I lost all my photography - HELP

I recently had my external hard drive with ALL my photographs stolen. I can still "see" all the images in my Adobe Photoshop Elements (6.0) browser and am wondering if there is some way to, at minimum, have access to those thumbnails if not restore the images from them? I'm absolutely devastated by this loss - years of work - and would appreciate any help. Oh aside from having another source of backup. I was in the process of doing just that when the external drive was stolen. Thanks.

No, there's no way to recover the images from the thumbnails. The best you can do is to view a thumbnail at its largest size and do a screen capture.
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I spoke with Apple today and they seem to think I didn't do a backup before updating to IOS7. Normally my itunes automatically does a sync and a back up when I connect the phone and I will get a warning message to prompt me if not. I've searched for the photo's in my Pictures folder on my lap top but they are not there. I don't use icloud [don't quite understand it but I'm getting there!] and the Apple advisor checked my Apple account and couldn't find any of the photos there. I've even tried to download a program to scan my phone for lost items but there's still no photos showing up.
Have I lost these photos for good or is there any way of getting them back?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
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Just to add to my enquiry above...
I have downloaded a couple of these programmes which say they can help scan for missing photos. One of the programs scanned my itunes and found photos from a back up this August. I could see quite a few photos on there [the ones that I'm missing] but these programs only let you down load 2 files [photos] unless you register with them i.e I will have to pay.
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I had the same problem while updating my wife's 3GS and after panicking for a few mins I googled it and it seems that a lot of people ran into the same issue.
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http://www.seangw.com/wordpress/2011/10/ios-5-upgrade-lost-my-contacts/
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**********DON'T DO IT***********
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This fix submitted by Chris (thanks!) in the comments, and seems to work for a few people:
Plug iPhone into Computer
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I hope you have a backup of your hard drive. <br />
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

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http://thecontent.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/itunes-lets-people-re-download-all-yo ur-music-once/
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I lost all my photography - HELP

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