Miscellaneous: Today, I lost two terabytes' worth of photos to a friend's incompetence....

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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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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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 mlowy - 09/05/2014 05:35 - Azerbaijan - Baku

Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. 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 - 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 Soopa-Genius - 22/09/2011 12:06 - Canada

Today, the new office IT guy figured the best way to get the virus off my computer was to wipe my entire hard drive. He was kind enough to back my data up and restore everything from the backups. Including the virus. FML

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Today, I woke up to find out that my phone, which contained all of my pictures and videos from the past year, had completely crashed. Despite trying everything, I couldn't recover any of the data, even from the cloud backup. All those memories, gone forever. FML

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By fobfan14 - 16/09/2009 10:37 - United States

Today, somebody broke in to my house and stole my laptop, which had years worth of family photos on it. Where was I when it was stolen? At Staples, buying supplies that included CDs to finally back up my pictures. FML

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Cookiedough1987 4

Tuesday 21 August 2012 9:13

This is why you have an external hard drive to save these important things onto when you are letting someone unqualified (I'm guessing) mess with your stuff.

theslimshadylp 6

Tuesday 21 August 2012 9:12

Holy shit five years? I would give your friend the wrath of God if I were you.

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searbear616 7

Tuesday 21 August 2012 20:27

How much is a terabyte?

kikks_xx 10

Wednesday 22 August 2012 10:40

1024GB

warmmilk 1

Tuesday 21 August 2012 20:28

Google hdd recovery, if you're not sure about doing it yourself take it to a professional. If you're any sort of professional photographer you should back up your work at least once a month...

noisebox 1

Tuesday 21 August 2012 20:31

You get what you pay for

spicedream 8

Tuesday 21 August 2012 20:41

fyl for your friend being a douche.

andrewwstevens 0

Tuesday 21 August 2012 21:04

It's called an external hard drive

thatcoastiegirl 0

Tuesday 21 August 2012 21:11

But is your computer faster?

haitaku 1

Tuesday 21 August 2012 21:40

You had way to many photos.

snafu63 0

Tuesday 21 August 2012 21:44

Carbonite. Check it out

pathetic2011 4

Tuesday 21 August 2012 21:52

Not as many photos- but a similar thing happened to me after I specifically told our roommate not to wipe the computer, and that I would take care of it when I had the chance. Idiots.

FML_14u2c 14

Tuesday 21 August 2012 21:57

YDI OP, for not having your data backed up. I am truly sorry for your loss, as I can't imagine losing the photos of our son. He won't ever be that small again. I've got them saved on the camera memory, the computer's hard drive and on a DVD. (Still one house-fire from losing it all, but at least I'm covered if the hard drive goes bad.)

shrdlu 28

Wednesday 22 August 2012 23:19

You can stop worrying about the house fire part if you leave a copy of the DVD with a friend or relative (but not a neighbor). The technical term would be "off-site backup".