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Unfortunately I’m afraid they’re lost (I think). UPD: see kolorafa’s comment
There’s some alternatives if you’re willing to continue with that:
Aves Gallery on android (is on fdroid) can embed comments into image long term metadata. But I have not tested it after transfer.
Creating a directory Gallery with markdown files and a subdir for all images and then writing comments inside those markdown files with a link to the local image. Very simple to do with Obsidian or similar markdown-powered software.
Out of the top of my head I can think of two structures for that:
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/Year/month/day/ dirs, hoursminutesecond.png and hourminutesecond.txt with the comment per photo.
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/Gallery/images/datetime.png and /Gallery/yearmonth_gallery.md with comments and links to multiple images for that month.
And probably more that I’m not aware of myself.
If that comment is true and you don’t have the database anymore then there’s no hope.
If you were writing comments to understand which file is which then consider a directory scheme for sorting your files and add readme.md files in a narrow category of files to describe them. I do something like: All coding projects go into home/code, each project has a readme. Etc.
If you were just logging for history purposes ie good memories in photos I’d suggest just making a markdown gallery. Or something similar.