Gifs, especially anime and cartoon gifs were an important part of my childhood. Everyday, for 2 years I used to spend countless number of hours hoarding pictures and gifs of animes and cartoons from different sites on the interwebs and save them in directories where each of the directory was dedicated to a particular anime and was named accordingly. I used the gallery view in folders on windows to make the experience even better (for myself) to look back on the beautiful collection of pictures and gifs I had wasted countless number of hours collecting.

Sadly, one day my dad called a computer technician to fix the PC cuz it was too slow. The technician backed up everything but the Documents/Pictures folder which had my precious collection. The folder amounted to atleast a few GBs. But alas, it was summertime and I was skating in the streets of Pune during which the surprise PC fixing took place. When I came back, freshened up and turned on the desktop, i was greeted by a new installation of Windows Vista and an empty Pictures folder in my documents.

Keep multiple copies of your precious data kids, thank me later.