Friday night we came home from dinner to find that my machine had “kernel panic’ed”. After a restart my machine displayed that ominous folder with the flashing question mark. My hard drive was absolutely dead. Assuming the worst I was devastated thinking I had lost all my pictures and video from my summer trip. They were only on my machine. I had been getting Time Machine error messages I carelessly ignored so I thought I was doomed. I was thrilled to find out from Joe that Time Machine (Apple’s backup utility) completely saved all my data including the photos I had downloaded only hours before my hard drive failed (including this one of Monti). Everyone really should invest the time into setting up Time Machine for their Macs. It will totally be worth it someday for as they say it is not if your hard drive will fail it is when.