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builderboy:
Another key piece is the naming of the file.  If, like most here, you have a directory structure of Publisher/Title  (I would like to add  Publisher/Title/Volume for some titles), the next step is how the folder looks when you open it up.  Unless you rename files that you download, then your folder will be a mess. Folks use a million conventions, and you need to pick one that you like, and rename the files as you download them in order for them to sort properly.

I use, for example:

1940-12 Jungle Comics 012 [c2c 68p] JVJ-BB.cbz

...where the date is first to make sure that books sort if you have more than one volume in a folder (think Blue Bolt, for example).  I make sure that I capture whether a book is c2c and the page count, in case a book is incomplete and gets later upgraded.  Plus, I always try to hang onto the uploader's tag in the name, because sometimes it is not contained in the file itself, and could be lost. Otherwise, how could I locate the high quality scans later by guys like Cimmerian, OE, Lofty and others?

srca1941:
On my desktop I have a "Comics" folder. Within that is "Comic Book Scans," where I keep the folders of the books I've recently scanned/am scanning. Within that is my "Downloaded" folder where all downloaded books are unzipped and sorted simply by title/issue number. For the most part, I know who published what, so separating them that way that isn't a big concern. When I need to clear hard drive space, I back things from "Comic Book Scans" and "Downloaded" up to DVD, and keep track of DVD contents on an Excel spreadsheet. (And I need to start doing DVD backups to safeguard against file corruption. It's not a really big deal for downloads because of DCM and GAC, but I'd hate to lose my 300dpi master files of the books I've scanned myself.) I've thought about combining titles and publishers, but as many still have holes, or need paper fills to replace the fiche, it really isn't practical.

The only publisher I keep like that is MLJ since it's more or less complete, and it's a great tool for art identification. So many GA creators came through that publisher at one point or another, and often signed their work there. When I'm trying to ID an artist I'm unfamiliar with, the first thing I look for is anything they might have done for MLJ, and then check that against the work I'm trying to ID.

-Eric

Kevin Yong:
I'll probably end up with some variation of Publisher/Title subfolders, and then I'll have to figure out a file naming structure that I can apply consistently. Thanks for all the examples, everyone!

-- Kevin

Bob Hughes:
I'm pretty radical. I strip out all the cbr/cbg stuff and just save the jpeg which I rename into a standard format so that all issues flow in order and then I file them by publisher and title, usually burning them to a dvd once the file is complete/gets too big.

bchat:
For files I download, I simply sort them into publisher folders (within a folder marked "Comic Files"), with an "Other" folder for small publishers, publishers I don't download many files for and oddball books.  Some files I'll "rename" so that it's Title - Volume (if needed to organizde a title's run) - Issue # - Publication Date (sometimes, if it's important for me to make note of it).  For books I scan myself, they all get dumped into one folder, with the original scans getting placed in their own group of folders.

For a while now, after I've downloaded a file, I've gone through and saved (or "copied-out") various stories and placed them into another group of folders, organized by Year, then Month/Season and finally into their own seperate Character/Feature folders.  I just find it interesting to see "the big picture" of what all the publishers were doing through the years as a group.

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