Whelp.

Long and short, I've lost a number of my project files from my art program - specifically my personal doodles and works.

How? I use the app Procreate to do my drawings on an iPad Air (3rd gen), and fat-fingered my personal drawings folder when selecting a number of spare canvases to delete. Procreate notably does NOT have a way to recover files deleted in this way. Complicating things further, I don't use iCloud and hadn't backed up my files on my iPad in a very long time.

I've tried a couple of options for file recovery, however they are 1) Extra costs and fees I am unwilling to pay. 2) By and large disingenuous and shady about whether or not they are premium, and use 'gotcha' marketing that I am not endorsing. 3) Don't seem to be capable of recovering the actual project files in whichever format Procreate natively saves said files.

I'm not impressed with myself on something like this, but it's also not the end of the world. By and large, those projects were the unfinished sketches and WIPs of my previous journal, and some of the files for my completed works on my gallery here (specifically my non-commissioned work).

It's not the end of the world, however. I have WIPs and privately sent sketches I can work back from, and likely will be adjusting my practices to avoid further screw-ups.

TL;DR: I have fat fingers and unintentionally deleted all of my personal sketches into oblivion, likely with no reasonable means of recovery. Oops.