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General => Chat & Off Topic Stuff => Topic started by: DamienG on November 05, 2016, 02:25:39 PM

Title: Photobucket
Post by: DamienG on November 05, 2016, 02:25:39 PM

Has anyone else found Photobucket down all my thread pic's have gone and I can't log on to their site.

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on November 05, 2016, 04:18:26 PM

Yes Damien...it's a worldwide Photobucket server issue  :shhh

I don't use such servers........if they die ...you can loose everything.............unless you have your own backups 

Derek

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: DamienG on November 05, 2016, 04:50:25 PM

Thanks Derek, I don't have them backed up. ooops
If Photobucket comes back OK they'll all be copied to creative cloud for emergencies.

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: marinemole on November 06, 2016, 12:25:19 AM

Just done a very quick check. I can access my pictures using app on my Kindle and threads using Photobucket pictures display correctly. Either problem fixed or failure hasn't affected UK. Hope you manage to retrieve you pics.

Andy

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: DamienG on November 06, 2016, 12:00:49 PM

Thanks Andy, It came back about 13hrs ago and I've copied 200 pic's  so far to creative cloud  about 1000 to go.

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: marinemole on November 17, 2016, 11:39:50 AM

Further to my positive post about Photobucket I am now having problems trying to upload. Each time I click upload it redirects me to the login screen and won't accept the details. Lots of unhappy campers with same problem  on their support site, many of whom have paid for a Pro account.

Andy

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: DamienG on November 17, 2016, 12:42:24 PM

Not good Andy. Sounds like they've been hacked.

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: DamienG on July 11, 2017, 07:23:03 PM

The latest with Photobucket It is free to store your pics however if you wish to post them on forums and such it will now cost $39.99 a month or $399.99USD per year.  :ranting :ranting :ranting :ranting :ranting

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: DamienG on July 25, 2017, 06:42:30 PM

All my pic's are gone I removed 1267 pic's from photobucket to a hard drive next morning went to load the pics to paddleducks and the hard drive had died all gone family pics, model pics and my race car/hillclimb car 25 yrs of pics gone.
Silly me deleted each folder from photobucket after I downloaded them.

To say I'm peeved is as gross understatement.

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on July 25, 2017, 06:54:36 PM

Disconnect the hard drive, place it in a ziplok bag and place in on the middle shelf of your domestic kitchen refrigerator freezer

After 20 minutes, remove the drive.......reconnect to the PC........turn on & attempt a complete disk file transfer to an alternate external HDD.......

Do not try to install and transfer to smaller capacity ZIP drives......you will only get one chance

Good luck............ Derek

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: DamienG on July 25, 2017, 08:48:34 PM

Did that Derek it's completely dead.

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on July 25, 2017, 10:54:44 PM

Well it was worth a try :crash......my brother received a one year free subscription to a Computing magazine for his suggestion of putting the failed HDD on a bag of Birds Eye frozen peas for 20 minutes

The judges trialled it & it evidently worked   :whistle..........