This, unfortunately, is NOT an exaggeration :/ My Mac's HD crashed, but luckily, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, I was able to back up pretty much all my files before it failed completely. Except the programs... had to redownload/reinstall all of those... pain in the butt. I should've learned the first time to back up my whole computer regularly (not just the art files), when my external HD failed. Having bad luck with technology this year. Thinking about uploading everything to "the cloud" but I'll need to research it more... kind of freaks me out that all my art files would be floating around in space :/ But seems better than another external HD in case of theft, fire, other disaster. Let's hope that none of those are in my future...