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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 2, 2014 6:28:35 GMT -9
Back when I first started collecting paper minis, I decided that since I didn't have a robocutter, I could strip out all the cutter files from the items I downloaded, and that instead of organizing by designer, I'd make an insanely complicated folder tree with the names of the minis in each pdf (so, bard, minotaur, golem, etc).
And now I'm thinking about buying a robocutter.
So now I need to re-download all the things to get the cutter files back. *facepalm*
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Sept 2, 2014 6:57:16 GMT -9
Oh dear. :-P
This got me thinking about being able to find folders via metadata tags rather than folder names. I can't see any built-in support for this in Windows, so maybe I'll write a custom app to do it. I'd like to be able to quickly apply tags to large numbers of folders and/or files to get my collections quickly in order.
Anyone have a good, free solution that does this? I'd love to type in "minotaur" and pull up every PDF I have that has a minotaur somewhere in there.
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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 2, 2014 7:40:02 GMT -9
I have an Evernote premium account that I'm moving all my One Monk stuff too since I don't think any of it is layered; there's a free account too but it's limited to 60MB of upload per month. It's $5/month for 1GB of upload so pretty decent. Premium also gets you searching inside PDFs (so, that collection of Dungeon and Dragon magazines? Search for "avenger" and pull up every issue that has that word), and of course it has tagging.
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 2, 2014 13:10:50 GMT -9
Let me know if you are missing anything from the One Monk line when you re-download. I changed a few things when I did the re-upload.
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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 3, 2014 2:41:31 GMT -9
Thanks, Squirmydad! I got all the forum hoards re-downloaded yesterday, organized, uploaded to Evernote and then tagged. It looks like I have every fantasy One Monk set except for the command group from the Elven Alliance, but I seem to remember downloading them directly from onemonk.com when they were free sets, not from DriveThruRPG. Am I remembering that wrong? Have they always been DriveThruRPG? I don't think I have an account there.
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Post by hackbarth on Sept 3, 2014 4:08:02 GMT -9
Back when I first started collecting paper minis, I decided that since I didn't have a robocutter, I could strip out all the cutter files from the items I downloaded, and that instead of organizing by designer, I'd make an insanely complicated folder tree with the names of the minis in each pdf (so, bard, minotaur, golem, etc). Since you are reorganizing your minis here's how I do it: By category (scenery, miniature, vehicle, tile) and author on the HD. Yes, that makes me have two (or more) folders for the same authors, like scenery/melebbles and vehicle/melebbles. By type (bard, minotaur, golem, etc) on envelopes. Ideally I would like to print a sample figure on the envelope front, but for now I simply write what is inside on them.
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 3, 2014 5:53:06 GMT -9
Thanks, Squirmydad! I got all the forum hoards re-downloaded yesterday, organized, uploaded to Evernote and then tagged. It looks like I have every fantasy One Monk set except for the command group from the Elven Alliance, but I seem to remember downloading them directly from onemonk.com when they were free sets, not from DriveThruRPG. Am I remembering that wrong? Have they always been DriveThruRPG? I don't think I have an account there. They were at DTRPG, then Jim opened his webstore and they were at both, then he made everything free for a bit, then he sold it all to Sanity Studios, Sanity turned off all of the downloads at DTRPG so they were only available through their store, then they sold it all to me, and I re-launched everything at DTRPG.
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Post by Parduz on Sept 3, 2014 5:54:24 GMT -9
Yes, that makes me have two (or more) folders for the same authors, like scenery/melebbles and vehicle/melebbles. Why not using links instead of real folders? (if you're on Win, otherwise i don't know anything)
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Post by hackbarth on Sept 3, 2014 7:05:34 GMT -9
Yes, that makes me have two (or more) folders for the same authors, like scenery/melebbles and vehicle/melebbles. Why not using links instead of real folders? (if you're on Win, otherwise i don't know anything) Linux here. But don't worry, my system makes perfect sense to me.
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