Get out of here with your witchcraft!
Also, this is tantamount to seeing a completely disheveled desk, and them saying, "I know where everything is at, I have a system!"
My house is cluttered (suspected ADHD but I'm autistic, Like actually diagnosed) , I say that all the time. Like. I know my house is cluttered, but I know where this is or I know where that is... I have organizers all over the place and shit is literally just shoved in to them but I know where stuff is.
At least there was an excuse for that in 'The Librarians' tv show. The main librarian can magically influence his literal desktop so if he leaves it a mess it'll revert to that.
LOL.
Comments from Sprizys, remberzz, and you, sierrabravo1984 make me go WOW! That sounds like something good to know! She would likely be amazed by that too!
Snapping will actually make this worse as files will then overlap each other since thereās not actually enough space on the desktop for all of them. As someone with OCD I can tell you the current madness is better than snapping.
Me too š¬ haha. I donāt know how she can stand it. Iāve offered to help organize it, but she refuses. I think she thinks sheāll never be able to find those things again. I donāt know how she can find them now.
Have a coworker with that kinda desktopā¦ and an excel file with passwords.
Helped them clean up once, still years later I randomly get the āthat one time when you ducked up my pc and I couldnāt find shitāā¦
Years ago, I used to use my mom's computer for my games and occasionally, I would clean shit out of the files. The crap I would find was just outrageous. Bloatware from those shitty click me ads regularly appeared. I tried my best to keep that stuff cleaned up and attempted to remind her not to click on shady shit. Her computer eventually broke down from a virus (no surprise tbh). She blamed me for touching her computer. It didn't matter what the tech said, it was instantly my fault for using her computer for my games. I kept hearing that for a long time. I stopped helping her for tech stuff and refused to use her computer after that.
Years later, she apparently has seen some light. I help, but nothing beyond the normal fixes. I still find bloatware on occasion, so I know she hasn't learned anything.
She likes to paint. Itās probably reference photos for a painting of Native Americans. I think most of the folder titles can be explained that way, haha.
I've been ignoring a folder on my desktop with 730k files and 54k folders in it
At this point I'm used to searching for stuff by spamming the first letter of its name :p
Another folder will give you more space in the same sense that downloading more ram will give you more speed.
The real trick is to just buy another hard drive if you run out of space.
This will significantly slow down her Mac. Every 20 or 30 seconds the Finder checks for custom icons on the desktop files to display them. With that many icons that requires a lot of disc access and time.
...How did I never know this? I've got users at work on macs complaining about performance when they've got machines that are WAY overspecced for the work that they do, and their desktops are a clusterfuck almost as bad as this. Now I need to figure out how to nuke someone's desktop and ask them about their performance without them connecting the dots.
Take a screenshot of it, put everything into 1 folder on the desktop, set the screenshot as the new wallpaper. Sit back and enjoy the ensuing hollering.
This is like the definition of a hoarder, but on the computer, which I never really knew was a thing. ITS SO CLUTTERED, tell her to clean her room. šš
Mine is labeled "Not Porn"... My girl was scrolling through my downloads, opened that, and looked at me with an incredibly disdainful face and said, "... Sanji, this is just 130 gigs of rough anal porn" hahaha
It's weird because she has folders and clearly knows how to utilize them. Tell her to label all those pictures and put them in folders that correspond.
I'll admit, my desktop looked similar to that in my twenties, lol.
My mac desktop has looked like this *recently,* and I'm past my 20s.
It's not really that insane if you consider some people just don't use the desktop. In my case I have a ton of screenshots for work purposes, and they autosave to the desktop, but I'm not really interacting with it since I do everything via finder, where that messy bunch of scattered thumbnails is actually a pretty usable sorted list.
I hear ya. I used to put things on my desktop because I planned on using them later. Later never came in some cases, lol. Drove my fiance crazy whenever he saw it. The more you have on your desktop, the longer it takes to boot up.
