Pictures...lost and (not) found

When the picture albums are all sorted....don't resort them. Some of my pictures were not in the correct folders nor in the chronological order that I wanted, so I decided a computer clean up was in order. Should have cleaned the house instead. If I first combine them all to one folder, then I can resort... so I thought. So I merrily went about my work and on completion, opened up the one remaining folder. But, lo,there were no pictures!! I searched furiously for my pictures to no avail. Everything goes to the recycle bin...doesn't it? Nope, not my pictures. Little did I know that instead of combining the folders, I was stacking them one on top of the other. I can get the pictures from yesterday, but cannot turn the virtual computer page to the next group, nor the next group. %$()@^^ and the words continued to spew.

Well, by the time dearest arrived I was in quite a stew. He had a few suggestions (1) clean the house, or the oven, the toilet, just about anything - but not the computer (2) leave the technical stuff alone and (3) too complicated to explain. But anyway, we're trying something different to see if those pictures can be retrieved. If you hear me scream, you'll know they are lost in the system. Thank goodness I have most of them stored on a CD, but what about all those I've taken and edited these past several weeks!! So much work may be down the drain...I can't bear to think of it.

I'M SCREAMING SCREAMING YES STILL SCREAMING AND SCREAMING MORE LOUDLY BUT MY SCREAMS AREN'T RETRIEVING THE PICTURES.
So, now, as they say, it's time to take a step back and punt....Moral "Never, never resort a sorted picture album." (Sorry, no pictures in this commentary)

UPDATE...UPDATE...

He took his afternoon constitutional and figured out how to solve the problem. Thank goodness I had already put all my pictures into the new Adobe Photoshop....(that program paid for itself today). It was just a simple matter of selecting the pictures I needed today and transfer them back into a new folder in Documents...my pictures. How simple was that?? Now, how can I plug my hair back into the roots??