The good news is that I found backups of my photos and my MP3 files. It took me two days just to get up the courage to look. When I got the second external drive a few weeks ago (after the first crash; worried my oldish external drive would also fail), I moved copies of all the important stuff to it (and then promptly forgot I'd done that). Subsequently, I only pasted copies of AW or just ran the AW backup utility to that drive. Because I assumed I was safe with the brand-new internal drive, I knew I had not made copies of my images and music folders for at least the last two weeks before the crash, so I assumed everything was gone. I can't express how good it felt to open that drive and see those folders! And since I hadn't added any new pics recently, I lost none of my family photos!!!

I did, however, lose all the auction pics I saved in February. So here's yet another What-Do-I-Do-Now question:

I have about 35 Lots that were imported (I guess) right after the first crash and botched restore. Their descriptions are HTML, with no pictures in the Add Image windows. Previews show the broken-image icons (ditto when they were still online until a couple days ago). I think these were all relists, and I'm pretty sure I still have all the original listings with the working images. Do you agree that the best course of action would be to just delete all the no-image Lots that are in HTML?

Thanks, Sue