📝 Accidently deleted important photos on a relatives computer

By scores2894 • Score: 2 • April 16, 2025 6:21 PM


I was given a cheap gaming pc from a relative. I was very excited before I saw the state of the pc. I booted it up, and took ages to start. Each click wasn't being processed for 5 minutes at a time because the computer was that slow. This pc couldn't run solitaire. I was trying to figure out how to factory reset the pc to help the processing power and saw there were wedding photos on it and I messaged them asking if they needed the photos saved. It was 10 at night, they didn't reply to me for over an hour. It took over 45 minutes to get to the factory reset settings. They hadn't messaged me about it and the person who gave it to me is organized, they aren't dumb, I was thinking there is no way they would have the only copies of their wedding photos on a computer that was almost bricked. My wife was getting upset wanting me to get to bed, and didn't want me to leave the pc on all night, so I went through with resetting it, and set an alarm to wake up and turn it off when it was done. In hindsight it would have been smart to just leave it on and not tell her to make sure it was okay to reset it. Woke up and saw they texted me back to save the photos. I told them what happened the next time i saw them and apologized profusely. The next day I got chewed out for it like it was all my fault. Saying things like my wife cried, you did that and so on. Hurtful things were said. A little bit of context, i grew up being called names and bullied by these relatives. There have been many times where I was treated like trash for no reason at all, like the time when I was a kid, they were going on a trip to see different relatives out of state, and they told me i couldn't go because they were going to drink and party the whole time. I wanted to go but didn't make a fuss about it, just accepted it wasn't going. Months later, The day of them leaving for the trip, my dad called me yelling at me for not being ready for it, I had been at a friend's house for a week straight and was not prepared to leave on a 2 week trip on the drop of a dime. They told me that they were going to tell our whole extended family that I'd rather hang out with friends than see them. Not sure why they did that, only malicious intents. Throughout childhood they would make friends with all the neighbor kids, and talk bad about me to them so they wouldn't want to hang out with me. When our parent couldn't take care of us anymore, we moved in with relatives and one of them told them I was dumb and they started treating me like that too. Always felt hated in the home I lived in because of them. To this day they still name call towards me, and I've gotten to the point where I just avoid them. I don't sink to their petty level and retaliate. I just let them act how they want too. This kinda turned into a rant, but i just want validation that I'm not 100 percent in the wrong. I know i made a mistake but I don't deserve to be treated like sht for making a mistake.

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