No back-up is no crack-up

My cantankerous PC crashed while I was body-surfing the Net. When I reset and reopened Opera, the freakin' bookmarks were missing. After locating the relevant file (opera6.adr), I verified it had indeed been wiped. The automatic back-up was equally useless. I'm now undergoing the arduous process of cataloguing my fave sites from scratch. Lesson learnt, I'm also keeping a copy of the bookmarks in a separate directory.