Adobe Lightroom iOS update permanently deleted users' photos:
A recent update to the Adobe Lightroom app permanently deleted some iOS users' photos and presets, an Adobe rep confirmed on the Photoshop feedback forums. Adobe has since corrected the issue, which was first spotted by PetaPixel, but not before drawing the ire of many disappointed users.
[...] Needless to say, users who had just lost photos and presets were not happy. "Rikk, we understand the announcement, however this doesn't solve the problem," wrote Ewelina Wojtyczka. "People lost months/years of their work. Apologies will not bring it back."
Adobe hasn't further commented on the bug outside Flohr's post. [...] While Adobe shouldn't be let off the hook for this error, perhaps the importance of multiple backups is the hard lesson we can learn from this.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Booga1 on Friday August 21 2020, @08:59PM
Even when you lose something that isn't "valuable," it still hurts.
As a photographer that's taken tens of thousands of pictures, I agree that the vast majority of pictures just aren't "valuable" in the broadest sense of the word. However, there's no way to determine what's valuable to someone.
People have irreplaceable and sentimental moments represented by some of those photos, and nobody can tell them they're not "valuable."
Sure, backups are easier than they've ever been, but I would still be outraged if a software update deleted anything at all.