Topfield 5800: all saved files gone

Topfield 5800.  Has worked well since I got it when they first arrived in
the UK.  No TAPs.  Latest firmware update from www.toppy.org.uk (the one
that does series linking).

Got home from work today and it was 'on', but not recording anything.
Seemed a little strange but I thought I must have left it on by accident,
so I hit the red button on the remote control to turn it off, then went
away and did other things.

Later I came back, turned it on, and looked at the saved recordings for
something I wanted to watch.  Everything's gone.  All saved recordings,
all MP3s, gone, as if I had used the menu item that reformats the hard
disk.  The amount of space it showed as free was correct for an empty
disk.  I turned it off, unplugged it, then turned it back on again and it
acted quite normal: didn't check the hard disk for errors, just turned
straight on again.  Since then I've recorded three programmes and it's
acting perfectly normal.

It was tuned to the channel I watched last thing last night.  The channel
settings were still there.  My schedule of things to record was intact
(and it did record one later when it rolled around).

So either I wiped them in my sleep, or someone broke into my flat, deleted
all the recordings, and left, or the toppy wiped them all itself.  Maybe
it just doesn't like my taste.

I'm annoyed about it, of course, and there were some recordings from
Glastonbury I'm never going to be able to get again, but I have to admit
that I didn't lose anything of earth-shattering importance.  What's most
annoying is that I've had so little trouble with it before that it never
occurred to me to back up copies of my favourite stuff.

Still, anyone else had this happen to them ?  Or heard of someone who did ?

Simon.
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Alan (17.04.2008 18:00)