Wasted $120 on those "file organization" apps that claim to clean up your downloads folder automatically

I fell for the ads on Instagram. Three different apps, all of them either deleted stuff I actually needed or left half the junk behind. One of them somehow duplicated my photos folder twice. Had to spend a whole Sunday digging through backups. Anyone else blow cash on these supposed miracle cleaners?

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eva_moore2d ago

I'm convinced these apps are just scams run by people who hate seeing organized folders. My downloads folder is now a digital hoarder's paradise, and I'm too scared to touch anything in case I break it further. At this point I just search for files by name and pretend the chaos doesn't exist.

morganmartinez3d ago

nah man you probably just picked the wrong ones or didn't set them up right. i've been using the same one for six months and it actually saves me hours of sorting through files every week.

brooket432d ago

My buddy Dave dropped $80 on one of those apps after a YouTube ad. It was supposed to sort his music library by genre and artist. Instead it renamed every single file to random numbers and letters. Took him three days to fix it manually and he still can't find like half his old playlists. He just throws new downloads into a single folder now and calls it a day.