You get one get out of jail free card. Mine was used up when I thought I’d lost two of the most important scripts in recent memory. I looked through all my emails, every SD card I could find (mostly RPi drives now), a bunch of laptops… nothing. I was beginning to get the panic sweats.
Luckily I hadn’t actually checked my main work machine.
There they were. They’re now backed up to BitBucket and my NAS whilst they get tied to a larger repository of moving parts to become something greater.
Remember kids, if it ain’t backed up it ain’t safe.