Yep. I've run a recovery tool overnight and am now trying to find the photos and see what can be restored. Haven't managed to do any so far.
I'm pretty sure most of the photos I can about are backed on somewhere @ocrdu. They'll be on a hard disc or, my old computer, or in the cloud.
The loss is the time I've spent these last six months organising and editing them. That was all done on my computer. So it's looking like I'm going to have to start that process from scratch. right now I don't think I can face it. it was a massive amount of work. 😢