link to its own forum. All of this can be found on praetox.com - click the top link under "Popular links" to get there.

Where as my vault are images categorized by folder, this year everything is categorized into one large folder, titled: 2008 - Visual Arts - Now classified by year since it's rather annoying to open folder after folder after folder to get to one image.

>>458459
I wrote my own booru clone. its especially handy when searching as i can search for size and ratio..

I have it running on my dedicated server and my home server ... my home server has twice the ammount of files.. but neither are just for wallpapers... its good to see fellow anon are organising using booru style boards!

>>467493
<<< can create offline danboos for faster browsing (up to thousands of pics / page)

just plain html, so no ruby/php/sql/whatever server-shit required, just simple browser

as for searching
-> java gui and a created .txt file with all files | tagname

simple as that

>>469917
oh hey, sorry if this is obvious and already part of the design (thread to big to read lol), but will it actually sort by tag or just search by tag?

for example if I tell it to find 'Rei' 'Asuka' '1600x1200' '>1024x768' would it first give me all /Rei and Asuka 16x12/ wallpapers, then all /Rei and Asuka wallpapers >1024x768/, then all /Rei (no Asuka) 16x12/ wallpapers, then all /Rei >1024x768/, then all /Asuka (no Rei) 16x12/, etc?

>>470021
At the moment it only searches by tags. The results are sorted by the order they were added to the database (eg. the oldest pics comes first). You have a point though, sorting by tags is probably a good idea... I'll see if I can implement it.

>>470034
so you mean you can search by a tag or click on a list tags to browse
Man I can't wait to see even a beta version when it's released, I have a backup computer i could
test on and not hurt a thing

I think this thread is longer than the yuki screen saver one

>>470041
Indeed it is, but it's not far from beginning to autosage (250 replies). That'll be the end.

>>470282
really didn't know it'd autosage
well a nwe thread shall be started someday

>>460938
I see a Super Mario Bros 3 wallpaper in that folder you show, I have one that looks similar can you post the one you have there?

I just found out that my exams are in two weeks, so I'll be spending most of my spare time studying for those. As I don't have the opportunity to do much more on pImgDB for a while, would you like a beta now?

Features that currently work:
- Batch import
- Searching
- Thumbnail overview
- Viewing images

Currently it does not show the images' names or information, just the images themselves. Also, note that I didn't mention editing, deletion, sorting or exporting as working features. That's why I ask if anyone's interested - to me it doesn't seem anywhere near good enough to bother, but then again that's just me.

>>470946
i'd try it but i don't have my extra computer with me at my apartment so I'll pass and say when you get some more done on it I'll happily test it

>>470946
I can't wait to test it. Any form of beta would be great

>>466686
Vista has symlinks
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/

>>471459
I have a symlink for my Lucky☆Star folder called "Lucky Star," It's quite helpful because I can't be bothered to go hunt for the star character >->

I've nearly completed the wallpaper changer, so I've started on mass editing now. Am I doing it right?

If you're having trouble understanding how it works, try reading the fields you can change out loud.
Still don't get it? "Append value" "nature" to "Tags General" including "All images in database", though only when "Tags General" "contains" "trees,forest,etc."

Methods I've added until now:
Action to perform: Set value, Append value, Replace value, Remove value, Delete image, Select image
Tag/info type: Image name, Image rating, Tags General, Tags Source, Tags Chars, Tags Artists
Including these image groups: Selected images, Last search results, All images in database
Only when: See tag/info type
Comparing method: contains, does not contain, is blank, is not blank

I know I've forgotten a range of stuff I should add there, but what?

>>458752
Don't be such an ass. OP's picture shows organization... He's asking how others tackle the task. And it's a good question - I've been anal-retentive about folder structure for years and I've already picked up a couple of good tips.
Also - learn how to spell....miscellaneous.

>>460040
omg this thread is still alive..
i will when im at home i only have the pics on my big pc - lappi here

I have a lot of unused wallpapers, but I save the pictures if I like them.
Currently 3889 files taking up 2,72gb, where I use 159 of them in my random wallpaper program.

Most of my ish is just anime which i store under the series name. If i dont know what series its from it goes to either ecchi or anime folders. pretty ladies are just stored under female files are named by the model for when i need to find a certain one. Anything that's not anime goes into misc/animals or some other unifying charactersistic 2900+wallpapers all 1920x1080 and counting organization is key! (who could deal with 1 folder)

oops jpg this time

>>472024
can you link your Wallpaper, kind Anon?

>>472059
many thanks anon

isn't there any tagging soft ?
tagging would be the best option I guess.
My folder is a mess too.

