(Brief panic attack as I fear that 30 days of work on my book were lost to the h

(Brief panic attack as I fear that 30 days of work on my book were lost to the hard disk crash. Not all, but about maybe, three weeks of research notes. Why? the save directory and backup directory were outside of Dropbox for some reason, and while travelling I didn’t have time machine available. Not sure how I moved it or how it ‘got moved’, but I lost quite a bit of work there. And it’s my fault for not looking carefully at where the docs were saving. Great hardware and software can’t compensate for human error. )