Over at his home away from ‘hacker, the How-To Geek has put together an excellent guide to automatically cleaning your downloads folder with Belvedere, Lifehacker’s very own automated file management tool.
Of course, we gave you a cursory overview of how to use Belvedere on the download page, but the Geek’s guide suggests a few smart rules you can set up for cleaning old ZIP and EXE downloads, moving images to your Pictures folder, music to your Music folder, and so on. We’re obviously big fans of Belvedere (and so are you, it seems), so it’s nice to see a step-by-step guide to putting it to good use.
Of course, Download management isn’t all you can do with Belvedere. If you’ve got your own favorite use for the automated file manager, let’s hear about it in the comments.
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