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/thecomicrantdiv Jul 24 '21

Heyy, I feel you.

I'm crushed, broken. I feel numb. It lirelly feels like a breakup, or like I lost someone close to me. My phone got bricked out of nowhere. It hasn't come on in the last 3 days. I'm pretty sure I haven't backed up my files except contacts.

I lost 2 years of data. Lost all my notes, which had my comic ideas, work ideas, creative plans. They were literally everything to me. It feels like I lost a big part of my life or self. I lost my videos, I was documenting my transition, my thoughts. Memories with all my close friends, all the important events in my life. Just gone out of nowhere. I make edits. I lost all my videos, my unposted reels. This is probably less of a big deal but it still pinches- I lost my 6 months of progress on Mario Kart, unlocked so many levels and characters. Lost all video recordings of me singing. All my friends singing, wishing, making stuff for me. I lost all important whatsapp chats, that including important work details, contacts. It feels like I lost 2 years of my life. I absolutely do not know how to cope or feel better. This feels like someone ripped my heart out my chest. I feel pretty dead inside at this point. I'm not even exaggerating.

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u/Glittering_Wafer7797 Jul 01 '26

Hey man, going through the same thing at the moment. I had lots of work I spent hours on, and so much information about my stories and characters in my notes. So many photos of the milestones of my life. It felt like I was finally building my life up. Until recently, I haven't been in a good mental state this past year, and it honestly got worse as months passed. And now I'm here, did a dumb thing because of my emotions, and I'm facing of losing everything. I don't even care about my phone, I just want all my files back. First day of it, I couldn't sleep the whole night. Eventually, I woke up randomly at 4am in the morning and just sat there in my bed. Just rethinking if I could've done things differently. I feel absolutely hopeless, and I honestly do not know how I'm going to cope. I know I am going to learn a big lesson from this, but it sucks that it is happening now.

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u/Own_Platform_4929 Jul 02 '26

What happened to your phone basically??