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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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

ThePhenom_fml 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 23:04

So you work on something for 3 years and keep no back ups? If this is even real, YDI!

fatpeepsRfunny 0

Thursday 6 August 2009 23:54

uurgggh, I know all too well how infuriating brothers can be, and I feel for you dude...especially if this brother of yours happens to be an older brother

smithersss 0

Friday 7 August 2009 0:35

system restore

Dukedj 0

Friday 7 August 2009 3:53

What a pussy. Seriously the OPs brother needs to grow a sack.

DoubleOBond 0

Friday 7 August 2009 5:57

You can undelete man, your stuff isn't gone yet.

zargon 1

Friday 7 August 2009 8:06

That's not necessarily true. While it's certainly worth a shot, it's possible his brother used a secure delete that overwrites the file with random data rather than just dereferencing the files. Even if he didn't, every time he uses his computer he's risking losing the data forever, if the space where his files are gets reused. That said, it definitely can't hurt to try and see what comes up. Maybe he'll get lucky. At the very least, I bet he can recover a good deal of it if he hasn't been stupid about it. Of course, given his total lack of proper backups, maybe he has been stupid about it.

DoubleOBond 0

Saturday 8 August 2009 21:37

judging by the brother's reasoning, I'm sure he's not bright enough to do that.

spillproof 0

Friday 7 August 2009 6:13

YDI for not backing up your stuff.

cpuwhiz11 0

Friday 7 August 2009 7:51

I hope you have managed to take advantage of some of the recovery tools people have mentioned here. My favorite would have to be recuva at http://www.recuva.com/ (windows only).