I need to whine somewhere and a corner to cry so I came here
What happened? I just deleted my whole photo collection. All of it gone away.
ALL. And I was stupid enough to clear copies too. I do not know what I had in mind. I suppose too much experience in IT has made me too confident in my own genius. I was running out of space so I got new drives, set up everything, started to move thingx, then switched systems etc. And as I am moving away from cloud I copied, archived (and deleted
) my OneDrive archive too.
Backup drives were also changed and previous ones reused for other purposes.
And I realised what I have done month later, as I was so sure that everything was done right that I have not checked backup drives. I just wanted to upload recent photos to catalogued backup and... nothing. Drive is empty. Not a single file.
I think I know what happened, I messed up open SUSE setup fragmentation as I was doing all at once and most likely checked also disc with backup and, well, rest is history. And as I format everything securely (overwriting with random data and formatting again) recovering it is not possible.
Only thing left is my flickr account with JPGs. Luckily I upload most photos there.
I am an idiot, admin can change my user name to idiotJersey.