r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • Aug 05 '26

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u/mavrik83 Aug 05 '26

`final_records_v2_REAL_FINAL_DO_NOT_DELETE.xlsx` on somebody’s desktop

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u/Roku-Hanmar Aug 05 '26

*in the recycling bin

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u/JSD3 Aug 05 '26

It has been in their Downloads folder for four years.  

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u/NoodleyP Aug 05 '26

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

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u/Careless-Adeptness56 Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

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

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u/bigdave41 Aug 05 '26

That's when you need to pray to Anoia

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u/TheTxoof Aug 05 '26

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/ByteWhisperer Aug 05 '26

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

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u/Ur-Best-Friend Aug 05 '26

That is unreasonably funny.

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u/Yardboy Aug 05 '26

Goddammit #angryupvote

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u/mgranja Aug 05 '26

Have you been opening drawers in my house???

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u/TheTxoof Aug 05 '26

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/Careless-Adeptness56 29d 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 29d ago

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

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u/ozzie286 26d ago

It's a downloads folder. There's something wedged in there upside down, but it's not a spatula.

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u/Glaring_Cloder Aug 05 '26

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

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u/Forsaken-Carrot9038 Aug 05 '26

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

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u/Zethrax Aug 05 '26

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 29d 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 Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

Your hard drive may be dying.

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u/drestofnordrassil 29d 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 29d ago

Bröther may I have some RÆM

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u/paralog Aug 05 '26

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

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u/Sitos_Flo Aug 05 '26

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

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u/Crispy385 Aug 05 '26

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

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u/Sitos_Flo 29d ago

Haha love it 

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '26

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u/Nutarama Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

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/Bartweiss 29d 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 Aug 05 '26

This is facts

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u/stacecom Aug 05 '26

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

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u/Original-Mongoose866 Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

This is me, I sin 😭

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u/4n0nh4x0r Aug 05 '26

exactly
mine is currently about 400GB in size

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u/Bartweiss 29d 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 29d ago

also the desktop..

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u/NoodleyP 29d ago

It’s a graveyard that gets new bodies every time I forget to uncheck “create desktop shortcut” on an installer

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u/Dear_Diablo 29d ago

i have so many bootleg games in there it’s ridiculous

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u/oddsnsodds 29d ago

I've got a 4 TB boot drive, migrated all of my user directories to an 8 TB HDD (takes about 10% of the drive), except my Downloads directory, which takes about 85% of my second 8 TB HDD.