Geek: Today, I deleted a load of junk that was messing up my mother's...

By not living happily ever after - 02/12/2014 17:02 - United States - Virginia Beach

Today, I deleted a load of junk that was messing up my mother's computer. I don't know how I'm going to tell her I accidentally wiped out all of her wedding photos. FML

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By rebeccaremily - 04/10/2009 07:03 - Canada

Today, my computer stopped working. Me, the technology challenged one, decided to do a system recovery on it hoping that I could make it better. Turns out, system recovery means deleting all the files off the computer including family photos, music and assignments and starting fresh. FML

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By testom - 17/04/2015 18:15 - Netherlands - Rotterdam

Today, my husband accidentally erased some pictures from our hard drive. No worries, nothing major: just everything from our wedding and the birth of our first child. FML

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By ThisGirl - 21/08/2012 02:30 - United States - Kennesaw

Today, I lost two terabytes' worth of photos to a friend's incompetence. He said he could save me some money and fix my slow computer for free. He ended up wiping the hard drive, and along with it, my photography portfolio from the last five years. FML

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By computergeek - 26/01/2010 21:25 - United States

Today, my parents got me a new computer for my birthday. They also took the liberty of throwing out my old computer, with 8 years of photos, videos, music, documents, emails, and bookmarks on it. But that's okay, I had a backup. They threw that out too. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/02/2021 04:01 - United States - Weyauwega

Today, while trying to fix a corrupted USB hard drive with my wife’s computer I accidentally wiped her laptop drive instead of clearing the external drive. I’m not allowed on her computers anymore. FML

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By JL. - 16/03/2019 00:00

Today I was trying to show off to my mother about how much detail I placed into my group project that I had to do tomorrow. I then proceeded to delete the project thinking that I was just removing it from my phone.... Everyone's research and my 3 day's of hard work went with it. FML.

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By Anonymous - 21/09/2009 20:22 - United States

Today, I got a new computer because my old one crashed, deleting all music, photos, and documents. I still had all my music on my iPod though, and went to sync it to the new computer. By accident, my younger brother pulled the cord out before it was done, deleting all 3,000 songs forever. FML

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By photogirl - 30/08/2010 18:42 - United States

Today, my external hard drive broke. My husband tried to fix it, and the computer told him he needed to format it. Apparently he didn't know what formatting does, so he did it. I'm a wedding photographer and had a full summer of unfinished wedding photography on there. FML

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By artiemilano - 15/10/2009 19:42 - United States

Today, I let my mother use my computer for school work. Later that day my mom asks me what's wrong with the computer. I look at it, only seeing a "Welcome to Windows XP" screen. She said that she saw a blue screen and pressed L and C when it asked her to. My mom managed to clear my hard drive. FML

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File vs. Folder

By NotThatButton - This FML is from back in 2015 but it's good stuff - United States - Missoula

Today, I accidentally deleted my landlord's pictures of his child's graduation, girlfriend, daughter, and vacation when he asked me to delete a video off his phone. FML

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billyboef 10

Wednesday 3 December 2014 0:10

I sure hope she has some kind of backup...

Migole 36

Wednesday 3 December 2014 0:12

1. Perhaps you and your mother both should learn about the magic thing that is backup (external hdd, cloud whatever) 2. I hope you didn't touch the computer after you realized this and immedediately talked to a professional, because as long as you didn't overwrite the "free storage" they might still be saved

Comments

sqwishy 2

Wednesday 3 December 2014 18:03

Go to downloads.com and search media recovery you'll find programs there to recover your lost photos I've done this to my music and found programs there to recover stuff

damwoods 12

Wednesday 3 December 2014 19:19

Ghastly_fml 15

Wednesday 3 December 2014 20:31

Have you tried your recycling bin on your PC? If you haven't completely wiped them out, you might be able to recover them

meskbolts 3

Wednesday 3 December 2014 21:26

There may be people who can find those pictures still on the hard drive. When a photo is deleted, unless it is written over, still exists on the hard drive

norisorroz 28

Wednesday 3 December 2014 22:20

File scavenger FTW!

i_needa_username 17

Wednesday 3 December 2014 23:11

Aww):

BananaN0se 13

Thursday 4 December 2014 3:53

Maybe you could say there was a virus and Mcafee got rod of it

yerrkiddingme 2

Thursday 4 December 2014 5:16

daaammmnn!!! you ******!

Muttley9 13

Thursday 4 December 2014 8:36

CCleaner, Malwarebytes, and a free A/V will do all the cleanup needed.

Iamnotfat 16

Thursday 4 December 2014 14:14

Stop using the computer right away. Bring it to a technician to restore the photos... Phones and computers when you initially delete an item it just temporarily deletes it. If you don't overwrite the area on the drive where it was written before, it can still be restored. Good luck