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> but the 127 pages of a product manual I had been writing the last week were gone without backup.

This hurts just reading it. How'd it go in the end?

> I came across the drive again while fetching some peas from the freezer a few weeks later. Gave it another try, and lo and behold, it worked!

By then the deadline could’ve flown by.

Rewrote the manual from scratch I'm afraid. Second time went faster ofc. Still, a lott of needless double work.