I do not know why Tapatalk had not kept up with image backups. I am now discovering that many pictures are missing. I have spoken to the owner, he has contacted the I.T. involved, and the "Image" Tapatalk gave us is all they have or are willing to give up. This has affected everyone. There is no way I know of to recover the images. If they weren't saved or backed up by the hosting service, they no longer exist. No one saw this coming, and there was no way too. I don't know what else to tell you. The situation sucks, I know, I have been answering many many P.M.'s about this but this is out of my control, and even out of the new forum owner's control. We got screwed. We now host ourselves, on a private server, and back up the image constantly so this should never happen again. We have the the latest software. That is the best we can do. I have informed everyone who needs to know that the pictures are missing, but the answer is the same, there is no way to recover the pictures.
Let's move forward, the threads that exist and are missing pictures can have the pictures put back in the the original posters. Some people have lost their whole threads. The general consensus, and I agree, is that we have to pull ourselves by the bootstraps and keep going forward, fix what we can, and get back to what we were doing.