I found I was printing out patterns for everything I thought was pretty until I realized that I was destroying entire forests for things I would probably never get to do. However, I wanted to save them, just in case so I was just saving to my computer. About a year and a half ago my hard drive crashed. I now back up everything on the computer regularly. The patterns I might find again, but I couldn't replace the photos. However you do it, back up, back up, back up.