Music files I downloaded, liked enough to listen to again, but not enough to but onto a playlist. Old text documents about how to reach people, random poems or jokes from online, install files of outdated software, etc, etc.
Do yourself a favor, take an hour, and wipe it out. Move the music files into a music file directory, put the contact files into a contacts directory, etc. Save or delete the installs, your choice.
Me too... I have a directory "cruft", and in it are a bunch of roughly monthly files, each "cruft YYYYMM", and in them are all the cruft that was on my desktop at some point during that month when I realized they were all old clutter I wasn't actively needing....
Thing is, when I actually need something I can generally find it by thinking back to when I last used it, going into the appropriate cruft folder, and there it is. I sort my web-browser bookmarks the same way, roughly monthly, except I'm much worse about bothering to start new folders because they always display chronologically anyway.
I solve this problem by never putting anything on it in the first place: I have a "Downloads" folder where all the random stuff gets saved, whence it sometimes makes it to other locations (documents, music, applications, etc.) and sometimes just sits there until I delete it. But it's in column view, so it's much less cluttered than the desktop would be.
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Date: 2006-01-15 07:15 pm (UTC)Music files I downloaded, liked enough to listen to again, but not enough to but onto a playlist. Old text documents about how to reach people, random poems or jokes from online, install files of outdated software, etc, etc.
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Date: 2006-01-15 07:15 pm (UTC)Thing is, when I actually need something I can generally find it by thinking back to when I last used it, going into the appropriate cruft folder, and there it is. I sort my web-browser bookmarks the same way, roughly monthly, except I'm much worse about bothering to start new folders because they always display chronologically anyway.
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