The latest travel news, vacation tips & advice, travel apps, and more What to do when you lose all of your digital photos It happened on a trip to the top of Table Mountain in Cape Town . It was a clear day -- the first in a foggy, rainy week -- and the type of weather that precipitated a trip up the mountain. Photography weather, and I was ready, snapping photos, capturing the fog covered mountainside, immortalizing my morning hike when the most menacing of messages appeared on my digital camera display screen: MEMORY CARD ERROR. And next to those three dreadful words, a large, compassionless symbol that seemed to blot out the sun: 0. Zero photos? 0 the display screen read, in all capital letters and Denda New font. (I googled it, because when something this horrible happens, it's important to know the type of font designed to deliver bad news.) I couldn't take any more photos. The card was frozen, dead. Maybe , I thought grasping at what little optimism I held onto, the card will work in my computer . But hours later in the caf of my hotel, my laptop screen lighting my face in a dim glow, my card still read zero. Gone were the photos of my eco-stay in a Nqileni village, my visit to East London, the chicken peacefully nesting in my "hotel" bathroom. But were the photos lost forever? Turns out...no. After some research, a few frantic phone calls, and a