Jennifer Priester
She emptied the recycle bin on her computer, then sat back and relaxed. Only then did she realize she had been so exhausted after working all night that she accidentally got rid of the wrong files.
I’m not good at horror stories, but when something like this actually happened it certainly felt like one to me. My computer was freezing often due to having too much on it. I do writing, publishing, photography, and art, and I also enjoy playing games so all my files and the programs I needed were taking up a lot of space. I planned on moving everything off the hard drive onto storage disks. I deleted everything off my hard drive after going through every file deciding what I needed to keep, then after spending all night doing this, I decided to get some work done. I saw the folder with my photography and don’t know why I thought it was an extra backup, but that’s what I thought it was so I deleted it. The moment I realized I had just managed to delete all my photography off my hard drive and the storage disk, was a moment the world completely stopped for me as the horror of what I did sank it. I had spent a year working on my photography, going through every photo keeping what I thought I could sell as a photographer and deleting what I couldn’t and as I had recently been diagnosed with mast cell disease at the time I had been pushing myself and making myself sick to complete this goal so in the moment I felt like everything I did had been for nothing. Luckily I had a previous backup of my hard drive on the disk so I was at least able to recover most of my photos, so in the end I only maybe lost a month of photos and the last year of work I had done, but it has remained a nightmare experience in my memories. The good news is that as I began going through my photos all over again, I began seeing some of them in new ways and started trying out creative photography as a result so while I hope to never do anything like that again, some good did come from it.
I’m not good at horror stories, but when something like this actually happened it certainly felt like one to me. My computer was freezing often due to having too much on it. I do writing, publishing, photography, and art, and I also enjoy playing games so all my files and the programs I needed were taking up a lot of space. I planned on moving everything off the hard drive onto storage disks. I deleted everything off my hard drive after going through every file deciding what I needed to keep, then after spending all night doing this, I decided to get some work done. I saw the folder with my photography and don’t know why I thought it was an extra backup, but that’s what I thought it was so I deleted it. The moment I realized I had just managed to delete all my photography off my hard drive and the storage disk, was a moment the world completely stopped for me as the horror of what I did sank it. I had spent a year working on my photography, going through every photo keeping what I thought I could sell as a photographer and deleting what I couldn’t and as I had recently been diagnosed with mast cell disease at the time I had been pushing myself and making myself sick to complete this goal so in the moment I felt like everything I did had been for nothing. Luckily I had a previous backup of my hard drive on the disk so I was at least able to recover most of my photos, so in the end I only maybe lost a month of photos and the last year of work I had done, but it has remained a nightmare experience in my memories. The good news is that as I began going through my photos all over again, I began seeing some of them in new ways and started trying out creative photography as a result so while I hope to never do anything like that again, some good did come from it.
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