Today, I was at school deleting documents I no longer needed on my school account. After clicking empty trash can, I saw a final paper on political science deleted. I'm not in political science, and I wasn't deleting files on my account. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was trying to show my mother how much detail I'd put into a group project that I had to present tomorrow. I then deleted the project, thinking that I was just removing it from my phone. Everyone's research and my three days of hard work went with it. FML
Today, I was separating my notes into two piles: one to save for exam studying and one to throw out. I finished separating, picked up the junk pile, and absentmindedly shredded it. Afterwards, I looked down to see the junk pile still completely intact. Goodbye, passing grades. FML
Today, I accidentally deleted my YouTube account because I was trying to eliminate distractions from school. My dumb self eventually realized all I had to do was stop uploading, and return to it during my vacation. FML
Today, I was told that, although I was sick on the last day before break, they would still accept the 24 page essay that I had written. Tonight, as I went to print it out, I found that my dad had "cleaned up a bit" on my computer, including the documents from last semester. I have school tomorrow. FML
Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML
Today, whilst cleaning out his desk, my dad "accidentally" threw away my summer homework. That's 100 pages, over a duration of 2 months. School starts in 3 days. FML
Today, I realized how much I'm on the computer. I tried to "CTRL+Z" on something I wrote down on my paper. FML
Today, I was writing an essay while sleep-deprived. In between actually writing, I started typing my thoughts. It was only after I’d submitted the essay that I realized that I hadn’t deleted the random words. My teacher can see my early-morning rambling about potatoes. I have no way to delete it. FML
Today, I went through my spam folder. I found out that I'd received several emails telling me that I have been sending emails containing essays for a class of mine to the wrong address. The term ended yesterday. FML
Today, I went to check my grade, which was posted for an essay for my comp 1 class. I got a zero. I was devastated only to find out I never actually clicked the submit document button. My grade dropped 20 points. FML
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TheCerealKiller 24
Well, somebody's screwed.
LyricaSilvan 30
Might wanna find out whose stuff you were deleting and find someone who can help you recover it.
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swanheart 35
surely you looked at the files you were deleting before you sent them to the recycling bin to make sure they were the right ones? Didn't you realise that you didn't recognise any of the files before you were emptying the recycle bin? Also, as others have said speak to IT ASAP and they can hopefully recover the files. :-/
ragnarok1540 39
I've seen quite a few people, when I was in school, who gave their documents very generic names such as "English1" or "History3". It sounds like it may have been the same case for OP who only noticed the mistake on the last document for a political science class. I try to avoid the problem by putting my name and date in addition to the subject/topic in the title.
swanheart 35
You are right #21. I had it in my head that op was at uni not school, in school most people take similar classes so it is much easier for mistakes like this to happen.
manuwish 9
omg..quickly go tell the IT responsible to have them recuperated..poor other person :( take responsibility OP! maybe you can have your mistake repaired!
nemisis11 12
Others stated the obvious of not recognizing files... But how on earth did you forget you never signed in?
VeganVampyre 27
That's what I was thinking. How do you sit down at a computer that's already logged into an account and not realize that it clearly can't be yours since you haven't logged in yet.
brezzyanna 17
As someone else pointed out, it's possible they got up, then sat back down at someone else's computer
ckerane 16
Ohhh you've got some explaing to do
tranced_ 45
A document on political science should nevertheless be deleted.
toastbrot 9
are other subjects more suitable to delete?
baken101 12
Suprised you did not notice they were not your files.
gosh_mate 30
I feel like this is totally your fault for failing to notice that the titles to the documents weren't you own.... More like F their life.
whyisitincapital 25
Ohhhhhhh crap. Expect an FML from the student whose files you were deleting very soon...
QueenOfSuppness 25
What is Political Science?
Suaria 38
Study of politics
tj4234 36
I hope you told the IT people the same day. Servers tend to refresh overnight.
lukian_fml 29
If the files were on a network, they may have been protected by snapshots such as volume shadow copy, these can go back quite some time (at least two weeks).