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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Comments (195)
Teejay_says 0
your husband isn't really as much of an idiot as a professional photographer that doesn't back up an entire summer of wedding photos. YDI!
chan89 0
poor thing I'm sure it's backed up!
Lmoconley 4
Seriously if you have not done ANYTHING with the Hard drive yet. Call me. There are soooo many ways to get that kind of stuff back. 1-574-387-4172. Please call ASAP (I have been trying to find a way to private message you, but failed. I don't use this site much.)
howler2345 0
ALWAYS HAVE TWO COPIES OF IMPORTANT FILES, search google on how to restore deleted files...there are many options available and some are fairly easy for anyone to do.
krissy33 0
YDI When it comes to technology, I have at least 3 copies of everything! Even better if I have a hard copy, too.
bacondude 0
you can take the computer in and do a system recovery on the files to get them back. don't panic!
Error504 6
FYL, but YDI for trusting him with that. If he can't go through stuff without script kitty knowledge, he can't REALLY handle it.
snowboard7 0
your husband is obviously a dumbass
st3v3n911 0
you can always recover the things you lost
cincin75 0
You should do something called backup as frequently as you can.