[stormdennis]

Not on this scale but it has happened to me on a few occasions that I've lost several hours work for some reason (including no autosaves).

After the initial despair I know from experience I need to quickly try and recreate what I've lost while it's fresh in my mind.

It takes much much less time and I always feel that I've done a cleaner job second time around.

At times like that has occurred that this is the way to do it but I've never been able to bring myself to adopt this as policy.