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Just noticed the same thing has happened to me.  I had about 400 waiting to be finished!!!

I'm waiting a response from support, however I don't think, deleted files will be restored. But I hardly believe, after the feedback the cleanup routine will be reviewed and will not hurt others portfolios.
I must add, since PM entered the Middle Tier, I found interesting to dedicate the time to upload but surprises like this and the >2week review keeps me under 1€ royalty/mo.

With the seriously long review times, PM are clearly stretched. I think my files are reviewed on average after about 3 weeks. Still this doesn't mean that they should delete files in the unfinished section. I think PM regard themselves as a bigger agency than they actually are. Anyway as always, the ball is never in our court and agencies just do whatever they want. But if they piss people off people won't come back to them nor are they likely to say positive things about them, which does have a knock on effect.

Due to the more than complicated upload process, finishing 1000+ files it's a pain and very time consuming. I simply can't upload more than 10-20 files a day so when I tried to upload my port, I was happy when I copied all the files in question via ftp. Unfortunately I finished them in a kind of random order so after 6 week cleanup it's a complete chaos in my port near the 2€ earned.
But I'm always asking, with today's price of storage capacity, why it is such a big problem to hold some files more than 6 weeks. Why can some agencies review the files in hours, or at least in days, and some others need several weeks? Why can be the uploading at some agencies be a pleasure and at the others simply overcomplicated. Of course, complicated uploading doesn't reflect anything in the revenue. I'm a programer also, I know that the best solution is refine the search engine, so we doesn't need long list of useless categories and primary/secondary keywords which presence slows down the submitting process. Like one of my teachers said: the machine has to do the work, not me.
Please subscribe the Panthermedia developers to Depositphotos, Stockfresh, Canstockphoto and give them some files to submit, to see the difference. The above agencies aren't the biggest so they focused on the simplicity of uploading. They mind the contributors who already has many photos to upload but aren't that big to send just a HDD...

If I were an agency I would be submitting to every agency to compare what they have with my own. The rigidness of agencies in regards to contributors is partially through lack of experience (ie. they only know what they have and not others) and also not realising that an agency should be constantly evolving. I'm sure PantherMedia want to bigger than they are now, if they do, they need to listen also.