September 2000 - Eurythmics Sweet Dreams 128k MP3 downloaded from Napster
You're not on the same machine, are you? That would be legendary.
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.
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?
I clean mine out regularly. Oldest right now is Cyberpunk 2077 mod that lets you pet your cat.
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.
September 26th, 2016
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.
Firefox installer.
Same
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
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.
STL files for an adafruit motorised guardian from BOTW
I swear i will print it one day
You happen to have a link for that? Sounds very interesting
On my phone right now so using my phone's Downloads folder. 2 years old.
It's this meme:
Since I only have my phone right now, here is October 2nd, 2019
I make 1 to 3 "monthly" backup folders, where everything I've downloaded that hasn't been moved to a home goes into 2024 August Downloads
I think I have back to 2021.
Still use them fairly often, lol.
Ooh this is a good idea! Because when you extract a file you just downloaded the original creation/modification dates are preserved. So when you extract some tarball the directory my be from several years ago so you can't rely on file modification times to see when you downloaded any given thing.
I think I'm going to start doing the date directory thing! I'll start by writing a bash script that runs in a systemd timer that automatically creates a directory whenever the month changes 👍
I also like doing it this way because then I'm my own archive of old software installers. So if a new version comes out busted, run the old installer! Doesn't always help if it's internet connected, but it's nice to have something.
And I think even my vast amount of history is maybe only 100GB on my backup HDD, if it's larger it's from occasional random large files lol.
My default download directory is /tmp, so I don't really accumulate much of random download files
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.
So is mine! But because I dump everything straight tomy desktop...
(Insert we are not the same meme)
June 2023, a picture of my daughter.
The APK for F-droid, because I just got a new phone.
15 year old crack.
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.
The Linux command "ls -t" sorts by newest first, if anyone else needs a cheatsheet.
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.
Allegedly? Uh-oh, are you have trouble getting actual documentation of that?
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!
Maybe they don't remember it.
Lol I just deleted my downloads on my PC, was > 100 GB lol
My downloads folder started in the early/mid-nineties. So TAG BBS execitable, probably.
Apparently I have a bunch of scala tuning files from 1996
Did you take a liberal definition of "downloads directory" like the other guy?
A document I need to edit for work from 2 days ago.
Y'all nasty.
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
Im currently seeding a torrent ive had since December. But thats just this pc. Ive got way older stuff on my external.
A folder with waifu2x-caffe (image upscaling software and not porn) from 2020
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