ok, i can't quit laughing this.....we left the shop door open the other day and had one run out and get hit in traffic.
lost, crash, dead, does not work any more, power button failure
maybe with your color burst shine box this is not the case
we were set up as a master & slave system, the media patches were backed up so the slave became the master in about 10 minutes time.
Sounds like the computer went belly up. We have had data lost as well on caldera...but its backed up in 2 locations as well. The biggest issue if the server on the network freezes and we have a tab with multiple images in there, we typically loose them. Thats been the worst of it for us.