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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 photogirl - 30/08/2010 18:42 - United States

Today, my external hard drive broke. My husband tried to fix it, and the computer told him he needed to format it. Apparently he didn't know what formatting does, so he did it. I'm a wedding photographer and had a full summer of unfinished wedding photography on there. 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 ThisGirl - 21/08/2012 02:30 - United States - Kennesaw

Today, I lost two terabytes' worth of photos to a friend's incompetence. He said he could save me some money and fix my slow computer for free. He ended up wiping the hard drive, and along with it, my photography portfolio from the last five years. 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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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 blah56 - 23/06/2012 05:17 - United States - Vine Grove

Today, my husband put some photos of our wedding on Facebook. He named the album "FML". 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 Anonymous - 28/09/2013 04:08 - United States - Bloomdale

Today, my husband and I switched phones by accident. I've already received several naked pictures from one of his co-workers. 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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Ungeeked

By Anonymous - 28/02/2021 04:01 - United States - Weyauwega

Today, while trying to fix a corrupted USB hard drive with my wife’s computer I accidentally wiped her laptop drive instead of clearing the external drive. I’m not allowed on her computers anymore. FML

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JD26803 11

Saturday 18 April 2015 0:07

Should always have a back up OP! Bad luck though.

swaglesshipster 23

Saturday 18 April 2015 0:08

Well at least you have him and the kid still! Better than pictures

Comments

alex_gen 38

Saturday 18 April 2015 7:11

If you plan to use Recurva or similar to retrieve them, it's important that you have two harddrives, because you're likely to corrupt the pictures putting them back on the same hard drive. And the more you use the computer, the less chance of getting those pictures back, as they get replaced with new data.

internet_nerd 3

Saturday 18 April 2015 15:20

Or you could use a USB stick or CD(s). It depends on how much data (in GB) you're recovering.

daretotell 7

Saturday 18 April 2015 7:14

data recovery software is available for free that can recover deleted files. when you delete something its not really gone. your computer just forgets where to find it.

zapte 7

Saturday 18 April 2015 7:35

Give me some way to contact you. I work in data recovery and may be able to help you.

willliamfriend 18

Saturday 18 April 2015 7:48

This is why you should always save your data in two places AKA back it up. That still sucks I'm sorry to hear that.

Muttley9 13

Saturday 18 April 2015 7:54

Google search on: freeware photo recovery software; the best known freebie is recuva.

Rippa1986 10

Saturday 18 April 2015 8:00

Don't save anything on that hard drive and find some recovery software! They might be still there!!!!

kerbear1232 16

Saturday 18 April 2015 8:03

Hopefully you are one to post lots of pictures on social media! There's a way to get your pictures back.

malisekh_fml 3

Saturday 18 April 2015 8:26

U know there is a program that u can use to get ur pictures back. I accidentally deleted our pict 2 years ago and fortunately I can get it back. just search on google disk recovery programm.