Thank you for sharing your age because I will warn you that this is not the last time you will lose important or special files. My fiance works data management and network admin gigs, doesn't like the fact that I swear by my external hard drive, and tries hard to get me on cloud storage. Find an affordable answer for backing up your data. "The cloud" is a god send for someone your age.
I'm not good at data management so having a physical external solid state drive helps me. It's what I used in college so it's a familiar back up method. I've started uploading important RSN files to Google drive. My fiance likes to point out that private data is safer with companies like Google than on an external.
I'm sorry you lost your data. I've lost music, animations, illustrations... it's soul rending. You are young, hopefully some lost data doesn't have any long term impacts. If you're looking at ongoing education, those files could have been useful for a university portfolio or resume. I'm sorry you've lost data.
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