The owner of Riversong Guitars in downtown Kamloops is in a pinch after someone broke in and stole a company laptop with crucial data, early this morning.

Mike Miltimore says the company will be at one of the world’s largest trade shows in Anaheim, California in just over two weeks and is now missing crucial data for it.

“That’s the main computer that we use, with our graphics designer and web designer, to design all of our catalogs. We take all of our pictures, put them into that computer. It’s got about five years worth of work on it, with all of our models and all of the raw images and raw files,” Miltimore tells NL News.

The theft happened at about 5:30 this morning at the store on Lansdowne Street.

“I don’t know if any guitars were actually taken. They walked right past the $22,000-dollar guitars, $8,000-dollar guitars. But I don’t think any of those were taken. The laptop, it’s a 2015 13-inch Macbook Pro. I can’t imagine it being worth at retail any more than $300, $400 dollars… But the data, and the work that was put into it, puts us quite far behind.”

Miltimore says all of the data had been backed up as of last week, but he says there has been a lot of work done since then which at this point is lost.

He says he has filed a police report, and asks whoever has his laptop to return it and says he’d take it back with no questions asked, saying that person can call him or stop by his store.