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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 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 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 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 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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By rebeccaremily - 04/10/2009 07:03 - Canada

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

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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 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 burnnotice - 19/09/2009 14:10 - United States

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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By despacito - 28/08/2018 23:30

Today, my brother stole my hard drive and wiped it. My hard drive had a 10-page school project on it. The project is due tomorrow. FML

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By Anonymous - 21/09/2009 20:22 - United States

Today, I got a new computer because my old one crashed, deleting all music, photos, and documents. I still had all my music on my iPod though, and went to sync it to the new computer. By accident, my younger brother pulled the cord out before it was done, deleting all 3,000 songs forever. FML

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DQ2011 0

Monday 30 August 2010 23:08

it's savable!!!!! don't do anything else to it and google how to recover data!!!

Cinn_fml 22

Monday 30 August 2010 23:17

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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iPunchedBigFoot 5

Thursday 11 November 2010 5:04

Seriously. If it's your job you need to back up your files

blinkingstarlet 15

Monday 18 July 2011 22:50

you can just take it to a printing lab and see if they can recover it. I used to work for a lab and they recovered stuff like this all the time. unless you already threw it out. but seriously, YDI for not backing up your work, but FYL because that's a mess.

fatppltroller 2

Friday 23 September 2011 16:30

3 words... backup, backup, backup!

Fml2436554 0

Wednesday 26 October 2011 18:03

Run ghost you may be able to recover some of it

Kov3nant 2

Tuesday 22 November 2011 18:29

YDI for not keeping multiple copies and marrying an idiot.

kylielaura 1

Sunday 29 January 2012 17:20

As a professional unassuming you'd have backed up more than once..if not, lesson learnt! I back up in fours... Two hard drives one stored offsite and DVDs as well as a notebook offsite with the last 6 months of work stored on it

ElricMustang 23

Monday 2 April 2012 19:47

And that's why you back up your files on...oh...wait...

AndrewRoks1998 2

Tuesday 3 April 2012 9:00

About the same thing happened to me when I was young, I was playing SSX Tricky on my Gamecube and it told me I needed to format the memory card, thus erasing all my progress in Super Mario Sunshine, and I got pretty dang far in it. FYL