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Oh man, that's rough. I can think of at least 5 places where I have my Photoshop settings backed up just for this exact catastrophe. I've been slowly adding, pruning and customizing for over a decade now, so I can understand how devastating that would be. One that's the most useful is probably in the cloud so on a Dropbox or Google Drive. That way I can always download them too if I'm on a random computer.
The program crashed, which hasn't happened, ever. Not like that anyway, with the included blue screen of death. Normally the autosave feature took care of these things. I had that set to save current projects every few minutes, along with everything else. I had a few crash to desktop episodes and every time, all of my stuff was still there. This crash corrupted every save. Had to reinstall, start from scratch with a fresh copy. All of my work is backed up elsewhere, soon the settings will be as well. What a headache.
I have had this happen so many times over the years. We use something called 'crashplan' that remotely backs up our network drive pretty much continuously. That way if files get corrupted or overwritten, I can go to the cloud and look through various save revisions based on the date.
I’ve been saved by similar software. I was once working on a client job and I used a script that I’d bought online to automate some repetitive tasks and it over wrote my main working file that had dozens of hours of changes in it and a deadline was looming. I was freaking out until I realized it had all been backed up automatically.
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Oh yeah it is really useful. About once a week my wife accidentally overwrites some critical file it seems. She works for all of the major toy companies so it's critical to be able to recover this stuff. Crashplan has saved our asses over and over again.