Organising your collection (merged)

[reachman]

Originally Posted by revdoc

Isn't there any special software to keep track of your films/porn ?

What would be really nice is that the software would act like an interface, renaming the original files to something unrecognisable.
A file like "gorgeous teen takes 3 black guys up the pooper.avi" would become "aiifldmcnfosqn.zrq" or something. In the software there should be a good video player, along with a screen where you can describe the scene, add notes, a preview jpg etc. If your porn is on multiple CDR's-DVDR's, the software would tell you which disc you have to insert in order to watch a certain movie.
Does anyone know if such software (freeware ?) exists ?

Not freeware but the best for PC is ACDSee - has all you need for viewing, sorting, changing formats etc...

Meanwhile for MAC - QPICT - google em and you'll see

[jayvan]

I keep all my stuff on an external USB drive - Maxtor is the brand, and I bought it because you can password-protect the contents. Actually bought two of them, for back-up. Very secure. Best not to keep stuff sitting on your computer's hard drive.

[qed2000]

I use trycrypt, very good and open source
http://www.truecrypt.org/

[goldentaurus2001]

Every file on my Mac is crypted by system, and additionally I'm using freeware Altomac Hide Folders on MacOS X.
Link:http://www.altomac.com/hide_folders/
Easy to handle, program is password protected, too. Btw. I stored the program on an USB-stick and not in program folder on internal HD. So if there's no system password for decrypting, no stick, no program and it's password = no chance quick to find the 'special' folders on my external 2.5' HD.

Greetz
goldentaurus2001

[Oswald]

I keep it stored on CD-RW's. Each one holds about 700MB - which is plenty for my collection.

[hartwig]

Since I live alone I personally just stored the stuff plain on my hard drive.

But as qed2000 suggested Truecrypt is a fine piece of software.
You can encrypt the complete drive so noone (and I mean NOONE!) can access the file without the password... use a strong password though, min 8 letters, digits, capitals and special characters!
Everything stays hidden until you hit a key combination and type in the password, then the encrypted hdd will be assigned a drive letter and can be accessed just like a normal drive. Hit another key combo to "unmount" the drive and hide it again. So my suggestion is to get a second hdd and use truecrypt

Originally Posted by qed2000

I use trycrypt, very good and open source
http://www.truecrypt.org/

[albion79uk]

External hard drive for me and all backed up on a second external drive for my brother too.

[mellowyellow]

First I save the files by giving them a prefix-letter for archive purposes, depending on what is featured on the photo, then I just zip the files with the help of a good old MS-dos batchfile that puts everything in the right zip, such as a zip-file with readhead-pics or another one with 'spread'pics.
After zipping the ZIP-files are automatically renamed with very inconspicuous names with no extension.
To unzip I can manually rename them as zip-files but I rather use a set of batchfiles instead to unzip the right zip-files. Again, after unzipping, the zipfile will be renamed to the same inconspicuous name (again, with no extension)

[Oswald]

Originally Posted by seekingsmut

How about a nice 16Gb USB flash drive

That's what I also use.

[ptx4]

mellowyellow, double posts happen, but quadruple posts?