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Keeping a media library tidy.

Game backups, comics, manga and ebooks: renaming, de-duping and sorting big collections without losing anything.

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    Fix Wrong Extensions and Find Duplicate Books in an Ebook Library

    Check every book and comic file's real format from its first few bytes, rename the ones that lie, find identical copies by hash, and file whatever is loose in the library root.

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    Sort a Comic or Manga Library into Genre Folders from a CSV

    Move CBZ and CBR files, or whole series folders, into genre or decade folders using a series list you keep in a spreadsheet, then list what didn't match and check nothing went missing.

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    Clean Up Game File Names Without Losing the Tags That Matter

    Strip dump flags like [!] and [b1], turn (U) into (USA), tidy revision tags and optionally add release years from a CSV, with a before-and-after list of every rename.

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    Keep One Copy of Each Game in Your ROM Backups, by Region

    Group the USA, Europe, Japan and revised versions of each game in a folder of backups, keep the one you'd actually play, and move the rest to a _duplicates folder.