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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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spaghetti_fml 1
That happened to me once. :/ My computer crashed, my external drive died, and my iPod went on the fritz all at once. FYL dude.
Mardy_Bum_fml 0
Yeah that happened to me... except with 8,000 songs.
ThisRandomChild 0
Sorry to hear. Unfortunately for you, it isnt a contest, and you could barely like or wanna listen to 3k songs anyways, much less 8k. Hell, I dont even know three thousand songs. Y-both-di for being a culture slave.
ThisRandomChild 0
Sorry to hear. Unfortunately for you, it isnt a contest, and you could barely like or wanna listen to 3k songs anyways, much less 8k. Hell, I dont even know three thousand songs. Y-both-di for being culture slaves.
fishyfingaz 0
unless the hard drive died in the old pc you can easily get the tracks back.
mycleverusername 0
That really, really sucks regardless of whether you got the songs legally or illegally, although legally is clearly more crushing. Losing your entire library is like losing all your old family photos in a fire....at least if you're a huge music person. Next time back up your files on a portable hard drive or something.
dore 0
you still have the drm, just redownload it
frenetic1amnesic 0
FYL for buying a new computer instead of just reinstalling the OS.
lespaulhero 0
Made up, that wouldnt happen. The songs would all still be on the ipod. Trust me I work for apple.
randomoutburst 0
Trust ME, it's possible because it's happened to me. I used my iPod as an external hard drive and lost not only most of my songs, but all my photos and files were corrupted. I don't give a shit if you work for Apple - anything electronic can **** itself up if you do something you aren't supposed to do to it.
Dcvictorious 0
Really cos, I work for "You don't know what you're talking about and are too much of a tool to admit that something could go wrong company" and I would like to offer you a job with us. I bet you're one of those customer care line workers who instead of helping them tells them it's impossible for Ipods to **** up, in fact, Ipods majorly **** up all the time, for instance, I have a 30Gb 5th Generation- Head phone port ****** up and the one I got to replace it, freezes and eats the battery, don't get me wrong I love my Ipod and couldn't live without it, but these are things I hope you work on. Especially with the Iphone as I've heard many stories of that ******* up.
ForestFire0 1
Look stupid, this can't happen. If you understand how hard drives work you'd know this. A hard drive has a "table of contents" so to speak at the beginning. When you delete a file on your computer (or iPod!) all that's actually rewritten is the "page number" of the "chapter". The data is still there, but the computer knows that it can put new data on that spot. Any simple file-recovery tool can scan the hard drive and find all the files you thought you deleted. As long as this isn't an iPod Touch or iPhone, she can just "enable external hard drive" in iTunes. (or something like that. I forget what it says exactly) Then the iPod will be assigned a drive letter and she can scan it with a file recovery program. Of course, she could have done this with the hard drive from her crashed computer most likely.
Dcvictorious 0
Pretty much you just said she'd have to recover the songs, meaning that they are currently missing on the Ipod but are backed up, so pretty much, they are there but you proved yourself wrong in a way. I don't care how hard drives work as long as they work for me
deadly55 0
no the files aren't gone and don't really need the traditional recovery per say, the idnex just got destroyed when the cord got seperated.
ForestFire0 1
Exactly. I tried to spell out the concept of the index with the "table of contents" analogy, but that guy is still to stupid to understand.
anniemarie 0
don't kids DO the darnest things
AwThatSucksGurl 0
Truee i would have maded him download 3000 songs he could think of
megothelego 0
I call BS. I've pulled the plug out of my ipod before it was done updating and everything was still there.