By Jennifer - 20/01/2016 19:20 - Canada - Lethbridge

Today, I was at school deleting documents I no longer needed on my school account. After clicking empty trash can, I saw a final paper on political science deleted. I'm not in political science, and I wasn't deleting files on my account. FML
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LyricaSilvan 29

Might wanna find out whose stuff you were deleting and find someone who can help you recover it.

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swanheart 35

surely you looked at the files you were deleting before you sent them to the recycling bin to make sure they were the right ones? Didn't you realise that you didn't recognise any of the files before you were emptying the recycle bin? Also, as others have said speak to IT ASAP and they can hopefully recover the files. :-/

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ragnarok1540 39

I've seen quite a few people, when I was in school, who gave their documents very generic names such as "English1" or "History3". It sounds like it may have been the same case for OP who only noticed the mistake on the last document for a political science class. I try to avoid the problem by putting my name and date in addition to the subject/topic in the title.

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swanheart 35

You are right #21. I had it in my head that op was at uni not school, in school most people take similar classes so it is much easier for mistakes like this to happen.

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manuwish 9

omg..quickly go tell the IT responsible to have them recuperated..poor other person :( take responsibility OP! maybe you can have your mistake repaired!

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nemisis11 12

Others stated the obvious of not recognizing files... But how on earth did you forget you never signed in?

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VeganVampyre 26

That's what I was thinking. How do you sit down at a computer that's already logged into an account and not realize that it clearly can't be yours since you haven't logged in yet.

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brezzyanna 17

As someone else pointed out, it's possible they got up, then sat back down at someone else's computer

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tranced_ 45

A document on political science should nevertheless be deleted.

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toastbrot 9

are other subjects more suitable to delete?

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baken101 12

Suprised you did not notice they were not your files.

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gosh_mate 30

I feel like this is totally your fault for failing to notice that the titles to the documents weren't you own.... More like F their life.

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whyisitincapital 25

Ohhhhhhh crap. Expect an FML from the student whose files you were deleting very soon...

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tj4234 35

I hope you told the IT people the same day. Servers tend to refresh overnight.

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lukian_fml 29

If the files were on a network, they may have been protected by snapshots such as volume shadow copy, these can go back quite some time (at least two weeks).

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