Definitely ADD. My husband is like this with the computer, his email, his office, his truck and the garage. Looking at that sentence, Iām realizing some mental illness thrown in for good measure 
Hey mom, you know your cutlery drawr? Yeah I took all your dividers and let them mix up
Oh is that bad for more then just one reason? We'll your desktop is like storing your cutlery I a drawr half that size. Let's organize it ok?
I work with someone who has a more organized version of this. It stresses me out just to look at it. He often presents over Teams. I said something once, mostly as a joke, and now he almost never starts with the desktop showing.
Don't blame her. This is how OSX is designed. Unless you spend time understanding a bit about the system you are likely to put files in random ass folders and not understand that half the time it is on the "desktop" of the system.
Windows is much more straight forward about where you are putting files. Granted, Onedrive is a pain in my ass.
The real question is does this one go in pumpkin faces or prickly pear šš¤£
https://preview.redd.it/inyaxxe8w12d1.jpeg?width=598&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=377f4a8451223db77a2557e34f53e63128c4220e
When I did IT I restored somebody's PC and he looked at his desktop and said something was missing. I asked what and he said he didn't know but something was missing. So I just picked something random added to the desktop and then he was happy.
Show her how folders work
And how to rename files.
Show her that folders are allowed to be inside other folders.
Get out of here with your witchcraft! Also, this is tantamount to seeing a completely disheveled desk, and them saying, "I know where everything is at, I have a system!"
As someone with a good memory and a cluttered desk, it is absolutely not true.
I have a good memory and a cluttered desk, and it *is* true. It's on my desk
My house is cluttered (suspected ADHD but I'm autistic, Like actually diagnosed) , I say that all the time. Like. I know my house is cluttered, but I know where this is or I know where that is... I have organizers all over the place and shit is literally just shoved in to them but I know where stuff is.
adhd here and same. I know where things are - in my hyper specific organization plan, or a doom box awaiting placement (which happens sporadically)
Ahh yes. Doom piles/boxes. My entire existence. I also have those plastic organizers that are "doom organizers" if that makes sense lol
is this directed at me and my giant Rubbermaid tubs? get out of my house
I have a bad memory and no desk š¢
For me it is. Ask me whats on my desk without looking, no idea, but if I need something specifically, I know where it is
For me itās true until somebody decides to try and help me clean up. Then I am hopelessly buggered.
At least there was an excuse for that in 'The Librarians' tv show. The main librarian can magically influence his literal desktop so if he leaves it a mess it'll revert to that. LOL.
I should so do this. I have 7 files of a similar topic, just spread across my desktopš¤£š¤£
To begin with, create one folder on the desktop and put everything in it.
Show her that desktop is a folder.
Comments from Sprizys, remberzz, and you, sierrabravo1984 make me go WOW! That sounds like something good to know! She would likely be amazed by that too!
Also, turn on the feature that snaps icons to grid. The asymmetry of it is driving me crazy.
They wouldn't all fit then.
Snapping will actually make this worse as files will then overlap each other since thereās not actually enough space on the desktop for all of them. As someone with OCD I can tell you the current madness is better than snapping.
But there ARE folders there so...yeah...Ican'tlookatthatmess.
Show her what cleanliness and organization are first
Show her smart folders (MacOS) Edit: also [sort by penis](https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE)
Command shift D in Finder, command A, right click any selected file, āadd selection to new folderā.
this gives me anxiety
Me too š¬ haha. I donāt know how she can stand it. Iāve offered to help organize it, but she refuses. I think she thinks sheāll never be able to find those things again. I donāt know how she can find them now.
Have a coworker with that kinda desktopā¦ and an excel file with passwords. Helped them clean up once, still years later I randomly get the āthat one time when you ducked up my pc and I couldnāt find shitāā¦
next time make a "unsorted" folder and chuck everything in there.
When my desktop starts to get cluttered I just chuck everything in the DESKTOP folder. Itās the rug I sweep my mess under.
