I have been using the File Browser from the menu, in Debian 4.0, and it
shows, using the ->About, as being Nautilus 2.14.3.

I had it open, in one of the directories where I store photographs that
I have taken with a digital camera, and I also had gFTP and a couple of
documents in Open Office 2.0, open, as I was working on some web pages,
in which I was putting pictures.

The File Browser appears to have crashed, as it disappeared from the
task bar.

When I opened it again, it appears to have destroyed all of my
photograph files, except for the images in two directories, being the
two most recent directories.

It appears to have retained the directory hierarchy, and deleted about
1.3GB of photographs with an average file size of about 1MB.

Is there something viral in this File Browser?

I have not encountered anything like this in Debian 3.1 .

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> It appears to have retained the directory hierarchy, and deleted about
> 1.3GB of photographs with an average file size of about 1MB.
>

It's possible that your files were moved somewhere else under your
home directory (maybe trash or a temporary dir). I assume also that
the directory you're talking about is under your home directory and
not somewhere else, eg under /mnt/ or /media/

Start up your terminal program and run

cd ~
find . -iname '*jpg*'

(Assuming that your photos were jpg).


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