That was many, many PCs ago. I kept rolling my HDDs or data over depending on what was upgraded, now my downloads are living on my NAS. One day for shits and giggles I wanted to see what the oldest file I had was, and sure enough I still had a Napster download.
It interests me that you did it in such a way that the download folder stayed the same. I have something more like this going. (Honestly it's even worse because my top layer is like a physical drawer somewhere)
I took a little liberty with what “downloads folder” meant. It’s not in my root downloads folder, it’s sorted out into a music folder. It was a download though.
I’m just pretty impressed I managed to keep my music library going continuously for 24 years. 20 of those years are just single HDD no redundancy storage, just hopping HDD to HDD.
It's a subdirectory that was created on April 2023. Looking inside, it contains a bunch of APKs related to YT Revanced. I kept it there because I can't come up with a better location to move it to. That's basically the same story for almost all of the files that ended up staying in the directory anyways. However, I try to keep try to keep things clean.
Whenever I visit the downloads directory, I make it a point to try to remember the context in which the files ended up in there. If I can no longer remember the context, I delete it. If there ends up way too many files of "the same class" then I'll try to move them together onto a different location. But if it's a file or two that I can't move elsewhere, it's no big deal.
My downloads directory's empty, because I organise everything to a laughable degree. People actually get inspired by how organised my PC and phone and so on are.
I can't imagine you're on the same machine, so I guess you must have rolled over your files in such a way that the download directory was still preserved?
Fair enough - didn't mean to sound confrontational.
I definitely didn't download the files that long ago, that's just when they were created. I probably downloaded them in 2020 or 2021.
The real mystery of my download folder is only a few weeks old, and was caused by a year long obsession I've developed - it's called "what is this.mp3"
The Linux command "ls -t" sorts by newest first, if anyone else needs a cheatsheet.
It is "model_v5.torrent.zip" from December 2019. Looks like I was going to download AIDungeon back when that was new and amazing. I'm sure I never actually set it up and used it.
Kind of, actually. The graduation partay was on July 25, but if you're a no-show, they make you wait till August 22 to go get the papers. Guess they needed a summer break too, but come on!
I don’t have a downloads directory. The browsers I do use are set to ask for save file name every time (not always the same directory) and I delete everything when done using. The default dump everything to a garbage folder is not really a great idea
54 Comments
deranger@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 1y
September 2000 - Eurythmics Sweet Dreams 128k MP3 downloaded from Napster
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y
You're not on the same machine, are you? That would be legendary.
deranger@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
That was many, many PCs ago. I kept rolling my HDDs or data over depending on what was upgraded, now my downloads are living on my NAS. One day for shits and giggles I wanted to see what the oldest file I had was, and sure enough I still had a Napster download.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 1y
It interests me that you did it in such a way that the download folder stayed the same. I have something more like this going. (Honestly it's even worse because my top layer is like a physical drawer somewhere)
deranger@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
I took a little liberty with what “downloads folder” meant. It’s not in my root downloads folder, it’s sorted out into a music folder. It was a download though.
I’m just pretty impressed I managed to keep my music library going continuously for 24 years. 20 of those years are just single HDD no redundancy storage, just hopping HDD to HDD.
otp@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Is it the same computer? Or just the same directories? Or do you just use your Downloads folder like a normal directory for storing stuff?
jewbacca117@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
September 26th, 2016
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 1y
10_0@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
One day, if I have actual money, I'll buy from the artists. For now, I'm a not-technically-a-pirate-because-no-distribution.
konalt@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Firefox installer.
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Same
megane_kun@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
It's a subdirectory that was created on April 2023. Looking inside, it contains a bunch of APKs related to YT Revanced. I kept it there because I can't come up with a better location to move it to. That's basically the same story for almost all of the files that ended up staying in the directory anyways. However, I try to keep try to keep things clean.
Whenever I visit the downloads directory, I make it a point to try to remember the context in which the files ended up in there. If I can no longer remember the context, I delete it. If there ends up way too many files of "the same class" then I'll try to move them together onto a different location. But if it's a file or two that I can't move elsewhere, it's no big deal.
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y
a picture of me with my siblings at the grand canyon for when they came to visit me when I was working there. Oct 15 2010
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
On my phone right now so using my phone's Downloads folder. 2 years old.
