Can't stop crying...lost my SD memory card...

[Mom2Rae]

from our trip to WDW a couple of weeks ago . I have NEVER, EVER lost anything like this before and it's so upsetting.

Dd is trying to make me feel better and so is Dh. We've been to every store I visited in the last week hoping someone would have turned it in.

I had it in my wallet in hopes to get it to a Ritz in a few days.

I feel terrible and so depressed. I had some wonderful candid shots of Dd...with looks of sheer bliss on her face.

Has anyone else ever experienced this? Any ideas on how I can "go on"?

 

[beckmrk04]

After my DD was born, my DH took the SD card to my mom's house to upload the pics and e-mail them to some family and friends. But, something went wrong and all the pictures disappeared. The very first minutes of her life, DH and I holding her while I was still laying there for my C-section, gone. I cried, and cried. It's so hard, because you can't get those back, and you're so scared you won't remember.

But, you do remember. You'll have those memories for the rest of your life. So, try to focus on the cherished memories, not the lost pictures. I know it's so hard, and I sincerely hope that someone finds that card and it makes it's way back to you.

 

[Camno's Mama]

Our camera was stolen about a year ago, and it had six months of pictures on it. We had been very lazy about uploading them. I lost a good chunk of my little one's baby to toddler months when they change so much.

I was really disappointed at first. It made me feel sick, but over time I was able to put it in it's proper place. The reality is that you will always have the memories of that trip. That's what is important. Documenting the trip is always wonderful, but not having the pictures doesn't take away from the special time you all had together.

What's done is done...let it go. I know it's a bummer, but there is really nothing you can do about it and you will only make yourself sick thinking about it! I guess you just have to plan another trip so that you can have more pictures!!!

 

[CastleCreations]

I had a film camera that I took photos of my newborn daughter with...all in the hospital stuff. When it came time to pick up the photos, they LOST!!! the photos. I was heartbroken. Also my computer crashed once, and I lost everything...it's very upsetting, but quickly begin to make new memories to get over the lost ones...good luck...HUGS to you!

 

[TheRatPack]

It upsets me when I lose anything....I'm very organized so I'm hard on myself if I misplace something that means a lot (or cost a lot). I lost a few film cartridges when we moved and my babies were still little....it was really upsetting. But you know what, I found them years later and so it worked out. Maybe the SD card will turn up in a month, a year....or even a few years. You'll have another trip, and they'll be many many more memories...etc.

I still think about my highschool yearbook though, it's gone forever I'm afraid....but life goes on and I still have those memories

Sorry that you lost it

Oh and next time maybe save them while you're there, we always take one trip off property to the Walgreens right there outside of the gates and I upload all my SD pictures and either get prints done then or just buy the CD to take home with me. That way I have more than 1 set....in case something were to happen while we're still at the World. And we get plenty of Photopass photo's done....just in case we end up with no digital ones from our own camera.

 

[ilovemickeymost]

I came across this website a couple months ago. You can post that you lost your memory card or keep checking to look for pics that were on the memory card. www.foundyourcamera.blogspot.com Fingers crossed that you come across it or someone finds it. Also, you might try listing on craigslist in your area. They is a section for lost & found I believe.

 

[Dizneydaz]

Wow, that's a bummer. I lost my camera and SD card back in Jan. 06. I left the camera on the floor of our rental vehicle and when I realized it was missing, I was home in California. I immeadiately called and the van was already gone for 14 days. I called when it was due back in and of course, the camera wasn't there. I suspect that one of the employees found it and kept it. All I really wanted back was the card. Luckily, that year I had taken my film SLR and used it for most of the pictures. My digital camera was one of the earlier ones and didn't take that great of pix. I bought a newer (and better)digital cam before our next trip and now it's all I take on vacation. However, I have extra SD cards and batteries.

Before I got the extra cards, I would take my card to Sam's Club (or Walmart) and upload to their system. In about an hour I would have all my pix on 1, or 2, CDs (Sams can hold up to 400 per cd) and then I would erase my SD card. Now, I have enough cards so I don't fill them up.

I did have a close call a short time ago when my DM found one of my SD cards in the washer! I had been in the pocket of my jeans. Luckily, it was completely okay and the pictures were still good.

