Forgotten but not gone

My not-so-trusty pink laptop (only pink because they didn't have any blue ones left, I hasten to add) malfunctioned once too often last week, switching off without warning and causing me to lose any work I hadn't got round to saving, so it had to go. Whether the insurance coughs up for the replacement, I have yet to find out. Somehow I doubt it, even though it's covered for damage and there's a great chunk missing from the side, exposing the motherboard. Insurance companies have a way of wriggling out of having to cough up. Anyway, since they insisted on taking the faulty one away to assess it for themselves for an unspecified length of time, I had no choice but to buy a new one in the interim because for me, no laptop means no work. I had backed everything up onto a portable hard drive, and naively imagined it would just be a case of saving the back-up file from that on my new laptop and everything would be there as it had been on the treacherous pink one. Wrong!! I discovered that all my files, whether they contained documents, music or photos, were saved in chunks in about 260 separate folders, each containing bits and pieces of various files in a seemingly random fashion. So I spent the best part of the weekend transferring the files over, taking the opportunity to delete those that I was certain I wouldn't ever need again, and trying to piece together the jigsaw of bits and pieces of files stored in those various chunks. Tedious and mind-numbing it may have been, but in the process I came across an MP3 - in one of the 'Mandy's Music' folder fragments, so I knew it must be mine - with a title that I absolutely didn't recognise. When I played it, it came back to me - it was a song I'd written maybe 18 months ago, and fortunately recorded a rough demo version of in my living room. I think that was in a rather creative period, when I was writing one song after another, which, while uplifting, clearly has its downside, as it's impossible to keep them all in the air at the same time, and the older ones tend to fall by the wayside. However, I'm delighted to say that I've breathed new life into that particular song, and in fact have come up with a completely new melody for it using a tuning that a dear friend recently introduced me to - double dropped D - gorgeous! :)
So, all this is by way of saying that good things sometimes come of bad. That is, if my old laptop hadn't given up the ghost, I wouldn't have had to go through all my files so painstakingly, and I might never have re-discovered that particular song. Now I'm wondering what else might be lurking forgotten in the recesses of that Mandy's Music folder...