Miscellaneous: Today, my brother deleted all traces of the novel I've been working...

By frustrated - 05/08/2009 20:30 - Ireland

Today, my brother deleted all traces of the novel I've been working on for three years from my laptop. The reason? When I was born I "stole all of Mum and Dad's attention." He's 24. FML

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Must be one hell of a novel

By Anonymous - 01/02/2021 17:01

Today, after 3 years of writing a murder mystery novel that I was really proud of, my dad stole my notebook. He mistook it as my diary and turned it in to the police and apparently I can't have it back because it may be used as evidence. Some of the stories were inspired by real events. FML

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Precious little boy

By stupid older sister - 24/07/2014 21:54 - United States - Saint Charles

Today, I woke up from a nap to find my little brother playing some games on my phone. A few hours later I come to find he had deleted all 500 pictures from my trip to Europe last month. He needed more space to download the games. Mom says he's too young to understand what he did wrong. He's 14. FML

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By HungryStudent - 20/08/2014 18:59 - Puerto Rico - Carolina

Today, my 24-year-old, unemployed brother stole all of my food money and went out with his friends. His punishment from our parents? He has to pay me back when he gets a job. My stomach has to wait. FML

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By somerandomchick - 31/03/2009 05:32 - United States

Today, my little sister got mad at me because I wouldn't let her read my IM conversation. I took a nap and when I woke up, my laptop was gone. She took it on a trip to her grandparents' house, six hours away. Nude pictures of me and my paper due tomorrow are on the laptop. FML

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By fmlforreal - 15/10/2010 08:33 - Singapore

Today, I found my brother tampering with my laptop. He had changed the entire settings, in ways I don't even know how to fix. I finally had to get my mom to threaten him to change it back to its original setting. I'm 15. He's six and can barely get dressed by himself. FML

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Busted

By well SHIT - 27/02/2014 21:46 - United States - Little Elm

Today, while having a sneak through my brother's browser, I found a bookmark for a Google Docs file. It was a short story involving him horrifically killing our entire family. It ended with the words: "And that is what happens when people don't respect the author's privacy." FML

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Always save to the cloud!

By beachedwhale21 - 22/06/2020 05:01

Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML

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By Scapegoat - 17/11/2018 13:30

Today, I found out that while I was at college, my brother downloaded three terabytes of porn on my laptop and blamed it on me. My parents believed him. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/12/2015 13:27 - Canada - Edmonton

Today, I fell asleep while using my laptop. The next thing I know, it's 8am and my dad is screaming at me for posting "u skank-ass cunt-face" on my mom's Facebook timeline. I never made that post, but he won't believe me. My asshole brother, meanwhile, can't stop smirking at me. FML

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By despacito - 28/08/2018 23:30

Today, my brother stole my hard drive and wiped it. My hard drive had a 10-page school project on it. The project is due tomorrow. FML

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redbluegreen 40

Thursday 6 August 2009 1:16

In return, put a pillow over his face because "He's sucking up all the good air. "

aback 4

Thursday 6 August 2009 1:09

Delete that ****** from your life. If he hasn't got over it by now, he never will.

Comments

miichellemaniac 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 7:10

GO TO THE RECYCLING BIN ON YOUR DESKTOP!! if he's that much of an idiot then he wouldn't have been smart enough to also delete from there. -Hope i helped :)

BaldOuting 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 7:49

if you spent so much time working on it, i hope you spent 30 seconds backing it up. baldouting.blogspot.com

shotlilaussie 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 7:56

kill your brother then yourself

dfreeland311 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 8:00

YDI. Backup EVERYTHING that you could possibly use. If you've been working on it, on the same laptop, for 3 years there's bound to be a hardware failure that would wipe it out soon anyway. Consider this a lesson. Oh, and by the way, if he just deleted it, there is software you can use to recover deleted files as long as that area of the hard drive hasn't been written over yet.

Ozotorka 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 8:01

Kill him.

gozar_fml 1

Thursday 6 August 2009 8:09

Total YDI. Any time you lose data it is your fault. Backups are cheap and easy.

dmipotc 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 8:12

(in the words of Stewie Griffin) you writing a little novel there are you? hows the novel coming along? etc etc

Don_fml 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 8:14

Download and install Recuva - as long as you haven't overwritten that hard drive space, you should be able to get it back.

jmeg_fml 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 8:24

that's horrible :( but oh my god, back things up. i've lost wayyy too many files from not taking the time to do this. back up once online (just by sending stuff to yourself via email works great), once on a flash drive or external hard drive, and once on a memory device that you give to a trustworthy someone else! i hope you can get it all back :)

suchacreep 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 8:24

... Beat him to a pulp. If my brother had pulled that, I would probably have snapped and set all of his possessions on fire, and my novel is only around 90000 words so far (disclaimer: I have severe issues of the mental kind and wouldn't recommend actually following my advise). Good luck recovering it. Time to check your backup devices, every friend and beta reader you might have sent text parts to as well as your sent mail history, and so on.