Miscellaneous: Today, I tried to open the research paper I've been working on...

By ScienceFail - 25/07/2010 19:31 - United States

Today, I tried to open the research paper I've been working on for the past month, only to discover that the entire file is permanently lost and can't be recovered. This is not the first time this has happened to this paper. FML

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By Anonymous - 11/02/2023 12:00

Today, I went to turn in a coding project a few days early. After months of working on a code and saving backups, everything is gone or corrupted. I have to start from square one and turn it in less than 48 hours from now. FML

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By mlowy - 09/05/2014 05:35 - Azerbaijan - Baku

Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML

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By duderboi99 - 25/05/2009 19:45 - United States

Today, I was writing a huge paper for a class as our last grade. My dog starts scratching himself. He hit the power button on the computer. Nothing was saved. FML

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By tiredInMD - 12/07/2017 18:39 - United States - Pasadena

Today, after retyping a 22-page report for work because the orginal had gone missing, i realized I had used a different laptop the first time. I now have 2 copies of the same report, both of which are late. FML

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By David3000 - 24/01/2009 07:15 - Australia

Today, I finally finished my 500 page manuscript and so went out to buy some paper to print it off. I get back home and find out my dad has infected my computer with a virus and the only way to save it was to wipe the hard drive, which he did. That script took me a year and I have no backup. FML

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By dustlander.com - 16/10/2018 07:30 - United States - Provo

Today, I was wrapping up a 30+ hour commission when a software bug caused my main layer to delete itself. There doesn't appear to be any way I can restore it. FML

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By slcbabii23 - 01/10/2009 07:56 - United States

Today, I realized how much I'm on the computer. I tried to "CTRL+Z" on something I wrote down on my paper. FML

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By schober60 - 15/09/2017 07:00 - United States - Pittsburgh

Today, I frantically finished a paper that I needed to complete before midnight about the competencies of my pharmacy school. When it came time to submit, I accidentally selected the file below my paper, which was my personal log of beer reviews and personal favorites. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/08/2023 05:00 - Saudi Arabia

Today, I wrote an entire 400 multiple question paper, only for the internet to reconnect at the end, getting the entire paper getting reset. FML

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By KateHGW - 09/06/2021 00:01

Today, I handed in an internship assignment that I have been working on for months. Once submitted, a pop-up showed, stating the assignment was 100% plagiarized. What was it plagiarized from? A student paper. My own, to be more specific - the exact same paper I had uploaded seconds before. FML

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jimmie505 0

Sunday 25 July 2010 23:33

backup?

akallaan 7

Sunday 25 July 2010 23:36

Get a new computer or make sure you save to the right file?

Comments

GammaPaladin 0

Tuesday 27 July 2010 16:00

FFS, make backups. It doesn't matter whether you're doing it on a computer or by hand with a pencil, you make backup copies of anything you have to put in that kind of time on. Period.

JokeMeister 0

Tuesday 27 July 2010 20:09

Once wasn't enough, huh?!

j3rkf4c3 0

Saturday 7 August 2010 23:13

they invented these fancy things called CD-R, then they invented this other thing called DVD-R and then they invented this thing called flash drives did i mention that you can EMAIL documents to yourself and have them accessible virtually everywhere in the world? you're a dummy.

ranger159 6

Saturday 5 February 2011 0:04

YDI for not making copies the first time. It's not that hard.

zebrapattern 6

Tuesday 5 April 2011 1:19

then why didn't you learn from last time?

KHRYS_K 0

Tuesday 31 May 2011 4:51

Use google.doc... U will never lose a paper because it saves once you stop typing.

Arya1990 7

Tuesday 2 August 2011 23:43

FYL, OP, that sucks. But YDI for not learning the first time.

itzgiimo 1

Tuesday 9 August 2011 4:22

opening the file by pressing delete?

kesulli27 6

Wednesday 31 August 2011 7:02

That sucks, but if you're working on something that is that important and that time consuming, you should always back it up. Especially if this is the second time this has happened to you...