Losing 2,000 plus pics from photos.

harlow178 wrote:

Somewhere over the past several weeks. Started by noticing my total photos had shrunk be appox. 2,000. I then found several of my most populous albums had been stripped of most of their pics. No idea where they went, (perhaps in update to 18.6), don't know. No way did I, through normal procedures, do this to myself. Anyway, after several discussions with apple care, they could not find the pics. Using old backups from ICloud would be a problem. Must wipe my iPad clean, restore, losing all intervening updates to all files. Missing 1 leg (updates) of a 3 legged stool. I did backup all photos to a thumb drive. Over time I intend to load back to my iPad. Any ideas? Thanks harlow178

Not much we users can do for you if you went to the Apple store and they couldn't find it for you.

IF they said to restore from your backup then that is your only option.

harlow178 wrote:

Thanks, but my choice is to grieve the loss of 2,000 pics instead of giving up who knows how many updates. Thanks, harlow178

What updates?