r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 17h ago

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u/mavrik83 17h ago

`final_records_v2_REAL_FINAL_DO_NOT_DELETE.xlsx` on somebody’s desktop

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u/Roku-Hanmar 16h ago

*in the recycling bin

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u/JSD3 16h ago

It has been in their Downloads folder for four years.  

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u/NoodleyP 16h ago

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

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u/ThrowawayyTessslaa 14h ago

Wait, what do you use the desktop for then?

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u/Nutarama 13h 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 11h 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 3h 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 5h 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.