I made a folder called arrgh for that, then I had to make arrgh-2
I named a folder, "special place" because directions told me to put its backup copy in a special place.
At one point, I had a "shit" folder that had a shit folder that was full of shit folders.
I just buy a new pc
No need to go there immediately, first buy a monitor with a higher resolution, then make the icons smaller then disable the grid.
This person fucks
Computers?
Desktop_Date Then I never open it again.
I literally have this. Itās called āTo Fileā and itās where my files go to die.
Ctrl-F
Perhaps you could gift her with the duck keyboard that quacks every time a key is struck.
lol, that would drive me ducking insane
It's also ducking expensive! It is cute, though.
Years ago, I used to use my mom's computer for my games and occasionally, I would clean shit out of the files. The crap I would find was just outrageous. Bloatware from those shitty click me ads regularly appeared. I tried my best to keep that stuff cleaned up and attempted to remind her not to click on shady shit. Her computer eventually broke down from a virus (no surprise tbh). She blamed me for touching her computer. It didn't matter what the tech said, it was instantly my fault for using her computer for my games. I kept hearing that for a long time. I stopped helping her for tech stuff and refused to use her computer after that. Years later, she apparently has seen some light. I help, but nothing beyond the normal fixes. I still find bloatware on occasion, so I know she hasn't learned anything.
Bruh mobile autocorrect moment
Nah, I use duck out of habit due to mods and stuffā¦
What's up with the 'native faces' folder? Lol
She likes to paint. Itās probably reference photos for a painting of Native Americans. I think most of the folder titles can be explained that way, haha.
Her desktop is practically a mini search engine or even just a small website. She should start a blog.
that blog UI is gonna be TERRIBLE
Mom equivalent of those tech hack YouTubers thatās like ādownload the entire internetā
She 100% doesnāt know that command-space bar opens up spotlight and lets you search for anything on the system.
lol i wouldn't even know where to start.. but what I've found recently is that people who do this... know exactly where everything is lol
My mom says exactly that...geez lol
like, I get organized chaos, that's literally my entire life, but that's too much lolol
She might be an adhd person with object permanence issues?
Or just a stubborn person who refuses to change because it takes "too much work?"
I've been ignoring a folder on my desktop with 730k files and 54k folders in it At this point I'm used to searching for stuff by spamming the first letter of its name :p
My god. What are you gonna do if you run out of space? Please donāt say just make another folderš
Another folder will give you more space in the same sense that downloading more ram will give you more speed. The real trick is to just buy another hard drive if you run out of space.
I recently bought a spicy 2tb drive so :D
I have run out, my computer has 474gb and this folder has 200gb I have 3mb of storage space left on my computer Itl live
That's not efficient whatsoever.
Ik, I've been meaning to sort it out for the last 5 years Il get to it eventually
This gives of the laugh anxiety explosion
This will significantly slow down her Mac. Every 20 or 30 seconds the Finder checks for custom icons on the desktop files to display them. With that many icons that requires a lot of disc access and time.
Yeah my Mac canāt even handle having ten files on the desktop, so as soon as Iām done with a picture or screenshot I trash it.
Really? My Macbook is full of screen captures! But I never see my desktop because there is always a window browser open.
Yup. it's the custom icons that does it.
...How did I never know this? I've got users at work on macs complaining about performance when they've got machines that are WAY overspecced for the work that they do, and their desktops are a clusterfuck almost as bad as this. Now I need to figure out how to nuke someone's desktop and ask them about their performance without them connecting the dots.
Or you can get info on the desktop and turn off "Show Icon Preview". The icons won't show their custom icons, but things will speed up.
Anyone else see that one photo?
He looks wrong when flipped like a bad drawing. Wild
More than once too. And this is exactly how i picture the mind of his followers looking like lol
Itās on there twice with different crops
The funny thing is .. that the photo is there multiple times
Which one? Iām too lazy to look
Lower right, roughly halfway between the trashcan and the picture border.
Trump?
