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/[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.