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What's the oldest thing in your downloads directory and how old is it? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by riskable@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 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.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 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)

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I took a little liberty with what “downloads 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.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 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?