Oh, i sympathise when tech goes wrong, just makes you want to go AARRGGHHHHH and throw things. I found a doc saved to the mysterious temp file- the one it sometimes defaults to when you ask to save- the one with the gobbledygook letters. took me forever to get it back out again and saved properly. Like you it was the latest version of a fic. I was not a happy camper! After my latest scares with the pooter i finally my docs folder backed up to external HD and am figuring out how to save emails and Firefox profiles too- they don't make that easy either!