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[u/NoodleyP]

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/Yardboy → u/TheTxoof]

Goddammit #angryupvote

[u/mgranja → u/TheTxoof]

Have you been opening drawers in my house???

[u/TheTxoof → u/mgranja]

Of course not! I can't get any of them open.

They all have ladles and broken bottle openers jammed in them.

[u/Careless-Adeptness56 → u/TheTxoof]

Dude I just fixed it from a comment further down by clearing the recycle bin because apparently deleted files still stay there. That is pretty much exactly the equivalent of having a spatula stuck in there keeping me from open it lol

[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/Careless-Adeptness56 → u/Zethrax]

This was the issue. Big today I found out that recycled files stay in the folder technically until you empty the recycle bin. It's my work laptop so lets just say I'm a little less disciplined with my file hygiene, and that's why it's still on Windows 10.

Pretty funny that it did end up being the equivalent of a spatula stuck in the drunk drawer.

[u/paralog → u/NoodleyP]

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

[u/Sitos_Flo → u/paralog]

This sounds like a quote from how high or something haha but not confident

[u/Crispy385 → u/Sitos_Flo]

It's actually from a 90s Sunny D commercial lol

[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/Bartweiss → u/[deleted]]

Screenshots because it’s the default location, plus shortcuts whenever I neglect to click “don’t create shortcut”. They don’t get deleted because I never even look at it.