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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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
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
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
Today, my computer stopped working. Me, the technology challenged one, decided to do a system recovery on it hoping that I could make it better. Turns out, system recovery means deleting all the files off the computer including family photos, music and assignments and starting fresh. FML
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
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
Today, I was transferring video from my camera to my laptop so I could start editing my film project. My wife’s badly behaved dog decided to barrel through my office, knocking everything over. Screen shattered, camera broken, video files corrupted due to the cable coming out mid-transfer. FML
Today, I found an old USB drive and spent an hour trying to open it because I was sure it had important files on it. It contained one blurry photo of my thumb and a Word doc titled “Do not open", which was actually blank. FML
Today, I was trying to turn on my computer and couldn't. I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out what was wrong when I finally called my husband for help and made him leave work. He came in, looked at the wall, and plugged it back in. The look on his face said it all. FML
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DQ2011 0
it's savable!!!!! don't do anything else to it and google how to recover data!!!
Cinn_fml 23
If your husband doesn't know what 'formatting' means, why was he the one attempting to fix it? Also, as you had important files on there, it might have been worth calling someone who was paid and qualified to do it. And this is what backing up is for.
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MikeyXX 0
Back up, back up, back up or live with the consequences. On a happier note, there are companies that can restore the info. Look in your yellowpages or online for computer data retrieval.
bugmenotmofo 34
You can probably still recover the data, a real geek would probably do it for free if you brought the drive to them. Once you know what you're doing it's not rocket science to use Recuva or Testdisk to recover the data. Just don't let your dumb noob husband touch it again!
passispass 0
Why in God's name did you not have ANY back-ups? YDI, moron.
bugmenotmofo 34
YDI for not being a very professional photographer if you have such shitty data security. That said, FML for the poor bastards who trusted you.
stevenmx86 8
External drives die so frequently you can't trust them with anything long term...to those of you saying external is supposed to be the backup, you're wrong..redundancy is the backup if she didn't have it anywhere else she deserves the law suit ahead... Also, "quick format" is not automatically checked so he probably did full format
CherBear666 0
I would not even read anyone who calls you an idiot for this or your husband an idiot. were all human. but I hope you read this in time to get all your photos done . There are some really good data recovery disc. I would look into one of them. I am sorry I can't name any off the top of my head right now. I feel for you. sorry to hear that this happened to you. I hope you recover them in time
dlangel 2
plz say you weren't my wedding photographer lol
J_man86 0
You can still get the pictures back. Format only allows the information to be overwritten; it doesn't actually delete it. There is a program called Undelete Plus that you can use. I've used it a few times to save very important information.
dangle_me 0
Download Zero Authority Recovery...I've done it on my old drive, and recovered a bunch of stuff I forgot I had.
angel55033 12
you let him near your work with him not knowing WTF he's doing? sorry that's your loss than for not being more responsible..