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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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My ROM Naming Convention: Genre Codes Up Front, Region at the Back
The file naming standard I use for my game backups, with a four-letter genre code at the front so a folder sorts itself by type, plus the full code list, region and note codes, and examples.
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Tag Game Backups With a Genre Code From a CSV
Renames game files to "(GENRE) Title (REGION) (NOTES)" using a CSV of titles and genre codes you keep, with short region codes, note codes for betas and hacks, and a list of everything it couldn't place.
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Folders by Platform: How I Lay Out a Multi-System Game Backup Library
The manufacturer-then-system folder layout I use for game backups, the file extensions each system uses, the systems in my own collection, the ones I'd add next, and the cases where a later release beats the original.
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Give Every Game Its Own Folder, With Updates and DLC Alongside
Moves loose game files into one folder per title, worked out from the file name, so a game's base file, updates and DLC end up together. Built for Switch backups, and it works for anything with a consistent naming pattern.
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Set Aside Unwanted ROMs by Keyword, Without Deleting Anything
Moves game files with keywords like (Beta), (Proto), Mahjong or (Germany) in their names into a review folder, keeping their subfolders, so you can trim a huge set down to what you'd actually play and change your mind later.
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Sort a Game Collection Into Tiers by Review Score
Moves game files into Must-Play, Great, Good, Average and Niche folders using a CSV of titles and scores, with series fallbacks, so a huge backlog shows you the best stuff first.
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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.