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!
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!