Folders in Pictures have nothing but .db in them

Sorry, but this is my mom's computer (Vista Home Premium 64-bit, SP2 from
Gateway with 6 GB RAM, Intel Core2 Quad 4) and I can't figure out what she might have done to lose all her photos??

There are plenty of folders in her Pictures folder that all have names appropriate to family activities I remember seeing photos of at some point. There's nothing in them now but the one .db file. All of those folders were created at the exact same date/time.

She doesn't know what she might have done (of course) but I thought the .db might have been left over from some kind of "album" software like what comes with a camera or a printer etc. There's one folder that says Kodak Pictures so I talked to Kodak. They said that any pictures they had would still have been jpg and would have shown up in Windows.

I know this is pretty vague, but I can't think of what to describe any better <G>

Callie

There is only one way that I can think of to recover the photos. Download and try recuva.
Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download

If the photos were not lost for an extended period, shadow explorer may also work
http://www.shadowexplorer.com/

Hi,
Welcome to the forum.
You may find the following link of some use:-
Pictures in the 'Pictures' folder on Vista have disappeared.

If the excellent advice from Richc does not work, perhaps thid is worth a try.

If the pictures have suddenly disappeared ?
Perhaps a System Restore to say 3 days before this occured may
put things right:-

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html