>>472069
I meant "good tagging soft"

Autosaging yet? If so, then here's a great end for the thread - first official beta. I'm not sure if everything came out right at the end, but most of what's there should work.

I'll write up a detailed guide on the readme site a bit later, right now I've got to do something else. The screenshot is an fbind, so if you know what that is you can get it that way. For everyone else, here's an old-fashioned download link. Enjoy.

http://tib.110mb.com/apps/pImgDB_beta.zip

>>472086
Features completed (or nearly so):
- Creating the database (lol)
- Importing images (drag/drop folders onto the program)
- Autotagging based on folder names (use {1}, {2} etc. and {fname} in tag fields)
- Editing tags on single images (should be rather straight-forward)
- Mass edit - add/replace/remove tags on groups of images
- Search - yeah, I don't think I'll need to explain what this does
- WP changer - can change walls automagically for you

Hotkeys:
Ctrl+Left/Right: Change image / thumbnail-page
Ctrl+Home: Go back to thumbnail view
Ctrl+Home in thumb-view: Skip back to first page
Ctrl+Del in full-view: Delete single image
Ctrl+Del in thumb-view: Delete selected images
Ctrl+A in thumb-view: Select/deselect everything (NO SHIT)
Ctrl+G in thumb-view: Go to specific thumbnail page

That's all I can think of atm. If you've got some questions, fire at will.

>>472086

A thousand thank yous

>>472090
Will this program be open sourced and does it heavily rely on Window's APIs? I'd like to port it to *nix based system and also to further extend the tagging by allowing the not4chan extension to tag while saving threads.

>>472164
I am not sure if it'll be open-source, but it's quite possible. I've had some really bad experiences with that from earlier on, but this is merely an image database, anyways... As for the APIs, it's only using GetForegroundWindow and GetAsyncKeyState for the hotkey functionality and SystemParametersInfo for changing wallpapers. I guess porting it would be rather simple.

You wouldn't have to change anything in pImgDB itself to let it recieve tags from not4chan though - if the addon downloads the images to properly named folders, pImgDB can parse the tags from the folder/filenames.

Thanks for showing interest in the project though, I'll come back with the final decision once it's completed.

>>472170
I'm away for the weekend, will have access to my windows development machine tomorrow, so I'll take a look then at how things are implemented.

If possible, I wanted the download extension to have direct access to the db, thereby allowing at a later time, an extension to post images through searching the tag db as well.

Some additional ideas:
- Dupe detection
- Automatically add tags (Colors, Objects, NWS, Etc)

Have some more ideas as I've been thinking of making something similar for a while now, but like most anonymous, don't have the drive to get started.

>>472181
It's really funny how everyone get the same ideas when it comes to image databases. If you take a minute to skim through the thread, you'll notice that we've already discussed implementing an uploader. It is, in fact, well on its way to be completed - but thanks for the heads-up at any rate.

The idea of adding dupe detectors and adding tags based on the image content was something I haven't thought of yet, though. I guess there's still lots to be added, and I'm not one to do a half-assed job (well, not usually). I guess I'll work on this project until I've added every little feature (bloatware, anyone?), so it can take some time before it's completed...

At any rate, it's going to be atleast two weeks delayed now, due to exams coming up. So don't rush yourself with planning etc., you've got exceptionally good time.

One final note: This is still a beta, and there's lots of things (interface-wise, mostly) that I'm very dissatisfied of. Expect things to be much more user-friendly in the upcoming versions.

>>472090

A single request/suggestion, since you're paying an incredible amount of attention to people's ideas.

Will it be possible to just load all the images on one's computer into a single view (obviously lots of scrolling involved there for some of us), then sort them by resolution? I tried this with Picasa, but you can't do it without manually adding all your image folders to an album, one at a time. Obviously a complex folder tree makes such a task more inconvenient than just making a backup one-folder image directory (which, in turn, destroys the folder organization.)

I don't know if the application already has this functionality, or if this is even in the original scope of the program, but I hope you can include this feature.

SO OLD! this is almost older than the internet.
your getting into the history books

>>472258
If you import all your images to the application by drag/dropping your entire C-drive onto the app (see >>472090 for instructions on keeping structure), you can hit the "Show all images" button to scroll through all of them. That's the closest thing I can think of, at any rate I doubt you'd manage to do it without importing the images first at any rate. If you have any ideas for improvement, please do speak up.

The thread's going to die very soon, so I suggest you ask questions on my forum instead - http://tib.110mb.com/viewforum.php?f=54 is the place to go.

>>472370
Why thank you.