Really, sometimes you just want to bash these computers with a sword, don't you? *sigh It's just terrible that you lost your file like that, but yes, lesson learned is always back up the file. One fairly quick although somewhat temporary back up is to simply email the file to yourself. I've done that before when thunderstorms were looming and I hadn't backed up everything for a while and didn't have time to do it while the lightning was crashing around me. But I do think the best bet is one of the online backup services ... I use Carbonite, and I noticed this morning that it had backed up everything in my LOTR fic folder and had one pending to be "back up in 107 minutes" and sure enough, later when I checked, that file was backed up. I don't know how it all works yet (still using the free trial period), but apparently several times a day the little program for it that runs in the background will scan all the files and back up any that have been updated. I really do think it will be worth the money, because I'm terrible about not running regular backups.