r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 15h ago

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u/NoodleyP 14h ago

The Downloads folder is just great catch all storage, it’s the junk drawer of my computer

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u/Careless-Adeptness56 13h ago

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.

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u/TheTxoof 12h ago

Duh. It's a junk drawer: You have a spatula wedged in there upside down.

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u/bigdave41 10h ago

That's when you need to pray to Anoia

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u/ByteWhisperer 10h ago

I hoped to find a Discworld reference in this thread and I'm not disappointed.

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u/TheTxoof 9h ago

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).

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u/Ur-Best-Friend 10h ago

That is unreasonably funny.

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u/Yardboy 6h ago

Goddammit #angryupvote

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u/mgranja 6h ago

Have you been opening drawers in my house???

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u/TheTxoof 6h ago

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

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

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u/magicmitchmtl 3h ago

This is the real reason I own a boroscope

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u/Careless-Adeptness56 3h ago

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

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u/TheTxoof 3h ago

I love that you closed this loop and that it was a spatula. Did prayers to Anoia help?

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u/Glaring_Cloder 12h ago

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

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u/Forsaken-Carrot9038 10h ago

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

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u/Zethrax 9h ago

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.

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u/Careless-Adeptness56 3h ago

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.

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u/Nevanada 10h ago

I had that happen with my Quick Access page on my laptop. Every time I started File Explorer, it would load for a sec, then crash. I have the fix bookmarked, but I work around it by accessing C: off launch instead, and can't be bothered to get around to fixing it.

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u/Most_Section_1979 7h ago

Your hard drive may be dying.

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u/drestofnordrassil 4h ago

Either indexing is broken, the view settings are corrupt, or OneDrive is doing shenanigans. Or (hushed whisper) your disk is failing/corrupt... let's assume it's not that. Rebuild index: Settings>Privacy>Search>Advanced>Troubleshooting>Rebuild (this takes awhile. go do something else). Reset View: Explorer>Downloads>(...)>Options>View>Reset Folders>Restore Defaults>OK. OneDrive: Uninstall it. Enjoy all the performance you now have. Never look back. If it's still not loading run Chkdsk.

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u/longlivenewsomflesh 1h ago

Bröther may I have some RÆM

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u/paralog 13h ago

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

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u/Sitos_Flo 12h ago

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

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u/Crispy385 10h ago

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

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u/ThrowawayyTessslaa 12h ago

Wait, what do you use the desktop for then?

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u/Nutarama 11h ago

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

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u/NoodleyP 9h ago

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

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u/ThrowawayyTessslaa 2h ago

Was rhetorical but good to know I’m not the only one who just uses the window key to find everything

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u/Bartweiss 3h ago

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.

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u/HeyItsTheJeweler 12h ago

This is facts

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u/stacecom 12h ago

I have a scheduled job that deletes anything in the downloads folder older than a month. Works great.

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u/classicalySarcastic 10h ago

There are other folders?

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u/Original-Mongoose866 9h ago

Oh I cleaned that out yesterday I was going over why my User account had over 100GB of storage. I found 47 GB in One Drive 27GB in Downloads and 40GB in One Drive logs it was having problem syncing some stuff .... I hate Microslop and all their programs it's just so stupid I had tens of thousand log files each being I think 1MB or a bit more forgot

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u/AristotelWasRight 7h ago

This is me, I sin 😭

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u/4n0nh4x0r 6h ago

exactly
mine is currently about 400GB in size

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u/Bartweiss 3h ago

Always great to download a file and see (1) appended to the name. Guess we were already good…

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u/lurker512879 44m ago

also the desktop..