> I will never be in a situation where I'm desperate to recover what's on a device. ... again. I suspect by far the majority of people who know this, learned

> I will never be in a situation where I'm desperate to recover what's on a device. ... again. I suspect by far the majority of people who know this, learned this the hard way. I know I did. (And even _after_ learning that, I once left a backpack with my laptop at an outdoor table at a cafe. It also have both the USB drive with my primary backup and the iPod with my secondary backup. I was extremely fortunate that a friendly waitress grabbed it and told management it was mine, and I only spent one sleepless night before collecting it after calling up the next morning... In my defence, this was back before "cloud backup" and high bandwidth internet to make that practical was a thing here. )