[Dyvim]

I trashed a 250 GB external USB hard drive (by straightening the wheeled file cabinet it sat upon; the power cord or USB cable in back pulled taut and dropped the drive to the floor- curse my anal retentive impulse to straighten my file cabinet so that it was perfectly aligned with my desk). And all this was just hours before a 500 GB network drive was due to be delivered that I was going to immediately use to backup the contents of my (full) 250 GB drive.

I lost a huge collection of lossless music files I'd ripped and painstakingly adjusted the ID3 tags just the way I wanted them AND found or scanned in 480x480 artwork for, plus photos and video. Fortunately I was able to recover all the video from my video camera's HDD (never emptied and not yet filled) and most of the photos between the latest DVD backup and the camera's 4 GB CF card. And the music, well I still have the CD's, but even though this happened over a year ago I still haven't finished re-ripping my entire music collection in lossless (this time with 600x600 album art- now I wish I'd done 800x800).