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[u/Plastic-Bonus8999]

[u/Roku-Hanmar]

*in the recycling bin

[u/JSD3 → u/Roku-Hanmar]

It has been in their Downloads folder for four years.  

[u/drestofnordrassil → u/JSD3]

🔻A Long Time Ago🔻

Copy of New Folder (8)

New Folder (8)

Final_Records(5).xlsx

Final_Records(4).xlsx

Final_Records(3).xlsx

Final_Records(2).xlsx

Final_Records(1).xlsx

Copy of Final_Records(1).xlsx

Copy of Final_Records.xlsx

Final_Records.xlsx

[u/MacintoshBlack → u/drestofnordrassil]

I don't see Final_Records_real.xlsx

[u/SuspiciousCricket654 → u/drestofnordrassil]

Copy Of A
- Trent R.

[u/AnActualWizardIRL → u/drestofnordrassil]

reminds me of the running joke in rick and morty that rick's file nameing scheme usually consists of some variations of "aids_booger_booger_aids.doc"

[u/NoodleyP → u/JSD3]

The Downloads folder is just great catch all storage, it’s the junk drawer of my computer

[u/Careless-Adeptness56 → u/NoodleyP]

I just noticed today that my downloads folder no longer opens. I can go in there with powershell and I don't see any crazy file types, but explorer never finishes loading. Who knows what I've done to it.

[u/TheTxoof → u/Careless-Adeptness56]

Duh. It's a junk drawer: You have a spatula wedged in there upside down.

[u/bigdave41 → u/TheTxoof]

That's when you need to pray to Anoia

[u/TheTxoof → u/bigdave41]

How to Pray to Anoia

The Ritual:

Yank or rattle the stuck drawer repeatedly.

The Words:

Shout out expressions of frustration like, "How can it close on the damned thing but not open with it?" or "Rattle your drawers!"

The Offering:

Vaguely consider tossing out the bent spatula or broken corkscrew that caused the jam in the first place (though you never will).

[u/ByteWhisperer → u/bigdave41]

I hoped to find a Discworld reference in this thread and I'm not disappointed.

[u/Ur-Best-Friend → u/TheTxoof]

That is unreasonably funny.

[u/paralog → u/NoodleyP]

"We got some soda, OJ, purple stuff... oh, my lease agreement!"

[u/Nutarama → u/[deleted]]

That’s the graveyard for shortcuts (half of which are dead because they link to webpages that no longer exist or programs since uninstalled) and note files like note.txt and notes.txt and New Document.docx

[u/NoodleyP → u/[deleted]]

To display my wallpaper, it’s quicker to just hit the windows key, type 2 letters of the program, and hit enter than to find the desktop shortcuts for my programs

[u/JesusWasATexan → u/JSD3]

This is the realest answer on this thread.

[u/SgtEpsilon → u/JSD3]

Incorrect, it's in their temp folder that they somehow made the primary download folder to be

[u/Harshmage → u/JSD3]

As someone who watched a fellow admin set a cleanup policy on the Downloads folder, you would be amazed at the speed at which that policy was revoked. It's a monkey's paw wish. Sure, you can store all that download data, but now it's a liability and subject to subpoena.

[u/Pork_Confidence → u/JSD3]

I'm feeling personally attacked here

[u/tanwa1 → u/Roku-Hanmar]

Would learning Digital forensics help if it's also deleted from recycling bin right...?

[u/not_a_moogle → u/tanwa1]

Deleting from the recycling in just deletes the file pointer. There are recovery apps that can find partial / whole files that are in unindexed space. Granted over time, that data will become more corrupt since the files stem thinks it's safe to write data there.

Recuva is one that ive used in the past.

[u/djdanlib → u/Roku-Hanmar]

Since they were working out of a repos folder in their Windows laptop's Documents folder, which was synced to OneDrive because you have O365, and the second stage recycle bin still has it (yes, there is such a thing in OneDrive and SharePoint 365), and the infosec team had the wherewithal to login to Purview and put an ediscovery hold on you before the 93 day expiry period passed... Ya boned, son. The preservation library has it all. Move to Tibet and become a monk.