a sad story (Patreon)

it all began, a few minutes ago.

I wanted to be more productive, so i was going to make the only thing on the iPad home screen be the clip studio icon.

Trying to remember how to move icons, I held down on the clip studio icon. 

After selecting the app, my tired brain assumed the option to "Delete app" meant "Remove Icon" It only took milliseconds to realize my horrible mistake. There was no confirmation, no undo.

Straight up just deleted clip studio. 

"No problem!", i thought, "maybe clip studio backed up all my settings to the account"

Nope. gone. all gone. all the presets, auto-actions, all of your characters' color palettes, brushes - gone.

"that sucks, but no problem!" i thought, "I can just reset all that up" - until I realized that any files that were inside the Clip Studio folder were also gone. all your commission files. all the patreon files - gone.

Nothing shows up in "Recently deleted files"

RIP.

Fortunately, i believe i have everything up to april backed up, but i've lost everything from may till now. So i'll be spending the rest of today seeing if I can recover deleted files from the ipad, and if not then i'll just redoing current commissions.

So pro-tip, learn from my mistake. Do not save any files in an app's designated folder on iOS, save everything in an outside folder in case of accidental deletion. 

Example: 

The default and bad location: Locations > On My Ipad > "Clip Studio" > Files

Better and wiser location: Locations > On My Ipad > "Create-a-New-Folder" > Files

gl & i hope u all are having a better day! peeace