Oh, and I've been worried about my computer crashing and have been backing up my photos for the last few weeks.

Again, sorry about your loss, I guess all you can do is plan another trip!

Last year I left my camera bag on the plane (without the camera, thank goodness!) and about 1/2 way thru our trip I got a call from Delta saying they had found my bag. I had put a "In case this is lost card" in the bag and so they were able to call me. She said "I hope there wasn't a camera in the bag?" and I said no, I had the camera. She was very happy for me. She also thanked me for having my info in the bag. She said they get alot of found items with no ID on them. All that was in the bag were extra cards and batteries. Luckily for me my DM has the same camera and takes very few pictures so I just used her cards and battery. Delta offered to FedEx it to my home and it arrived a few days after we got home. They were going to send it COD, but it came already paid for. I was very happy with Delta's handling of it.

One other thing about putting ID on things. I, of course, now have my name and phone number on my camera but awhile back I was at DL and about 1/2 way thru the day I went to take a picture and the camera wasn't working. I went to change out the battery (I had an extra with me) and the battery compartment was empty! I couldn't figure out how that happened. The compartment was closed, but the battery was gone. I looked at the last picture I took and figured the next thing I did was ride the Matterhorn. I went there and went through the exit on the side I rode on and asked the CM if they had found anything like this-and I showed him by other battery-he looked in his podium and lo and behold pulled out my little battery! I was so happy! Those batteries cost like $30-35. All I can figure was while on the ride, during a rough part, the compartment opened and the battery fell out and then the compartment closed. Now my batteries have my name and phone number on them as well-my label maker has come in handy!

 

[eyeheartgoofy]

Maybe it will still turn up? Last fall, I lost a card with 3 months worth of photos ... I searched high and low for that thing. I was so bummed. I found it 2 months ago tucked away in a zippered compartment of my overnight bag!!! I'm hoping you have similar luck ... maybe it got stuck in your purse, your car or a coat???

 

[bumbershoot]

from our trip to WDW a couple of weeks ago . I have NEVER, EVER lost anything like this before and it's so upsetting.

Dd is trying to make me feel better and so is Dh. We've been to every store I visited in the last week hoping someone would have turned it in.

I had it in my wallet in hopes to get it to a Ritz in a few days.

I feel terrible and so depressed. I had some wonderful candid shots of Dd...with looks of sheer bliss on her face.

Has anyone else ever experienced this? Any ideas on how I can "go on"?

I figure you'll find it in the future, in some very random place. We've been finding scads of things recently that we thought were gone forever! So I wish you luck with that.

As for how to go on, do you notice that you remember the pictures that were on the card? Is the memory really clear? More clear than the pictures you know you have on your computer/albums?

I have noticed this with pictures that I think I have lost, both film and digital. And as soon as I find them, the "memory" of the picture moment fades, and all I have is the actual picture.

Of course, the picture in your head can't be shared, but at least YOU have it, and that's worth something.


For the future, I keep my in-use SD card in my camera, and I usually have my camera with me (you never know, right?). And at Disney, I take multiple SD cards, just in case one of them is lost. When possible, I bring my laptop so I can get the pix off of the card ASAP.


And for those of you who aren't doing so already, get those pictures copied into an external hard drive, or at least a disc, just in case your computer goes haywire! (speaking of that, I think I'm overdue on that)

 

[ekball]

Yes, I have experienced a heartbreaking loss like that. Long story that I'll try to make short....I walked in a 3 day, 60 mile charity walk last Oct. that involved camping for 2 nights during the walk. Sometime during the 2nd night of camping I took out my earrings and put them beside my sleeping bag. The earrings were diamond earrings that my husband gave me the Christmas after having our first child. I was so out of it that night that I didn't give a second thought to taking them out. I completely forgot that I had taken them out when packing up our tent the next morning and off I went for my last day of walking. I didn't realize I had left them behind in the (now packed up) tent until about 3.5 hours later.... 3.5 hours too late. They were gone. I was DEVASTATED. Beyond words sad. Cried on and off about it for DAYS. I still, 10 months later, get sad if I think about it too long.

