User had, in their unmistakable wisdom, created a USB drive full of shortcuts to multi-gigabyte files, and then deleted every copy of the source data. She stubbornly told me that they worked (she’d tested before deleting the originals), and that I was just trying to scam them into buying more HDDs.
Guess who needed to use their now non-existent backups the following week.
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