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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ottersrmyfriends 0
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
YDI for referring to what sounds like HDD failure as a "crash".
Syn_fml 0
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
186 - that's assuming the OP purchased the songs...
fmlfmlfml15 0
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
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
Not true. I do it all the time. Of course, I don't use iTunes, windows, or OSX.
Flinlock 0
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.
zappyalex 0
I bet you'll buy an external now. Back that shit up...it's honestly a lifesaver.
xraex13 0
u do relize that u can log into itunes from ur old account and all ur songs will be there, right?
Malexhe 0
That sucks. One time I accidentally deleted all 3,500 songs from my Zune library. Thank God for Flash Drives, though.
Bud_fml 16
Doesn't cost that much if you do it the easy way. Going out and buying a 1 terabyte USB or some shit like that would tho