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Post by planecrazy on Jul 3, 2017 6:49:46 GMT 12
Wow, I'm gutted by this, where I live has limited internet services and I have spent hours downloading my images. Now photo bucket with a push of a button have wiped the lot, wonderful stuff this!
So has anyone got an option for people with limited internet service?
Thank you.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jul 3, 2017 7:42:04 GMT 12
All pics that I have embedded here are hosted by my freebie PB account - and they are all still here. Huh?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 3, 2017 8:58:03 GMT 12
Just wait John, they seem to be working their way through their servers and shutting them down.
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Post by ZacYates on Jul 3, 2017 10:48:25 GMT 12
I can download my photos at work, so I'm in the process of shifting to Flickr too.
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Post by harrysone on Jul 3, 2017 17:49:53 GMT 12
Hi guys, if we can recover the archive, going forward I suggest imgur.com/ for embedding images for free, the site works just fine (checked it this morning). PhotoBucket are not doing themselves any favours in the world right now. The site had become ridiculously slow anyway with all the layers of pop up advertising. I'm going to have to migrate all my existing images from PB, anybody know a fast way to do it?
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 3, 2017 18:10:41 GMT 12
As far as I can tell from looking via my tablet, my FB photos are still showing. Some other people's photos are still there as well. Maybe someone can check where they are hosted? (I'm away in Canada, so I cant).
I do also hold all my photos on disc, so I wont actually lose anything.
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Post by ZacYates on Jul 3, 2017 18:20:39 GMT 12
They seems to be checking profiles individually: if you've linked to a 3rd party site, you get The Treatment.
I've been downloading albums all day from my Photobucket account (for some reason I can download on a work PC but not my laptop at home) and re-uploading to Flickr. A tedious process but it does mean rediscovering some long-forgotten gems.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jul 3, 2017 18:43:10 GMT 12
The crazy thing is that Photobucket have always provided the tools to use them as a 3rd-party host, although I've never used that directly, preferring to take the direct URL, then add my own formatting code to place the images where I have wanted to place them.
I did get a warning email about a week ago from Photobucket with regards to the free account I have with them (but which I seldom upload anything to these days), but I ignored it thinking it was an attempt to get me to convert it to a paid account. I already have a primary paid account with Photobucket, so I'm not going to pay for the other one. However, although the clipboard function has disappeared from the free account, I can still manually cut & paste the URLs for each individual image. I wonder how long that will last?
With my paid account at Photobucket, I've noticed no change whatsoever, apart from the entire site going down a few times lately. I even wondered if they were on the receiving end of a denial of service attack for a while, and since the recent troubles (over the past few days), the site has gone down a few more times, so perhaps some people have been attacking the site out of revenge? If they start messing with my paid account, I might even be tempted to indulge in a bit of revenge myself, but through a different method than a denial of service attack. A friend's teenage son is a real whizz at getting up to mischief with websites (including really secure ones....he got in a wee bit of trouble with the law a year or so ago for attacking a major trading bank website and deliberately crashing it after changing a lot of things), so I could always obtain some tools from him. Just joking....although I'd be really tempted.
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Post by McFly on Jul 3, 2017 19:26:17 GMT 12
Hi guys, if we can recover the archive, going forward I suggest imgur.com/ for embedding images for free, the site works just fine (checked it this morning). PhotoBucket are not doing themselves any favours in the world right now. The site had become ridiculously slow anyway with all the layers of pop up advertising. I'm going to have to migrate all my existing images from PB, anybody know a fast way to do it? As far as alternatives are concerned, there is Imgur for instance which supports the embedding of images on third-party sites. And this 'hack' from a FB post may help..? "To everyone having this issue, this worked for me. Log in and click on the image, then click on the Magnifying glass icon. then back out again. after i did this to my pictures, they appeared again on my account and also on the forums they were linked to (after i reloaded the page). I hope it works for you."A word of caution from another group about Imgur We discussed Imgur earlier in this thread, and if you read their terms of use then using them to host photos for use in this forum is strictly prohibited. If you use Imgur you risk the same problem happening again.Paul
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jul 4, 2017 10:54:19 GMT 12
Over at The Flying Boat Forum, some of the members are shifting their photographs to VILLAGE.PHOTOS. I've taken a quick look and it appears okay from what I can see. I might do a bit more digging around on the internet and see what I can find out about other people's views of them.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 4, 2017 12:45:46 GMT 12
It's all very well finding an alternative method for posting future photos but I doubt many people will go back and re-post all the thousands of missing photos on the hundreds of threads that now are littered with Photobucket's icon. Several members who posted photos are now dead too, so their photos will never be re-posted. Sadly we have lost a huge chunk of what makes this forum great.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jul 4, 2017 13:07:39 GMT 12
One of the regular posters at The Flying Boat forum posted that this is the third time he has re-sourced his photographs (by editing his past posts) due to hosting sites going down. He is probably the most prolific poster of photographs at that site, with literally many thousands of images (mostly related to Grumman amphibian flying-boats). Mind you, I think he is retired, so has plenty of leisure time. He is the person who put us onto VILLAGE.PHOTOS.
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Post by ZacYates on Jul 4, 2017 16:57:35 GMT 12
Turns out in your Photobucket settings you can see when you joined. 09th May 2005 for me. Soon the 5352 images and two videos I have there will be replaced with just one: the image saying I need to upgrade to use 3rd-party linking. EDIT: it's done, and I'm done with them. Flickr looks nicer, anyway
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Post by isc on Jul 5, 2017 0:00:51 GMT 12
In another proboard, Model Engineering Clearing House, they have put an access to attachments, with a maximum size of 1 MB, I tried with a pic of 564 x 563, 75.4 KB, but it wouldn't load. I'll have a bit more of a fiddle round over the next few days. I did load a pic direct from my own albums a few years back, then later that type of loading was stopped. isc
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 5, 2017 0:23:29 GMT 12
isc, our free attachment space on this forum was filled up years ago so there's no free space left. I can pay to add space to the forum but the amount needed for a forum that posts as many photos as this one does we'd need the top level they offer which is only 10GB max space, which will fill up pretty fast, and requires NZ$100 a month to maintain, which I am not prepared to pay for as that is twice the cost of paying Photobucket. If we went down that track I'd have to start charging membership fees for the forum to cover the costs, which a) I am not at all keen to do and b) would be a bloody nightmare to sort out and enforce.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 5, 2017 1:39:28 GMT 12
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Post by harrysone on Jul 5, 2017 8:13:44 GMT 12
I have downloaded my images from PB as a zip file, what are you guys using to extract? Windows Explorer wont get into it
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 5, 2017 8:49:05 GMT 12
I have downloaded my images from PB as a zip file, what are you guys using to extract? Windows Explorer wont get into it What version of Windows are you using? I thought more recent ones deal with zip files automagically.
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Post by Brett on Jul 5, 2017 8:56:34 GMT 12
I use a free archiver called 7-Zip to unpack Zip files. www.7-zip.org/While it does have it's own compression format, I never use it for that. It does ZIP files, RAR's etc. I have used it for many years without any problems.
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Post by isc on Jul 5, 2017 14:34:14 GMT 12
Dave, I suspect the ME Clearing site are propposing to use the attachment site as a tempory thing, hoping that PB, or a similar site will take over soon. isc
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