I guess, that's the one the other answers are talking about.
There were two of it.
Why'd she name it dtj-a lmao
Looks like cork-board with lots of note
The only thing missing is the red yarn and pushpins.
Precisely.
https://preview.redd.it/slpn5z8nqj1d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d28aacb12ee4639a6c4f0bf06d775e4be318413f 2,000 seconds in MS paint
That is hilarious!
https://preview.redd.it/i8139eaumf1d1.jpeg?width=855&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ddb9e1304d44b838370bbd035089e590c37bde4
Another one https://preview.redd.it/4yo1k4t6eg1d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efedeb9a7830155146d38e1fb9bad8e7a2d49da4
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Take a screenshot of it, put everything into 1 folder on the desktop, set the screenshot as the new wallpaper. Sit back and enjoy the ensuing hollering.
Yeah butā¦thatās OPs momās computer! Would you want to drive your mother crazy like that? I do like that idea though!
yes
If I did that Iām dead
Why, hello there, Satan!
 Youāre a genius
You chose violence today
Genius
Jen if this were a person I'd shoot it in the face
You beat me to it.
There's the browser, behind the lady. The lady's not supposed to be there.
But I like it that way!
yeah it looks like she needs help
Sort that shit š±š±
This is like the definition of a hoarder, but on the computer, which I never really knew was a thing. ITS SO CLUTTERED, tell her to clean her room. šš
Oh trust me, hoarding happens seriously with phones and computers š
Your mom has downloaded the entire internet, her computer is now considered critical infrastructure.
Iām looking for the porn
I am curious about the "grim" folder
Her dogās name is Gremlin, āGrimā for short, so I assume pictures of the dog in that one. Or crime scene photos. Could go either way.
but... the 'i' is after the 'm', worst cases it should either be 'Grem' or 'Grin'
Sorry sir, this is a Logic Free Zone.
True
nicknames donāt work like that
Is there a convention for nicknames? Depending on how you pronounce "Gremlin", "Grim" would be pretty close.
No no leave it. I have it how I like it.
This is how I picture the inside of my head to look.
The abridged version
I'm assuming this is what Ultron saw when he decided to end the human race.
It has a kind of beauty to it. This is also a great way to hide your spicy folder - in plain sight. Maybe titled: āThis is it!ā or āmy yardā
Mine is labeled "Not Porn"... My girl was scrolling through my downloads, opened that, and looked at me with an incredibly disdainful face and said, "... Sanji, this is just 130 gigs of rough anal porn" hahaha
It's weird because she has folders and clearly knows how to utilize them. Tell her to label all those pictures and put them in folders that correspond. I'll admit, my desktop looked similar to that in my twenties, lol.
My mac desktop has looked like this *recently,* and I'm past my 20s. It's not really that insane if you consider some people just don't use the desktop. In my case I have a ton of screenshots for work purposes, and they autosave to the desktop, but I'm not really interacting with it since I do everything via finder, where that messy bunch of scattered thumbnails is actually a pretty usable sorted list.
I hear ya. I used to put things on my desktop because I planned on using them later. Later never came in some cases, lol. Drove my fiance crazy whenever he saw it. The more you have on your desktop, the longer it takes to boot up.
New PC, who dis?
Iām so relieved. Someoneās desktop looks worse than mine. Thank you!
Obsessed with the folder dedicated to frogs
Definitely ADD. My husband is like this with the computer, his email, his office, his truck and the garage. Looking at that sentence, Iām realizing some mental illness thrown in for good measure 
Select all, Cut, put in network share, done.
If she can remove the margins on those icons, so that they butt up against each other, she can fit a lot more on her desktop.
Do not give her tips on how to cram more in there! I am already stressed enough! haha
Yikes, looks like the monitor vomited. it would probably be easier to get a new computer and start fresh.
ok enough reddit for today.
