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| Zagato Site Supporter Member Since: 08 Jan 2011 Location: Billingshurst West Sussex Posts: 5013  
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Not sure if there is a thread on this already but Photobucket are wiping out people's pictures on forums etc demanding (for me anyway) $399 per year to get them back. They earn through adverts with a choice for the user to pay extra, no problem with that but it is very inconsiderate to just wipe people's pictures out without any warning. I won,t be held to ransom and won,t be paying such a massive amount.
Thankfully it appears pictures in this forums gallery are not effected, good on you Martin  it has saved the day but made a mess of forum pictures and some threads.
I wonder if I can get. My personal pictures back off them. This has the info. http://photobucket.com/p500/ Last edited by Zagato on 30th Jun 2017 9:22am. Edited 1 time in total |
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30th Jun 2017 7:59am |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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That's a bloody nuisance. I'd recently stopped putting new pictures onto Photobucket as it kept crashing but I've got lots of older ones still on there for display both here and disco3.co.uk. I can see me having to work my way back through and move them here
 Darren
110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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30th Jun 2017 8:12am |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6610 
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Holy
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30th Jun 2017 9:52am |
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| Zagato Site Supporter Member Since: 08 Jan 2011 Location: Billingshurst West Sussex Posts: 5013
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Been given a link to the issue on PistonHeads, seems as though many people are being affected daily. Whole technical threads being made useless without the pictures. They are all saying they are leaving Photobucket. This will mess up many forums as well
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30th Jun 2017 10:56am |
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| Zagato Site Supporter Member Since: 08 Jan 2011 Location: Billingshurst West Sussex Posts: 5013
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How do you post pics from your gallery?
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30th Jun 2017 11:13am |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6610
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Uploading and Posting Pictures
If posting existing photos you can click the "Add to my posting list" button under the image, then post on the forum and the images will appear below the message box. Here is the old way: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic124.html 1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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30th Jun 2017 11:16am |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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It's (or was) just a convenient place to host pictures for use on forums like this. They'd be a poorer place if there was nothing to look at  Darren
110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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30th Jun 2017 11:22am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17443 
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Ransomware by another name!
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30th Jun 2017 11:59am |
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| dorsetsmith Member Since: 30 Oct 2011 Location: South West Posts: 4554 |
ITS there to make money and no other resend
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30th Jun 2017 12:11pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20443
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I've never been that smitten with that site if I'm honest.
I always keep my own back up and if I use a sharing site if ever that sort of thing happens they can just get stuffed. I wouldn't suggest anyone relies on an exterior source fully for media storage.  No Guts, No Glory.
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30th Jun 2017 12:33pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897  
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My Photobucket account seems unaffected. I only pay them about $5 a year for advert removal.
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30th Jun 2017 12:37pm |
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| CarMan Member Since: 29 Nov 2010 Location: Cotswolds Posts: 1862
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What he says but I pay them nothing, though I have only a few on there Rob
1993 200tdi 90 hard-top 1998 300tdi 90 soft-top 2016 2.2 XS 90 hard-top (sold) |
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30th Jun 2017 1:07pm |
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| GREENI Member Since: 22 Aug 2010 Location: staffs Posts: 10383
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I've always used Google, I pay about $1.50 a month and I'll never load enough photos to fill half of the capacity, no bs adverts either!!
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30th Jun 2017 1:07pm |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6610
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From what I can find out they haven't applied this to all Photobucket accounts... yet.
1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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30th Jun 2017 1:08pm |
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