Windows and I are such idiots. I moved some nice pictures from my camera phone to my HDD and deleted the originals, only to find out later that I didn’t copy the files…I made shortcuts. My pictures…gone…
This happened because I dragged the files from one window to the other while holding Shift, thinking that this makes Windows move them. It doesn’t. It makes shortcut. The key you want to hold for moving is Alt. Normally, I should’ve been able to notice the difference because of the little arrow Windows displays over all shortcuts. I didn’t…because I had disabled that arrow earlier.
Fortunately they’re nearly all pictures I can take again. Oh, and I managed to save thumbnails of about half of them (which Windows caches, so it still had them).