I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.

If you call the bottom picture a "Data Lake" you can IPO and walk away with millions

I shit you not, IT around 2004, I had a nurse who stored all her important docs in "Recyle Bin"

She put in a ticket that her computer was slow. We scheduled a time to look at it and made sure she knew to be there.

When I showed up, she had left to go to lunch on purpose so she could take a free long lunch. I asked her manager to call her back in, she refused.

I diagnosed she was out of space, and emptied her bin.

That did not end up going well.

She was furious, Her boss was mad. My boss was pissed that it happened but considered it reasonable since she refused to be there.

I spent the better part of 4 hours undeleting deleted recycle bin contents which is WAYYYYYY harder than undeleting deleted files. They're already UUID's and bringing them back into existence will not put them back in the recycle bin, all that meta is gone.

Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.

I’ll say that as much as I love Apple and macOS, Finder has some pretty terrible defaults that make file management pretty difficult for the average user. The default “All Files” view is atrocious.

Just missing a random pile of files on the desktop.

"SDD"?

Man, I hate my moms pc folder layout, like why do you have Documents folder inside of documents folder inside of Documents folder? Why do you create excel sheets inside Downloads folder when you didn't download them???

I think most computer users now don't know that file systems exist

Ok. Calling me out like that. It's fine, I deserve it.

I store everything "temporarily" because "I'll sort it later" on the Desktop.

It's never later.

wtf is an SDD?

P.A.R.A. - It's a simple organization method and very easy to maintain.

> says SSD
> shows a symbol of an HDD

> MFW most people don't care because they understand the nuance of communication except for me

Do you even git?

Surely experiment 1…n should be branches.

I find myself having too many nested folders, and I’m just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.

At some points, Windows won’t let me change the file name because it was too long and I’m assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (“person last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmdd”) just breaks Windows.

Sometimes I have to copy those files to my desktop just to rename the new file, so that I can upload the file to an online system that only lets me upload files with names under 42 characters long. It’s wild.

Just put it all in the same folder and call it something like:

20250816_ProjectType_ActualNameHere_v001