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Hiya
By any chance I was wondering is there a way to make a list of record of the pictures we've already saved into our computer. I've saved a lot of pictures from Danbooru but most of the time I need to check whether I've downloaded the pictures or not by checking between my picture folder and the browser. Many thanks in advance.
Updated by 葉月
I don't think that is possible within the site. The closest thing I use to check if I already downloaded an image is a danbooru Firefox add-on. It tells me that the file already exists if I already have saved the image. The following link should give you more information about it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9769
I think you might need to copy and paste it on the url bar seeming as it won't link to the site. A pain, I know.
There is no built-in way to do this. You could always keep a manual record by maintaining a list of the ID's you download in notepad or something, and search if you want to double check.
Also, it's sort of an abuse of the system, but if you didn't use the 'favorites' feature, you could abuse it to mark which images you downloaded. I think I remember some of the users with absolutely absurd favcounts saying they did this. As privileged though, I think you would be screwing with the pics' scores, so unless you thought it was worth +1 score, I wouldn't endorse you doing this.
We've never really tried to set a rule on how favorites are supposed to be used, so I don't think it would be a huge abuse. I mean, if you like it enough to save it then conceivably you might like it enough to favorite it. Every person has their own threshold on how much they need to like an image before they favorite it. That's legitimate.
Whether I favorite something or not is incredibly arbitrary. I've seen images I loved and didn't favorite simply because I didn't think to, and I've also favorited images (perhaps because I just came off a great episode of that character's anime and was on a high) that I never would have favorited the very next day. It's not that anyone is endorsing being intentionally irresponsible with it, but there's rather a lot of leeway on how it can be used.
So using it for this purpose would be fine with me as long as you actually like what you're saving.
There are many programs for finding duplicate images. You could just save everything you like and delete the duplicates later.
Yeah I brought it up because I knew it was a method others had used in the past. I tend to be more conservative with my favorites. I'll generally only favorite if I've also voted up.
I have run across posts before that I would have liked to have "bookmarked" or "starred" without the semantics of setting as a "favorite" or changing the score. In those cases I usually just leave the post be.
Shinjidude said:
Also, it's sort of an abuse of the system, but if you didn't use the 'favorites' feature, you could abuse it to mark which images you downloaded. I think I remember some of the users with absolutely absurd favcounts saying they did this.
So that explains it. I always wondered why some people saved an absurd amount of favorites like that.
Anyway, my usage of favorites on Danbooru is two-fold: I use my favorites as another way to filter-in only the content I want (I do a lot of tag searches through my favorites, with at least one other tag), and use it as a way to keep tabs on the images I like. I've pretty much completely stopped saving images on my machine (had around 11,000, last I checked) in favor of just using the website, as everything is indexed and searchable.
Because of this, my favorites are less lenient than they could be, but the trade-off is that rather than having unindexed images on my machine (even a really organized directory hierarchy doesn't really help after a certain point), I have a good means to find/view them using the site. Though, that's not to say I favorite crappy or mediocre images - I only fav images I think are genuinely good (but it could still use some clean-up, as I do find myself sometimes favoriting posts that I only end-up removing the next day).
And I also do believe I've heard cases of where people have built their own proprietary systems to manage and index images on their desktops. I think this one person I know built an application that uses his own proprietary file format which supports tagging, and is an outer-container for an image file - allowing him to properly index all his images in a self-contained (but proprietary) format.
But meh, I don't suppose that's really relevant for the OP's case, but these kinds of things can be done - if you're nerdy enough and really feel like making the effort to do so.
Most of the files I save from DAnbooru go into one of two folders on my system, and when I save them, I name them by series name, image name (if available) and artist. This way, if I ever manage to save a duplicate file (usually Windows tells me the file already exists and asks if I want to overwrite it) it's pretty easy to spot when going over my saved images later. I'm sure there are a variety of other ways, but this decidedly low-tech solution has worked well for me.
Bapabooiee said:
Ugh. Tedious, manual data entry makes me feel sick. I can't stand it when people have to do something monotonous, when it could very well be automated.To each his own, though.
I have my own specific way of organizing my files that corresponds to how the data is recorded, and so far no automated program has fit my needs. It's really not that hard to copy/paste anyway.
Shinjidude said:
There is no built-in way to do this. You could always keep a manual record by maintaining a list of the ID's you download in notepad or something (...).
My suggestion would be to think of a specific "Danbooru identifier string", something like, say, "-dbzq". I would add it to every filename when saving something from Danbooru (or uploading). Technically far from ideal, but easier than keeping up a separate text file.
However, I have gone more to the direction described by Eld above.
At this point I need to mention the old feature request: multiple, private lists other than favourites. It's been mentioned before and there are many possible use-cases for non-fav lists: good images you don't want to bump, making best-of-best subsets, organising your favs by whatever, keeping tabs on todo lists for translations, etc. All of these could benefit from such a feature.
So, this is a semi-formal feature request. IMHO, there should a single, primary list marked called Favourites by default, with today's "vote on add" semantics (and described as such), plus the possibility of making additional lists for whatever purpose. Albert's comments on the feasibility and probability of us ever seeing that will be appreciated.
