I've shot a little over a thousand pictures since getting an XT5 nearly a month ago. Except for one memory card transfer, I hadn't moved any of these pictures to a hard drive.
Last night I was at a party and let a friend play around with the camera, taking some pictures. She's a photographer herself, and not completely ignorant of how cameras work or anything.
This morning when I was looking through the pictures she took, I realized that a good 500-600 of my pictures from the last few weeks are missing. They're not all gone, but a significant chunk don't seem to be anywhere on the card.
Any idea what could have happened and if there's any hope of finding/saving these lost images somewhere? I don't understand it: she didn't format the card on accident, since a few hundred pictures of the more recent pictures are still there; it's a 256gb card that wasn't anywhere near full, so it couldn't have started writing over the older images (I'm not sure if that's something Fujifilm would do anyway?); and it seems highly unlikely that she would have been able to delete them one by one, or even in a huge group, certainly not intentionally but not even accidentally.
So what are the options here? What might have happened and what can I do, if anything?
