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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Halloween
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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Mauskau 36
You can get programmes that can restore data that has been deleted. One time one of my hard drives ****** up and I had to reformat it to even get it working. I used Get Back Data NTFS (or FAT if that is your hard drive) or get data back, something like that. I could find everything I ever deleted from that hard drive, so nothing is ever permanently gone.
CptZoe 10
YDI, my portfolio is backed up on 3 devices and they are all on print in an actual portfolio. Have you learned anything from this?!
wairdt 5
This does suck and I'm sorry. But friends, this is why we always, always, always back-up. Always.
DasRocket 5
There is a software called undelete that can be helpful and recover some of that. Good luck!
mollymayan 3
That's why you get it done by someone who knows what they're doing.
vvmativv 8
Portable hard drives are the business.
NickKuiper 8
We've all got one of THOSE friends... Mine destroyed a 300$ RC car.
ali9000i 0
Should have backed up mate!
perdix 31
Just go get your off-site back-up and recover your lost data. Anyone who relies on their data keeps a copy at a separate location just in case of fire, burglary, flood, etc. where their computer is located. Oh, you don't have one? Incompetence seems to be contagious.
jnd6491 1
Why kind of photographer doesn't keep at least one back up? Geez.