On the Cataloging of Porn

[Paul in Qatar]

On my way back from Qatar, my bag came up missing. In it was all my underwear and a 1T hard drive with all my porn. No, I did not have the drive full of porn, but a large collection.

I enjoy cataloguing stuff. I was born to be a librarian. Now I am able to start from tabla rasa. How ought I to proceed in arranging a new-and-improved collection?

Last time, I began with two general headings, "Text," and "Images." Then each and every photo was tagged with meta-data to make it searchable and placed in any of a number of folders. These folders were labeled with the model's name or other characteristics.

A final folder was full of "Smart Folders" (on my Mac) for each meta-data term "Redhead," Nun," "Asian." The idea was that if I wanted to look at redheads, I could open the smart folder and see each redhead no matter where the original photo ended up.

But I am open to new ideas. How do you organize your porn?

[Exy]

Sounds like you're more needing to install a hidden TrueCrypt volume so that next time you go traveling it's you enjoying your lovingly-gathered double penetration pics and not some Arab airport employee.

[Paul in Qatar]

Anyone else? Bhuler? Bhuler?

[ivan astikov]

Some people take their porn way too seriously!

[pepperlandgirl]

I am awful at cataloging. I don't even name the files correctly, so I have to open like a thousand different files if I'm looking for something in particular. The closest thing to a process I have is in my "Not Porn" file, I've divided it into studios and models, but only for the models & studios I have more than one or two files of.

[Myglaren]

Just chuck it all in a big heap and sample randomly.

[hatesfreedom]

Just chuck it all in a big heap and sample randomly.

The method based on real life is indeed the best method.

[glee]

[Computer Nerd ON] Always back up your data! [Computer Nerd OFF]

[AllWalker]

I have 2 encrypted folders. The first is divided into 3 subfolders - softcore, hardcore and video. The second folder contains anime and cartoon porn, my own stories as well as some of the weirder shit I only occasionally browse.

[thirdname]

You know what pisses me off? People who post pictures with filenames that are gobbledygook. Someone posts a picture of Heather Graham, say, but they name it wpHoeOWp__319342.jpg or something, so it's impossible to search and find it on my hard drive unless I take the time to change the name or put it in a folder. All the person posting it has to do is write a descriptive filename once, and it will save many people from having to repeat that action.

[AllWalker]

You know what pisses me off? People who post pictures with filenames that are gobbledygook. Someone posts a picture of Heather Graham, say, but they name it wpHoeOWp__319342.jpg or something, so it's impossible to search and find it on my hard drive unless I take the time to change the name or put it in a folder. All the person posting it has to do is write a descriptive filename once, and it will save many people from having to repeat that action.

I get most of my pics by dragging and dropping from a webbrowser - as such, a lot of the names are random. Just for fun i opened up my soft core folder - about 16% are just random numbers, or are named 01, 02, etc. But I am obsessive enough to add in key words or create sub-folders, if I think they are worth the effort. If not, it is like a lucky dip. Ooh yeah, work it for me 0004080121.jpg.

[Exy]

I just have folders, with some minor hierarchiality where it's convenient (there's not a word for that, so just do your best.)

I try to keep stuff organized by "theme", just so that when I decide I'd like to find that one particular photo/video, I just have to remember if it's (say) in the "bestiality" or the "fisting" or the "wet and messy" folder and then go find it. Or if I just feel like pictures of "dvda" one night I can find all those items without searching through unrelated material.

I just save new stuff to a "randoms" folder and then every so often move everything to the appropriate place. It's easier just to save everything to one folder in my browser.

I always sort of think I should use some sort of more sophisticated photo management software rather than just file manager, so I could use tags, since some things fit into more than one category, but I'm not willing to invest that kind of time in organizing my porn.