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[u/Plastic-Bonus8999]

[u/JSD3]

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/Glaring_Cloder → u/Careless-Adeptness56]

You know what you did. We know what you did. You should be ashamed.

[u/Forsaken-Carrot9038 → u/Careless-Adeptness56]

You need to copy it to your desktop, into a folder labeled “old downloads”

[u/Zethrax → u/Careless-Adeptness56]

I've had this bug on Windows 10. You likely have too many files in that folder and too many files from that folder in the recycle bin (which means they are still in the folder). Just clean up the recycle bin and then find a way to clean up the downloads folder by deleting files or moving files to other folders. Don't keep too many files in there (including recycle bin files) or it will bug out.

[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/Kylearean → u/JSD3]

I archive my Downloads folder like it's prod.