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You got two options. Both suck.
Call support. Have fun. I'd rather rip out my eyeballs in this scenario because you're not a paying customer. You will get the shit-tier service, will likely be hung up on, and reexplain the situation to 3+ individuals over the course of 4 hours and ultimately get nothing done.
Resubscribe. Finish the job. The odds of your accounts db being wiped are kinda slim. Sucks because you do what you explicitly sought to avoid: pay Microsoft.
I coughed up the $7 for an extra month. it all seems to be there.
Good to hear. Now buy an external HDD or a device of your choice and copy the files there and store it somewhere safe. One backup is no backup.
"Safe" meaning somewhere it won't be destroyed by fire, flood, hurricane, etc. that destroys the primary copy.
Glad to hear. Lesson learned: The panic you felt sucked. It was thankfully $7 to resolve. Next time it might not be.
Back up your stuff 3 times, in at least two places. 🙂
That's great you're data was there. You had to pay the $7 but have benefited from a 2-1-1 backup strategy here.
Congratulations.
I once sat in the queue for MS support for 6 hours before I gave up, and it was for a business related issue.
Fun fact, they stop playing music after 3 hours.