Comments on: Downloaded files should all go to your desktop first

By: Jeff Kee

Jeff Kee — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:57:26 +0000

eh. i should have talked to you years ago! I’m finally organized now.

By: Thinkreferrals

Thinkreferrals — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:54:26 +0000

I’ve been doing that for years. It is the only way I can remember to sort through them.

By: J.R.

J.R. — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:06:29 +0000

Jeff described exactly the same evolution I made a while back with the messy neglected folder. That filthy animal of a folder got on my nerves so I put all the downloads, like Jeff said, on my desktop.

Now it’s almost as bad as a game of tetris. All those downloaded files coming in so fast you have to find a way to put them in there place. If you have a packrat mentality you’re in trouble! 95% of the downloads should be garbaged, where are you going to find the time to enjoy your files all over again?

When you have them old baby boomers learning the internet and how to download, they’ll never junk anything! “I’ll save this somewhere just in case” Haha They never through anything away. It’s like their dirty garages!

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:57:52 +0000

That coudl provide as an incentive to keep your computer clean of files and be more organized. TO prevent slow-downs, you get to it right away instead of letting it sit there for weeks or months..

which is exasctly what happened to my 400+ files in my received folder…

By: Paul Butler

Paul Butler — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:44:26 +0000

The theory is that having your desktop get cluttered will be an incentive for you to clean it up… rather than have the file sit around in some folder taking up hard drive space.

By the way Jeff, your comments field acts oddly in FireFox when using tab to navigate.

By: Steven Stark

Steven Stark — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:56:29 +0000

you DO know that the more items on your Desktop means more computer resources are constantly being used to show those items as large desktop 3d icons. Also, I save more than enough crap to my desktop alone, I would HATE my computer always doing that by default.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:16:01 +0000

Shortcut folders on the desktop make life so much easier. I made some folders like My Documents\Projects and C:\Software\ and alt+dragged them to the desktop to create shortcuts. I choose some original icons and whenever I am done with something I have been working at on the desktop, I just drag it over the appropriate shortcut icon to move it to that folder. Then I can forget about it until I need the file again. I actually started doing this since I was confined to 192 MB of RAM, but I stuck with it because it was a good habit. It is also good for privacy if you present from a data projector.

By: Jeff Kee

Jeff Kee — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:43:20 +0000

Haha once you rip through those files you can try my method and see how well it goes!

By: Jefffff

Jefffff — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:41:45 +0000

i have about… 400 files in that folder right now??? haha i may as well just delete them all!

By: alienX

alienX — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:40:01 +0000

Yup i’ve been experimenting the same thing..

unless you’re disciplined enough to empty your “downloaded files” type of folders every week or so, that’s a much better way to be. It’s like putting items on a pin-up board, so you can always see them and sort through them.