But here's what I've learned...it's really best to just not think about the loss too much because what can I do about it now??? Nothing. It's so easy to beat yourself up over something like that but you can't. It was an accident - nothing more, nothing less. Like the other posters said, you'll always have the memories. And I wouldn't be surprised if the card showed up down the road. Crossing fingers that you have a happy outcome and the card surfaces before long!!

 

[MICKEYSFIRECOMPANY3]

Hi. My husband and I went to Paris in 2007. We spent the first 2 days taking pictures of everything. We did all the museums, churches, monuments, and of course the Eiffel Tower. After spending the whole day at Versailles, and using most of my memory card, I was admiring my photos on the train back to Paris. My DH told me our stop was coming up so I put on my hat and gloves. We got off the train and I stopped to take a picture when I realized I left the camera on the seat next to me. My DH tried to catch up to it, but it was gone. We ran to the underground and asked them for help and they pretty much just laughed at us.

I took over 400 pictures in those few days, and after crying under the Eiffel tower for an hour, we went on our way.

Luckily, being married to the best husband ever, we spent the last 2 days we had revisiting all the sites. I'm sure someone looked at our silly pictures and erased them all before giving it a second thought. And they scored a pretty great camera, too.

I still tell my husband that was the best trip of our lives, minus me losing our camera and tons of precious memories. He just sighs. But he does remind me that not only did we see Paris, we saw it all twice in one trip. It does make me sad to think about, but I guess in the grand scheme of things we were lucky enough to take that trip in the first place. Now I know when we go back exactly what I will take extra pictures of. Plus, it's a whole new reason to go back.

You can also buy cases for your cards that are bigger than the little plastic one it comes in. I bought one that holds multiple cards and is waterproof. I used to tuck my cards in my wallet too. Right in the back in the coin slot. Now, the case is about 3x3 so it can't be tucked away anywhere that isn't secure. Don't worry, you'll get back to take more pictures.

PS- If someone has my camera, I was wearing a red and white ski jacket, a red, white, and blue snow hat, and jeans in most of the pictures!

 

[Mom2Rae]

Hi. My husband and I went to Paris in 2007. We spent the first 2 days taking pictures of everything. We did all the museums, churches, monuments, and of course the Eiffel Tower. After spending the whole day at Versailles, and using most of my memory card, I was admiring my photos on the train back to Paris. My DH told me our stop was coming up so I put on my hat and gloves. We got off the train and I stopped to take a picture when I realized I left the camera on the seat next to me. My DH tried to catch up to it, but it was gone. We ran to the underground and asked them for help and they pretty much just laughed at us.

I took over 400 pictures in those few days, and after crying under the Eiffel tower for an hour, we went on our way.

Luckily, being married to the best husband ever, we spent the last 2 days we had revisiting all the sites. I'm sure someone looked at our silly pictures and erased them all before giving it a second thought. And they scored a pretty great camera, too.

I still tell my husband that was the best trip of our lives, minus me losing our camera and tons of precious memories. He just sighs. But he does remind me that not only did we see Paris, we saw it all twice in one trip. It does make me sad to think about, but I guess in the grand scheme of things we were lucky enough to take that trip in the first place. Now I know when we go back exactly what I will take extra pictures of. Plus, it's a whole new reason to go back.

You can also buy cases for your cards that are bigger than the little plastic one it comes in. I bought one that holds multiple cards and is waterproof. I used to tuck my cards in my wallet too. Right in the back in the coin slot. Now, the case is about 3x3 so it can't be tucked away anywhere that isn't secure. Don't worry, you'll get back to take more pictures.

PS- If someone has my camera, I was wearing a red and white ski jacket, a red, white, and blue snow hat, and jeans in most of the pictures!

Wow - I bet you were devastated...but, you do have a wonderful husband. To go back and re-see all of those wonderful places so you could get pictures again.

You know your DH sounds like my DH - who's a Captain in the Fire Department in our town! Those firefighters are such good guys!

