How many times have you accidentally deleted your save data?

How many times have you accidentally deleted your save data?
Is there anyone who hasn't ever done this?

I've accidentally deleted data about 5-6 times, I just did it again about an hour ago.

why don't you just save it on another file.

Often do it by being a dumbass while hacking a console. Last time I did it with the 3DS, before that several times with the Wii. On the upside, I've never bricked anything yet.

A bunch of times but once when FFTA came out I was borrowing it from a friend and accidentally saved over his save and told him when I gave it back to him and he saved over my save I guess as payback. When he actually beat it he gave it to me and I still have it somewhere.

I've had two times where that didn't do jack shit for me, I'll always get fucked one way or another at some point.
>Playing FFIX
>Go to save
>Suddenly all my FFIX data is corrupted and all new saves I make are corrupted

>Figuring out how to manage memory cards in Xebra
>Click "FILE" assuming its used to open cards
>Click one of my memory cards and 'Open' it
>Too tired to realize it said Save
>See nothing happen and try it with other card
>5 seconds later realize just deleted all my shit I was playing
>Find out you open the card by grabbing it and dropping it onto the application.

>When my life is so bankrupt of joy and creativity I have to delete save data to find something to post about

How the fuck do you accidentally delete your data? 5 or 6 times no less?

Shit just happens man, I could make a complete fuck up, be too tired to know what I'm doing when it counts, or just randomly get outright fucked like with FFIX.

Accidents happens, I killed a small child on the street by accident once. (I didn't get caught so it's ok but it still ruined my day)

Not deleted but I've overwritten saves when I didn't intend to many times. It's not even having the prompt, sometimes I just highlight the wrong slot and didn't realize until it's too late.

Just today I managed to fuck up memory card files and lost my save for Persona 3
I wasn't too far into the game considering it's a really long game, but I still put in quite a bit of time to get there

Yeah, I transferred my ps2 save files to my computer and didn't back them up anywhere else. I once wanted to delete a bunch of pesky files using the windows command prompt because I couldn't get rid of them in any other way, and while typing the directory I wanted to delete, I accidentally pressed enter preemptively. The folder I deleted contained those saves. I used a recovery tool, but I only managed to retrieve the individual files within the folder, which made the save files unrecognizable to me. Serves me right for not backing them up.

Accidentally DELETE? Literally never... it prompts you multiple times.

Accidentally overwrite the wrong save slot? Sure, but not often. Again, with the multiple prompts.

so edgy

My little brother deleted my Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories save

Kaiba dropped a Blue Eyes and Pegasus dropped a Meteor B. Dragon, also had 2 Twin-Headed Thunder Dragons.


I wanted to kill the little shit

I have saved my data over my brother's one two times....
It was in SKYRIM !

I once deleted all of my save date on my PSP

>Game doesn't default the save menu slot to which save you loaded from or last saved to

How can NIS be so fucking terrible.

When I said delete I also meant overwriting, since that's just as bad as deleting it.

When I was 4 my older brother deleted my super mario 64 save. I started to cry and my dad asked my brother what happened. My save only had 8 stars and he wanted to copy and paste his save into mine so I can have more access to worlds.
My dad misunderstood the situation a little and had him delete his save file. He spent a long time hunting for stars and was looking for the last few to meet Yoshi.
Investing all that time to look for Yoshi only for it all to go to waste crushed him. Looking back he was glad that happened to him since it burnt out his interest in video games.
Today he's a fit engineering graduate normie with a great well paying job and a loving and pleasant wife.
I'm a 21 year old reclusive virgin slacker whose been struggling with college far too long with a dead end weekend job who leeches off his own parents.
It ain't too bad, I'm hoping to make something of myself even though I'm 3 years late.
Sorry to blog.

Cognitive dissonance.

If a save file is deleted then that means there is nothing. If it is overwritten it just means that an existing segregation of progression is nullified, but the progression still exists.

>Data corruption

Not really a problem in today's age, specially if you're on PC with a decent tier SSD/HDD.

