Nickel City Dude Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 I have been using photobucket for a long time but recently any photo I post on the web shows up for about 1 day and then is replaced by an Icon of a speedometer. Is it necessay to pay for photobucket now or am I doing something wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 40 minutes ago, Nickel City Dude said: I have been using photobucket for a long time but recently any photo I post on the web shows up for about 1 day and then is replaced by an Icon of a speedometer. Is it necessay to pay for photobucket now or am I doing something wrong? You're not doing anything wrong. Photobucket screwed us all: https://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Yep .. Photobucket diddled all of us. I've tried to copy some of the images I have no other copies of due to hard drive crashes. Not having much luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulp, SASS#28319 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Just looked at my account, appears to be normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 One of many ‘free’ services that just could not survive the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 I dropped em when they did that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Pulp, SASS#28319 said: Just looked at my account, appears to be normal. It may look normal when you view it in Photobucket, but if you try to link to the photos it doesn't work. I just spent about 90 minutes going through, doing an "open in New tab" and then "save as" into a folder on my computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulp, SASS#28319 Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger #3720LR Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I see PhotoBucket wants $399 per year to hot link your photos. I have always had my own web host. I have many web pages that I maintain. If I want an image on a forum, I up load it to my web host and link to it there. I use Go Daddy. Go Daddy has a sale on hosting right now. There unlimited web sites, unlimited storage, unlimited sub domains is currently on sale for $4.99/month. (regularly $10.99/month) When I sign up, I look for the sale and sign up for 5 years at that rate. When it comes up for renewal, I look for sale and then call to renew, asking about the sale and I have usually gotten a better deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger #3720LR Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Pulp, that image that says to update your account is telling you they want $399/year to hot link your images. There are better choices to store your images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulp, SASS#28319 Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I think I’ll pass on that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingair Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I use Imgur for pictures . . . . free ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickel City Dude Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 I found a new place to post my images called postimage.com. I will not be able to get all my old images back from Photobucket but at least I will be able to post new images without cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger #3720LR Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I do not have a PhotoBucket account. So, I have questions. If you have a PhotoBucket account, can you go to your account and see your photos? If, yes, can you right click on the image and then click "View Image"? If yes, then right click on image again, do you see "Save Image As"? If yes, then click on Save Image As and see if you can save it to a folder on your computer. It will be slow but you should be able to save all your images from PhotoBucket to your computer. or save to a flash drive in your USB port. I also wonder if PhotoBucket has a Save mode that will allow several images to be save to your computer at one time. Like highlighting several files and save all. I would hope you can get your images back that are saved on a fee image hosting service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, Cliff Hanger #3720LR said: I do not have a PhotoBucket account. So, I have questions. If you have a PhotoBucket account, can you go to your account and see your photos? If, yes, can you right click on the image and then click "View Image"? If yes, then right click on image again, do you see "Save Image As"? If yes, then click on Save Image As and see if you can save it to a folder on your computer. Yes, yes, yes and yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 14 minutes ago, Cliff Hanger #3720LR said: I do not have a PhotoBucket account. So, I have questions. If you have a PhotoBucket account, can you go to your account and see your photos? If, yes, can you right click on the image and then click "View Image"? If yes, then right click on image again, do you see "Save Image As"? If yes, then click on Save Image As and see if you can save it to a folder on your computer. It will be slow but you should be able to save all your images from PhotoBucket to your computer. or save to a flash drive in your USB port. I also wonder if PhotoBucket has a Save mode that will allow several images to be save to your computer at one time. Like highlighting several files and save all. I would hope you can get your images back that are saved on a fee image hosting service. Your method of doing a "save as" on each image is what I ended up doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Nobody seems to know why Photobucked did this. Millions of users, who had linked to countless websites, wiped out without any notice, and a huge charge imposed to use. If they wanted to change, they should have give notice, then charged a fee about 10 % of what they did. It was crazy. A couple of websites I use had long anticipated this, and moved all photobucket links directly to their servers. At the same time, they made it much easier for users to directly load their photos to the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said: Nobody seems to know why Photobucked did this. Millions of users, who had linked to countless websites, wiped out without any notice, and a huge charge imposed to use. If they wanted to change, they should have give notice, then charged a fee about 10 % of what they did. It was crazy. A couple of websites I use had long anticipated this, and moved all photobucket links directly to their servers. At the same time, they made it much easier for users to directly load their photos to the site. They have an untenable business position. They need money. Could be incompetence or other reasons but they could not continue as they were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger #3720LR Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 In business, when I see a company raise prices far more than going rates, I also see some one at the top of the company (owner) planning to retire within 1 year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 When I tried to retrieve some of my photos, I would get the same "update your account" info when I tried to copy them, so I assume they were still hot-linked somewhere. But I found if I created a folder on Photobucket, then moved the pics to it that it wouldn't let me copy and save, it changed the path and let me retrieve them from the new folder. Pain in the butt, but it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 1 hour ago, J Bar Binks, #47015 said: When I tried to retrieve some of my photos, I would get the same "update your account" info when I tried to copy them, so I assume they were still hot-linked somewhere. But I found if I created a folder on Photobucket, then moved the pics to it that it wouldn't let me copy and save, it changed the path and let me retrieve them from the new folder. Pain in the butt, but it worked. I found that if I opened it, then did a "save as" into a folder on my computer it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingair Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 If they would have charged $ 9.99 or $ 19.99 per year Than only a few would have moved . . . . Who want to pay $ 399.99 per year if others offer this service for free ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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