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Pro tip: The 'recently deleted' folder is not a backup plan, learned that the hard way
So I spent a whole Saturday clearing out my camera roll, deleted about 2,300 photos and videos feeling all smug about it. Then I found out my phone only keeps stuff in 'recently deleted' for 30 days, and I had deleted some clips from my cousin's wedding back in March thinking I could grab them later. It took me 4 hours of digging through Google Photos cloud backups and asking my mom if she had copies, and I only recovered like 12 of the 40 I wanted. Is it just me, or does anyone else treat that folder like a permanent safety net and then panic when it actually empties out? How long do you all wait before you consider something truly gone for good?
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troy99623d ago
Man, that's exactly what got me too. Used to just assume anything I deleted would sit there forever, like some kind of digital attic I could raid whenever I felt like it. Then one day I went looking for this video of my dog being a puppy and poof, gone, 31 days had passed and I didn't even notice. Now I treat that folder like a countdown timer, if I haven't saved it somewhere else within two weeks, it's basically already dead to me.
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