It's this meme:
Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y
STL files for an adafruit motorised guardian from BOTW
I swear i will print it one day
B0rax@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
You happen to have a link for that? Sounds very interesting
Taleya@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
https://learn.adafruit.com/guardian-robot-zelda-botw/3d-printing
Mythnubb@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Since I only have my phone right now, here is October 2nd, 2019
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y
On my phone, it's this which is datestamped 17 February 2012. I think I copied it there off the NAS, and the image is older than that.
janNatan@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
The APK for F-droid, because I just got a new phone.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
My default download directory is /tmp, so I don't really accumulate much of random download files
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 1y
That's smart.
MadBob@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 1y
My downloads directory's empty, because I organise everything to a laughable degree. People actually get inspired by how organised my PC and phone and so on are.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
So is mine! But because I dump everything straight tomy desktop...
(Insert we are not the same meme)
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y
June 2023, a picture of my daughter.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 3 pts · 1y
My downloads folder started in the early/mid-nineties. So TAG BBS execitable, probably.
ilovecheese@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
15 year old crack.
sudoroot@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
Lol I just deleted my downloads on my PC, was > 100 GB lol
datavoid@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Apparently I have a bunch of scala tuning files from 1996
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
Did you take a liberal definition of "downloads directory" like the other guy?
datavoid@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Nope, are you weirdly angry for no reason?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
No. That's just a long time ago.
I can't imagine you're on the same machine, so I guess you must have rolled over your files in such a way that the download directory was still preserved?
datavoid@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Fair enough - didn't mean to sound confrontational.
I definitely didn't download the files that long ago, that's just when they were created. I probably downloaded them in 2020 or 2021.
The real mystery of my download folder is only a few weeks old, and was caused by a year long obsession I've developed - it's called "what is this.mp3"
https://voca.ro/13fZ4IYptzSv
If anyone knows what this sample is called, please let me know! It's the new craze I guess
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
It sounds kind of like the Morse code for "8".
dizzy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
That’s the “wheel up signal” from the blu mar ten junglejungle sample pack. Classic sound in jungle and uk garage music.
https://blumarten.bandcamp.com/album/blu-mar-ten-jungle-jungle-1989-to-1999-samplepack
The sample is taken from this song
https://youtu.be/cpFlb7QaQZc
It was originally recorded from a saxon soundsystem clash in 1993
https://on.soundcloud.com/tJsb1tv1zqyqT1Xs9
At 1h3m36s
Also known as a “dub siren”
datavoid@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Thank you! Was driving me mad
dizzy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Where were you hearing it?
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 1y
From 2020 a picture of the construction skill icon pre green pixel removal
lud@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
A folder with waifu2x-caffe (image upscaling software and not porn) from 2020
texasspacejoey@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Im currently seeding a torrent ive had since December. But thats just this pc. Ive got way older stuff on my external.
Bangs42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
A document I need to edit for work from 2 days ago.
Y'all nasty.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y
The Linux command "ls -t" sorts by newest first, if anyone else needs a cheatsheet.
It is "model_v5.torrent.zip" from December 2019. Looks like I was going to download AIDungeon back when that was new and amazing. I'm sure I never actually set it up and used it.
Tyoda@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
I thought to myself "yeah, like I'm going to use the command line to check it instead of a gui file manager"
Then I realized I was already going to ssh into my PC from termux because I am too lazy to get up. So... thanks.
Anyway, it is as I guessed a pdf listing the mandatory courses on the college I allegedly graduated from this summer.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y
Allegedly? Uh-oh, are you have trouble getting actual documentation of that?
Tyoda@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Kind of, actually. The graduation partay was on July 25, but if you're a no-show, they make you wait till August 22 to go get the papers. Guess they needed a summer break too, but come on!
lud@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Maybe they don't remember it.
dan1101@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
In my downloads folder I have an invoice from 2022. In my utilities folder I actually have old DOS executables from 1985.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Magisk-master.zip
iamjackflack@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
I don’t have a downloads directory. The browsers I do use are set to ask for save file name every time (not always the same directory) and I delete everything when done using. The default dump everything to a garbage folder is not really a great idea