I just bought a gaming laptop lately, upgraded it with an extra SSD, and transferred all my old files and data to the new machine. Then, during an overseas trip, for some reason I got totally no clue, I put it in my checked luggage. You can probably guess what happened next—rough baggage handling completely destroyed it.
After a long argument with the airline, they did reimburse me for the laptop, but a lot of my data was lost. Sure, all the important files were backed up, but I had so many photos and videos that weren’t exactly ""important"" but still really precious to me. Since I never had the habit of backing those up, I ended up losing more than half of them.
Super frustrating.
Have you guys ever had a similar experience? How did you deal with it afterward?