The GC and Met in OO

Since you entrusted and arguably had a contract with Photobucket to act as back-up and host for your pictures are you being denied the right to recall those pictures back to the computer from which they originated ? Seems very sharp practice to me.

 

The saying that "there's no such thing as a free lunch" seems to apply here! (Sorry...  I'm not being critical of you, I'm just lucky that I didn't use their "services" )

I was still able to view my pictures.... right up to the point I clicked the 'delete' button on each and every one of them.  I was also able to download the photos that I only had on-line (if they were about to deny me the right to keep my own photos they wouldn't have a download option on them). 

 

As to a free lunch, well maybe so, maybe not.  I uploaded my pictures there and it was nothing to me whether they sold them on to stock image libraries or what-not for financial gain, so long as I was permitted use of my photos in forum posts etc. I get my images hosted, they get money of being able to sell them, we both get something we want- no problem.  If they choose to revisit that arrangement, well, they're going to have to expect people to take their business elsewhere.  I'm not paying $400 a year just to be able to do something I do just as well for free by using a competitor.... I think anybody who would pay that sort of money for a service freely available needs their head looking at

I have just found this out for myself, today. If they are going to (try) and charge for third party linking then I suppose that's fair enough but to not even let me view and copy my own images is out of order. I can see the thumbnail images but when I click on them I can't even view my own images and so can't copy and save them.

 

I too will be erasing all of my images from PB. I have a lot of the more recent images still saved on my computer but not all but it would take weeks to edit every post on here to put in the photos, either on a new host, or the forum's own galleries.

 

I won't be paying their extortionate rate and will post one last image to their site, one that tells them exactly what I think of them.

I was able to grab most of mine, there were one or two that I could see the thumbnail but clicking on the picture brings up that annoying speedometer symbol.  I can't see this ending at all well for Photobucket, somehow.

So why do you use a third party to put pictures on here. Load them directly. Then you have full control.. These host are not a reliable way of storing or posting pictures etc. I know when you use ones like the cloud, apples one etc they track movements usage etc.

 

Principally because I don't use solely on RMWeb, there are a couple of forums I post on.  It would be needlessly repetitive to upload them direct to RMWeb, only to then have to use a 3rd party host anyway so I can put them on other forums too. 

I have tended to upload via the RMweb service since it started.

I have been loading photos into Photobucket for in excess of 10 years. I still have all

my photographs here in my computer files, but to obtain another hosting organisation

and try to replace images into threads/articles from all these years is simply not practical.

 

However "The Cloud" or any other hosting service either paid for, or free is there as long as the

organisation running it stays solvent.Could Microsoft, or Apple go like Woolworths, British Leyland,

British Home Stores ?

 

Nothing is forever,

 

Dad-1

I do have backups of all the photos that I posted on Photobucket, but I wanted to download my albums to avoid having to retrieve them from my archives.

 

I have managed (at last) to download all my photos from the site, which is now worse than useless.  Most of the options don't work properly (like download album) and there are so many adverts the site is rendered unusable.

 

Now, I have closed my account and sent them a message telling them exactly why I have done it - not that I expect they will even read it, but it made me feel better!

 

Good riddance Photobucket - with an attitude to customers like that, they will more than likely go to the wall (I feel sorry for their employees).