Lost my photos when i upgraded to 4.2 help????

I'm new to this forum so excuse me if I ramble. I plugged my iphone into my mac computer last evening to back it up, update new apps and check for any software updates. When I have done this in the past, I have never had a problem with any lost data. This time with 4.2, I lost my calendar, contacts, itunes, over 60 apps and pictures. I was able to retrieve my contacts and itunes immediately by simply re-syncing them. I was able to reload the apps but had to move them around in their original spots. What a pain!! I lost passwords to apps that I had to either call for or reset. Another pain!! I had to wait until I went to work the next morning to retrieve my calendar by syncing it with my outlook account. But the worst part is my pictures are gone! This is very upsetting to me. I had some special pictures that I can't find anywhere!! Is there anything I can do? I would hope they would be stored somewhere but I can't find them. I wished I had read more about 4.2 before I downloaded it. It seems that there is nothing really special about it for a 3G phone but a great deal of heartache. Does anyone have a solution to my problem????

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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