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
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my external hard drive broke. My husband tried to fix it, and the computer told him he needed to format it. Apparently he didn't know what formatting does, so he did it. I'm a wedding photographer and had a full summer of unfinished wedding photography on there. 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, my husband accidentally erased some pictures from our hard drive. No worries, nothing major: just everything from our wedding and the birth of our first child. FML
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 computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. 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, 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
Today, the new office IT guy figured the best way to get the virus off my computer was to wipe my entire hard drive. He was kind enough to back my data up and restore everything from the backups. Including the virus. 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, somebody broke in to my house and stole my laptop, which had years worth of family photos on it. Where was I when it was stolen? At Staples, buying supplies that included CDs to finally back up my pictures. FML
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Cookiedough1987 4
This is why you have an external hard drive to save these important things onto when you are letting someone unqualified (I'm guessing) mess with your stuff.
theslimshadylp 6
Holy shit five years? I would give your friend the wrath of God if I were you.
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Darthbane2007 19
YDI
Darthbane2007 19
I'm going to say YDI. Yes, your friend was sort of an idiot for deleting your files, it was your job to keep up and backup your work. 1. I too thought that 2 TB was an insane amount of photos, but then I realized that the OP may have had one of those high end quality cameras, such as Canon or Nikon which cost several hundred dollars. For instance, say that each of the photos is 20MB a piece. Then that would give her 5 photos for every 100MBs. And if 100MBs X 10 equals 1 Gig, then that gives her 50 Photos for every gig. and if there's 1000 gigs for every Terabyte, then she could have as low as 50,000 photos in her portfolio. 2. I don't know about you, but External Harddrives could be cheap. If you look for the right deals, a 1TB drive from Iomega or Seagate could cost as little as $89.99. It's a sound investment to store your valuable work on...
pnutbutternjelly 15
This is exactly why it's so important to keep a backup of anything important.... though I bet your computer will run faster now.
Tossing 8
My old roommate found a way to recover photos he had lost due to him reformatting. You should look into it.
lilicoco_fml 5
So, something of THAT much importance....taken over the course of 5 years....and you NEVER thought "hey, I should really copy these onto a flash drive or a back up hard drive in case something happens!"? Seriously? I hope you take a pretty picture...because you obviously don't have much of a thinking process...
talloctopus 7
Terabytes? Seriously. Why would you let your friend near that?
DaSandman 9
pretty dumb move on your side not to have a back up
dansco 25
Erm so you haven't heard of backing up then?! Even if the genius hasn't wiped your hard drive, it would've failed anyway and you would've still lost them all! Anyway find a proper computer guy/girl and ask them to use the recovery software to get most of it back ;)
maxesxp 0
that's what Facebook is for
Darthbane2007 19
If you even took he ime to look around, most electronic retailers have discounts and deals when it comes to External Hard Drives. Why even at Staples on Sunday ( as of 08/26/2012) They have 1-2TB drives from Western Digitl and Seagate for as low as $100-$200. I'm assuming that you're a professional photographer to have that many photos, but if you've spend a few hundred dollars on a DSLR Camera ( Such as the ones from Nikon and Canon) You can afford a drive to store your work. No wonder your computer was slow...