I just accidentally deleted my entire hentai manga folder.no, I don't have a backup. I'm on Linux, so there's no recycle bin I can pull it out of.honestly, the worst part is that I lost a script I made to change all the 1.jpg 10.jpg 2.jpg into 0001.jpg 0002.jpg and so on.I'm not looking for recommendations, I just want to know if anyone else has a routine for browsing and saving some good hentai manga.I've been occasionally using imgbrd-grabber. but the UI is a bit weird, and it can't label folders with the gallery number. (sue me. I kind of like the six digit meme) Also, I've been seeing this weird issue where random works are just inaccessible. It'll show the name, and a big red X, and won't let me view or download it. This doesn't happen with random pages, just whole manga.
Not very familiar with Linux, but if they're recently deleted, you can probably recover most of them with a free tool. I've used Recuva a bunch of times on windows and it worked pretty well.
If you use Gnome or KDE, they have a trash bin when you delete stuff using the GUI tools. With console tools like rm you probably need a recovery program like the anon above me said.As for tools, I just grab the torrents off sadpanda and open the zip file in qcomicbook.
>>8404222Sucks to be you, lol
I figured something out.My image viewer (nsxiv) keeps cache files to be able to pull up thumbnails as quick as possible. These are stored in an identical file structure as my actual home directory, but only what files I've actually opened. It has all of the titles for everything I had in my folder.I still have to redownload it all, and not all of it is as easily available after the purge, but it's at least not going to be as hard to pin down certain entries.
>>8404783Well done anon, this is thinking outside the box!
here's my method i just take screenshot of all my "favorite" pages with a software named fastonecapture then store everything on my my pc+ drive with this method i wont ever lose anything i also know the exact number of gallery stored so i will know if something is missing in my "live" collection.....due to the high ammount of dmca online hentai site are not reliable anymore so i need to dowload something like lalarangi to store everything and then take screenshot of my shit but im too lazy for now as you can see the current screenshot is from exhentai.when i want to add something new i just write the artist name on a docs page i usualy check all the new english release in english and jap every 4-5 months then i store every names for like 2-3 years before adding them to my collection so that i dont have to re- take the every favorite page whenever i want to add something new. the docs pages are also doubled on my pc + drive because they are extremely important too.+ sometime my tastes changes so something that i thought was good could get removed in the future + it also allow me to save time when lets say artist x release a tankoubon of all the doujin he released i wont have to go back remove the doujin and add the tank, cuz years have passed i'll just add the tank.hope it helps
>>8405012Why not save it to a text file? Is it the cover you need? Then download the cover and metadata.>>8404222I use gallery-dl to download exhentai galleries and a personal program to download exhentai torrents and metadata and rename the files.
>>8404222>no, I don't have a backupOuch, I hope you learned from this.>I'm on Linux, so there's no recycle bin I can pull it out of.Really? Interesting, I didn't know that. Seems unpractical, and I want to switch to linux before using Windows 11.Anyway, backups, backups, twice or thrice.
>>8407938It's just that the trash bin is handled by whatever file explorer you have, and the one I'm using doesn't have one. I do about an equal amount of file operations in the terminal anyway, so it wouldn't be all that useful except for this one situation where I should have deleted the directory "NHentai" instead of "Images/Nhentai"
>>8407965recovering from a purge can super suck if your favorite artist retires or worse
>>8408597close enough, a third of them aren't on Nhentai any more, so I had to track down a different site to download them from.
Well at least you learned and have started making backups. Most people learn just after they'd have needed them the first time.You have started making backups, right?
>>8408673Kinda. I've just got a title list that I use a one line command to generate.Basically, it just reads off all directories in the main one, and funnels the output into a file somewhere else so I can copy paste it to an external drive.It's not quite as easy to recover as just having the actual files, but it's way quicker to make and requires less storage space.
