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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
I can see that some of our friends here have custom avatars hosted by Photobucket, like I did. WTG, Daniel...you’re blurry and watermarked! I received an email saying that my account was over their 25mb limit for free access. I really don’t use photobucket any more except for a few stray avatars, so I went in and dumped a bunch of pictures. But my WTF avatar was still blurry, because Photobucket uses a rolling 30 day average. I don’t want to be blurry for a month! So now I’m hosting my avatar on my blog site. I feel so crisp!
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Quite a while back I downloaded everything I had on PB. First they told me I could only have 250 images. So I went in and cut my bucket down below that. Then they said I could only have 25 MB and I had 265MB. So I deleted every damn picture I had. They are still sending emails that I am over the limit. Greedy bastards.
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate |
I have the same kind of thing going with Flickr. But I have a lot of photos on my blog that are hosted on Flickr, and I don’t have the time to go back and download and change them, so I’m paying for Flickr. I won’t pay for both Flickr and Photobucket, so Photobucket loses here.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
thanks for the heads up, AM. I didn't realize it was still on Photobucket; I stopped using it years ago when they stopped being free. I'm surprised that the avatar was still showing up. I'll get around to fixing it one of these days...
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Mik, how did you download the images? I could find a way to do one at a time, but not a batch download. They've either disabled it or are hiding it somewhere....
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
I can't get in to my PB account at all. Passwords now require 6 characters and mine had only 5. Oh well.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Steve, I stumbled upon this whilst looking for how to download bunches of pics. Maybe it will help you get back in? https://secure.photobucket.com/forgot
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
I'm doing this the hard way, cleaning up all the pics I don't want anymore, then downloading the ones I want to keep, one at a time...pant, pant....
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Ha! That worked! Thanks WTG! Now it says my account is restricted because I have too many pictures. I can't share or download anything. To take the account off of restriction they want $4.99 per month. If I signed up for a month I could download all of my pictures and then delete enough pictures to keep the account active. The only reason I hesitate as it can be difficult to cancel monthly services like this once they get started. Has anyone tried to cancel Photobucket?
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| Minor Deity |
Yep. That is how I did it. Another reason not to pay them - their platform is awful. I also have a problem with the fact that they attracted everyone by being free then locked up the pictures.
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| Minor Deity |
Yeah. I paid the one month, downloaded everything then quit. I think you should still be able to delete pics. You just have to get by their messages that try not to let you by without paying. I did that by clicking on library up at the top left.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
You can download, Steve. You have to go to each photo and then there's an option to download. I'm deleting the stuff I don't want first; no problem doing that. They made it as painful as possible to get your photos back. They keep popping up a message asking you to sign up or to remind you in five minutes. I keep clicking on the "remind in five minutes" option. What a bunch of shysters.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Heh. Even if you sign up for a month you can only download one picture at a time and it's very, very slow. Off to cancel the subscription.
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate |
Ugh. I have most of those pictures elsewhere on my computer; I only put them on Photobucket so I could share them. Those shared picture posts would be so old, no one would be looking for them any more. So I just took my avatar, and left my Pw ABForum medals (which will be blurry for a month). I understand that they need money, but it’s not a user-friendly platform, so I won’t pay for it. So many other hosting options that actually work.
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| Minor Deity |
I wanted to leave an appropriate message for Photobucket as my last remaining image. Unfortunately I could not find one and was too lazy to create it.
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