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This is me and my Downloads folder. Apps that will never run again. Fonts I outgrew.

by prawn 4y ago

TRiG_Ireland 4y ago
My Downloads folder is one of the few that actually is clean. In fact, it's usually empty. Everything downloaded is downloaded for a reason, and gets moved to the right spot as soon as the download is complete.
- bombcar 4y ago
  Every year or so I make a folder in Downloads called “old” and put everything in there (including the “old” from the last time I did it). When I find something I need in Downloads/old/old/older/old I am happy.
  - nicky0 4y ago
    Every week I select all in my Downloads folder and delete.
  - deafpolygon 4y ago
    This is me :) … it’s currently “Downloads/files/misc/old/older files/to be deleted”.
  - boosteri 4y ago
    Anyone figured out how to do that most efficiently? You can't have two "old" co-existign at the same time? I'm using the rename method but struggle each time Which one is better to rename, the old-old or the new-old?
    - bombcar 4y ago
      I'm not sure how I do it since I do it differently each time, but I do see some called "older" so I think I rename the old one then move.
    - Wingy 4y ago
      This should work in PowerShell on Windows or on other systems with a normal shell as long as your downloads folder is called Downloads and you don’t have a folder called old next to Downloads: mv Downloads old && mkdir Downloads && mv old Downloads This is assuming there aren’t any special permissions/attributes on Downloads
      - bombcar 4y ago
        Some of them seem to have weird things where renaming a directory keeps it still the "downloads" directory - I prefer moving the contents of downloads instead.
- UncleEntity 4y ago
  Download folder is just fun. Stuff I download for a reason gets “put away” which leaves random things to go look at when I have nothing better to do. I was poking around in there earlier today after I moved some stuff and found all sorts of interesting things to waste a couple hours. Probably be a different story if I tried to be organized though. It tends to collect “things I need right now and will probably never use again” and pdfs that don’t get saved to the Documents folder.

This is me and my Downloads folder. Apps that will never run again. Fonts I outgrew.

by prawn 4y ago

This is me and my Downloads folder. Apps that will never run again. Fonts I outgrew.

My Downloads folder is one of the few that actually is clean. In fact, it's usually empty. Everything downloaded is downloaded for a reason, and gets moved to the right spot as soon as the download is complete.

bombcar 4y ago
Every year or so I make a folder in Downloads called “old” and put everything in there (including the “old” from the last time I did it). When I find something I need in Downloads/old/old/older/old I am happy.
- nicky0 4y ago
  Every week I select all in my Downloads folder and delete.
- deafpolygon 4y ago
  This is me :) … it’s currently “Downloads/files/misc/old/older files/to be deleted”.
- boosteri 4y ago
  Anyone figured out how to do that most efficiently? You can't have two "old" co-existign at the same time? I'm using the rename method but struggle each time Which one is better to rename, the old-old or the new-old?
  - bombcar 4y ago
    I'm not sure how I do it since I do it differently each time, but I do see some called "older" so I think I rename the old one then move.
  - Wingy 4y ago
    This should work in PowerShell on Windows or on other systems with a normal shell as long as your downloads folder is called Downloads and you don’t have a folder called old next to Downloads: mv Downloads old && mkdir Downloads && mv old Downloads This is assuming there aren’t any special permissions/attributes on Downloads
    - bombcar 4y ago
      Some of them seem to have weird things where renaming a directory keeps it still the "downloads" directory - I prefer moving the contents of downloads instead.
UncleEntity 4y ago
Download folder is just fun. Stuff I download for a reason gets “put away” which leaves random things to go look at when I have nothing better to do. I was poking around in there earlier today after I moved some stuff and found all sorts of interesting things to waste a couple hours. Probably be a different story if I tried to be organized though. It tends to collect “things I need right now and will probably never use again” and pdfs that don’t get saved to the Documents folder.