Survey Question How do you organize your collection of content?

[pythonixx]

As title says, looking for new perspectives on sorting & archiving large number of files.

Personally, it used to just be by industry actresses, maybe 15-20 folders at most and a separate folder for niche websites. Sometimes there's cross-over, files in the actress folders might appear in the website branch, but it's not too awful on a small scale.

But there's 100's of amateur creators today, many with 5+ social medias, some with porn career content, free stuff, ppv, stuff, etc ,etc.

Are you guys using tags or hierarchical folders, 3rd-party software (DAM, CMS systems), upload sites, something else? When I see 10,000 images in a flat folder on bunkrr, I groan inside cause how do you find anything in such a pile? Sifting becomes a chore and I end up doing something else when I get bored of it.

Someone once said they only have two folders; watched & not watched. Would drive me nuts, one folder with everything thrown in it like an episode of data hoarder diaries.

For simplicity of backing up perhaps something like a mega-upload, where I could easily rsync/clone the pr0n collection as an exact duplicate to the upload site? I already have an rsync set up locally, would just be an extra copy/link source for sharing.

 

[yticpmis234]

Mine is hierarchical folders sorted by actress , (studios where applicable ).

Looking forward to reading suggestions that show up here. A tag based DAM is what I looked in to.
A while back I looked in to Pimcore Community Edition for a DAM.



Although it has AI enabled automatic tagging its not done locally, and depends on either Google Cloud Vision, or Amazon Rekognition. Two companies that don't need more information about any person, so why give them more. Either way it was far too much work, and I figured being lazy and enjoying chaos is a virtue.

This person built a sort-of auto tagging setup, because who has the discipline and time to go through thousands of images/videos

 

[pythonixx]

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DAM or tags was my first thought too, but setup is pretty complex or relies on software for tagging.

Often tagging software will implement its own naming system. Apple is nightmare, just full backed up my phone and it natively sorts into 256 folders in some sort of hexadecimal system aa ab ac all the way down the line. File names are all "random" letters and numbers, 22,000 files of no dates, no descriptive names that only makes sense to the tagging system itself. Even things that were created/saved at the same time are broken up and thrown into completely different folders, zero chronology at the base level

Tbf the file itself doesn't matter, only that you can find it somehow which is still near impossible if I have the full backup of a tagged system but not access to the tagging software. Maybe I'm paranoid about a possible return to the dark ages of computing where I only have access to the hdd backup on a local linux machine

And I don't even have that much content compared to those who have +30 tb of stuff, bet some of those collections near 500,000 files

 

[yticpmis234]

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Not paranoid ❗

Your Apple example pretty much sums up the future. Even if you use GRPR to pry your data out of Apple, they separate the metadata from your images ( at least did in 2020 ). Basically giving you one bucket of images and a bucket of metadata. We complied with the law, now its your problem

Some sort of self hosted running on my machine at home solution is the only way to go. Looking forward to someone chiming in with a small footprint nonproprietary suggestion. All the stuff I've come across on github tend to be , lets just say big.

Either way digital media , the kind that is on this website is best stored, processed, served and managed locally ,( within the four walls of your home ), by something that is not sending telemetry data to its owner.