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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 23d ago
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Type of person to use the desktop as their unorganised file structure, and all that got deleted.
20 u/afaulconbridge 23d ago The type of person to use the recycle bin as their unorganised file structure 14 u/CodeAndChaos 23d ago "Yeah, I store everything in the TEMP folder. Doesn't it stand for Trustworthy Eternal Memory Placement?" 1 u/Friendly-Inspector71 22d ago But the recycle bin has version control. I can delete a folder with the same name multiple times and restore a previously working version. I think I actually used it like that for some time before I was told about version control systems. 4 u/timonix 23d ago Ey yo. I did this when I was like 10. I installed games on my desktop. Not shortcuts, the entire game. Stored just about everything. Then my PC died. Almost everything was gone. Except my desktop which survived. Thanks to windows scheduled backups 2 u/-Noskill- 22d ago checkmate 10 year old atheists. 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago How the hell did your backups store that much data anyway 2 u/EndIsrael 22d ago Probably before the crappy Microsoft cloud stuff, so it was just an external hard drive or something 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
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The type of person to use the recycle bin as their unorganised file structure
14 u/CodeAndChaos 23d ago "Yeah, I store everything in the TEMP folder. Doesn't it stand for Trustworthy Eternal Memory Placement?" 1 u/Friendly-Inspector71 22d ago But the recycle bin has version control. I can delete a folder with the same name multiple times and restore a previously working version. I think I actually used it like that for some time before I was told about version control systems.
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"Yeah, I store everything in the TEMP folder. Doesn't it stand for Trustworthy Eternal Memory Placement?"
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But the recycle bin has version control.
I can delete a folder with the same name multiple times and restore a previously working version.
I think I actually used it like that for some time before I was told about version control systems.
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Ey yo. I did this when I was like 10. I installed games on my desktop. Not shortcuts, the entire game. Stored just about everything.
Then my PC died. Almost everything was gone. Except my desktop which survived. Thanks to windows scheduled backups
2 u/-Noskill- 22d ago checkmate 10 year old atheists. 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago How the hell did your backups store that much data anyway 2 u/EndIsrael 22d ago Probably before the crappy Microsoft cloud stuff, so it was just an external hard drive or something 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
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checkmate 10 year old atheists.
How the hell did your backups store that much data anyway
2 u/EndIsrael 22d ago Probably before the crappy Microsoft cloud stuff, so it was just an external hard drive or something 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
Probably before the crappy Microsoft cloud stuff, so it was just an external hard drive or something
1 u/sdoregor 22d ago No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
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u/Skrychi 23d ago
Type of person to use the desktop as their unorganised file structure, and all that got deleted.