don't work solely off a flash drive without periodically backing up to your HDD. :'(

i just lost ALL my AI icon files, all my theme files, everything pertaining to my theme in progress is gone.

i don't suppose there's a way to extract the icons from my theme file which i thankfully managed to save to my desktop while plazmic was still open is there? thats all i have left now is the .THM file. at the very least, then i could trace them as vectors again

I'm sorry.

i feel your pain. I lost about 100 themes and the the graphic backups when a hard drive failed....

I have an external drive that I back everything up to every time I modify a theme file, also have a networked drive that backs up all theme files as well, not to mention making weekly backups of my website and structure. Doing this has saved my butt many times.