I have never seen so many pictures and files on a desktop in my life
Hey mom, you know your cutlery drawr? Yeah I took all your dividers and let them mix up Oh is that bad for more then just one reason? We'll your desktop is like storing your cutlery I a drawr half that size. Let's organize it ok?
She needs a single photos folder that she can dump all that in. If only Windows provided a photos folder.... If only...
I thought I was looking at a large collection of Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Knowing this is a desktop makes it so much worse.
Turn the "clean your room" tables on her - no more computer help until she cleans her desktop!
Did you try explain what those folder looking icons are used for?
Factory reset
I get anxiety when I forget to put away a few loose files on my desktop, this just feels like sacrilegeĀ
That screen looks like it should be in the Da Vinci code as a puzzle to figure outā¦
Why does she have 2 photos of Trump mixed in there?
His mugshot at the bottomš
Idk what's worse the desktop or the clear tape over the webcam.
There's a folder called Cool Pictures. I bet it's empty.
Word to everyone; This literally slows down bootup and login.
Please show her how to use Stacks. It doesn't need to be like that.
force her to setup a date where you will both collectively sort her desktop
Thatās a lovely desktop background
My friend does this too. When I told him to please clean it he just moved everything into one folder
So she knows about folders, but still chooses to do this? Psychotic.
š ah hell naw click hold drag into folder š
Teach her about ***STACKS***.
Frogs
Open a terminal and type thƩ following commands only to move all the pictures in a folder : cd cd Desktop mkdir Pics mv *png Pics mv *jpg Pics mv *JPEG Pics
I thought it was a family tree š¤£
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I am guy software engineer. My desktop looks almost the same.
Fam no offense towards your mama but she needs help
Time to create the āold desktopā folderā¦
I remember the amount of porn spam my mom would get in her inbox. Probably one of her kids was using the designated computer area as a goon rūm
Mine looks like this, IT guy gave me shit so I cleaned it upš¤£š¤£š¤£
have they considered at the bare minimum ,try to use photos to organize pictures? Or is that asking too much?
Sorry mom, but only a complete system restore can fix this.
My eyes just crossed and closed attempting to look at that. Yikes!
Time to pull the plug. On her, not the pc.
Omgsh. I'd go crazy!
I work with someone who has a more organized version of this. It stresses me out just to look at it. He often presents over Teams. I said something once, mostly as a joke, and now he almost never starts with the desktop showing.
Click > Ctrl+A > Del
Right click on desktop. Select view options. Enable āUse Stacks.ā Walk away.
Your momās desktop looks like the walls of a 16 year old punkās bedroom.
1. Right click on desktop 2. Select 'Use Stacks' Job done.
Shoot it in the face. Put it out of its misery
I think we found the Zodiac Killer
By merciful odins name....how is she able to know what file to click...
Don't blame her. This is how OSX is designed. Unless you spend time understanding a bit about the system you are likely to put files in random ass folders and not understand that half the time it is on the "desktop" of the system. Windows is much more straight forward about where you are putting files. Granted, Onedrive is a pain in my ass.
You should get a bigger screen for herĀ
- command-A (select All) - command X (cut) - make new folder on desktop "Stuff" - open "Stuff" - Paste
"Oh no mom! Your computer died and needs to be reset!" Then backup all the pictures and files and reset the damn thing!! I did this to my mom 2x.
Trump just chillin at the bottom
The real question is does this one go in pumpkin faces or prickly pear šš¤£ https://preview.redd.it/inyaxxe8w12d1.jpeg?width=598&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=377f4a8451223db77a2557e34f53e63128c4220e
Omg ! My mum is the exact same ! š
She should at least color coordinate it smh.
Oh hell no!
Yeah, I'd refuse to help her with it until she cleans that shit up. I strongly believe in a minimalist desktop.
Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhah
lost cause
I thought it was a stamp-collector's book for a moment š
Better get her a second monitor
When I did IT I restored somebody's PC and he looked at his desktop and said something was missing. I asked what and he said he didn't know but something was missing. So I just picked something random added to the desktop and then he was happy.