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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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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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 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 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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By Anonymous - 08/04/2023 12:00 - Canada - Québec

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.

Comments

penguindude82 2

Wednesday 22 August 2012 0:38

no computer data is permanent. back up all things important. computers die, often without warning. it sucks but YDI for going five years without backing up your photos.

remorath 2

Wednesday 22 August 2012 1:40

Isn't 2 terabytes like extremely massive? That's got to be like a million photos?

killer092 7

Wednesday 22 August 2012 1:44

your fault for not backing up on to an external hard drive

daniellezer0 6

Wednesday 22 August 2012 2:15

Since you have a portfolio I guess you call yourself a "professional phorographer". Pros backup their photos.

arhalts 0

Wednesday 22 August 2012 2:41

You can get all of the photos recovered. And. The professional services can recover information thats been written over several times ( about half a dozen times infact some places twice that many) so don't despair all is not lost.

matthewbowers88 1

Wednesday 22 August 2012 2:51

Speak to your local universities computer science department - nothing is ever deleted unless the drive is physically destroyed. My friend lost her masters dissertation four days before hand in with a 3 week old back up - she got it back, and passed her masters.

Junizumi4 3

Wednesday 22 August 2012 3:59

Pretty sure if you can afford 2 tb, then obviously you can afford a professional...

iHeartRKO 5

Wednesday 22 August 2012 4:34

YDI should've backed up

JessicaHearts 3

Wednesday 22 August 2012 4:42

You shoulda had a backup, honestly. My dad is a professional wildlife photographer and he's got like 3 backups of everything for exactly this reason. YDI for not thinking ahead enough to back up any of your portfolio.