I naively assumed the Lacie drive that ate them WAS that backup... Ha, ha, ha(nervous semi-crazed laughter) Shayne On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 06:26 AM, Allan Hise wrote: >> my Itunes music (approximately 1600 cds worth) onto a Lacie external >> hard drive, >> Fragments with no rhyme or reason. > > With a library that large, surely you have a backup? > The time it took to rip all those CDs is surely more valuable than the > cost of a reliable backup.