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How do you organize your Anime files?
Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: Barrucadu on July 24, 2010, 08:39:42 PM ---I just remember what episode I'm up to :P
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Damn, you must actually finish shows, then. I have a little over 130 things I've watched >0 episodes of, but not finished. :p
glitchhunter:
Hi all,
I arrange by anime by English name, and whether it is complete or incomplete. Since my anime is spread over a few drives, I organise it all into one large index of shortcuts. The shortcuts have the year of the anime, as well as the genres. That way, I can use the sort function to organise my anime my year if I wish. Also, I can use the search function up the top to eg type in 'martial arts' and then all the things I have labelled as martial arts will come up. Here is a picture ^_^
x5ga:
--- Quote from: glitchhunter on July 26, 2010, 10:26:15 AM ---Hi all,
I arrange by anime by English name, and whether it is complete or incomplete. Since my anime is spread over a few drives, I organise it all into one large index of shortcuts. The shortcuts have the year of the anime, as well as the genres. That way, I can use the sort function to organise my anime my year if I wish. Also, I can use the search function up the top to eg type in 'martial arts' and then all the things I have labelled as martial arts will come up. Here is a picture ^_^
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Adding comments to the shortcuts so that you can search by genre is a great idea. I had a few series that I've downloaded about a year ago and didn't find time to watch them and now I have to look them up on anidb/anime-planet to find out why exactly did I download them, because I tend to forget these things easily. I'm gonna start adding comments to the folders in my anime libraries right now. Brilliant idea you had, sir.
OniSamurai:
--- Quote from: x5ga on July 26, 2010, 11:43:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: glitchhunter on July 26, 2010, 10:26:15 AM ---Hi all,
I arrange by anime by English name, and whether it is complete or incomplete. Since my anime is spread over a few drives, I organise it all into one large index of shortcuts. The shortcuts have the year of the anime, as well as the genres. That way, I can use the sort function to organise my anime my year if I wish. Also, I can use the search function up the top to eg type in 'martial arts' and then all the things I have labelled as martial arts will come up. Here is a picture ^_^
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Adding comments to the shortcuts so that you can search by genre is a great idea. I had a few series that I've downloaded about a year ago and didn't find time to watch them and now I have to look them up on anidb/anime-planet to find out why exactly did I download them, because I tend to forget these things easily. I'm gonna start adding comments to the folders in my anime libraries right now. Brilliant idea you had, sir.
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I agree, very good idea.
Pentium100:
On most of my hard drives (I have a lot of drives) I have an "Anime" folder. Completed series (as in "I have all the episodes") are placed in a subdirectory with the name of the series, while the files of theseries that are placed in the directory itself.
I Use FlexRAIDview to create a virtual drive that has the files of all of the other drives (if I have J:\Anime\x.avi and M:\Anime\y.avi then Y:\Anime will have both x.avi and y.avi).
When I accumulate 100-200GB of watched anime, preferably those series that will not have any more sequels or related series. I move them to a separate hard drive, change the subdirectory names to just the name of the anime (no more "[xyz]Anime_1"), organize the file names in each subdirectory, so if I sort them by name, the order of the files is the order of the episodes - nothing needs to be done if all files are from the same group, but if different groups did part of this, I move the group name after the episode number, so that this:
[abc] Anime 1 - 02.mkv
[xyz] Anime 1 - 01.mkv
(see, out of order)
becomes this:
Anime 1 - 01[xyz].mkv
Anime 1 - 02[abc].mkv.
I run the AniDB software to add the files to my anime list and verify checksums. If I find bad files, I try to fix/redownload them. If/when all files are OK I record that directory to LTO tape. LTO1 tape holds ~100GB and LTO2 holds ~200GB. I record whole tape at once and only of the anime that I already watched.
After that, I add the directory to my index (I use Advanced File Organizer) and delete it.
I can use AFO to find where any file is (on which HDD, tape, DVD).
I used to record DVDs, that they are less convenient (need to record lots of disks) and take up more physical space. A LTO tape in its box is only 11x11x2.7cm but holds 200GB ~45 DVDs. And I'd rather record, label and store a single tape than 45 DVDs. I recorded about 210 DVDs before switching to LTO1 and then LTO2. I am now slowly copying all DVDs to LTO2 tapes before the DVDs become unreadable.
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