Old photos on itunes

Photos are not stored in, or listed by, iTunes. Rather, they are on your computer.

All one did was:

• to get photos, taken with the iPod's (or iPhone's) camera, connect the device to your computer (ignore iTunes), use Windows File Manager to inspect the device's DCIM folder and copy the photos from the iPod to somewhere of your choice on your computer. The photos remain on the device until you delete them and remian on your computter, until you delete them
• to get pictures from your computer to a device (such as an iPod), youtold iTunes which folder you were nominating for use, by iTunes, to copy from the folder to the device. Any update of that folder was reflected on the device after a Sync. The photos stayed on the computer, unless you deleted them. To remove a photo from the device either delete it or remove it, from the nominated folder on the computer

Using the information above, perhaps you might be able to work out whether you still have copies of those photos and where they might be.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I do not recall such a method. As far as I know, it's always looked like the current method (and been the one I've used for years), with the exception noted in the screenshot:

You then chose which folder (on your computer) to use, which would include its sub-folders. I'm not sure when the new option, to choose selected folders, appeared, but if that option is chosen and there are sub-folders in it, it opens a folder selection panel as shown below:

Note the sentence I've underlined about importing from the camera roll. one of the options it's referring to is using Windows File Manager, as I mentioned previously.

Your only other hope is if you ever had a back up of your computer, or even just of the pictures. This could be on an external hard drive, memory stick, or even an online back up.