Originally Posted by
Often1
AA has no way of helping you. If you left the item at the checkpoint, it's TSA or nobody (in other words somebody walked off with it). I've managed to do this twice and in both cases had my item physically back within 5 days (and a hefty Fedex invoice).
Yeah, I figured as much. At this point, if I only got the data back, I would be extremely thrilled. I had at least a few 100 hours of work I did not back up on the laptop. In the future, I'll use cloud storage or a private version control repository such as git.
On a side note however, according to some software I have on the device, the computer hasn't been on since I lost it-- at least not connected to a network.