Hard drive wiped by Apple Genuis

Hi Folks, i need help please.
In a nutshell, thanks to an "Apple Genius's", 10 years of documents, photo's, music and other data have been lost.
My Macbook was taken into an Apple store  for an appointment with a "Genius" as i was getting messages telling me that the "Startup Disk is Full".
I was informed by the "Genius" that they needed to fully wipe my hard drive in order to turn off the Fire Vault and create more storage. It was described as a "standard and easy procedure".
I took in a new external hard drive for them to use to backup the data and expressed to the "genius" that i would like guidance on backing up the data to ensure nothing was lost. He looked at the contents of the hard drive and said there was "Time Machine folder so the content of the computer was backed up". I do not believe he ran another back up or checked the Time Machine back up folders for there contents. He was aware of my lack of in-depth I.T. knowledge but said
everything was "OK".
The "genius" then did something on the computer and told me to leave it for a few hours, press a button and it would be fine.
The Macbook then started up as normal but with no user accounts and none of my previous data.
I tried to then transfer all my previous data from the Time Machine backup on the external hard drive, but was shocked to find nothing was backed up.
Is there anything that can be done?
Thanks

Hi Folks, i need help please.
In a nutshell, thanks to an "Apple Genius's", 10 years of documents, photo's, music and other data have been lost.
My Macbook was taken into an Apple store  for an appointment with a "Genius" as i was getting messages telling me that the "Startup Disk is Full".
I was informed by the "Genius" that they needed to fully wipe my hard drive in order to turn off the Fire Vault and create more storage. It was described as a "standard and easy procedure".
I took in a new external hard drive for them to use to backup the data and expressed to the "genius" that i would like guidance on backing up the data to ensure nothing was lost. He looked at the contents of the hard drive and said there was "Time Machine folder so the content of the computer was backed up". I do not believe he ran another back up or checked the Time Machine back up folders for there contents. He was aware of my lack of in-depth I.T. knowledge but said
everything was "OK".
The "genius" then did something on the computer and told me to leave it for a few hours, press a button and it would be fine.
The Macbook then started up as normal but with no user accounts and none of my previous data.
I tried to then transfer all my previous data from the Time Machine backup on the external hard drive, but was shocked to find nothing was backed up.
Is there anything that can be done?
Thanks

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