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
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, 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
Today, I accidentally deleted my landlord's pictures of his child's graduation, girlfriend, daughter, and vacation when he asked me to delete a video off his phone. FML
Today, I got home from a family trip to Disney World. I had taken nearly 300 photos of our trip on my new digital camera. As our car pulled into the driveway, I was using my camera to try to delete one unflattering shot of me. I accidentally deleted every picture off the memory card. FML
Today, my husband put some photos of our wedding on Facebook. He named the album "FML". FML
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
Today, my husband and I switched phones by accident. I've already received several naked pictures from one of his co-workers. 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, while trying to fix a corrupted USB hard drive with my wife’s computer I accidentally wiped her laptop drive instead of clearing the external drive. I’m not allowed on her computers anymore. FML
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JD26803 11
Should always have a back up OP! Bad luck though.
swaglesshipster 23
Well at least you have him and the kid still! Better than pictures
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JD26803 11
Should always have a back up OP! Bad luck though.
MrSassypants 34
I have read so many "then just break with up him" comments from past comments that by "back up" I thought you meant getting another husband. I need to go back up my brain. It needs a reboot.
rhiannahoward14 19
Or if they're from a photographer you can ask them if they have a back up. Speaking as a photographer, almost all of them do keep back ups.
RadikulRam 16
Hijacking the first comment to state that the deleted files could be recovered. When a file is "deleted", it's actually taken out of view. It's still on the hard drive. A hard drive is not an empty box filling up with magic. The files get temporarily stored aside, until they are overwritten with something else. Unless you wiped the drive with a secure erase, then it'll cost you. Look into software like parted magic.
badmandilon 19
You can try to take your PC to one of those experts that can get them recovered if not all of them at least some, just try to not do anything on your computer otherwise it would be harder to recover them.
Dicebar 10
If you can, don't use the computer until you've gotten hold of someone to restore the files for you. That will reduce the chance of the files being overwritten.
Dicebar 10
I just noticed I live in your area, OP, feel free to send me a message to help you get going.
dohdohdoh 13
Backups fail. Have backups of backups or multiple backups. I do for my kids.
Welshite 40
But memories are forever.
cutycat136 28
Husband: it's okay honey, at least our memories will last forever Wife: *face gets red and eyes narrow and you never hear tell of the husband again*
JKPwnage 27
MIB: Flash flash, ************!
ohSNAPyall 27
Write up everything you remember for a scrapbook.
ohSNAPyall 27
And ask people on Facebook to send you pictures.
swaglesshipster 23
Well at least you have him and the kid still! Better than pictures
ohjoy15 33
That's true. Better than the pictures! I'm not a computer wizard or anything but isn't there some way you can take the computer to a specialist who might be able to locate and recover the pictures? Deleted files can sometimes be found again?
gte225 11
I think Recuva is the easiest to use. Don't know how powerful it is though.
howard007 18
There are many applications for this exact purpose, i wont suggest any as idk what system you're using
k_th0m 15
I feel like you are being sarcastic with the "no worries" thing.... Haha just giving you a hard time OP. Im sorry about that. Maybe a good lesson to always have a backup?
Wiringify 22
What's your opinion. Is she sarcastic?
PePziNL 20
No, ofcourse she isn't sarcastic. Who needs pictures of your wedding and kids anyways, when you still have selfies and pics of your dinner from last week?
k_th0m 15
Sorry if this offended anyone .
MaT30123 19
You don't need to apologize, it's not at all your fault
Kurby14 21
always keep a USB backup. sorry though FYL :(
JKROB 16
she could just do a system restore
platypus546 24
worst idea ever. USB drives fail hard. backup to CD/DVD. keep in a case so it doesn't get lost or scratched.
Cass_x 22
It's a shame the pictures are gone, but you still have the memories.. Cherish them!
Derpulous 15
Don't worry. Unless you really know what you're doing, nothing is deleted from a computer. Check your backup disk for them and if you don't have one then hire a computer technician. He should be able to get them back for you.
thatguynamedsky 32
exactly what i was going to say! Make sure not to save anything else, as it could overwrite the "deleted" data.
Jazzalyn 10
#7 is right. You may still be able to retrieve your photos, even if they have been deleted from the Recycling Bin as well. Deleting a file doesn't permanently delete it, it just removes the pointer to the file. If this wasn't too long ago and those pointers haven't been overwritten, take your PC/laptop to computer repair place and they may be able to retrieve them. Good luck OP.
Mauskau 36
Download a program called Recuva, you can use it to restore files that have been deleted, even from devices. (so yeah wiping a phone or SD card doesn't always save people from seeing your files). You can also get a program I used several years ago called Recover NTFS for the hard drive (assuming it's formatted in NTFS, but it comes with a FAT32 version). You don't need to pay anyone anything.
gregory_08 2
#7 has it spot on! Get your computer to a tech ASAP - nothing is ever ever deleted there will be a "footprint" still in existence - you may not get all back but a good tech may well e able to!
JustinJK 21
Who needs that stuffy anyway? Totally not even that important.
EmperorChowilio 21
there is a program called recurva it's free and you can recover data from the hard drive even if the data has been deleted and emptied
zeemonster424 15
That's what I was going to come here and comment. Hopefully OP sees this. I've used it to save my life on more than one occasion.
samthestud13 10
If you really care about something like that I seriously don't understand why you wouldn't have a backup
Brandi_Faith 34
There are a lot of people that don't know much about computers, only the basics, and don't know to back up their stuff. Then there's also a huge group of people that know they should back up their stuff, but haven't gotten around to doing it seeing as it takes a while depending on how much stuff you have. At least half of the people that back up their stuff all the time do it because they have made the mistake of losing stuff and didn't have it backed up. No need to crap on op for it, hopefully she'll learn from her mistakes and it will make her smarter in how stuff is stored. Also, there's the possibility that she doesn't download the pictures and that's something her husband has always taken care of so she wasn't aware of what was or wasn't backed up.