Today, I accidentally deleted an audio file for my first professional video project. Impossible to do a retake, because the production budget was so tight. The audio from the camera sounds bad and file recovery program still can't help. Also, the deadline is this week. 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, a teacher asked me to edit a video of her class. Unfamiliar with cameras that work with video tape, I accidentally recorded over her video. The footage is impossible for me to get back. FML
Today, I was directing a video shoot of a big Christmas show with 750 people attending. After the first half of the show recorded; during intermission, I accidentally deleted the show as people were signing up to buy the DVD. 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 went to turn in a coding project a few days early. After months of working on a code and saving backups, everything is gone or corrupted. I have to start from square one and turn it in less than 48 hours from now. FML
Today, I was editing sound on a recording of a live music show. The woman who hired me said she wanted less reverb. I told her that this is how the recording was and I can't magically remove acoustic reverb from something recorded in a church. FML
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
Today, I was at a wedding. After videotaping the ceremony for a few minutes, my memory was full. I went to delete another video. I accidentally played the loudest video I had. No one was looking at the bride or groom anymore. 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
Today, after meeting a girl for the first time and having sex with her, I found not only my wallet missing but also the 128 GB pen drive that had my project I've been working on for 6 months on it. I have to give the presentation in 3 days. FML
Today, I tried to open the research paper I've been working on for the past month, only to discover that the entire file is permanently lost and can't be recovered. This is not the first time this has happened to this paper. FML
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Top comments
Jaymail 19
Have you tried calling Customer Service from whatever program you used? Sometimes they can do things we’re not able to from our side. Sometimes we don’t realize there was an undelete button somewhere. You’re not the first person that accidentally deleted something you wanted to keep. You certainly won’t be the last. Sometimes what you deleted is only still available for a couple of days. I’m sorry this happened to you and I wish you well.
MidnaLink 35
Yeah okay, Mr. Perfect.
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Comments (5)
RichardPencil 32
Hopefully you can do good impressions of the actors. How hard can that be?
Jaymail 19
Have you tried calling Customer Service from whatever program you used? Sometimes they can do things we’re not able to from our side. Sometimes we don’t realize there was an undelete button somewhere. You’re not the first person that accidentally deleted something you wanted to keep. You certainly won’t be the last. Sometimes what you deleted is only still available for a couple of days. I’m sorry this happened to you and I wish you well.
Mathalamus 25
You deserved it for making a rookie mistake.
MidnaLink 35
Yeah okay, Mr. Perfect.
xXPikachuXx 21
dig the name
bobsanction 18
He's not wrong tho. Failing to back up your files is in fact a rookie mistake.
JasonThorn 23
Especially for such an important project. Last two projects I did for work, I committed to five things to do first, and one of them was set up the backup schedule/format.
Nemesis_1148437476 9
You can try a recovery software like recuva. its free
Yudith 28
Send your demo to Goodtimes and Dingo Pictures; that's the exact stuff they want.