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Your purse would have happened to be black and the camera on the outside pocket would it?
If so and it was in heat then the LCD screen has super heated, it might come back after a few hours to cool. There is operating temperature ranges listed in the manual extreme heat and cold will just kill most digital point and shoot type cameras, sometimes they come back sometimes not.
I would also take the battery out of it and let it sit for a few hours to cool DON'T put it in a cold place let it come up to room temperature gradually.
Perhaps there is an electrical short due to the cold temperature. I would suggest taking it indoors and letting it warm up to room temperature and see if that solves the problem. If not, it also could be a short in the power cord (if not running directly on power at the time), again, due to the cold weather. What was the temperature?
Taking a very cold camera into a warm room guarantees that the interior will get water condensation immediately, I'm afraid. Obviously, this is to be scrupulously avoided. If it still isn't working, I'm afraid the interior workings may be corroded.
I ran into the "change batteries" problem once, and I'm pretty sure it happened because I left the camera in my unheated basement and then tried to use it in a warm room.
The problem had absolutely NOTHING to do with the actual batteries: I tried multiple good sets, including brand new alkalines.
I can think of 3 possible explanations, starting with the least likely: there could be a component or multiple components that are particularly sensitive to temperature. Note that you can take a room temperature camera outside in zero degrees and it will take many minutes, if not hours, for the internal stuff to get really cold.
Thermal shifts cause different materials to expand or contract at different rates. It's possible that the change in temperature when going from one environment to another messes with alignment or electrical contacts: when things get back to equilibrium, problem goes away.
Most likely: condensation. Something was unhappy internally until the condensation dried up, then the camera was happy again. I only had the problem once, but I don't leave the camera in the basement anymore.
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