I do know that many that have contributed to the Tech Articles, and also other posts that have pictures, but were not in the Tech Articles have stated that webshots was the ONLY copy of the picture they still had, and apparently webshots made it much more difficult to retrieve pictures than it was to deposit it them. After some tried diligently and found it was futile to attempt to retrieve pictures from there, they just finally gave up. One thing to remember, there were A LOT of pictures these individuals lost that were personal family pictures and the like, not just the IDI pictures... Most got very disheartened with webshots "ate" all their photos and "memories" with one fell swoop. I would say unless there is a repository like Gandalf has, these pictures have been lost to the internet........