Comment 31 for bug 354264

Chris Dunlop: you don't say if this was a recent problem, but if it was some or all photos may be recoverable from your memory card. photorec (/usr/sbin/photorec, once you install the testdisk package) is a good tool for this.

You're perfectly right that it's a major problem with the package. The triaging as 'low' remains unexplained.