Photobucket images broken, $399 a year!

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a torrent/audiobook site I frequent seems to host their own pix

butt it’s not small, and it gets support

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Hi everyone, this is indeed frustrating, but please avoid swearing and thinly veiled variants of swear words. Thanks in advanced for going back and cleaning things up.

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those who use PB will do hell of job to re-link their pictures in case they don’t want to pay $399/ year

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Hmm, they just collected my annual fee and my pics are still up. I haven’t received any notice of this.

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Deeeeeeeep pockets one must have not to care much about this…

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Sorry guys,
I had over 300 pictures on photobucket. Most linked here were in the “Guess the place” thread but there were a few in other posts. All now broken links.

I am NOT going to resurrect them (I have copies).

In future I’ll either use a roll-your-own site on one of my domains, or imgur/abload,
with the understanding that any 3rd party site can disappear (picasa).

I will fix my .sig !

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Does anyone use Piwigo ?

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I like flickr for this forum…

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That might work with low view counts. But it’s not a very reliably model. And it’s still crap that they gave no warning at all.

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I agree, and yes, it’s terrible that they didn’t seem to give any warning.

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Mine are affected too. Created a small utility to help migrate the pb links embedded in my forum posts to either imgur.com or ImageShack.

now slowly migrating away from pb... as of v1.0.3, it now supports migrating my posts in BLF, CPF and TFF. Now, just hope I can still find all my photos from my local drive to be uploaded to imgur or ImageShack.

this utility is to address the tedious process of identifying those hashed filename from imgur or ImageShack. Unlike photobucket, imgur (and imageshack, etc.) do not use our original filename when linking to the file. For example, when I upload the file named "S1RvsH1RvsH102.jpg" to photobucket, I get a link like "http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss200/rookiedaddy/Flashlights/Olight/H1R/Photos/S1RvsH1RvsH102.jpg" from photobucket where the original filename is intact. But when I upload to imgur, imgur gives me a link like "http://i.imgur.com/ydb5bRs.jpg" where the filename is hashed and original filename is preserved (luckily) as one of the file properties.

this makes updating our posts in forum very tedious. So the app's purpose is to look at photobucket's filename and do a lookup to user's imgur image from a local repository and try to find a match from the file property and replace it with imgur's link.

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Sorry…

Cheers

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My all pictures disappeared from forum!!!

Oh DEAR LORD come help me please!!!

Edit:

That is really a hell of a job and almost impossible mission especially if you delete that pictures after uploading them.

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I do recall a heads up warning this was about to happen but didn’t pay much heed since it’s not my host,
However when I’ve seen things start like this before it always seems to set the trend, so currently setting up a standalone backup driver and transferring all my pics to that and downloading all from Imgur in a separate folder for what might be the inevitable with Imgur and the others as well.

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Rookiedaddy I can see where you may become one of the most beloved members of all time at photobucket for sure, that is really cool how you have that setup and saves a lot of people I’d bet.

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Whaa!! this is crisis!!!

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It is… My all work from 5 forums disappeared forever.

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Ransom.

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I copied all my images from Photobucket to Imgur a while back and edited a bunch of my posts. That said, I no longer use their crappy service.

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I’ve had to pay for a few years now but about a tenth of the $400 asking price. I wonder if mine will disappear?
Thanks once again Photobucket.