Too bad.
I keep my pictures on a separate HDD. (but I have no back-up, if that drive fails it's bye-bye 40k pictures :D) Having so many pictures has teached me one thing - my pictures aren't that special. It's a good feeling to have them but ultimately they are all useless. The most I'll do is maybe watch them once a year. The best pictures I've already uploaded to the web and other places...
I once deleted a bunch of pictures too. I managed to recover about 50% of my images. These were images from my army service. It definitely sucks when it happens.
Sorry for my rambling.
All the best!
I'm not sure they are ultimately useless @sulev. They are my bread and butter here.
I was sorting them and editing them into folders for my Steemit posts in such a way I knew which ones I'd used and which ones I hadn't.
For example, I have a photograph in mind for a post I want to do today but I have no idea where it is in my backups.
I could have gone straight to it in my file system. 😢
The reason I started putting them in specific folders was because I was spending inordinate amounts of time trying to find them.
I feel I just can't face going back to the beginning but, if I don't , I'm sure there will come a point where the frustration of trying to find them will outweigh the frustration of having to start again. 😊