Extract to the folder of your choice and run the version of the program corresponding to your OS. (Use menu Edit/Config to set the location of the required utilities)
cbzManager will convert any cbz,cbr,zip,7z,rar comic books into a cbz archive using webp image encoding thus reducing the size of archives up to 50%.
Even though this program has been thoroughly tested on a library of over 8000 comics we you should backup your data before you use this program.
We strongly advise you perform a test run on a folder containing a few comics prior to converting your entire collection.
Choose a folder containing your comics and conversion will start automatically.
By default cbzManager uses 2 conversion threads but if you want more performances, set Options/Conversion queues to ‘Big’, beware this will use a lot of processing power.
cbzManager also contains some editing features : delete, flip, rotate, move (up/down), import/export images, etc…
Everytime a file is modified or converted the original file is moved to the ‘done’ folder, so if you convert a big library, watch your available disk space.
cbzManager will strip all extraneous files (.nfo, thumbs.db, etc…) from the archive and clean the archive filenames (dots, dashes, and other annoying text will be removed), however xml metadata is preserved but it might become irrelevant as the contents of the archive will change. We are working on managing comics metadata.
If you encounter a problem, enable logging, re run the comic book that caused the problem. Contact me and I will get back to you so you can email me the comic book along with the log file. Note that when exiting, log files are added to a zip file to avoid using too much disk space.
To contact me use the contact page on the site.
I hope this program will fulfill your needs and help you save loads of disk space as it did me.
Ollivier Civiol Software 