Lost files after creating a Drop Box - WHERE DID THEY GO?

Having set up a Drop Box for certain private pictures of my fiance by creating a folder and changing the access permissions using "Get Info", and changing everything to "Write Only (Drop Box)" I later tried to access the files by changing the permissions back to "Read & Write", to which OS X said "Are you sure, this cannot be undone?" I said Yes and entered my password, at which point the picture folder reverted to being a normal filder again, but now with apparently nothing in it. It seems that I accidentally deleted the picture files I had dropped into the drop box. The mystery goes on, since in the 'More Info" panel for the folder, it still says that it's taking up around 9MB of disk space (about the size of all those pictures), so could it be that they're still lurking somewhere?
Any help gratefully received......
Nikhales

Yep quite right
This looks good - these are the names of the picture files!
Great help, thank you - What's next?
INT-7-5-483:~ Nik$ cd /Volumes/Mac\ Pro\ Storage/Pictures/Pics/
INT-7-5-483:/Volumes/Mac Pro Storage/Pictures/Pics Nik$ ls -al
total 18680
drwxrwxrwx 16 Nik Nik 544 Jul 1 14:03 .
drwx------ 7 Nik Nik 238 Jul 17 23:58 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 6148 May 22 09:24 .DS_Store
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 719522 Jun 22 22:06 DSC00010.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 362809 Apr 10 13:50 DSC00014.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 676039 Jun 15 08:14 DSC00027.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 579064 Jul 1 14:03 DSC00049.JPG
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Nik Nik 676249 May 22 09:26 MOV00012.3GP
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 683984 May 22 09:20 aDSC00013.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 673026 May 22 09:20 aDSC00014.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 1042127 May 22 09:20 aDSC00015.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 1048259 May 22 09:20 aDSC00016.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 1072265 May 22 09:20 aDSC00017.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 696748 Apr 10 09:48 aDSC00018.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 580981 Apr 10 10:34 aDSC00019.JPG
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Nik Nik 719522 Jun 22 21:57 bDSC00010.JPG
INT-7-5-483:/Volumes/Mac Pro Storage/Pictures/Pics Nik$

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