"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if 2.8 million voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
What a long, stupid trip it's been. Data Rescue 4 saved my bacon in a big, big way. I thought I had lost 20,000 songs. In the end, I lost only 215. I can live with that!
The great Alex Lindsay once said of data backups that "if it doesn't exist in three places, it doesn't exist". I have embraced those words, becoming very diligent about my backups. Last night, however, all of that went out the window, as I hit the trifecta of utter blinkard stupidity.