Cripes that's a lot of work just gone.
Of course Photobucket has already destroyed thousands of threads across all wargaming forums dating back ten years or more as well...
I doubt that's much of a consolation though.
Remember kids - proper backup procedures are a minimum of three backups, with each on physically different drives, ant at least one being completely physically separate and in a different real-world location. A lesson too many learn the hard way.