The Photobucket Ransom thing

[Plynkes]

I don't appear to be able to even look at my pics on Photobucket itself. It talks about "3rd Party" hosting but doesn't seem to want to let me see them at all. All I can look at is thumb-nails. Photobucket seem to consider their own website a "3rd Party" now. Barmy.

Guess I'm going to have to start downloading them if I want to see these pics. None of them are on this computer. Probably on an external HD or a memory stick somewhere, but I'm disorganised enough that I'll probably never find them. I kept them on LAF so I wouldn't have to! 

Now why, after putting me through this hassle, would they think I would PAY to use their sluggish, wonky site of ads and Pop-ups. Paid hosting may be the way of the future, but I'll be damned if I'm giving them any of my money.

[OSHIROmodels]

I can't save them from the phone app to my phone and that's certainly not third party 

[Ray Rivers]

I understand Amazon has taken a huge hit with photos not being displayed.

Maybe it's time for folks like Jeff Bezos from Amazon and Jack Ma from Alibaba to start forking over money to "3rd parties" so that they can keep their billions rolling in.

[Viruz]

Hello everyone.
I am afraid that I must close my MetalMagic Forum.

Photobucket has destroyed everything.
I have uploaded 4308 files at Photobucket.
Many photos are on the PC, many photos are missing.

The photos I can not download (as zip File) ,Photobucket prevents it.(restricted functionality)
The scan with WinHTTrack failed with Photobucket.
I can not get hundreds and maybe thousands of photos new upload and linking.
I wait two more months and then make a decision.

7 years of work are in vain.

[Neotacha]

Hello everyone.
I am afraid that I must close my MetalMagic Forum.

Photobucket has destroyed everything.
I have uploaded 4308 files at Photobucket.
Many photos are on the PC, many photos are missing.

The photos I can not download (as zip File) ,Photobucket prevents it.(restricted functionality)
The scan with WinHTTrack failed with Photobucket.
I can not get hundreds and maybe thousands of photos new upload and linking.
I wait two more months and then make a decision.

7 years of work are in vain.

That is heart-breaking.  I'm so sorry you can't get all your files back.

[Viruz]

Many thanks you for your commiseration.

[Dr Mathias]

Now why, after putting me through this hassle, would they think I would PAY to use their sluggish, wonky site of ads and Pop-ups. Paid hosting may be the way of the future, but I'll be damned if I'm giving them any of my money.

I might have considered it if it was $20 a year or something. For their price, I can buy a gently used server and learn how to host my own pics.

[tomrommel1]

I opened my own Blog about wargaming and host my pictures from there . Very easy and much cheaper the Photobucket. I am sorry that my older pictures hosted by photo bucket can't be seen anymore but they are all on www.wargamesgazette.com if you care to have a look!

[Malebolgia]

Honestly, I think switching to other free photo hosting sites is tricky and might lead to similar problems in the future. Who knows wat the other sites will do...nothing is really free after all. If you have a lot of pictures and use them a lot on the web, then I'd opt to get some paid webspace to be sure. And you can get your own URL, which is easy to remember too!

[Cait Sidhe]

The photos I can not download (as zip File) ,Photobucket prevents it.(restricted functionality)
The scan with WinHTTrack failed with Photobucket.
I can not get hundreds and maybe thousands of photos new upload and linking.
I wait two more months and then make a decision.

7 years of work are in vain.

That's garbage... blocking photos on short notice is one thing but not allowing you to download your own files is such a hugely dick move.

I dunno if it will work but there's an addon for Firefox called DownThemAll! that let's you download everything on a page based on a specific filter you set up. So you could open a photobucket gallery and download all linked *.jpg,*.png etc. It seems there's another addon called DownThemAll! AntiContainer (requires DownThemAll!) that seems specifically designed for downloading images from stuff like Photobucket links which might link to a page instead of directly to the image.

Haven't tried it and I'm currently at work but I'll probably test it out tonight when I get home. That said photobucket didn't block me from downloading a gallery as a zip, might be to do with number of images or something.

[Gunbird]

PB hasn't stopped me from downloading my photos but sure goes out of its way to make it difficult. For the first folder I want to download I'm flooded with pop ups and you can audibly hear my PC straining, but after the first download and subsequent delete I only get 2 pop ups per folder. But as soon as the screen turns greyish I just refresh cause it means (on my PC anyway) ad add will pop up cover 2/3rds of my screen and nothing I have done sofar makes that go away.

Downloaded over 150 folders this week sofar, only 20 more to go. I'll be happy to be gone from that abomanation.

[Elbows]

I just can't believe you folks are cruising the internet without an adBlocker on!   What are you, savages!?

[jp1885]

Well Photo****it seems to have cottoned on to the ~original trick, so there goes my last reason to stay with them. Account deleted - bye bye PB.

[Gunbird]

I just can't believe you folks are cruising the internet without an adBlocker on!   What are you, savages!?

I have AdBlock Plus on, even. But when I click on the Photobucket site it turns grey and I cannot turn it on again. So I can't stop the flood of pop ups. Not that it matters, just downloaded the last of my photo's and deleted my account.

[Dr. Zombie]

It is not so much loss of pictures. I have backup of everything. It is the loss of "knowledge". I have been using Photobucket for ten years to post pics of my work and tips and tricks. That is ten years of post/threads down the drain. As there is now way I am going to relink all those pics.

So effectively Photobucket burned all the archives.