By 4lphab3t4 - 11/06/2015 14:37 - United Kingdom - Stanmore

Today, the main file and backups of the book I've been writing for 2 and a half years mysteriously vanished. It turned out my mum decided that me spending so much time in my room must mean I'm watching porn, and so she trashed everything. FML
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Hi guys, OP here. To all of you who say this was a bit ambiguous, I ran out of space, so let me explain in more detail. I had 3 separate USBs, one of which I carry around my neck to prevent this from happening. Everything was clearly labelled and everyone was aware that I was writing a book. As for the USB around my neck, labelled "Confidential - **** off", I took it off for a shower, and when I came back... Poof! Gone. To those of you saying I should move out, I'm 16, so no chance of that happening. And when I said "Trashed" I meant literally gone. Everything downloaded onto a separate hard drive and removed while I was out of the house. As to how she guessed my password, I may never know. But yeah, this is my follow up, hope this clears things up somewhat.

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FieldLeftBlank 20

Take it to an IT shop, deleted files can be recovered. And what the hell is her problem even if you had been watching ****...

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FYLTHOUGH 15

Didn't you tell her you were writing a book?

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Comments

jjulie221 9

Restore file from previous version! You don't have to waste a ton of money to get it back.

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Ipsum629 13

so long as you don't empty the trash, you can still recover it.

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Abhinow 7

this is one massive loss. feel for u OP. wish u had emailed a copy to urself or kept one in usb stick

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radiocaf 29

Oh man. I wish you had heard of doing offsite backups for occurances like this. Seriously, I hope you can get your files back and definitely look into a cloud drive like Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, or just keep emailing yourself copies.

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cjfred 13

Sorry, OP, but YDI for not keeping backup copies of the book files offsite. Encrypted archive on Dropbox, Google Drive or Slydrive, a flash drive at a friend's house, *anything* is better than nothing.

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Britt125 16

Use online backup, nice password-protected online backup. The novel that I've been writing since November is backed up to two online sources (one is just email so I have access to it anywhere I am, but it functions as a backup), a spare laptop, and a USB drive... I'm pretty confident that I will never lose it. I know it won't help you now, but remember it for the future. Though as others have said maybe you can have the data recovered so hopefully you won't actually lose anything.

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Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20

Just two?

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sNOOBie_fml 24

Ouch! Hopefully you'll be able to recover the story as well as make your mother understand that her action was rushed and inappropriate.

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Bernadetta 12

Oh, I´m sorry to hear that. But as others said, take it to IT or ask someone who is skilled in this way. Hope it will be okay...

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Exodus9 10

Were you writing a book like 50 shades of grey? That is basically ****.

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