I am SO fucked rn!

In a nutshell: I was working on my first ever film. It wasn't big, but tricky. I got so into it, I wrapped in countless people. Including my friend who had an exam a few weeks later. The movie wasn't finished, because some very important scenes were missing, but couldn't be shot now. Time passed an now is finally the time where I could work on the shots.

Well......a week ago, my laptop flatlined. I had backups of basically everything and thought that at least the project was saved in the Adobe Cloud automatically. There are no backups on my SD cards, because I have the stupid habit of "wiping them clean" to not get cluttered.

But no worries, I thought. I send them to my cousin's husband who's a tech guy. He looked my hard drive up and could pull some files. However, when he got to the only important cases, he got error messages. Copying the folders, but without the content. He tried to restart the hard drive. Suddenly it showed no files at all. Now he's letting a special program run over it. It looks what's still saveable. It will take hours and I'll get new news tomorrow. After that, the only thing that is potentially possible is to pay for a really expensive hard drive saving in a lab. But -as my relative said - the chances look pretty bad.

And here's the thing: I -of all people - am not that attached to that movie. It was done hasty -lots of it looks like shit.

However, a lot of other people are waiting on it. They spend time and partially money (bus etc.) to help me. If I tell them that everything is lost, I. AM. DEAD. I'm not going to have friends anymore after this! Mind you; I'm already a screw-up. Not in the way of "stole from them", but enough. I'm not having the benefit of "best friend" or "childhood friend". I was happy I had some people that liked me enough. They won't kill me (though they should tbf), but that will be the last straw.

And obv. besides them are all the other people. Because my fucking ass told half the world about this shit!

TLDR: Made a movie, lost all of it in a hard drive crash, hard drive in limbo -most likely done for, cue back to being a lonely screw-up, instead of social screw-up.

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AcrobaticSource3 t1_iyerouv wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:16 PM

> They won’t kill me (though they should tif)

Hey, calm down. Not the end of the world, and things will get better, I promise. This looks terrible now, but if you can get through this moment, then you’ll know that you have the strength and resourcefulness to overcome any obstacle. I’m rooting for you. So take a breath, clear your head, and then get back out there and try again. By then the actors will have been past their refractory period and you can try to shoot your porno again

Kolbenfresserle OP t1_iyeso60 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:23 PM

This made me chuckle, ngl

MichaelHammor t1_iyek6s4 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 8:29 PM

Calm down. I have had this happen to entire chapters of novels I have written. Guess what happens if the files can't be recovered? You get to reshoot those scenes, fix mistakes, and refine the quality of your work. The second time I wrote those chapters I wrote faster and ended up with a better story than if the originals were never lost.

The story is in you. You don't need the hard drive. Tell people you had an epiphany and are going a different direction with the project.

thankfultom t1_iyeubd6 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:33 PM

I’ve acted in 4 or 5 small flicks for friends. I’ve only seen one of them. Only 2 of them were ever finished.

Kolbenfresserle OP t1_iyekooc wrote on November 30, 2022 at 8:32 PM

No dude. EVERYTHING is gone! Those were special shots in special places! Not your local park! I had to pay roughly 200 bucks for one, for the one I had a friendly teacher vouch for me.

This is not a "guys, I changed my mind for CookieCutters 3 lololol". This is a serious project that I fucked up!

xiam007 t1_iyelgfr wrote on November 30, 2022 at 8:37 PM

wow good luck 😂

Kolbenfresserle OP t1_iyeozae wrote on November 30, 2022 at 8:59 PM

Thanks for the empathy

SnooBunnies7461 t1_iyew50y wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:46 PM

Tech crap happens. If you can't get everything back just use what you can get and go from there. No reason to freak totally out until you know what's going on. Its upsetting but hopefully it'll work out in some way. If you need to have something reshot figure out a free place to use and come clean with your friends. Anyone who doesn't understand that tech problems come up is stupid.

SaxyOmega90125 t1_iyf7owv wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:07 PM

Is Adobe Cloud actually a backup? Because any cloud storage that live updates is not a backup, not when used that way.

Lesson learned here: back up everything yourself. If you want to be as fireproof (literally) as possible, have two separate backup drives and ensure that all three copies are never all in the same building at the same time.