Today, my phone ran out of space, so I downloaded an app to store all my photos online. After everything transferred, I deleted the 1,000+ photos from my phone, along with the "recently deleted" file since it was also taking up space. The app is now empty of all "downloaded photos". FML
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Today, my butt decided to delete the 650 photos I had on my phone. FML
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
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 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, after getting a new haircut, I decided to take a few photos. I set up my iPhone in my room and began posing. It wasn't until numerous shots later that I realized my phone had posted every picture to Facebook, and they were all over everyone's newsfeed. FML
Today, I found an old photo album in my Facebook account, which had pictures of previous hangouts with people I called friends at the time. I deleted it because they progressively cut ties with me over time. FML
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, 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
Today, my friends and I were messing around with an app on my phone that makes your picture look fat. My picture looked the same before and after. FML
Today, I was trying to show my mother how much detail I'd put into a group project that I had to present tomorrow. I then deleted the project, thinking that I was just removing it from my phone. Everyone's research and my three days of hard work went with it. FML
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GhostFox 33
Assuming you have a smart phone, you should be able to move future photos to your computer- if you have one- using you charging cable (if it is a USB cable) by plugging it into the USB port. Use it as a media device, and you should be able to move them. If you don't have a computer, but do have a USB charging cable, get a USB flash Drive, go to a public library, and use both as media devices. You should be able to move the photos from your phone to the USB cable. I'm sorry that you lost your photos.
Madrias 36
How hard would it have been to plug your phone into your computer and transfer the 1000+ photos to a hard drive? You mentioned using an 'app', so I can tell it's at least a smart-phone. Apple, Android, and Windows phones will all quite happily connect to your computer over USB, and old-school hard-drives are fairly cheap storage.
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GhostFox 33
Assuming you have a smart phone, you should be able to move future photos to your computer- if you have one- using you charging cable (if it is a USB cable) by plugging it into the USB port. Use it as a media device, and you should be able to move them. If you don't have a computer, but do have a USB charging cable, get a USB flash Drive, go to a public library, and use both as media devices. You should be able to move the photos from your phone to the USB cable. I'm sorry that you lost your photos.
donuuuuuut 10
maybe she doesn't have a computer
J352SAURUS 30
"Go to a public library"
raven_of_azarath 34
They gave a solution if OP doesn't have a computer. Go to the library. That's the best no computer solution.
Miss_080 21
You have an iPhone.... what was the problem in putting them on external storage such as a USB drive or hard drive?? Meh online. This is why I don't trust the "cloud"
Madrias 36
How hard would it have been to plug your phone into your computer and transfer the 1000+ photos to a hard drive? You mentioned using an 'app', so I can tell it's at least a smart-phone. Apple, Android, and Windows phones will all quite happily connect to your computer over USB, and old-school hard-drives are fairly cheap storage.
YourEvilTwin 3
Why would not check the pictures accessibility from another device before deleting what was literally irreplaceable in value?
middlenamefrank 8
Ever hear of backing up your data? Sorry, there's no way to avoid the YDI button on this one.
Walter Moody 10
Original poster here, the phone was so full that it literally didn't have to space to back itself up, I also don't have a computer to back it up on. Thanks though, babe.
LtCmdrData 11
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
serves you right for owning an iPhone
Arashikage 18
Nowhere does it say that they own an iPhone
Firestar268 25
If you are going to use a app to store photos in the cloud, at least do it with a reputable company like Google photo or with Amazon. I'm pretty sure Google give you like 10gbs for free with a google account
lexos 16
Google photos has unlimited storage if you reduce the quality (wich is still good enough)
Firestar268 25
I prefer full quality. But yea , unlimited if you store using standard
Walter Moody 10
Original poster here. It WAS google photos. I watched the app spend over 10 minutes as it "searched through my phone and downloaded all photos." I scrolled through multiple times and saw all of my photos in "my photos", I trusted it.
milksquad 11
I'm confused. I have a Droid and the "Google Photos" app is the app I use for internal storage. So if you delete them from your phone, yeah, the app isn't going to have anything in it, because it's offline storage. Just upload them to your Google Drive, much more secure and it has a shit ton of storage space. I have a YouTube channel and I use my drive to store my videos (most 30-60 minutes long, 1080p, 16:9) and it's barely put a dent in my storage.
lexos 16
Google photos has a option to make a online backup of all your photos. I have been using it for a couple of years
ImminentDisaster 12
Did you not check to make sure they had actually uploaded, were accessible and that you weren't deleting them from the cloud when you deleted them from your phone?
species4872 19
Now you know why they are called smart phones because the users are not.
Lobby_Bee 17
Must be an iPhone. Once you delete it on either computer or phone, it's gone from both once you sync it. Yeah, I don't understand either. Happened to me once when I had the iPhone 3g. Promptly sold that crap and got an Android. Never looked back.