When I was like 10 years old I deleted system32 on someone else’s computer, because it was taking up space and they needed to clean up the drive, and some random google search troll result said to do so 😅
I did something similar once to my own computer as an adult. I was trying to uninstall dropbox, but for some reason I forgot that there is an uninstaller tool for that. So I searched for all files with Dropbox in their directory, selected all of them, and deleted them.
Unfortunately for me, well, you know how you can select a folder to sync to Dropbox when you set it up? I apparently somehow selected the user folder for that. Which caused the files for almost everything being displayed on screen to have Dropbox in their directory. And that meant I was deleting all the non-essential files (as in everything other than Sys32) on my computer.
The only warning I had was when the number of files marked for deletion passed 100 gb. I stopped there and checked my work, but I couldn’t see any problems with my method at the time. My poor computer’s screen went black while it worked to delete EVERYTHING. I didn’t realize what I had done until the screen turned back on and showed an empty desktop.
But at least I could finally reach 10 fps while running Minecraft!
When I was like 10 years old I deleted system32 on someone else’s computer, because it was taking up space and they needed to clean up the drive, and some random google search troll result said to do so 😅
I did something similar once to my own computer as an adult. I was trying to uninstall dropbox, but for some reason I forgot that there is an uninstaller tool for that. So I searched for all files with Dropbox in their directory, selected all of them, and deleted them.
Unfortunately for me, well, you know how you can select a folder to sync to Dropbox when you set it up? I apparently somehow selected the user folder for that. Which caused the files for almost everything being displayed on screen to have Dropbox in their directory. And that meant I was deleting all the non-essential files (as in everything other than Sys32) on my computer.
The only warning I had was when the number of files marked for deletion passed 100 gb. I stopped there and checked my work, but I couldn’t see any problems with my method at the time. My poor computer’s screen went black while it worked to delete EVERYTHING. I didn’t realize what I had done until the screen turned back on and showed an empty desktop.
But at least I could finally reach 10 fps while running Minecraft!