So I’m on my computer, minding my own business… when I start to notice it is acting funny. So I decided to restart. When it comes back it says it needs to do a system check. I was already getting nervous. So I let it do its thing… and then? Some message comes up saying that it can’t load my personal settings and it’s going to log me in under a temporary profile. What the fuck. I go to My Documents, all my shit is gone. I start to freak out a bit, because I’m thinking, how could I have lost everything? So I check the space available on the main drive, and it’s still the same it was before the restart. Then I realized, the information is there, I just can’t get to it.

I call my big brother over, just because he’s a bit more knowledgeable about tech stuff than I am, and he starts helping me to figure out a solution. He tells me we should just do a system recovery. So we start praying that the system made a back-up recently, so that I wouldn’t lose too much recent activity. PRAISE BABY JEEBUS, there was an update marked for YESTERDAY at 8:00 pm. I was so relieved! I went through the system recovery process with my fingers crossed, sweating bullets, and tada! Everything went back to normal.

As soon as things went back to normal, I went and removed the bulk of my artwork from my main drive, since I have all of it (including newer works I had started yesterday) on my 500gb external drive. After it was all gone, (save for two files that refuse to be deleted), I ended up gaining about 90gb of space. YIKES.

Yes. My night has been quite interesting.

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