The "Downloads" folder on my laptop
@Natasha_Jay Yes, but where are Volumes 2 through 717?
@Natasha_Jay my blind ass downloading memes and not naming the files and then forever wondering exactly what all these images are and why i didn't just call them literally anything 😑

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The only time I use "icon" view for folders. Sometimes even "gallery" view.

@Natasha_Jay to discipline myself I wanted to make my ~/Downloads a tmpfs but then realized that this could backfire pretty quickly

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One of my goals for January. Actually curating my collected digital photos is, of course, far beyond my scope/abilities.

@Natasha_Jay The deep question is: Do you trust yourself enough to not save any important files in a dir called "delete this"? Would you delete it years later without looking at it?
@Natasha_Jay My current downloads folder dates back to 2009, but I've got other downloads folders dating back to 2002 elsewhere on my disks.
@Natasha_Jay What's worst is when things like tax returns, payslips and bank statements have names like that but one day, months later, you actually want to find one of them again.
@Natasha_Jay I have millions of files with names like that, but they're in folders with names that have proper names.

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How many days of "I'll get around to naming all of this crap that I imported from my phone eventually" remain until I actually do it?

@Natasha_Jay Ah yes, the random .jpg that will go in the MISC folder in my Downloads folder on my mini PC... until i move it to the 8TB external HDD in a month or two, and then 6 months from now it gets added to other MISC folders and will reside on the 24TB HDD for the next however many years.
@Natasha_Jay feel so sooooooo called out right now.