click.
hope.
fail.
groan.

repeat.

i'm getting a rough directory structure, but almost all the actual data is garbled. that's useful in triggering my memory in reconstructing things, at least.

i've decided on the following plan:

1) finish trying to recover as much as i can.
2) back up everything else i might want to back up.
3) while i'm waiting to see if i can recover, upload some things that are already complete. that is, jump ahead.
4) make further decisions based on what i can recover.

so, there should be some new (old) tracks up in the next few days, after all.