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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

September 2000 - Eurythmics Sweet Dreams 128k MP3 downloaded from Napster

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're not on the same machine, are you? That would be legendary.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I took a little liberty with what β€œdownloads 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I clean mine out regularly. Oldest right now is Cyberpunk 2077 mod that lets you pet your cat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

STL files for an adafruit motorised guardian from BOTW

I swear i will print it one day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You happen to have a link for that? Sounds very interesting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On my phone right now so using my phone's Downloads folder. 2 years old.

It's this meme:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Since I only have my phone right now, here is October 2nd, 2019

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 πŸ‘

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My default download directory is /tmp, so I don't really accumulate much of random download files

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

So is mine! But because I dump everything straight tomy desktop...

(Insert we are not the same meme)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The APK for F-droid, because I just got a new phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

June 2023, a picture of my daughter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Lol I just deleted my downloads on my PC, was > 100 GB lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently I have a bunch of scala tuning files from 1996

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did you take a liberal definition of "downloads directory" like the other guy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nope, are you weirdly angry for no reason?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. That's just a long time ago.

I can't imagine you're on the same machine, so I guess you must have rolled over your files in such a way that the download directory was still preserved?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Fair enough - didn't mean to sound confrontational.

I definitely didn't download the files that long ago, that's just when they were created. I probably downloaded them in 2020 or 2021.

The real mystery of my download folder is only a few weeks old, and was caused by a year long obsession I've developed - it's called "what is this.mp3"

https://voca.ro/13fZ4IYptzSv

If anyone knows what this sample is called, please let me know! It's the new craze I guess

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

15 year old crack.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My downloads folder started in the early/mid-nineties. So TAG BBS execitable, probably.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Allegedly? Uh-oh, are you have trouble getting actual documentation of that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe they don't remember it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A folder with waifu2x-caffe (image upscaling software and not porn) from 2020

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

From 2020 a picture of the construction skill icon pre green pixel removal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A document I need to edit for work from 2 days ago.

Y'all nasty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Im currently seeding a torrent ive had since December. But thats just this pc. Ive got way older stuff on my external.

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