 

[katied]

On our honeymoon, we were golfing. DH set the camera timer, set it on the golf cart, and took pics of us on the course. Once back at the hotel, I asked for the camera- apparently, DH left it & the camera bag on the golf cart at one point - it was never seen again. So, we have no pictures from our honeymoon. It was sad, but now, 7 years later, I think I've recovered. I do take my computer on all vacation trips though, and upload the pictures every night so I always have a backup. I also backup my computer pics to an external hard drive plus I burn them to CDs. I guess I'm now a bit obsessive about lost pictures... worst case, if the camera or card is lost, I will only lose 1 days pictures (I even had my computer at the hospital, so I could back up the hospital pics of new baby... ok very obsessive about lost pictures).

Don't worry, you'll have another trip, and more pictures. At least you have the memories from the trip.

 

[snowwhitemom]

OH I am so sorry, I am in high hopes that you find it....just a few months ago my laptop crashed lost first 2 years of babys pics which included birth and five wdw trips.....ughh, i was so upset when i got off the phone with apple that night after hours of trying to save it and mt 12 yo came out and said
'you still have us"........ at 9 at night in drizzling rain I picked
ed up the toddler and we went on a walk down the road.... (i can only imagine what neighbors were thinking) It helped me get it together..I suppose. We still have our photopass cd's from each trip thank goodness. oh yeah i have back up now.

good luck...my heart breaks for you.



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[mlynn]

This is a long shot. But go on Craigslist.com in your state and post it in the lost and found. I found somebodies keys in the street and posted them there and they saw and I was able to get them back to them.

 

[dis75ney]

About ten years ago, my parents' basement completely flooded. They had over 25 years of pictures in the basement, and every picture was completely destroyed. Thankfully, they had two albums that they kept in the living room, so there's something, but their wedding photos, pics of me through high school, my wedding...all gone. My mom was devastated and cried for a good two weeks. She still apologizes to me for losing all of my baby pics...

But you still have those snapshots in your memory. Nothing can take those away. Plus, this just makes for a great excuse to go back to Disney and retake those photos!

to you...

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

Oh, I feel for you so much! This is a biiiiggg fear of mine, to the point that I back up all my photos to 2 discs and keep one at home and one at work because I am scared of my house burning down and losing all my photos! I know, I'm wierd. When we go on vacation I usually take my laptop so I can download my photos each night.

 

[smith2]

I am SOOOOO sorry!!!! I too cried for mnths when my special solo trip with my 4 yr old(leaving our 1yr old with Daddy) ended with my SD card being formated. All my pictures,on the day of departure, were gone!!!!! I had some amazing shots of him coming down the water slide @ FW and learning to swim(which seemed to be the Highlight of his trip). I was devasted. I spent lots of money trying to recover them, but since I STUPIDLY re-used the card to bring home a few snapshots for our memory book, they could not be reteived. I was so hard for me to leave our daughter behind and I would have done anything to get those pictures back - but no luck. I really hpe someway your card will be retuned to you!!!! LOL

 

[Tink_Or_Belle]

the other day at the grocery store by the photo machine there was a "lost memory card" sign with where it was lost and that it contained over 300 wedding photos from that weekend I hope someone found the card went to the store to see who it belonged to by looking at the photos and they were reunited

 

[WindyLea]

Omg that is terrible! I know exactly how you feel! A few months ago, DH was playing with my camera, and pushed a button that formatted the entire memory card. It had so many pictures on it, and I'm a picture fanatic, so they all had special meaning to me. But what upset me most was losing the only pictures of my grandfathers 80th birthday party. I enjoy taking pictures so much and I just got a new fancy camera, so I was the "official" picture taker for the birthday party. He never had a birthday party before, and we had his only sibling that he hadn't seen in almost 30 years come to surprise him, along with so many family members that came from out of state and great grandchildren that he had never even met. We had a wonderful time, and I was making him a memory book with the pictures as soon as we got back from a weekend trip, which is when the pictures got deleted. I cried for a long time, but eventually you just move on. So sorry for your loss.

This trip to Disney, I had to put my camera in the net under the seat on Soarin' and someone had left a drink in the net. When I picked my camera up, water literally ran out of the camera. I panicked and cried some more. disney paid to fix the camera, but nothing I could do about the pics! Thank goodness it wasn't a full memory card!