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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bugmenotmofo 34
YDI for not backing up your stuff
pastrychef_fml 0
Wow 3,000. Your life REALLY sucks. There's no coming back from that. :( This is NOT a FML, you can always redownload your music or rip the CDs again.
glassisass 0
dude... do you know how much money 3000 songs cost...
anony_moose 0
yeah its 0$ on limewire...
allmidnighteyes 11
Except that Limewire is a piece of trash. If you're gonna steal music, steal it the right way and torrent it. Using Limewire to steal music is like taking a stock V6 Rustang with neons to the track against a fully tuned twin-turbo'd NSX
aero_fml 0
Nah you can't compare it like that. Limewire is like using your Prius to go to Whole Foods and buy an organic salad for $20, whereas using a Torrent (uTorrent ftw!) is like running a Murcielago through the Nurburgring. For free. Anyways my point is Priuses are for buttlovers and slowfolk. What were we talking about again?
allmidnighteyes 11
Change that Murcielago to a McLaren F1 LM and we have an agreement.
cryssycakesx3 23
I love the f1 track!
Bud_fml 16
Exactly. Don't whine
ohreally123 0
but if you were syncing it through itunes, the songs would have been deleted anyways
movies12 0
That is why there are these things called BACK UP DISCS. Always back up ur songs. That must really, really suck I would literally BLOW UP if that happend to me, but like I said after ur done downloading them all back on BACK THEM UP!!!!.
ItecKid 0
YDI for not keeping a backup.
GeekLogic 0
and hoe do you intend to pull data off an ipod?
smackledorf20 0
i. would. die.
Beadabee 2
how do you actually syncronise songs from your ipod to ur comp???
chicagochick 0
There is actually software you can use to do that. I can't remember the name, but I used it when I got a laptop and had to move all my songs onto it. It worked for me. There are also good tutorials on how to do it.
KatieGoesRawrr 0
If the sunk button on the bottom of the screen of itunes doesn't work (if it doesn't come up with all the songs) the same thing happened to me, you can use a free trial of Xilisoft Ipod rip (i think that's what it's called(just google it)) that's what I used. It works. lol. your #69.. sry couldn't help myself.
Me27 0
There are programs all over the 'net. GOOGLE! OP - YDI for not backing up ever.
KatieGoesRawrr 0
Sorry about spelling and grammar. I use Mac OX btw.
DeathBoy 0
iTunes doesn't allow you to recover your songs that way (to prevent the iPod being used as a tool for piracy). If you plugged the iPod into a new computer which it wasn't synced with, it would give you the option to leave it as it was, or wipe it, so you could begin to sync with the new computer from then on. Quite a few people select this without realising the implications and wipe their iPod. Hell, I've done it. If you bought the songs, you can get them back via iTunes (as people have mentioned), if you didn't, I feel bad for you, but obviously, you know you can't really complain, right? If that's the case, maybe treat it as an opportunity to explore and find some great new music while you hunt down the stuff you used to have :) Unfortunately, in either case, the best solution is what everyone else has mentioned: if it's important to you, keep a backup. Hope you get your stuff back soon!
fdgaf_SCL 2
Yes, but fortunately Apple doesn't do a whole lot to keep you from taking them right off anyway. Plug in your iPod, enable it as an external drive, go under "My Computer" and go to the drive. Enable hidden files (it depends on what OS you're running, and I can't remember how to do it atm, but that's easy enough to Google). All of the music will be in subfolders, each file given a randomly-assigned four-letter name - but each file still carries everything iTunes needs to read & label it. From there you just pull it off the iPod, put it in files, and import into iTunes. The end, no program installations necessary.