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Well… i fucked up in an honestly impressive way. I was systematically wiping all my USB thumb drives, and once completed realized i didn’t verify my backups. Instead i had the completely empty folder structure of my pictures.
Surprise! I lost the last ten+ years of pictures. All I’ve got is whatever facebook had and whatever i still had on my current phone. I can probably recover a good amount of cat pictures from my parents?
On the positive note, I DID get my last paycheck WITH PTO payout by some miracle, so… that’s pretty good for my anxiety.
Damn, that really sucks. If you haven’t written anything to the drives since then, the pictures should actually still be there, just unaccessable. There are different pieces of software you could try to use to recover it, I’ve had a bit of success with one called Recuva (i think).
I opted for the slower route of zeroing out the drives. Thats part of why its impressive, i did that across like 8 portable storage devices, ALL of which had a backup 🫠
Oh no! Sorry for your loss.
TBH, I’m not entirely upset about it. I didn’t lose any actually important documents, and the majority of it was memes and such that i was probably never going to look at again. Didn’t take very many photos of myself to begin with (real shocker in this community to not like ones own appearance amiright? /s)
The cat pics will sting if i cant get them though, i miss one of the cats from my childhood a great deal. He was a great big 15+ pound wall of absolute muscle, very cuddly and completely harmless though. He sulked and cried when he accidentally scratched someone in his sleep once ☺️
Ah, yep, that’d do it. Glad to hear that it’s not too much of a loss, really hoping you manage to get those cat pics back!
glad you got your last paycheck and PTO payout! 🙌