>Human error

Even this is getting harder what with all the prompts, now I do realize this was in Xebra.

>Game doesn't autosave
>Get stuck on difficult part
>Ragequit
>Remember that I didn't save
>mfw

My save files on Steam games have magically disappeared twice in the last year. The first time it happened was The Phantom Pain 90%+ save that had 110 hours played. Still a little bugurt.

It's the price you pay for not being a product bought and sold or having behavior patterns mapped via information supplied on The Cloud (tm).

all saves, even steam cloud ones are stored again on your pc in another folder just in case
steam>userdata>profile id>game id

>playing GTA IV
>DLC share save files with main game
>save TLAD after the first mission over my GTA IV save that was halfway through the game

I lost my PS2 memory card

Which had save data where I accomplished every one of those awful minigames except for Butterfly Catching

Doesn't that folder only exist if you have cloud turned on? Seems like my oldest subfolder there is from late Christmas and the last time my saves disappeared was late November. I'm also fairly sure I turned on Cloud shortly after that.

>Are you sure you want to save to this file?
Yes / No
>File not saved

I didnt realize this was that hard, but then again its Sup Forums

I lost a few Dark Souls 3 characters because it lacks Steam Cloud and I didn't think to back them up before upgrading my PC/doing a reinstall.

>spelunky classic
>dicking around in the records room because i'm fucking bored
>push the block down the long pathway until it's a few pixels away from the 'wipe progress' button
>shit begins shaking and screen flashes a bright white
>realize my dumbassery wiped my prized 5-ish minutes record and my shitty scores

I remember buying a second hand PS2 with no memory card just to be able to play Kingdom Hearts 2. I played all damn night long, it was so fucking fun, I then left the PS2 on over night.

The next day I had asked my mum to bring a memory card home after she finished work so I could save all of my progress. I continued to play all day whilst being super nervous that something might cause the console to turn off.

It was almost an hour until my mum would be home. My chair had wheels and my PS2 was on the floor, I rolled my chair forward and the fucking wheel of the chair rolled into the power button and turned the PS2 off.

I've been too sad to play Kingdom Hearts ever since.

>Implying every game asks this
>Implying people carefully read this text all one million times they've seen it and carefully pick their option instead of just hitting yes as usual

I deleted a darksouls character with over 1500 hours on it, it was an SL 1 run I used to invade the parish, loved those sweet and salty hate mails.
Drinking a gaming more dangerous than drinking and driving.

>"saving do not turn off your computer.."
>curious to see what happen if I try to kill the game through task manager
>it won't exit until the save process is completed otherwise the task manager pops "game.exe is not responding" dialog
how?

As a kid I remember formatting my PS1 memory card by accident because I didn't know what formatting meant. The first Rayman game asked to do it since it couldn't save otherwise for whatever reason.

Haven't had any major fuckups on that front as an adult though.

More times than I've cared for.

>not quite the same thing but accidentally saved over my Dante save file in DMC3:SE with a Vergil file but I'm pretty sure everyone's done this at least once
>Lost like all of my RE5: Gold Edition data somehow, including all of my Mercs Reunion data, along with a bunch of other stuff I had on a 360 harddrive, including my MGR data and my NG2 Mission Mode stuff

>"saving do not turn off your computer.."
I've never even heard of anything saying this, it seems so weird to me, though I guess its a regular thing for PC games.

>F5 = Quicksave
>F6 = Quickload

Come at me!

When I was 7 i deleated my ratchet and clank save whichI had rhino on
I cried

I lost my 350 hours DaS2 save and 140 DaS3 save because i didn't know that the savefiles are located on my C drive instead of my E drive.
Fuck steam for not having cloud saving for DaS.

Somehow my thumb drive in my Wii U got loose so one day when I started up hyrule warriors my save was gone.

I tried to put back in the drive but the new file just overwrote my old one since the system save is superior. I haven't had the heart to play the game since.

It takes way too fucking long to farm for that thing.

I constantly hear of people saving their Vergil files over Dante in DMC3.

Never done this because I'm not an ADHD retard.