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Post by Adrian Jordan on Jul 18, 2017 0:59:37 GMT
I had an account from before that I forgot the email/password too that had my very earliest stuff on it. I checked out my current Photobucket account, and was simultaneously glad and dismayed at how many images were on it that I thought weren't. No excuse now to just blow it transferring them besides laziness, hahaha.
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Post by stormmaster on Jul 18, 2017 1:20:21 GMT
im sad to hear how photobucket has screwed over so many people but somehow it is still working for me as far as i can tell
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Post by pgandy on Jul 18, 2017 2:49:17 GMT
Also, keep in mind, I'm using an ancient PC---a 2003 Gateway with a Celeron processor and a 40 gig hard drive... (rofl) How is that thing still running? :o I had several Gateways early on. My wife and I probably were instrumental in several other sales. Their customer service was great. I only had one major problem with the desk tops. Gateway eventually got me squared away, but I thought it was a really stupid engineering issue. I had the computer for several years and was becoming concerned about the life of the CMOS battery and had asked for a replacement several times and the rep always would side step the issue or the battery was never forth coming. Finally the battery gave out and Gateway didn’t want to replace it saying that I had waited too long and the warranty had expired. I proved that I had for repeatedly asked for a battery late in the warranty period to which they agreed to send a battery but there was one hitch I was informed of and that was the battery was not replaceable as such as it was permanently attached to the motherboard and that I would need to change out the motherboard in order to change the battery???? Crazy. As I as a student at the time majoring in computers I thought it a good challenge and said send it on. It proved to be a good exercise. What turned me off of Gateway was the lap top I purchased. It had numerous issues that Gateway didn’t want to address and gave me a hard time. The last time it broke was while I was in another country and the local people could not repair it. I contacted Gateway requesting the part and even gave the part number. They refused to send the part saying that I needed to return the computer as it was still under warranty. I told them that I would pay for the part and forget the warranty but the insisted on a return. That was no easy task as international shipping was involved and the law stated that I needed a written statement from three repair shops that it was not repairable and needed to be returned to the factory or I was subject to custom fees, taxes and the whole mess as buying and importing a new computer. At that point I wrote Gateway off. Later they had a class action law suit against them involving that computer and I did get some money and satisfaction. Hopefully they have their act together by this time but I still have a soar taste with Gateway. The HP that I replaced it with in 2002 lasted until 2014. I still have it but decided to upgrade.
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 18, 2017 10:13:24 GMT
That sounds like a headache. My grandfather used to love Gateway computers, back in the 90s and early 2000s, but got turned off when their quality and service dropped. I'd gotten a Gateway laptop for my high school graduation/going to college gift back in '03 and it was a good machine. I had to buy a new battery at some point as the original stopped charging, otherwise no real hardware problems. Then I dropped it when the headphones I was wearing as I carried it through the hallway snagged a doorknob and took it out of my hands. Shattered the LCD screen and broke a good bit of the main body, but I plugged in a CRT monitor (this was '05-06) and used it a few more months until I bought an iMac. That saw 9 long years of service (still works, last I checked) but then I was given a Lenovo Ideacenter or some such all-in-one. Broke the touchscreen in the first year, darn thing feel over and landed on a shaving brush, but it still runs without the touchscreen. Since I went and broke my ankle, though, I spend 90% of my time in my bed, lounging, so I finally gave it and bought a Dell Inspiron 2-in-1 laptop that I hope to get a few years out of. Anyway, Photobucket sucks.
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Post by Voltan on Jul 18, 2017 16:28:03 GMT
Random, a couple years ago I upped it from 256k to a gig of RAM. That helped it tremendously, as far as not freezing up anymore when browsing. It still doesn't like playing HD videos on Youtube though. Wait...there's an internal battery that may go out? I'm not exactly a computer whiz...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 17:18:08 GMT
My younger brother passed in 1996, leaving behind a Win 5 machine. There is an internal battery (of sorts) that does die over time but even after years of dead storage, one can get machines running again, once again refreshing the internal system to a new start. In that case, pulling out his machine in 2004 and booting it up in administrative mode.
