> How does that happen Basically all my files from 2011 and older are lost. My files from 2008-2011 were on a laptop which my parents threw away when it was br

> How does that happen Basically all my files from 2011 and older are lost. My files from 2008-2011 were on a laptop which my parents threw away when it was broken, my files from 2003-2008 were on 3 computers which were also thrown away by my parents. There was no ubiquitous cloud storage back then so most is gone, for basically no real reason.