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Screenshot I saved of a deleted thread on tracking removed YouTube comments is gone now too
I grabbed a screenshot last month of a YouTube comment that was up for 10 minutes before vanishing, but my phone auto-deleted it during a backup mess. Took me 3 hours with recovery software to get it back, and by then the archive thread it was posted in got nuked too. Has anyone else lost a record of a deleted thing because the backup system failed on them?
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river9521mo ago
That backup mess is brutal, losing the screenshot right after you fought to get it back sounds like a double slap in the face. The real issue is how fragile these digital records are, we trust the cloud or our phones but one glitch wipes out everything. Makes me wonder if printing out important screenshots or saving them to a USB stick is the only way to actually keep something safe these days.
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drewr151mo ago
but honestly @river952, is losing a random screenshot really the end of the world? I get it, it sucks when you put effort into getting something back and then it vanishes again. but we're talking about a picture here, not your tax returns or your kid's first steps. the cloud messes up sometimes, sure, but most of my photos are pretty forgettable anyway. and printing everything out? that just creates a pile of paper that'll get lost or faded in a drawer somewhere. USB sticks fail too, and honestly, I've lost more files to dead flash drives than to cloud glitches. maybe it's just me, but I don't think every single digital thing we have is worth that much anxiety.
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