File Storage Practices

Best tools for managing and organizing a large amount of files/photos?

Any good practices with directory naming/layout schemes?

How do you guys tackle this problem?

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>organizing a large amount of photos
We all know what you're trying to do, don't get cute.

I'm considering abandoning tree structure and switching to some kind of tag database for my documents+downloads.
Anyone here tried something like TagSpaces but not a subscription-based saas botnet?

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Categorize and make directories when you need to. Also ask yourself if you will ever use that file again. There is a ton of stuff that is only useful for a certain period of time and then you'll never remember what it was for. Don't be afraid of directories my documents was a mess before I started using them more and separating my documents from my scripts.

for home pics+vids:
yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss.mp4

for porn:
name-of-website_yyyymmdd_first-pornstars-name_second-pornstars-name_etc.mp4

coom.tech guys know.

I'm using tmsu.

New Folder (5)\New Folder (21)\New Folder\New Folder (2)\Untitled Text Document - Copy (5).txt

>for home pics+vids:
>yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss.mp4
Wouldn't it be more useful to organize them by subject and event? Do you think "I want the clip I took on the afternoon of January 16, 2019", or do you think "I want that clip of my wife looking at the lions at the zoo"?

I just put keywords into the filenames

The correct answer here is "words that describe the file.mov". You can get the timestamps (and sort by them) by simply switching sorting option, but by giving the file a descriptive name you can now search for it easily.

I've been wanting to try tmsu lately. Do you just tag everything from a terminal, or is there some sort of UI for it that I haven't seen?

Finally sorting all my music folders and tags was the best feeling, upgrading nearly everything to 100%LOG FLAC rips was even better.

Artist>YYYY - Album [FLAC] [MEDIUM] [TYPE] [100%LOG] [EXTRA]

Medium = CD/WEB/TAPE/VINYL etc, Type = Album/EP/Single/Boxset/Live etc, Extra = Usually catalogue number but also can be things like Deluxe Edition, Remaster etc. 100%LOG only used for CD rips with log obviously.

It actually scares me how anaally organized the coomers can be

iCloud if apple or Lightroom if your a pro

Makes sense if you think about it.
It's a lot of "binary"(as in not readable text) data like videos, images and audio, so searching with common tools is a pain in the ass. Necessity breeds innovation.

Naming the files like that will make them ordered chronologically. You'll be able to find any picture by basically doing a binary search.

I once tried to use hydrus (like a local booru) to categorize my images, but it just got time consuming to tag all the shitposts I've downloaded. It made me just want to stop downloading shit so I could avoid tagging it.

I'm programming a desktop application that manages files and sync them with a server but I'm just starting

you guys are going to laugh but I use Daz Studio. I needed to batch rename a lot of renders and regex and batch look like literal hieroglyphics, and I was already really comfortable with Daz's scripting language. It takes me probably 10 times longer to come up with basic scripts for things like archiving and renaming, but hey, it gets the job done.

just use a script to saucenao all of your photos and MD5 hash them as well as tag them using the tags on the internet repositories you downloaded them from - (WE ALL KNOW, OP, IT'S E621) - Then have the script put all of the non-tagged images into a folder for you to manually sort.

Feels like this should be on topic: anybody got an alternative to Windows Photo Viewer for viewing and organizing images and shit? I'm getting this annoying notice on images sometimes that states my computer doesn't have enough free memory to display it, which I know is a pile of flaming dogshit.