It's very unlikely he's deleted them permanently. The first obvious thing is to look in the recycle bin and see if the folder is there - if so, right click on it and select restore. The other possibilty is that it has somehow been saved as a subfolder of another existing folder. There are several ways to look for them - here's a relatively easy one! Select: Start/Run/ type 'explorer' in the box / OK. Now click on 'My Computer' then 'search' at the top and type in the name of one of his photos. Start the search and see if you can find it. If so, then under 'view' along the top select 'details' and note the full filename under the 'in folder' tab. Report back and I'll try to help restore them to where they should be!! Good luck.