Images and videos corrupted during Image Capture import.

Hi there.
I built up a collection of 600 images on my iPhone over the last few years and filled it up. I used Image Capture to move them to my Mac Pro, and allowed the software to delete them off the phone as it went.
I now have plenty of free space on the phone and 600 images on the Mac.
BUT
The images are corrupted / truncated. I don't have any other copies and it would be awful to lose the whole lot. They each have bands of distorted colour or sections where it looks low-res or black & white. The videos are the same, lots of blocky static and jerky playback.
Other people have said on this forum you need to make sure the phone is connected to a USB socket on the back of the computer (I used the one on the back of the monitor) - so I will do that in future but is there anything I can do to rescue these files?
Thanks,
KaiBosh

Hi Ingo,
Thanks very much for your advice.
I do use Time Machine so it's likely the majority of these pics have been backed up in iTunes on my laptop and the backup files have been backed up by TM. This is reassuring to know.
Looking in the MobileSync/Backup folder on the laptop, however, I find five folders with seemingly random names, each containing a list of files with random names. I do not have 'encrypt backup' activated in iTunes. Oddly, the newest of these folders is six months old, even though I have backed up the phone in the last few days.
How can I retrieve my photos from these files? If I Restore my iPhone, won't I lose what I've added in the last six months?
Any suggestion VERY gratefully received.
Thanks again,
KaiBosh.

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