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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. 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, 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
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
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 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
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 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
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cupcakeqt 0
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
invest in an external hard drive for backing your stuff up.
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glostik 0
Now a dead little brother? >8D
italianprncs 0
um it wasn't your brothers fault dummy...unless you bought all of them on itunes and "transferred purchases" it was your fault for syncing it with a new computer. syncing to an itunes that has nothing on it then makes it so your ipod has nothing on it. poor kid getting all the blame for you not doing your homework on how to take care of things.
flar3 0
YDI for having such a crappy mp3 player.
vostro_candy 0
#55 You can't back up your files with a crashed computer now, can you dipshit? He already had his files backed up on his iPod, so cut him some slack. Not everyone has the time and money to back all of their stuff onto an external hard drive or CD/DVD. So yeah, I guess you can say I sympathize with you OP. But if it really was an accident, I suppose that makes getting your brother back hard for you, huh? FYL.
fatzoboy 0
Can't you just do a System Recovery with your old comp?
fatzoboy 0
Yeah **** Ipods, Zune all the way
memory_loss_fml 0
nearly happened to me the other day (except I have no younger siblings, and I stopped the cat in time). FYL, I know how I'd have felt.
_system_ 0
This is a fake. A "crash" won't delete your data, a format will, a HDD burnout will - but it can be recovered. Also you can't copy music back off an iPod without propriety software, or by manually going in to the iPod device and unhiding the folders and then searching through for the songs (long process as they're all over the place).
insomniacdude 0
To the idiots screaming "OMG you should have done a back up!" 1. How is an ipod not a backup? It's slightly unconventional, but it works. It's an external hard drive that just happens to have a few modifications on it from Apple (which a quick google search will allow you to circumvent anyway) 2. Not everybody has $80 to go out and buy a 500 gig external and, frankly, not everybody cares enough. Especially if they already have a backup of their music on their ipod. OP, I feel for you. I'd be completely lost if my 12,000+ song collection were wiped. If you bought them all legit, most places will allow you to redownload them at no extra charge, so you're only at a time loss there. If you downloaded some, go open your torrent client and get cracking! And be sure to give your brother a knock in the head as well.
strata8 0
Are you kidding? Pulling the cord out while upgrading the software doesn't even wipe your data, and nor would transfering music. This is just stupid - I can't believe people actually think this is real...