Miscellaneous: Today, I got home from a family trip to Disney World. I had taken...

By PictureLess - 10/01/2010 17:14 - United States

Today, I got home from a family trip to Disney World. I had taken nearly 300 photos of our trip on my new digital camera. As our car pulled into the driveway, I was using my camera to try to delete one unflattering shot of me. I accidentally deleted every picture off the memory card. FML

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By Anonymous - 30/03/2009 00:39 - United States

Today, I developed the disposable camera pictures from my family's trip to Disney World. I noticed that in the pictures I took of them in front of the big castle at Magic Kingdom, my wife and son were standing a few feet away from a man who was touching himself. FML

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By Anonymous - 03/01/2024 09:00 - United States - Silver Spring

Today, I forgot to take my phone out of my bathing suit pocket before I went into the pool. It's not a high-end phone, so that's not why FML. The FML part is because I was on vacation, didn't have internet access, and the phone has no external memory card, so all the pictures I took while on vacation are lost. FML

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By testom - 17/04/2015 18:15 - Netherlands - Rotterdam

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 Pissed - 15/10/2012 19:57 - United States - Newton Center

Today, at a family reunion, we all squeezed in for a picture. I set the self-timer and ran to get in it. 2 seconds before the picture went off, some guy came up, stole the camera, and ran away. 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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By Anonymous - 29/08/2014 02:48 - United States - Encinitas

Today, my butt decided to delete the 650 photos I had on my phone. FML

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Restore device

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 pissedinSwiss - 17/07/2009 15:01 - Switzerland

Today, while backpacking in Switzerland I had my camera stolen. Not only does this have photos of my entire trip but the pictures I took for my best friend's wedding. I was the only photographer of her elopement. FML

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By NotThatButton - 11/09/2015 01:59 - United States - Missoula

Today, I accidentally deleted my landlord's pictures of his child's graduation, girlfriend, daughter and vacation when he asked me to delete a video off his phone. FML

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Snappy snaps

By countrygirl8846 - 02/12/2015 15:02 - United States - Atlanta

Today, I went to pick up some pictures I took on a family trip, but the person at the counter said someone else had already picked them up. Now not only am I out $20, some random creep has pictures of me and my whole family. FML

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weinerdog 2

Sunday 10 January 2010 23:16

What?! Every digital camera I've used has a confirmation step, so that you would have had to hit 'yes' or something like it twice to avoid situations just like the one the OP had.

yami_mani 0

Sunday 10 January 2010 23:19

I would have cried. Honest. I love taking pictures and I would hate for the same thing to happen to me.

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somepartsareme 0

Monday 11 January 2010 15:29

@16 For someone so smart, you'd think they'd be able to tell a joke.

thecirclingskies 0

Monday 11 January 2010 17:08

that's why you don't try and delete pictures until they're on your computer. you can't even see them properly on the crappy little screens anyway.

tyler907 10

Monday 11 January 2010 17:41

was going to click FYL, then saw OP was a woman...and from jersey...

conan_FML 0

Monday 11 January 2010 18:23

i REAAAAAAAALY FEEL 4 U!!!!!!!!!! i had just had an amazing school trip to paris and had taken sum really good pictures and on the last day i deleted ALL of them by accident!!! :( if it's the same camera as i think it is... it is VERY easy 2 do!

engmjr 1

Monday 11 January 2010 18:29

Sorry, but you totally deserved it. I used to work at a photo finishing center while I was in college. I was broke as shit, and I hated everyone at school whose parents paid their way so that they could party every night. These girls would come into my job with these top-of-the-line $1,000+ digital cameras (I couldn't even afford disposables) hand them to me and say something like, "Um, can you show me how to take and delete a picture? Also, how do you work the flashy thing? And why can't I find them on my memory card" (hello, internal memory much)? As if because I'm qualified to work a drug store photo center I'm also a camera engineer or some sort of encyclopedia of digital photography. I have no sympathy for people who lack the ability to read a user manual and just take everything (like vacations to Florida) for granted. One of the first things we learn as school children is to "read the directions." Please don't befoul this website again by bitching about your inability to appreciate the fact that you can afford nice things and should therefore take the time to give them the respect they deserve.

jeniilouise 0

Tuesday 12 January 2010 1:16

the OP just made a mistake! it doesn't mean she's a spoilt dumbass who can't be bothered to read a manual - I've done this before because the delete photo button is right next to delete all, and it's easy to mix them up if your not fully concentrating, so give her a break!

LilaBear 1

Tuesday 12 January 2010 9:21

yes she did something stupid, doesnt mean you can take all your bitterness out on her for something that other stupid girls did.

CollegeMiss 0

Monday 11 January 2010 18:37

some one is grumpy ^^^^ she only made one mistake

nwater 0

Monday 11 January 2010 18:42

They make software to recover photos. if you look hard enough you could find a free program. I was at a show last year and got caught with the camera and security made me delete all the pics. I recovered every single one.