I'm glad to hear that you could recover your files

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Now it's time to take some steps to prevent this kind of disasters in the future:
frequent backups . If you have a CD-R/RW and you have installed a packet writting program (InCD, DirectCD, DLA...) there are free programs to do selective backups to CD-RW. Once you have set the initial options you can do a backup in no time with a couple of clicks

. I will start a thread about this and see what can we get

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