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TIFU by deleting 20 years worth of family photos.

I decided to do a factory reset on my PC today after having put it off for a while. Ever since I upgraded it, I felt I wasn't getting everything it could offer and that a factory reset was in order. Over the years, I had accumulated all of our family photos and videos in a folder on this PC. All said, it was roughly 1,000 photos from as early as I was 5 years old. I had backed up the photos in case of an event, twice. Once on my phone and another on a flash drive. Problem is my phone was running out of space so I decided to delete the photos to make space thinking I had two more instances on my PC and flash drive. About a month or so ago I erased the backup on the flash drive as well to make space for a Linux installer as I wanted to mess around with old laptops I had lying around. But I had completely forgotten to add the photos back to the flash drive when I was done. Fast foward to today, I impulsively decided to go forward with the factory reset on my PC. Before doing so, I backed up passwords and the like to a second SSD, and I was sure I had backed up the photos as well. I copied over the photos a second time, but then thought that I had copied the folder within another folder, and backed them up a second time unnecessarily, so I deleted it from the backup folder on the backup SSD. I don't know why, it's not like the SSD was small, and I didn't think that about the fact that I had no other backups. Needless to say, I went forward with the factory reset, and only after I realized that I had deleted the only backups I had off of the backup SSD before the reset. I have spent hours pouring over old phones, cloud storages, and drives desperately trying to find at least some photos but to no avail as I have reformatted/wiped most of them already with the intention of selling or scrapping them eventually. I am frustrated to the point of tears at my own stupidity. I can't even eat. The ones that hurt the most are photos of my late best friend.

tl:dr - Due to my arrogance and impulsiveness, I accidentally deleted the only copies of family photos I had for over the past 20 years.

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