It was your fault. Sucks, but you did indeed do it. But the fact that you not only deleted them, but emptied the trash is astounding. I've accidentally formatted the wrong drive before (goodbye backup!) which was pretty lousy. The windows installer used different drive letters in DOS so I deleted the letter that I was used to having, only realizing instantly later that the drive sizes did not match the letter. Still my fault.

this seriously isn't a FML. sorry.

That is nothing, my friend's computer just crashed and he lost EVERYTHING on his entire computer... including over $400 in itunes purchases! Emails shouldn't matter if they're from 3 years ago, thats a long friggin' time.

its ******* emails. get the **** over it. theres people with WAY worse problesm then you. this is SO not an FML. Dumbass.

that sucks, but you did that yourself. my hard drive has crashed 3 times in 2 and a half years. beat that.

Why does it matter? Who goes back and reads 3 year old emails? It sounds like you have no life to ****

Meh, big deal. I mean, depending on what you had, which you should have explained.

hmm OP prob had all the **** pictures from 3 years ago. all the spam emails she/he got from online.

why the hell would you keep e-mail for longer than a week?

ever heard of recently deleted mail folder?????