Deleted my downloads folder at 2 AM and felt like a supervillain

Last Thursday I was half asleep in my kitchen with my laptop open, and I finally snapped after seeing 1,847 files in my downloads folder, mostly duplicate PDFs and old installers. I hit select all and deleted everything without a second thought, then panicked when I realized I lost that tax form from March, but after an hour of digging through my email I found it and honestly the purge felt amazing. Has anyone else done a late night nuke and regretted or celebrated it after?

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the_robin17d ago

Deleted my photos folder once at like 1 AM thinking it was all backed up. Turns out I had two years of concert pics and random screenshots of memes that were gone forever. The memes I got over, but the concert pics still sting when I see a band I used to follow. Found an old external drive six months later and it had half of them, so now I just keep everything in three places. The weird part is I actually sleep better knowing the clutter is gone, even if I lost a few gems.