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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Bubblybubble 0
YDI for having 3000 songs. NO ONE has 3000 songs legally. Karma 1 - You 0
dyingstart 0
Um, no. Some people actually buy music, believe it or not. 3,000 songs is roughly 300 CDs. That seems like a fairly average amount for someone to have.
chronicwanker 4
wow you are ******* stupid. i have almost 2000 songs from cds that I bought with my own money, and I am 21. thats what 120 cds in 10 years. so really in another 10 years i would have well in excess of 3000 you fucktard
flying_vegan 0
I have 12000 songs legally!
eliz3 0
3,000 songs wouldn't take that long to re download, assuming its mostly albums and not singular songs. I have nearly 25,000 on my computer and that would really be a bitch to get back.
cs2sasuke741 0
How do you move songs from ipod to computer? My cousin has some songs that she deleted on her itunes, but has on her ipod, and and I want them too, but how do we move them from ipod to computer?
LOLYLIF 0
#100 and #108, you guys are idiots. The person who posted this lost a minimum of $3000, assuming she didn't have any movies or music videos or applications on there as well, which would raise the amount even more.
pbuk 0
One word: backup.
but2002 0
Believe it or not, you can actually still recover some of those "lost" files, if you didn't over-write them all already. Just look up "Recuva" by Piriform, same company that made CCleaner.
ObadiahtheSlim 2
You probably coulda pulled those files off your old computer. Unless the hardrive was bricked you can easily pull them off.
liquidbunny 0
If you buy music through iTunes and ONLY iTunes you can sync everything back up to your computer. If you ripped them from a CD or got them from Amazon you cant unless you know a crafty way. I used to manually manage my library, but I guess iTunes caught on to me dragging and dropping tracks between my work and home libraries and cut that feature out.
ezflip 0
Take a basic computer class. It is very rare that a software crash will completely destroy all the files on your HD. There are many services and even some free software available to recover data on a HD (even if its been formated) Not to mention, pulling the plug while simply copying files will NOT delete all the files on both devices. Maybe and I stress MAYBE if you were transferring from one to the other while deleting from the first, but even still, you would have everything that was transfered up to the point the plug was pulled on one device and everything that hadn't yet been transfered still on the other device. You may lose a few songs. This is complete bullshit and not an FML.
Nagamori 0
I hope you kept your old, crashed computer, because it sounds like the data can be recovered quite easily. Files aren't truly deleted until they've been overwritten. I suggest you get a local computer-savvy person to help you out. Offer to pay them for their time and a huge bonus if successful. Money is always a great motivator. I'd do it for travel expenses and a home-cooked meal if I were in your area. :)