I lost my photos when I upgraded to ios5 on my iphone 3gs

Hi I have lost all but the photos from the camera roll album when I upgraded my iPhone 3gs. I had also lost my music but have sorted that out. The photos tho are what are important as some are my wedding photos and of our puppy when we first got him etc. I have read about doing a restore but that wants you to wipe everything and that worries me. I can't find my photos anywhere. I freely admit that I haven't done a sync in ages with my itunes so thought to do it today and now it's all lost....please help. I'm not very computer savvy. All my apps and contacts are there the photos are all that are now missing. Yes I admit I'm an idiot for not making sure the photos had been backed up. I thought that happened automatically when you synced the iphone which I did do a few months ago. Please help a woman in her mid 40's fighting depression and now the loss of her photos...beware family...lol....it's either laugh or cry. Thanking you in advance for your help...Cheryl

I was able to get photos to show up on the camera roll that look like they are missing. Here's how (taken from another thread.)
1- Download Iphone Explorer (does not need to be a jailbroken device) http://www.macroplant.com/iphoneexplorer/
2.) connect your iphone using the usb cable
3.) launch iphone explorer
4.) backup and then delete the following files:
     /Media/PhotoData/MISC/Info.plist
     /Media/PhotoData/Photos.sqlite (or /PhotoData/Photos.sqlite)
     /Media/PhotoData/PhotosAux.sqlite (or /PhotoData/PhotosAux.sqlite)
5.) reboot your iphone
After you reboot your device, windows will prompt if you wan to open your iphone on windows explorer as usual. After you open it, your photos are going to be there, just like it was before update.
Resource: http://blog.mbentley.net/2010/06/iphone-ios-4-upgrade-restore-lost-pictures-in-c amera-roll/

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Welcome to Apple Discussion forum. When you say pictures, are you referring to pictures that you had in the camera roll? If so, these pictures are designed to be imported to the computer as soon as possible with a supported application such as iPhoto for the Mac or the Windows Scanner and Camera wizard if you are using a Windows computer. You do not indicate what kind of computer and OS you are using, so it is difficult to answer. While pictures taken with the phone are in the iPhone backup that is accomplished with a sync, it is dangerous to rely on that backup for saving pictures.
If you are referring to pictures that you have synced over to the phone from the computer, they should still be on the computer you sync from and all you will have to do is resync them.
Again, if it is the camera roll and you restored from a backup and they are not there, there is no way to recover them now.

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Move the incompatible iPhoto version to the Trash, before you try to reinstall from the AppStore, but don't empty the Trash.
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When you run Photo and it converts your library, it doesn't delete the iPhoto library. Look in your Pictures folder - you should see two libraries:
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If you haven't backup up your phone, then your photos are gone.
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Too many people are screwing up the update by not SLOWLY reading the instruction options when they begin, not Apples fault. Also, so many people are impatient and thinking that when it says "restoring" "backing up" they freak and think they are losing everything and prematurely stop the upgrade, unplug or whatever.
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