Oh, Gillian, I'm very sorry that this happened :( . It is very sad to lose your entire portfolio because of the unprofessionalism of other people. They had no right to do so. I understand exactly how you feel right now. I have no idea what I could do in Your situation. It's awful! These photos are a huge job. Sometimes we get them with great difficulty. I try to copy my base on a regular flash drive. But I still hope that you will be able to return at least part of them. Is it possible that they are still somewhere on third-party sources?
Yes @madlenfox. I think I'll be able to find most of them on flash drives in in my Google Drive.
I think the ones I had taken of my art are lost though.
It's all the time I spent organising and editing them that I was most upset about. But after moaning in some comments, and writing this post I started to accept it and move on. I'll just have to start the downloading, editing and sort again.
I'll try and do a bit each day and I've already started so that's good.
Thanks for your support. It makes a difference. 😊
You have decided to do this work again and I wish you patience. In any case-do not despair.
Thank you @madlenfox. 💙