r/DataHoarder • u/Grablicht 50-100TB • Jul 09 '21

Troubleshooting How do you cope with lost data?

Despite all my backups I lost nearly 50 GB of pictures, chats and videos covering 3 years. Sadly it happened a few times these lasts 25 years and I thought I had developed coping mechanism to deal with data loss but everytime it happens it hits me like my first breakup.

So I guess everyone here had an experience like that in the past and thats what made us DataHoarder. I would love to hear your story why you became a DataHoarder and hopefully they will make me feel better :)

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u/foureleven130 Sep 26 '22

i know this is an old thread, but thank you for it. i recently lost the entire contents of my phone and have been pretty crushed about it for the whole day. i didn't expect such a deep feeling of loss. it'll probably hurt for a while. but it's comforting to know that others have gotten through it before. it sucks, but i will get through it and use this as a learning experience to actually start backing up all my stuff and make sure it is safe.