What was the largest amount of computer information you deleted by accident?

I don't think I've ever permanently deleted something from my computer that I didn't want to delete. Though I did accidentally overwrite a Final Fantasy VII save file with over 100 hours on it before. I cried like a baby.

I can't say I ever have.

Luckily I haven't either. I keep everything backed up twice.

I had 300G of photos, music, videos and documents deleted when I dropped my portable harddrive, turning my laptop into the backup. Two days later, my friend burrowed my laptop and accidentally dropped it, losing everything on there. So in the end I got left with nothing and a combined ~800 gigs deleted.

I now double backup everything.

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Originally Posted by kckc 

I had 300G of photos, music, videos and documents deleted when I dropped my portable harddrive, turning my laptop into the backup. Two days later, my friend burrowed my laptop and accidentally dropped it, losing everything on there. So in the end I got left with nothing and a combined ~800 gigs deleted.

 

I now double backup everything.

Only 50 GB for me, but a lot of documents in the lot. Very painful

Glass of tea, meet Laptop.

That aside, I also had to buy a new laptop.

Couple hundred photos from my trip to Japan.  I was reformatting my HDD and these were the only pictures in the "My Pictures" folder.  I forgot about them.

There were my very first photos too (not counting the **** I took as a kid).

There's a difference between what I've accidentally deleted and what MS-Word deleted for me in a crash.  I've been pretty lucky on my own.  Word has taken out several pages of legal pleadings that had to be retyped, a few times it took an extra 4-5 hours.

I had some really weird thing where I lost permission to all the video, music, and .doc files on my computer, even when I used the Administrator account to go in and edit the permissions.  It showed that I had access, yet wouldn't let me access them.  So I had to reformat both my internal and external hard drive.

I went to Japan last year for a month or so. On my second to last day in Japan, I accidentally formatted my SD card which contained almost 8gb of photo's taken throughout the entire trip. I was at a social gathering when it happened and had to carry on socializing like nothing had happened when I felt like all my memories of an awesome country had been deleted.

Luckily a quick Google revealed restoring deleted files is actually pretty easy and I managed to get them all back. 

Accidentally destroyed about a terabyte of data a couple years ago. All business files: A dozen years of clients' projects, business records, everything. It was because the fileserver glitched and died - but since I was responsible for making sure the fileserver doesn't do that sort of thing it was my bad.

The subsequent weekend and week were pretty unpleasant but I managed to recover all but a couple dozen files, out of about a half-million. Most of the permanently-lost files were recovered later becauase the bookkeeper is old-fashioned and liked printing duplicates of everything she mailed, so they were all in her filing cabinets.

I don't ever want to deal with something like that again.

I deleted a movie once that took me hours to find seeds. Other then that no big problems.