Well, I finally figured out how to find pictures which were deleted (type Status:Deleted in the search bar), which was very necessary for me as I was approaching the 80,000 cap on how many pics I'm allowed to save to my favorites.

Turns out, even if the pic is deleted from the site, it still gets recorded in your favorites regardless. And I found out I had roughly 64 pages worth of deleted favorites that I had to clear up. With each page able to hold up to 75 images, that was over 4,000 bright white thumbnails I had to click 'unfavorite' on.

It would have made things much faster / easier, if there was some kind of 'mass selection' option for situations like this, where you need to clear up a bunch of images at once, instead of going through them individually one by one.

Did you open each image individually to unfavorite them or did you change the mode on the search page to unfavorite and click them one by one?

kemonophonic said:
Did you open each image individually to unfavorite them or did you change the mode on the search page to unfavorite and click them one by one?

Changed the mode to unfavorite and clicked on them all. Still took me a long time, because as I said, there were over 4,000 images to go through.

negamajora said:
Well, I finally figured out how to find pictures which were deleted (type Status:Deleted in the search bar), which was very necessary for me as I was approaching the 80,000 cap on how many pics I'm allowed to save to my favorites.

Turns out, even if the pic is deleted from the site, it still gets recorded in your favorites regardless. And I found out I had roughly 64 pages worth of deleted favorites that I had to clear up. With each page able to hold up to 75 images, that was over 4,000 bright white thumbnails I had to click 'unfavorite' on.

It would have made things much faster / easier, if there was some kind of 'mass selection' option for situations like this, where you need to clear up a bunch of images at once, instead of going through them individually one by one.

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g13a said:

I happen to know how to work with html and want to volunteer for the site but I have no clue because I usually stay pretty quiet

https://github.com/e621ng/e621ng

Hmm, besides those tools, you can also just script it 'clicking' each one, then verify before submitting. Rather you use a 'mouse clicker' tool like AHK(AutoHotkey/AutoIt) or browser-side JS to hit all the divs matching a path, you get mostly the same results. But yeah, technically, there's an API for that.

I mean, other sites like Inkbunny, Sofurry and Furaffinity all have at least some version of a mass selection option. Either a 'select this page' or just a full on 'Nuke'.

Though I hesitate to suggest the 'nuke' option, as there could be an error in the script causing you to accidentally nuke the entire favorites, instead of just the ones you want.

Alphamule's suggestion isn't really that different from what I was already doing. I checked off each thumbnail on the page before hitting 'refresh' and starting over again... 64 times.

negamajora said:
I mean, other sites like Inkbunny, Sofurry and Furaffinity all have at least some version of a mass selection option. Either a 'select this page' or just a full on 'Nuke'.

Though I hesitate to suggest the 'nuke' option, as there could be an error in the script causing you to accidentally nuke the entire favorites, instead of just the ones you want.

Alphamule's suggestion isn't really that different from what I was already doing. I checked off each thumbnail on the page before hitting 'refresh' and starting over again... 64 times.

Don't underestimate the reduction in wrist pain. ;)

I'm currently trying out tag scripts and... yeah, for 80 pages of results, I have a lot of clicking to go. So far, I've had several posts that I right-clicked to open in a new tab, because incorrect tag. As in, I deleted tags that had nothing to do with that image. The accuracy of tags for things in the 6 mega-burs was awful in comparison, though. We're talking <0.1% versus 2-5%.

This method is more accurate than blind BURs but takes more work. I WISH I could just use a group selection like holding shift key and pressing down like in Windows Explorer. Pressing CTRL to unselect the one or two exceptions. But this already is playing dangerously, so NOPE. Thumbnails make it so you can tag the outright obviously right ones then come back with slower method on less obvious ones.

Well, thanks to the new policy change about human characters, I had to do yet another mass purge of my deleted favorites.

Only 25 pages this time, but I still had to manually click each one.