My sympathies as well,having suffered from a hard drive crash at work, I'm in no position to chide others for not doing back-ups, I certainly do now. My personal repertoire has taken years to recover from the loss of a little notebook I jotted down songs from friends when I was teen & twenty, but in my case that's probably as well. Being on the Mudcat has enabled me to recapture many of them, but now I'm old and wise enough to know I should only sing in private, with very tolerant friends, or with people I'll never expect to meet again!
I hope Mick gets his hard drive back with recoverable data on it.
RtS