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| 11-13-08 04:20pm - 5883 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Organizing the Video Collection x Edited on Apr 19, 2023, 02:02pm | |
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| 11-13-08 04:25pm - 5883 days | #2 | |
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elonlybuster (0)
Active User Posts: 52 Registered: Aug 24, '08 Location: Georgia |
I personally organize by Website, then by sub site (if the site has it), followed by type of vid (solo, hardcore, group...), then by ethnicity of the main star(s). Website > Sub-Site > Genre > Ethnic And of course I put my personal favorites in 1 main folder. | |
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| 11-13-08 04:28pm - 5883 days | #3 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
x Edited on Apr 19, 2023, 02:03pm | |
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| 11-13-08 05:32pm - 5883 days | #4 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User  Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
A strong dose of OCD and a good memory is crucial to make it work, but primarily it goes like this. Content is first broken down by the Content Provider - I usually use the parent company's name. For example, DP Overload doesn't have its own folder and is relegated to the depths of 21 Sextury. Within the main content folders reside folders with models names on them. If two models share the same name, then a numeric designation is added to the end of both models names (Anastasia 1, Anastasia 2). I personally have an excellent memory for faces, so each of the models directories has a thumbnail of the model's face labeled "0.jpg". It is labled this so it doesn't get confused for a video or full size photo and is automatically sorted into the first position by Windows. This of course means, that I keep the Content Folder sorted in Thumbnail mode so I can see all of the smiling faces easily. Within a Model folder, any video is labeled first by the model's name again, and then either the name of the specific site (rather than the parent company) that hosted the file, by the name of the DVD that the scene came from (if that be the case) or by the name of the video if the video has a specific name (ex. Twister by the Pool). If there are multiple videos of that model from one same source, numeric labels are added to the end again. This allows for searching of the site content or DVD content if the desire ever surfaces. Photos are also contained within a Model's directory, but the difference is that each photo set gets its own directory. Again, the photo set's directory is named for the model and then the specific site or the name of the photo set, if provided. Distinctions can be made between same named photo sets again by numeric labels. It takes dedication to the system for it to work, but once you have the system working, navigation of it is a breeze. I'm horrible at remember model names, but I remember site names and model faces well, so I can think about what sort of content I fancy, bop over to a site that caters to that and then browse through the faces until one grabs my attention. With the amount of content I have on hand, I honestly don't really need to subscribe to anything anymore, but the grass is always greener... et cetera. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on Nov 13, 2008, 05:36pm (Toadsith: Typos.) | |
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| 11-13-08 06:17pm - 5883 days | #5 | |
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Jeffrey99 (0)
Active User  Posts: 106 Registered: Nov 04, '08 Location: Good Ole Midwest USA |
I'm not as organized as everyone else. :) I have it listed by site name, then directory label with the model name. Whatever the site has her listed as. If I know her from another site under a different name, then I'll put that name in ( ). Inside that folder I normally save the pictures as Model Name and then ether set number/date/name with a progressive number behind it created by my download manager DownThemAll. Some sites like Playboy you can only download the higher res pics in zips, there is no way to view them on the site. So instead of going through 25+ pics and renaming, I just put them in a sub directory labeled as set name/date/number or whatever it's listed as on the site. | |
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| 11-13-08 07:00pm - 5883 days | #6 | |
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badandy400 (0)
Active User  Posts: 869 Registered: Mar 02, '08 Location: ohio |
Or you just do like I do...have a huge freaking mess! Organization has been a plague for me for some time now. Having 15 TB spread over 30 HDD makes organization a nightmare. I have been working on it though. The stuff I download now is organized on the fly. I rename pretty much every file as it comes in. The name features the website, model name, and scene description. I have so much porn right now that I have no clue where it came from and that bothers me because it makes organization an issue. A while ago I really did not care about organization because I did not need to. The reason it is so important to me know to have the stuff organized by site is I want to be able to tell where I left off from downloading a site once I rejoin it for updates. Also, I like to rename because many sites name video some time like "Video 1" while after a day or so means "zlkdrhaoi." I do not know what "Video 1" was so I have found it nice to rename stuff and it is only a matter of copy and pasting during the queuing process. As Toadsith said, many of us do not actually need to download any more, likely ever again. But, well will. We will keep downloading, hoarding all we can because we love hearing the other guy bragging to his friends about his 25 GB porn collection and thinking to ourselves "gee, I will download more than today, then do it again tomorrow and do it again..." "For example, badandy400 has taken it upon himself to become the one man Library of Congress for porn with a collection that surely will be in Guinness Book of World Records some day." ~Toadsith~ PU Interview | |
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| 11-13-08 08:14pm - 5883 days | #7 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
x Edited on Apr 19, 2023, 02:03pm | |
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| 11-13-08 08:21pm - 5883 days | #8 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
x Edited on Apr 19, 2023, 02:03pm | |
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| 11-13-08 08:31pm - 5883 days | #9 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I have actually contemplated running a PHP / MySQL website on my own rig for personal use for the sole purpose of cataloging my porn collection. Every video or photo set would be individually tagged with selectable search filters, functioning much like that AmericanVice site I recently reviewed. Then I decided I was far too lazy to actually do that and settled with the current system. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 11-13-08 10:29pm - 5882 days | #10 | |
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badandy400 (0)
Active User Posts: 869 Registered: Mar 02, '08 Location: ohio |
