I have no suggestion for you, just an outside perspective: 1. I'm incredibly sorry that this has happened to you. 2. Taking a step back from what happened, I

I have no suggestion for you, just an outside perspective: 1. I'm incredibly sorry that this has happened to you. 2. Taking a step back from what happened, I think that there's a relatively cheap lesson for you to be learned here. Businesses are literally dying every day at the hand of platforms too big to give a fuck. You've been relatively lucky to experience this early in your career. Imagine this had happened to you ten years from now, with a living to be made and (more) mouths to feed. Regardless of whether you're going to get your data back: you're young, you have your whole career still ahead of you. Platforms are only going to enshittify more, not less. Next time, you're going to have physical backups at multiple locations. You're also going to diversify platforms. Those are important and incredibly helpful habits, and I'm sure you're going to take this incident as an opportunity to pick up those habits. Lots of people have paid much higher prices than you did to learn that life lesson. Apologies for not being of much help to you and for possibly coming across as unempathetic. I hope you find a way to get your stuff back!