mlowy
Baku, Azerbaijan
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
Anonymous
Time to rebuild
Today, my computer crashed and corrupted my games files and deleted over 100 hours of saved data. I have to now start all over again. FML
Fuck AI
Gotta keep those data centers irrigated
Today, my house was broken into and my computer was stolen. Fortunately, I have cloud backups of all my work; unfortunately, hardware prices have gone through the roof and I won't be able to replace that computer soon. FML
Anonymous
Québec, Canada
Restore device
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
rebeccaremily
Canada
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
Anonymous
United States
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
Anonymous
Get on with it!
Today, I went to turn in a coding project a few days early. After months of working on a code and saving backups, everything is gone or corrupted. I have to start from square one and turn it in less than 48 hours from now. FML
Anonymous
United States
Thanks, Bill
Today, I was busy writing my English final paper and all of a sudden my computer just chose to freeze. I thought Microsoft Word would save it, but alas, 4 pages down the dumpster. Plus my earphones stopped working and I can't afford to buy a new pair. FML
Soopa-Genius
Canada
Genius move
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
ThisGirl
Kennesaw, United States
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
Depressed
All that for nothing
Today, due to some highly corrupted data that I had nothing to do with and no control over, around 5 years of pixel art I'd made, and spent most of my free time working on, has been permanently deleted, and there is no way to recover it. FML
Top comments
Puffytruffles 18
Did you try turning it off and on?
FindingYujin 26
That has got to be one of the worst feelings ever. Did you throw the monitor to the ground?
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FindingYujin 26
That has got to be one of the worst feelings ever. Did you throw the monitor to the ground?
bwup 15
This is why we make backups
mlowy 17
It was such a terrible feeling, haha, I just froze in my spot staring at the computer and trying not to cry... I couldn't get my old data retrieved but I did buy a new laptop! :)
Puffytruffles 18
Did you try turning it off and on?
184886837272837 32
10/10 well done
empbob 20
I wonder if he checked to make sure it was plugged in?
eyepuppy 31
The button on the front, is it glowing?
hellnosucka 27
did you try beating the crap out of the screen?
LeFrogDog 27
Did giving it words of encouragement work?
julako 22
I recognised that singing a just for the machine made song always make them feel better.feel better = work better.works for all my electronic things: notebook, microwave and vacuum cleaner.
mlowy 17
She, and yes, I have
lolfood 24
That's happened to me, too, unfortunately. That's when I started making regular back ups, and you should, too. It's no fun losing your data.
MattM95 16
I've had it happen to me before also. It is very annoying. Luckily I didn't lose any important data since I back mine up every month or so.
eyepuppy 31
Rolling backups are easy to do in this day in age. Most services are free, so this is something everyone should do.
mlowy 17
It was a very old laptop, and though I should have backed it up before, it's never broken down, so I trusted it, and it was my first time after an extremely long time. But now that I have a new laptop, I definitely back it up often! Not making the same mistake again.. Haha
PossiblyInDanger 24
Hard drives aren't always the most reliable, unfortunately.
b0balagurak 1
Ssd's are more reliable now
WhatsYOURname6 25
How ironic.....
Axipiter 24
Don'tcha think?
Crazynocatlady 22
Kinda like raiaaaaaain on your wedding day.
SS 31
That's a crashy situation :( FYL!
slyde32 12
most people try too hard with their puns, you however don't appear to have tried at all.
Admiralsmooth 7
You should feel bad how awful that pun was... if that's even what you would call it
warsun 27
I call an awful pun, nup.
ItsAUnicorn 27
Turn it off. Now turn it on. Did it work? No? You've done your best, now go and get yourself chocolate and some ICT guy
184886837272837 32
I cringe every time I hear about something like this happening. I'm sorry OP I would not wish such a fate upon my worst enemies.
igive 29
I would. Muuahhahahahaaaaa!
rdenkewicz 11
Don't worry! I'm sure you sent yourself emails of your most important files in case that happened...
ktmla 14
Too bad you can't back up time and make one yesterday
77777771 12
I just down voted you on accident.. My apologies