10 PB...hum....not quite there yet, but it is a goal at least. I am hoping to have some quality time to spend on organization in about a month here. I basically separate content by website and dedicate hard drive to individual sites if the site is large enough. VideoBox and Brazzers are both more than big enough to do this. I have 4 750 GB drive that are full of content from VideoBox only and a 500 full of brazzers only. I could probably fill another 750 with VideoBox stuff I have on several drives right now and I should be using a 1 TB for Brazzers. The large sites are easy to organize. It is all the little ones that are a pain. But I am working towards having the smaller site organized by niche as well. Basically keeping small softcore sites on one drive and small extreme sites on another. This make browsing nicer as well, after all I usually do not go from sensual erotic dancing to midget whipping from one video to the next. I usually say close to the niche I am interested in at the time. So no need for the extreme porn drive to be spinning when I am interested solo topless dancing. Wittyguy. If you feel like contributing to my mission I would be more than happy to except a grant from you...perhaps any raffle winnings. :) You are right on on point though, it is very expensive. This costs me $100 per month on hard drive alone. Then add in internet bill, site memberships, time invested, hell even electric and it begins adding up in a hurry. But when porn is outlawed I will be sitting pretty for a long time.....unless of course those bastards come and take my stash because my name is all over the internet porn world! "For example, badandy400 has taken it upon himself to become the one man Library of Congress for porn with a collection that surely will be in Guinness Book of World Records some day." ~Toadsith~ PU Interview | |
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| 11-13-08 10:43pm - 5882 days | #11 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
That's why you need to invest in the Advanced Hard Drive Protection System. Also known more commonly as the Benelli M4 Super 90 Semi-Automatic Shotgun. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 11-13-08 11:42pm - 5882 days | #12 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Now thats protection. Me I am in the middle I name drives with sub titles, I use one for model names and then by scenes. Some I could care less the models name just what she is doing and then, some like one of my favoritites AustinKincaid I know she isnt for everyone but whew that voice those curves, lol where was I ? Oh yea I name then by niches model names or acts. That way I dont care about small or big sites it by the scenes and models thats what workes for me, and my collection is small compared to the others. Since 2007 | |
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| 11-14-08 06:01pm - 5882 days | #13 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
x Edited on Apr 19, 2023, 02:03pm | |
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| 11-14-08 11:15pm - 5881 days | #14 | |
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IKnoPorn (0)
Active User  Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
Cool question! I wish I had noticed it sooner. I take great pride in my organization of my collection, it's similar in many ways to Toadsith's, although I don't have his memory for faces, so I made up a system of my own. I'll spare the details of my folder organization, very similar to Toadsith's (website, then model name, then sets by that model). Since I'm primarily a glamor fan, this system works well. However, while my collection is not nearly as large as others here (just over 100 GB), I found that I was always looking for more on the web, rather than enjoying what I had, because I could never find anything on my PC and had no way to preview it. How many times have you found yourself blindly wandering through your collection looking for something good? Open folder, double click on some images, maybe a video...it was "hunt and peck" at best. Then I compared what was different about my favorite websites that I surf regularly, vs. the great wealth of stuff on my hard drive. The answer: well organized preview content, and point and click photo galleries. Being a software developer by profession, I designed and created my own "organizer" which I call Porn Commander. Basically I give this program a root folder on my hard drive, and it goes through and creates a series of web pages. I essentially use my computer's file system as the "database", and create photo galleries of each set. I use Highslide (TM), an excellent javascript slide show utility, used by big websites like Digital Desire (if you are so inclined, Highslide is free for personal use, and I strongly recommend it). I had to build some infrastructure around Highslide, mainly to search through my hard drive (starting at the specified folder) and find the images and produce the web pages. It's kind of like ASP and a web server, however I produce the content statically in my program, so I don't have to run a web server. The HTML pages just go straight to the file system. Porn Commander produces the pages when I run the program, and the HTML is there to double click on whenever I want. So basically I end up, for every photoset I have ever downloaded, with a model gallery and links to her photosets, with thumbnail previews. So rather than just viewing a single image at a time as you usually do when browsing images on your PC, instead I have the entire photo gallery in a web page and my entire porn collection comes to life!! Now my PC is basically its own professional quality website. It only takes a few minutes to re-index my hard drive and produce new pages from time to time, but my appreciation for all of those photographs and videos has grown immensely!! Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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| 11-15-08 12:35pm - 5881 days | #15 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
x Edited on Apr 19, 2023, 02:04pm | |
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| 11-15-08 01:50pm - 5881 days | #16 | |
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obsessedoverit (0)
Suspended Posts: 1 Registered: Apr 23, '07 Location: Washington |
I'm glad someone finally asked this question. It seems from the previous posts the majority organize their content by website first then sub categorize from there i.e., Model name and/or niche. What I have been working on recently is a bit different and more time consuming but I think it works best for me. I have everything organized by model name and within each model folder I have their content listed by website. An example: Monica sweetheart >1By-Day >Third Movies >Twisty's >Video Box >Suze Randall >Danni >zero tolerance The model list is alphabetical and covers 4 500gb hard drives. A-D is on hd 1 and so on. Transferring all of this data is time consuming as I have to sort through it all manually but in the end it's easier to find everything. | |
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| 11-15-08 03:38pm - 5881 days | #17 | |
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IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
Thanks Wittyguy! That's quite a compliment. Actually I've thought about turning it into a installable program, perhaps I will one day, although I'd probably offer it up for free. Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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