Today, I woke up from a nap to find my little brother playing some games on my phone. A few hours later I come to find he had deleted all 500 pictures from my trip to Europe last month. He needed more space to download the games. Mom says he's too young to understand what he did wrong. He's 14. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my little brother left the house with my phone by accident. He called from his school to ask for my password so he could access his email. When he got home and gave me my phone back, while closing the open apps, my photo gallery was open. When I clicked on it, my naked selfie was open. FML
Today, my 5 year old brother wanted to look through my phone. I know he can't read so I gave it to him. He was, however, able to get at my "private" photo album. FML
Today, I found my brother tampering with my laptop. He had changed the entire settings, in ways I don't even know how to fix. I finally had to get my mom to threaten him to change it back to its original setting. I'm 15. He's six and can barely get dressed by himself. FML
Today, my older brother gave me his old phone. He didn't realize that he hadn't deleted his pictures. I found a bunch of him wearing my underwear and bras. FML
Today, my brother deleted all traces of the novel I've been working on for three years from my laptop. The reason? When I was born I "stole all of Mum and Dad's attention." He's 24. FML
Today, my little brother grabbed my boobs and wouldn't let go until I pried his hands off. When I told my mom, her response was, "Get over it. He's a little kid who doesn't know any better." He's 14 years-old. FML
Today, my little sister got mad at me because I wouldn't let her read my IM conversation. I took a nap and when I woke up, my laptop was gone. She took it on a trip to her grandparents' house, six hours away. Nude pictures of me and my paper due tomorrow are on the laptop. FML
Today, I found out that while I was at college, my brother downloaded three terabytes of porn on my laptop and blamed it on me. My parents believed him. FML
Today, the girl I was babysitting was being disrespectful to me, so I took away her stuffed animal and told her that she couldn't have it back until she apologized. She ended up sneaking onto my laptop and deleting all the pictures I'd saved from my recent vacation to Europe. FML
Today, I gave my little brother my iPhone so he could play a game. I soon forgot about it, and when I got it back two hours later, there was pudding and a couple of big cracks in it. FML
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tucansamTommyG 12
What a dick, wait till he goes on a trip and takes pictures then take your revenge.
Arwen_Evenstar 37
Yikes. Maybe see if there's any sort of recovery software for phones? Should back up ASAP (phones can corrupt and lose things) and lock your phone in future.
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Arwen_Evenstar 37
Yikes. Maybe see if there's any sort of recovery software for phones? Should back up ASAP (phones can corrupt and lose things) and lock your phone in future.
meli1195 31
No, there's an app that you can use to recover deleted stuff but OP would have to either root or jailbreak their phone.
Arwen_Evenstar 37
The chance is better if she's got external memory, sometimes it can recover things that have been overwritten. And obviously, could just buy an adaptor to do it. But yep, if it's phone memory the chances are really not good!
Michael903 18
#32. True, you can recover data that has been deleted as long as it was not over written. Based on what, the brother downloaded, she might be able to recover some of the pics but not all of them.
UO88 10
Something you guys might not understand is that data has to be overwritten 32 times for it to be completely gone. Some of the pics should be able to be recovered. Some may be corrupted, but should still be recoverable. Anyway, this is why it's important to have a backup. All my Andoid phone pics were backed up by Google and Avast Backup, that is until my Google Drive account ran out of space.
skittyskatbrat 19
#74 and he needs to pay for the recovery, too. It won't be cheap. But at 14, he is MORE than old enough to understand what he did wrong. Once the data is recovered, time to delete all his games. Password protect it for now. And the same with EVERY electronic item, too. Password or lock 'em up and keep the key hidden. He clearly can't be trusted with them. Sounds like the brother is a spoiled little shit, IMHO.
Godsofdracos 15
Norton has a data recoverer that will work on a phone if it's hooked to your computer.
azelk 8
#77 That's not true at all, the filesystem has a specific amount of bytes, say 1024 for example. The pictures took up say, 256 bytes. The games would replace those 256 bytes leaving no trace of the pictures.
arodven 18
It's possible to recover. I did a data dump and made the file into a hard drive, then I ran recovery software on it. You can get all the instructions if you google MTP file recovery. It's time consuming but if the files are important it's worth it. No guarantee that you'll be able to recovery all the pictures, especially if your brother overwrote them with his games. On a revenge note, use his computer to look up **** and tell your mom that he was surfing ****. Bet she won't think he is too young to know any better then.
skittyskatbrat 19
LOVE IT.
Arwen_Evenstar 37
Not sure 32 times is accurate, but yes, overwritten data can still sometimes leave some behind. I've known people do this with SD cards and have older pictures than expected recovered. The issue is that even if just deleted, it's still hit and miss. For this I doubt a free program would do enough.
