Media Management Fails: Your Cringiest Mistakes & Cautionary Tales?

Hey everyone,

I'm Antoine, a camera op usually working with cameras like an ALEXA Mini or a V-RAPTOR XL. I'm putting together some internal guidelines for our team's media management and it got me thinking. When I was first starting out, I definitely made some boneheaded errors, but a lot of that was before I really understood the nuances of checksums and proper folder structures.

Now, trying to simplify things for newer folks, I'm genuinely curious: Looking back, what was your biggest, most cringeworthy mistake related to media management (checksums, folder organization, backups) that a 'Media Management 101' type guide could have saved you from? I'm talking about the kind of screw-up that made your stomach drop. I'm trying to gather some real-world cautionary tales to emphasize just how important this stuff is.

What's your story?