> and you should always have a plan for what happens if they do. This is what I meant. Not that you expect your laptop to fail (or be stolen), but any importa

> and you should always have a plan for what happens if they do. This is what I meant. Not that you expect your laptop to fail (or be stolen), but any important work should exist in a recoverable way. OP claims to have lost a lot of data when this happened to them. That should approximately never happen, at least not more than the day's worth when you were off network.