What's the most efficient way to structure your files?

Is there some Comp-sci theory on this?

I have 30,000 saved images from Jow Forums and I often have trouble finding things.
Many of my files are buried 6 folders deep, it's a tangled mess in there.

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I personally use tmsu to organize messy media folders.

Hydrus.

Sorting files by date created is useful as stuff you've worked on or photos taken most recently will appear at the bottom of the list.

Music and movies can often have metadata added from something like the cddb database by finderprinting with some apps like musicbrainz picard.

However there's no ultimate silver bullet for organising your files yourself, as only you can decide what meaning your files have to you.

Make a montage

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Organize into year folders and then one descriptive subfolder.

Yes but it's developed by a guy who has no idea about code fragmentation or how github should be wielded.

I'd like a cleaner solution but no one has his autism to power through this.

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I'm writing a image gallery viewer and tagger for my collection atm.
Using C++/wxWidgets
I CAN'T FIGURE OUT ZOOMING ACCORDING TO MOUSE POSITION REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>I CAN'T FIGURE OUT ZOOMING ACCORDING TO MOUSE POSITION REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I've done this, maybe I can post my code for you?

Sure please do.

I use tags in file names. Windows search supports most operations from boorus. Lets me wrangle my 100k pony pics. The built-in tag feature works the same and also autocompletes the tags, but it only works for jpgs.

A good search function makes those countless hours wasted autismally organizing things pointless.

Your file isn't important unless you remember the exact path. Hoarding is a mental illness.

But who else will save all this porn?

Long file names where I add any detail I'm likely to remember well enough to search for with ctr + f. I sometimes have a category word at the start of the name so that ordering by name groups certain images together.

You're going to have to just compile them all in one folder and separate the wheat from the chaff, user. Ordering by size or file type will give you some separation of basic categories by proxy, and ordering by date will give you a chronology based around on what autistic subject you were preoccuppied with at a given time.

user I'm waiting for the code.

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I've worked around with mouse zooming before, but never in wxWidgets, but maybe this helps:
Create some sort of viewbox n times smaller then the current one and place it centered at the mouse position, then map the pixels of the image to the box.

It's kind of complicated, it's for a Java applet so I don't know if it can actually help you

What search query do you use to find your photos user?

Just keep waiting, it might take me a few minutes to do this for you

I just got it to work. It was just a small mistake of subracting wrong way around

Didn't reloaded b4 posting

ok glad to hear it, my way was a bit complicated.

I used an exponential to calculate the proportion of the new image to the original

basically it was 2^(notches/10) where "notches" is the number of scroll wheel notches. I found this works pretty well.

And the offset of the new image is determined by the mouse position.

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