Well, if your camera's memory chip is gone, how do you expect it to remember where it is??? LOL Well, maybe that was pretty lame!! Those little suckers can hide anywhere-hope you find it. My mother use to absent-mindedly put things in the oven!! One day she "hid" a 6 pack of coke from us kids in the oven, forgot it was there, turned on the oven to pre-heat it--well you can imagine the rest!! Served her right for keeping us from it! LOL