Miscellaneous: Today, I got a new computer because my old one crashed, deleting...

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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You deserved it 7 088

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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 computergeek - 26/01/2010 21:25 - United States

Today, my parents got me a new computer for my birthday. They also took the liberty of throwing out my old computer, with 8 years of photos, videos, music, documents, emails, and bookmarks on it. But that's okay, I had a backup. They threw that out too. 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

I agree, your life sucks 44 170

You deserved it 4 173

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 Hi-Tech - 03/03/2015 15:34 - Europe

Today, I got a laptop for my birthday. I was thrilled until I realized that my mom had given away my old one without asking. 6 years of games, music, and pictures down the drain. FML

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By MsGlaDos - 12/06/2013 21:45 - United States - Austin

Today, I accidentally left some music playing on my iPad, then left to do some errands. When I came back, I found it smashed into a million pieces. Apparently, grandpa couldn't find any other way to "shut off that goddamn music." 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 Anonymous - 27/09/2010 15:51 - United Kingdom

Today, I bought a new iPod to replace my old one which decided to stop working. After purchasing my new nano iPod, I decided to bang my old iPod on the desk very hard because it was useless. It started working again. FML

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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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You deserved it 184

Back to square one

By Anonymous - 05/08/2025 15:00 - Australia - Perth

Today, I was colouring countries on a map on my computer whilst listening to music. I was almost done when, whilst swinging my legs to the beat, my leg caught on the computer’s power cord and pulled it out. I was so caught up in the job I hadn’t saved in a while, so all my progress went up in digital smoke. FML

I agree, your life sucks 199

You deserved it 364

cupcakeqt 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 1:40

through the apple store you can re-download your purchases up to 3 times. there's how-to's all over the internet, good luck!!

flyboy57 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 1:41

invest in an external hard drive for backing your stuff up.

Comments

ottersrmyfriends 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 16:09

This happened to me also, I unplugged my ipod without properly ejecting it and the entire thing was unusable and I had to reset it. I however didn't lose all my music because there are ways that you can hack into you ipod and extract the files even if it doesn't work. Look online to find out how.

Starayo 1

Tuesday 22 September 2009 16:35

YDI for referring to what sounds like HDD failure as a "crash".

Syn_fml 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:57

Actually, #171, yes you can as long as the HDD is not physically damaged. Also, OP, it's only 3000 songs. Get over it.

DorkusD 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 19:51

186 - that's assuming the OP purchased the songs...

fmlfmlfml15 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 21:00

OP, the same thing happened to me and I just emailed the apple support group and told them about my situation, and they gave me all of my music, tv shows, and movies back. Next time just save all of your files on a backup disc. But what I don't get is, usually iTunes asks you if you want to transfer the purchases or erase and sync. Obviously you clicked transfer purchases, so why would the songs be erased if your brother accidentally discontinued the syncing?

skelly247 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 21:19

it would have happened anyways. you cant sync songs from your iPod to your computer. There are security measures placed on them so that you cant do that. no matter what they would have been lost. and now you know to always back up your stuff

ozymandias_fml 0

Wednesday 23 September 2009 0:34

Not true. I do it all the time. Of course, I don't use iTunes, windows, or OSX.

Flinlock 0

Tuesday 18 May 2010 11:39

213 is correct. Apple tries to keep you from syncing your ipod to your computer, but anyone who knows anything about computers can easily get around that.