Delay in January update(s) (Patreon)

First of all, I wish you all the best for 2024! Friendship, fun, health, love, peace... and happy simming of course!

My Simming year starts pretty bad. I was about to re-open my work-in-progress folder, where I had two sets under work that I had left the time of the Advent Calendar... and, horror, I simply can't find these WIP anymore... I usually make back-ups but I haven't for a while because my back-up drive was making too weird noises and was hard to boot, I wanted to get a new one.
I don't know what happened with these two sets, I must have deleted them while deleting working files about the Advent calendar. Right now, I feel a bit (a lot, to say the truth, one of the sets was almost finished!) discoraged and I don't even know if I'm going to start on these again from scratch or starting on something new (it won't make much difference for you, but it means I'll be late at uploading January updates (but there will be in January!)