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Pillar of the Community
United States
7189 Posts |
So I have used photo bucket to up load photos on this sight since I joined, what eight years ago? Now this free service has has blocked every photograph I have submitted to our sight until I upgrade and pay for their service.
Anyone else have an issue similar with photo bucket? Any suggestion as to a replacement service or should I just pay up?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
7189 Posts |
Looks like acesKings has a similar issue.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5205 Posts |
It seems they are the new ransomware.
"Pay up if you want your data back" because they know many users have pics hosted by them in important / educational / and hard worked on threads on forums such as this one.
Edited by jack jeckel
06/30/2017 8:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6130 Posts |
Don't let them win or others will follow suit.
It stinks to lose so many years of photos, but it's never too late to start fresh. Do most on here use the photo upload feature?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
9395 Posts |
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Any suggestion as to a replacement service or should I just pay up? Can't you just upload photos directly from your computer? None of my coin photos are ever stored on some third-party photo site. |
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Moderator
 United States
56855 Posts |
Yes you can and should. Also,I think you can download all of your photos from PB back onto your computer before PB deletes them. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1298 Posts |
I have tried to download my photos from Photobucket many times, and the download has failed every time. I sent several emails to point out this issue, and finally received an answer. See below. I cancelled my subscription!
Hi Josh,
Is this issue going to be resolved?
Thanks,
On May 13, 2017, at 8:50 AM,
Hi Josh,
I have sent attachments with each request. Basically I have tried to download an album, but the file seems incomplete. Not all the information was downloaded. Here is a screen shot of the error. And another of the zip file. Is there more information that you would need, just let me know.
Josh (Photobucket Support)
May 19, 7:48 AM MDT
Hello there!
I am very sorry for the inconvenience that this has caused you. This is a known issue affecting several users and our engineering team is troubleshooting the problem. We will get this resolved as soon as we can!
Thank you for your patience and again, I am terribly sorry for this inconvenience!
Josh@Photobucket Support
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Forum Dad
United States
24153 Posts |
I knew this was going to happen and that's why I have been pushing for everyone to upload here. I even upped the upload size limit to waaaayyyy more than necessary and have a new disk (4 times the size) scheduled for install on the server. Now we have thousands of useless topics.
Photobucket has been going downhill for years. The site gets slower and slower because they keep adding more and more ads, now this.
From this moment on Photobucket will not be allowed for images in new posts.
Please upload here.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like acesKings has a similar issue. Hmmmm......I guess that means all my photo posts are now null and void. I guess I'll need to take advantage of Bobby's generosity and use the forum. I have all my original pics still on my computer, so no need for me to DL back from photobucket. I will however need to find someplace else to use for other forums I frequent.  |
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Moderator
United States
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I have all my original pics still on my computer, so no need for me to DL back from photobucket. I hope this is the case for everyone here. There is no reason to ever delete your local copy. Out of space? Hard drives are dirt cheap now. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
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Can't you just upload photos directly from your computer? None of my coin photos are ever stored on some third-party photo site. Same with me. I used to use that site but since it is not necessary for adding to a post here, no need to use PB anymore. I put all photos on a flash drive as well as my computer. My computer has two hard drives and one is for personal stuff like photos. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1314 Posts |
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I knew this was going to happen and that's why I have been pushing for everyone to upload here. 100% in Aces! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1627 Posts |
In reviewing other forums I frequent, 3 didn't have any of my pics posted anymore, but there were 2 that still did. What would the explanation of this be?
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Forum Dad
United States
24153 Posts |
I don't have one. Some are still showing, they may just be in your cache though.
We need to stay away from them anyway, they have proven they can't be trusted.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1627 Posts |
Yup, just cleared my browser and they disappeared.  |
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Forum Dad
United States
24153 Posts |
The very sad thing is.... you know darn well the other free image sites will be watching when the dust settles with PB. If it's favorable for PB they will likely do the same exact thing.
This is why we really need to upload images here.
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Posted 06/30/2017 8:56 pm
