That is heartbreaking! I was just thinking about something like this today. I have many thousands of digital photo files from the many places I have been to. I've put them on external hard drives, but I thought what it would be like to lose them or have them go corrupted. One of my retirement "jobs" will be to go through the archives, work on and print the best and give them away to hospitals or hospices or orphanages for the walls. Those would be things I could never get back and it scared me, so I can imagine how bad you must be feeling. I really hope you can get most of it back, or even get some expert help on retrieving your backup.
That is heartbreaking! I was just thinking about something like this today. I have many thousands of digital photo files from the many places I have been to. I've put them on external hard drives, but I thought what it would be like to lose them or have them go corrupted. One of my retirement "jobs" will be to go through the archives, work on and print the best and give them away to hospitals or hospices or orphanages for the walls. Those would be things I could never get back and it scared me, so I can imagine how bad you must be feeling. I really hope you can get most of it back, or even get some expert help on retrieving your backup.