How do you stop your downloads folder from becoming a mess?
How do you stop your downloads folder from becoming a mess?
I delegate the contents to other folders and act like those aren't messy.
Installers/exe never stick around longer than I need them.
by moving stuff to new directories when the download is finished
delete after done
>let everything build up and now have to waste time to figure out what I want and don't
haha
Actually I'm running this at the beginning of every month.
dn=~/Downloads; do=$dn.d
[[ ! -d $do ]] && mkdir $do
mv $dn/* $do/$(date +%Y%m)
control a
shift delete
By deleting things i no longer have immediate use for. Anything else gets put in their respective folder.
sucks for you I guess
the problem with this (dl folder) is it's unconditional, just because it's been there 30 days means it's worth deleting. I have some stuff in my torrent collection folder that's been there for months, they can be deleted and I won't miss them but eh
*it's not worth deleting
I make a folder for every item
>How do you stop your downloads folder from becoming a mess?
Send downloads directly into sorted directories instead of one monolithic folder.
I don't
I fucking organize it.
I throw installers in my installer folder should the program be less commonly used, and images are thrown wherever.
So you're not organized at all. Seems like a pretty simple solution. STOP DUMPING EVERYTHING INTO ONE SINGLE FOLDER YOU LAZY BITCH.
Bet your room stinks too jfc
>STOP DUMPING EVERYTHING INTO ONE SINGLE FOLDER YOU LAZY BITCH.
Who said that's the case? Stop projecting.
If something has a specific place it skips that folder entirely.
It just won't stop building up.
I dont. just run treesize and delete the biggest things i dont need when i run out space.