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That's exactly what ALL my stuff looks like.

or windows '''helpfully''' deleted it for you

My dumbass having sorted files in downloads

I despise you all /j

What is organization? Isn't that a synonym for 'corporation' or 'company'?

i do not put anything on my desktop ever. my wallpaper is to be enjoyed, not covered up by assignment documents and terrible mp3s

this is a cry for help

installer (3).exe

Sounds definitely like my coworker lol

putting everything in one folder then using everything to find anything (Much faster search app than default windows' file search) www.voidtools.com/downloads/

When people wonder why their hard drive is full

Don’t use outlook!

He's the scariest non-villian villian I see.

....it was so embarrassing absolutely refusing to organize anything for years, then gradually but all at once realizing how much easier organization makes life. 30 mins of organization can save HOURS of time.

That tracks, about >60% of ppl I help at work do the same...

F:\pics has approx. 140gb of unsorted downloads and F:\Ace Combat 3(Japan)(Disc 2) has every .bin file on my computer

I know the order of my downloads folder better than the back of my hand. Every clump of downloads together represents an era of my life.

I can hear him say this lol

Samsies.🤣😂🤣

dont forget nicknaming important random files as whatever the fuck because who cares about reusing files and finding old projects

I only know I already have the file when I go to download it and I get the (1) at the end of the filename. But you know what, just in case, lets download it again.

This is better. The downloads folder grows linearly with the number of files but a tree structure grows much more rapidly.

everything goes in my folder called “fzero”

Me too! If its in Downloads I know where to find it. If its not there its not worth finding

anything else is the cowards way out if its not downloads its not happening

my /stuff folder.

I feel seen…. And not in the good way

Mood

This is why your C drive is constantly at 95%

Search in Downloads is definitely not reliable. It actually completely misses files.. and reports files downloaded earlier today as 'a long time ago' Very flakey.

I do organize some things though, like gameplay screenshots, gaming hardware stuff, artists, but the rest just goes in that years downloads.

If I can't find it, I look it up and DOWNLOAD IT AGAIN

I have begun purging my downloads folder regularly, just so that I remember to put things in the places that I have set up for them

if ah cain't find ah don need it

My desktop icons are 100 layers deep. Let chaos reign!

This but still organize the files a bit, even in donwloads, sucks to loose something and you can't ever find it again

I know that I have it when I download it and it's got a (1) on the end! Now I know what to look for on my computer?

Wise old Scottish (piss-take) proverb: “A place for everything, and everything in *that* place”

This is so real

"You know what I'm craving? A little perspective."

folders look yucky and gross i dont like the color meanwhile the download button is an awesome symbol and everything i like goes there anyway soo yep. organizing is pretty much useless......download tab for life

... goddamn it...

downloads folder with 4,000 files named "untitled" and "final_FINAL_v3

*Looks at my folder with 98k pics* Yeah

Or you do organize stuff but there's still so much to wade through that it doesn't make much of a difference anymore 😭

Sometimes I try to organize files before I eventually just give up and they end up being whatever the default file names are

I split my downloads folder per year. previous years just get called 2025, 2024, and so on

"it gets pinned to quick access or it DOES. NOT. EXIST."

how do you live like that?

I alternate between this and randomly sticking it somewhere on my desktop

Reading this gave me heart palpitations.

New Folder and New Folder(1)

Well, ok then....

You anarchist.

my D:\ drive was organised back when i didn’t prioritise organisation so me trying to navigate through it causes me to feel mental pain every time i try and i want to just slam my face into the keyboard

yeah same i feel the downloaded movies and tv shows on my computer are the most organised ones sorted by live action, animated, what season

I’m trying my best with my external due to graduation internship n all. A supervisor got a good chuckle out of me clicking like 7 nested folders to show a picture, but completely understood it

I'd rather waste some days organizing stuff rather than losing again something as important of that video of a guy with no nose saying "BIG. MEATY. CLA-" and then going "WLAWLAWLAAAAALWALWLALAAAAA" in a YTP fashion

I did a little organisation, but man when you have thousands of stuff, I just split it into arbitrary groups and maybe numbered folders if the criteria don't fit at this point

Hate it when someone else uses the computer and changes where things are saved to something besides downloads - then I really can’t find it. 🤬

I just did this this morning 😂

And the bar just asymptomatically approaches full without ever actually finishing

Use WizTree instead of WinDirStat, does the same thing but an order of magnitude faster

Ooh

Everything doesn't help if you first have to search for "Everything" in your downloads folder with windows search! *blood starts oozing out of ears*

i’m convinced they haven’t updated search indexing since windows vista

Everything is an excellent program

ya if by "lost it" you mean your mind, then you right

either one of three places: Home, Downloads, or Desktop. wherever it goes depends on what the application last used, because some apps dont know how to handle a non-Windows fs and defaults to Home. but some correctly figure it out and it leads to files being in either folder and i just Deal With It.

I used to be really bad about this but now I'm way better. My stuff is still kinda disorganized but it's like miles better than what I used to be doing

based

I organize things kind of but sometimes ill save something again I cant find lol

self-help PSA....

💯😆

i do this but i dump everything in my "random bullshit" folder and pretend i organized it when its even more lost

It is, apparently, the way of the future 😄 futurism.com/the-byte/gen...

Does "sort by date" count as organization ? Somewhat related : I don't usually delete anything from my downloads. Some times, I'll just scroll through my downloads and recall memories of what I was doing at the time.

true

I feel seen.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

Oh, why's the file server full? This guy just redownloaded a 5 gig file every time he wanted to open it

I use to treat the family computer this way. I organize my files now, but I also gotta respect the confidence!

New Folder New Folder (2) New Folder (3) New Folder asdf Nee Folder new

Oh sigh! Y’all are making my day: here I thought I was the only one who’s filing system consists of “global search” for … hmm. What did I call that again? Well, I know it contained this word, or that….😜

if I can't find it, I re-download it.

I have done this. And every single time I change computers, anything I managed to save gets corrupted. Life was simpler with manila folders.

bro i accidentally deleted almost everything cuz i left ALL my files in downloads bro 💀

Hard copies!

i love it when i try to organize my files like a productive person and then any future downloads randomly target that new folder and ruin everything

I’ve tried having organized files before, it’s never stuck though lol😭

You know me, I always organize my files through years and sometimes months with a separate folder.

This is relatable, good to know I'm not the only one doing this

yeah it’s either downloads or if i’m feeling spicy, desktop. makes it much easier to just get up and move tho! literally just copy downloads folder, and i’ve got like 99% of my computer out of that drive

I discovered Voidtools Everything not long ago and it was life changing

Oh hey it me

TRUE

Only use I have for Copilot - finding things I didn’t file.

I unironically prefer to have a (3) or (4) after the name of my file rather rather organize.

me fr .. . 😭

Downloads is the new Desktop!