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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Fall
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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Top comments
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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Comments (101)
mthurston 14
That stuff isn't gone forever, even if u delete it, it can be recovered. Ask my uncle when he gets outta jail...
Soosuj 11
What if we find a FML soon that connects to this one?
k_cummins 21
You didn't notice until you put it in the trash can? There could be a chance that they had already deleted things themselves but not emptied the trash. That or you're truly oblivious.
irishmaiden78 23
This is why I ALWAYS look at what I'm about to clear out of the trash before emptying it. You never know what you'll actually want to keep once you take a second look.
WOTAN1488 24
WHY WOULD YOU EVEN DO SUCH A THING
corky1992 33
How did you not notice that? More like F the life of the person the account actually belonged to.
mrBearBear 11
that sucks sooo much, but how'd you accidentally get into someone else's account? You should probably let someone know they have such a flaw in the system
sietseld 13
Maybe the person whose account it was should have logged out. Not your problem!
squiros 2
so it looks like a lot of people misunderstand the situation. if you log in to an account, the files you see are not on the local hard drive. that's what logging in is, it's connected to another computer called a server. this server is showing you the things stored on the server, like gmail. running recuva or any recovery software on your local computer will recover everything lost on your local computer and nothing of what was lost on the server. IT rarely has access to the server and recovering it server side requires server admin privileges. when a computer deletes something, usually, it just replaces the first letter of the file name and rather than delete, considers the space previously used as free space. as long as that free space doesn't get used, it's still the same content it was before. this is how recuva and most other recovery programs work - they look for renamed files that still exist. generally, since most users don't delete and add files much, that space is largely untouched and recovery is possible. on servers, this is different because the server is constantly adding thousands of files and deleting the same from students. so once that file space is freed, it's likely written over by a hundreds of rewrites. chances are, by the time IT contacts the server admin, recovery programs are useless. the person who stayed logged in deserves it - like anyone who leaves their account logged in anywhere, the entire point of logging in is to log out and prevent unauthorized access. at least it was only a final paper in a fake subject like poli sci and not a PhD thesis on drug synthesis for cancer cures. usually, by the time people are doing serious academic work, the silly stuff like misunderstanding what/where a file is is long past. sigh. undergrads.
Jaelkus 28
tl:dr
rinzlerkitty94 31
How did you not notice?