TheAtheistChild 10
I'm 13 and I know better than him. Maybe OP's brother is just a dumbass.
incoherentrmblr 22
The name is DuMass...
UO88 10
92. I meant 35 times, and that is to completely delete a file without possible recovery. After a few times it's most likely going to be corrupted, but should still be recoverable.
tvp2000 3
#76, I completely agree, I have always had my phone password protected to block my friends
tucansamTommyG 12
What a dick, wait till he goes on a trip and takes pictures then take your revenge.
peterpan37 6
Then OP wouldn't be any better than her brother.
IWeigh2Tons 12
What would make her the same as her brother is if she did it to someone who didn't deserve it, and that little shit deserves it.
Llama_Face89 34
45- that would still be incredibly petty.
nix1993 41
#70- It would also be incredibly satisfying.
Yakostovian 18
He may not care about that stuff. If you want to be petty, delete his saves from all his video games (but not the games themselves.) Most gamers would be extremely frustrated at the idea of stating over from scratch.
Godsofdracos 15
You're... So evil...
Onyxdragon 9
I would die if I saw that fml.
themetalstickman 19
My question is how the **** did you get 500 pics?
Arwen_Evenstar 37
On a 2 week trip, it's 35 a day or so. Not that many if she was going interesting places, maybe photos with friends, or locals. Of sites, people, events, maybe gigs, wildlife. Wouldn't be that much. Based on the amount some post, I think some people can hit 35 bathroom selfies in 1 go :/
Soundslikeothers 15
He bought them! How do you think he got them, he took them, with a camera.
doodlecloud 27
You clearly haven't met anyone interested in photography...500 pictures is not that much. Surely even those who aren't interested have had times when they have to take like 5 pics of the same thing because the lighting/angle is off?
Beansforbill 14
My family went to Europe and my mom had over 3,000 for 2 weeks.. 500 is nothin
DalekBubbles 18
I got about a thousand in Hawaii. Not that uncommon.
ToastedSyrup 16
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This is the most ignorant post I've seen on FML this far. On a phone, most games are free. The ones that aren't free, won't charge you if you can't download them. Also, he could've waited for his sister to upload them to a USB or something like such. And obviously you don't take games with a camera, but it doesn't make games more important, especially on her phone.
Arwen_Evenstar 37
I... Really can't follow that. I'm not sure what the games being free matters, he selfishly deleted pictures to make space for them. Because there wasn't enough storage for them otherwise. Then we get to "You don't take games with a camera"? That just... I have no idea what that means.
Warmonger_Smurf 29
121 "this is the most ignorant post". Was he referring to his own post?
sara_wil 5
#121 free games still need space to download. If you knew anything about smartphones you would know that!!! And commenter, I went to Mexico and took more pics than that. That's nothing compared to going to Europe. Those 500 pics were just some of the pics she took.
leeloo900 9
Maybe you should learn to Dropbox or back them up?
LaurenLo 17
If you have an iPhone, your 1000 most recent photos should still be in your photo stream, except for ones you deleted right after they were taken. Then you can resave them and back them up so it doesn't happen again!
badluckalex 23
he doesnt have his own phone?
TheOnlyKittyKat 15
If he's this much of a little shit he shouldn't have a phone.
amisenho 11
His phone is probably riddled with pointless apps and games that he's too spoiled to play with or delete, so he started using OP's phone.
swiftous 7
Back up pictures as soon as you get back... I also learned this the hard way and even though it might be a pain in the ass at the time, your memories are worth it
mysadlyfe 9
or you could just passcode lock your phone...
Arwen_Evenstar 37
True, but memory of any type can corrupt and you lose everything. One cause is automatic updates, if it screws up.
SkittlesGoRawr 19
Why was he downloading games or even on your phone to begin with? I honestly think he should have his own by now. If that's not an option, he should've checked in with you first. It's never okay to throw away peoples personal stuff like that.
juanschwartz 18
Little brothers are the reason for passcode-protected phones.
djjmax 7
My mom forces me to tell my little brother my pass code, could be the same case for OP
Krbsmommy 8
I would KILL my brother if he did something like that. FYL
ylime23456 18
Go and scratch up all his video game discs
xoteeshaox 22
Evil, yet brilliant
Yakostovian 18
Not as effective as deleting all his save game data. Delete his progress, and he may not want the games at all. Destroying his discs will definitely be blamed on the OP. But if the save data is gone, that can be explained a number of different ways that are in no way the OP's fault.
supersquirel500 10
Although I am an avid gamer, and would kill someone with an axe if that happened to me, I almost feel OP should. But only 2 or 3.