Let me see... Currently the folder is 802 MB, and it only gets bigger, the .rar files in there are the current chapters of comics that I just drag the images into as I look at them on a daily basis.
As to how long it took, it really depended on the comic. Some comics I could access the folder that all the images were in, then it was simply a matter of using FlashGet to parse all the links and download all the individual image files (Thank god Scary-Go-Round was this way).
Other ones that had logical file-naming I used the Batch tool in FlashGet (ie, I could tell it to download comic001.jpg-comic157.jpg, for example). This would also work for comics that used the date to name comics (Again, like Scary-Go-Round) but doing it like that would keep calling for files that didn't exist. For example, if I had done a batch download from Scary-Go-Round, I would have had to call for every file numbered from 20020604.png onwards. It would have called on over 10000 files (most of which didn't exist) for every year of the comic, plus it wouldn't have gotten days with multiple comic files (two or more comics posted in the same day as a double-update would have *date*.png and *date*a.png).
For anything where that wouldn't work, as a last resort I used WinHTTrack to download the entire site, then just archived the comic images and deleted the rest.
Archiving them up was pretty easy, I've been focusing on story-driven comics, which usually organize their comics into chapters anyhow, so I just went along with what the webcomic was using. Anything that didn't have that, or had chapters that were just too short and would have made too many files, I just did it by year.
Anyway, I started doing this because of It Never Rains on Monitor Hill, a comic which I thought the internet had devoured years ago. When I found it again on Reggie's new site, I had to make sure I wouldn't lose it again. Then I just happened to have a bunch of 'free' time on my hands.
Hmm... If you're looking for a comic to add to your collection, I happen to have all of the actual plot comics from Number 000 Blues. All the random comics are gone, though.
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How much memory does that take up?
As to how long it took, it really depended on the comic. Some comics I could access the folder that all the images were in, then it was simply a matter of using FlashGet to parse all the links and download all the individual image files (Thank god Scary-Go-Round was this way).
Other ones that had logical file-naming I used the Batch tool in FlashGet (ie, I could tell it to download comic001.jpg-comic157.jpg, for example). This would also work for comics that used the date to name comics (Again, like Scary-Go-Round) but doing it like that would keep calling for files that didn't exist. For example, if I had done a batch download from Scary-Go-Round, I would have had to call for every file numbered from 20020604.png onwards. It would have called on over 10000 files (most of which didn't exist) for every year of the comic, plus it wouldn't have gotten days with multiple comic files (two or more comics posted in the same day as a double-update would have *date*.png and *date*a.png).
For anything where that wouldn't work, as a last resort I used WinHTTrack to download the entire site, then just archived the comic images and deleted the rest.
Archiving them up was pretty easy, I've been focusing on story-driven comics, which usually organize their comics into chapters anyhow, so I just went along with what the webcomic was using. Anything that didn't have that, or had chapters that were just too short and would have made too many files, I just did it by year.
Anyway, I started doing this because of It Never Rains on Monitor Hill, a comic which I thought the internet had devoured years ago. When I found it again on Reggie's new site, I had to make sure I wouldn't lose it again. Then I just happened to have a bunch of 'free' time on my hands.
Adventurers ended the other week, and while it is quite sad, it's nice to see a comic finish nicly and wrap up all loose ends and *coughRPGWorldcough*
BAM!
(normally I'm pretty pissed off with reviving dead threads, but forum archaeology is a surprisingly entertaining pursuit)
Mostly nowadays I save Gunnerkrigg Court, Girly, minus and 8-bit Theater. The rest I just kinda lost interest in saving, although I still read them.
Edit: Oh Zelda Comic and 6:35 still too, although I don't need to update either of those VERY OFTEN.
I'm a webcomic nerd!
You're a webcomic nerd!
We are webcomic nerds all!
And when we get together
we do the webcomic nerd call!
...
It sort of falls apart there. Why am I remembering silly summer camp songs all of a sudden?