not tagging this cause I don't want to accidentally find it & read it again it's too depressing rn

[esmenet]

So they fixed my computer (though I think there's other stuff wrong with it now, just b/c they had to set everything to chinese and now I have to set it all back to english and re-figure out how everything works, and also why my mouse isn't connecting) but everything on there is gone. Upwards of 500 gig, I think? Luckily the internet is forever, and when it comes to my own writing I am the #1 proponent of cloud storage, but that's still a hell of a lot of music/video/podcasts/etc. to re-find and re-download. Hell, when I switched computers the last time, even though I copied over almost everything, more than a year later I still sometimes found myself wanting to listen to a song and then not finding it on my computer.

Oh well. Like someone said to me a while ago, sometimes you lose things and they don't come back.


(also also btw if you're wondering why I'm not commenting on your posts it doesn't mean I don't like you it means I'm studying for the HSK and only reading my DW list on my phone between other things)

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[tropicsbear]

I feel for you :( Almost the exact same thing happened to my old laptop and I lost almost all of my undergrad papers.

[esmenet]

I have never been more grateful for my tendency to keep all my (fiction, at least) writing on the internet. (Though I can't remember if I ever copied that Ranma 1/2 paper, ugh.)

Of course, now I've gone and discovered that not only could they not recover my data, they ended up replacing my >500 gig hard drive with a 20 gig one without saying anything . . . well, even though I'm having some nasty and unfounded suspicions, I'll go talk to them tomorrow about it since there's nothing I can do after ten-thirty at night.