Today, my brother deleted all traces of the novel I've been working on for three years from my laptop. The reason? When I was born I "stole all of Mum and Dad's attention." He's 24. 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, after 3 years of writing a murder mystery novel that I was really proud of, my dad stole my notebook. He mistook it as my diary and turned it in to the police and apparently I can't have it back because it may be used as evidence. Some of the stories were inspired by real events. FML
Today, I woke up from a nap to find my little brother playing some games on my phone. A few hours later I come to find he had deleted all 500 pictures from my trip to Europe last month. He needed more space to download the games. Mom says he's too young to understand what he did wrong. He's 14. FML
Today, my 24-year-old, unemployed brother stole all of my food money and went out with his friends. His punishment from our parents? He has to pay me back when he gets a job. My stomach has to wait. FML
Today, my little sister got mad at me because I wouldn't let her read my IM conversation. I took a nap and when I woke up, my laptop was gone. She took it on a trip to her grandparents' house, six hours away. Nude pictures of me and my paper due tomorrow are on the laptop. FML
Today, I found my brother tampering with my laptop. He had changed the entire settings, in ways I don't even know how to fix. I finally had to get my mom to threaten him to change it back to its original setting. I'm 15. He's six and can barely get dressed by himself. FML
Today, while having a sneak through my brother's browser, I found a bookmark for a Google Docs file. It was a short story involving him horrifically killing our entire family. It ended with the words: "And that is what happens when people don't respect the author's privacy." FML
Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML
Today, I found out that while I was at college, my brother downloaded three terabytes of porn on my laptop and blamed it on me. My parents believed him. FML
Today, I fell asleep while using my laptop. The next thing I know, it's 8am and my dad is screaming at me for posting "u skank-ass cunt-face" on my mom's Facebook timeline. I never made that post, but he won't believe me. My asshole brother, meanwhile, can't stop smirking at me. FML
Today, my brother stole my hard drive and wiped it. My hard drive had a 10-page school project on it. The project is due tomorrow. FML
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redbluegreen 41
In return, put a pillow over his face because "He's sucking up all the good air. "
aback 5
Delete that ****** from your life. If he hasn't got over it by now, he never will.
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kentt 0
YDI. Back stuff up if it's important. Especially if so important so small.
p00p0ster0us 0
That's unfortunate. At least you can restore it from the backup you made.
divineinstrument 2
I totally agree! This COULD be the worst thing to happen. Money can be re-earned without much difficulty. That amount of work cannot. You should have backed it up,OP. I'm working on a novel, and it is backed up almost every day. However, there is software to easily recover files, so I think you'll be fine.
SUSAltd 0
I vote encryption.
etantao 0
kill him.
wordgirl 0
Yeah, like some others have said, you can still get a lot of it back. Just invest a little money in getting a pro to recover it. Good luck, and keep a freakin password on your computer, man. With a brother like that, who needs an anus.
theintrollama 0
So go get one of your backups! You do have backups, don't you? Surely you aren't dumb enough to have been working on something for three years and not have several backups of it... ...right?
CynicComedian 2
Your brother is a psycho...sleep with one eye open.
Roofus 0
He's got issues, but YDI for not having a copy (or 2 or 3) somewhere far away from that nutter.
plexico 4
And it was on a laptop, too. I can understand someone being so lazy and ignorant with a desktop computer, if you think you are in a totally safe environment. It is idiotic given that hard drives fail from time to time. But laptops are so much more likely to be stolen or damaged that not backing up data on it is so unforgivably moronic, you should starve to death as an author before you reproduce! And all that work probably consisted of less than a megabyte of data. It would have been so easy to store multiple copies of your novel. People like you should stick to pen and paper.
gwenhwyfaer 0
plexico, don't you think it's time you got off the internet and found some lame dogs to kick?
CFR 0
Pen and paper? That's just as likely to get lost or damaged. OP's brother would have just set it on fire.
plexico 4
Of course, it's just that stupid people can understand what can damage paper and take steps to avoid it. They just don't get how fragile data on a computer is. I'm sure we didn't lose the next "Ulysses."
inside_joke 0
wow. time to kick some ass! I'm sure there are some backed up files somewhere. I don't know how many times my time capsule and time machine on my mac has saved me.