Worst file loss? (Hard drive failure etc.)

[NPC]

I've had two hard drives leak and die on me, so I got a SSD to save me from that stress. The worst loss was the first one, since I was able to idenify the second really early. I lost three large video projects I was working on, two ~5000 image folders of photos, graphics, and edits, my original project and some comissioned work for it that was not kept by the creator, and several paid programs that I was unable to recover the Serials for.

Never again, computer gods! Please!

 

[Andar]

I've had two hard drives leak and die on me, so I got a SSD to save me from that stress.

Just be warned - depending on how you use that SSD, it's life cycle can be shorter or longer than a HDD life cycle. Nothing keeps data forever.

 

[NPC]

Don't worry, I follow the "a backup is only a backup if you have four of them rule". 

 

[ThatMaestroGuy]

Ahhh...data loss.

I've been reckless in keeping my data safe. That is, up until a few years back. While in the process of transferring data to a new computer, there was one folder (my most important folder, to be precise) that somehow got left out of the transfer to an external hardive. Long story short, I lost over six years of musical motifs, finished projects, and works in progress. It was a sad day, indeed, but it certainly taught me the important lesson of double/triple/quadruple checking backups and data transfers.

But even now, I never feel safe. =P

 

[Clord]

Windows 10 decided to wipe out Windows.old folders. I lost Restaff stuff since 2013.


I used file recovery utility but it was too late.


Thankfully I have backups of my projects and stories.


Edit: Plus member plus stuff.

 

[TheOriginalFive]

My worst was losing some story drafts at 13 due to a virus. Though the drafts were somewhat generic princesses and stepsisters' rivalries.

Now I back up my files (saved games, notes, pictures, etc.) both in a cloud drive and in a physical drive.

 

[Ellie Jane]

Someone hacked my website once. Turned out it wasn't even my site they hacked, I was on shared hosting, they got through by another user's site. Wiped everything, then I found out my backups hadn't actually been downloading properly. I lost not only all of my work and website, but important things I was hosting for a lot of other people, who weren't very happy with me.

The only thing I saved was my MMORPG which lost about a month of updates.

 

[Lt. Ulquiorra]

When my Research Paper files disappeared and the SD card I'm using for my 3DS suddenly stopped working

 

[Rukiri]

Back in 2004 when I uh made an unofficial version of RPG Maker 2003, there was a lot of hacks and basically Legacy of Goku II was the default battle system and I even had a simple turnkey solution for mode7.  But, just as I'm about to show it off, my hard drive dies.. I moved on to game maker when I built my next PC later on. 

I probably had 5000+ hours into that hack so... I wasn't doing it again, dunno if git was a thing back then and if it was I didn't know about it as that woulda saved that project.  But now we have MV... it's good enough. 

 

[andrechan]

I'm very careful with my harddrives, but my worst file loss was when I had put on prolly 40 hours of work on an art piece, that I saved over, and closed the file. It brought me back to square one. I didnt want to draw for a while.

 

[DarknessFalls]

I never loose files when my HDD dies - Time machine for the win people ..... mac == awesome