Being the deeply troubled heterosexual man that I am, I've

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Being the deeply troubled heterosexual man that I am, I've found that, over the years I've accumulated many tens of thousands (probably hundreds of thousands of image files and webms relating to my many hobbies (but mostly 2d girls). This includes downloaded manga, webm clips, and just general pictures of interest.

Sporadically throughout my many years of digital hoarding, I've made various attempts to better organize things via many different tagging systems, but they've all fallen a little short of what I'm looking for.

Basically, I'm looking for a program that will let me assign tags to an image (based on the character, series, content, etc), and then easily perform a flexible search by including and excluding individual tags. Also, preferably, those tags would be linked to the image file itself (perhaps as metadata), so that I can move the image around freely without losing the tag info. It sounds simple enough, but pretty much everything I've tried has fallen short in terms of the kind of ease of use and efficiency that I would need in order to tackle a collection of this size.

The closest thing I've found to an ideal program in terms of tag functionality is something called "tagspaces", but unfortunately it seems to be fairly poorly coded, and chokes up whenever it's looking a folder of more than a few hundred images. This means that ultimately, it's pretty much useless.

I've since been using ACDsee, and that works OK, except the process of adding tags is a bit fiddly, and searching by keyword is very limited. Also, it stores keyword info in an internal database, which becomes hopelessly confused if I need to move any images around outside of ACDsee.


I'm curious if there are any other digital hoarders out there, and what programs you use to keep things in order.
It seems crazy to me that there wouldn't be a program that does exactly what I'm looking for, but nothing I've found fits the bill.

In the meantime, I'll dump some pretty anime ladies.