2 gig ram is advisable for streaming video. Honestly, the Chromebooks are cheap and offer a great deal of utility for general browsing duties and with added drives, as capable (and secure) as most low end laptops. A downside or two but there are work arounds. A real plus is no viruses and ability to remove malware extensions.
Lots of heavy duty SATA drive towers for really cheap these days. Consider one the next time one has some free cash.
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 18, 2017 20:50:43 GMT
My laptop had a removable lithium battery thingy. That died two years in, right after the warranty. $170-something to buy a new one, but it just popped right out and back in again so no expensive professional repair stuff.
Desktop computers do have small batteries, either CMOS or BIOS or some other such faculty, but I've never heard of one going out. Then again, I've never known anyone using the same computer for ten years... My own record is nine with the iMac, though it still works if I feel like plugging it in...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 22:47:30 GMT
I had toasted 3 dell 610 32 bit XP laptops over the years after my previous Millennium 16 bit tower from 1999 with a 20gb drive failed in 2009 from a power supply fault. Saved the drive and extracted my files. The XP machines died a horrible death. I would have gotten Win 7 drives for the Dells but by the time I bought even one, it would not update past 7 (not enough room and 32 bit). The tower and laptop capacitors/reserve are meant to maintain the clock and stuff during an outage/etc. The old Win 5 machine started up and just needed a follow the directions routine to get back home. State of the art in 1995, went to sleep in '96. My dad didn't want to know what was on it, so it had been stowed away. A large nest of field mice in the monitor box
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 23:03:00 GMT
Anyway, I maintain many tens of thousands of images and copy to back up drives from time to time. Some of it uploaded to Google drive. Big images take up space and it is hotlinking those that cost as well as the storage itself. Every time a thread is opened, everyone viewing is using bandwidth from the source (forum attached or not). Every hosted image takes up space and uses bandwidth at the source displaying the image.
It should be as clear as data plans on any phone service but I think a lot of folk simply don't know/realize what bandwidth and storage cost. bucket users are seeing that now and as I mentioned/predict, imgur and others will soon follow up with fees for large folders. I know running or renting a dedicated private server is really beyond a lot of us but at the least, always back up your work.
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Post by pgandy on Jul 28, 2017 18:27:42 GMT
It’s beginning to look like Photobucket is another ball game now. This morning a received an ad for bunch of camping gear as though they have entered online retailing. I plan to delete the photos they have, transfer if possible, and eliminate my account but I keep putting it off.
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Jul 29, 2017 1:46:09 GMT
Looks like they @&$!ed me. Hard. All those review photos. Ugh.
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Post by pgandy on Aug 1, 2017 12:42:27 GMT
Got an email from Photobucket this morning the subject being “What matters the most to you?”. Anybody care to answer? Actually the mail was to assure me how safe me photos are and wanting me to buy more GBs in order to store more photos. They’ve got to be kidding.
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Post by Robert in California on Aug 2, 2017 5:10:02 GMT
I plan one more sword review...should I go pinterest or postimage? RinC
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Post by Adrian Jordan on Aug 2, 2017 5:23:23 GMT
We've got members who swear by both, so I think either will do. For longevity, perhaps Pinterest would be the way to go. I'm really feeling sketchy about any and all free hosting sites right now. Effing Photobucket.
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Post by RickDastardly on Aug 2, 2017 6:13:11 GMT
I know it's not a solution for everyone but I think the only really safe way is to buy a domain and have the photos there. That's what I've done for years, having briefly experimented with free hosting. I never did trust them.
When the internet was young, there was a similar scam with hostnames, getting people to register them almost for free, then holding them to ransom when they got popular under the 'variable terms'. It was either stump up the ransom demand, or lose the now-popular name to the company, who subsequently sold it. I've never trusted anything free or cheap since.
Now, proper domain hosting is cheap enough and it really isn't hard to do. My photos on various sites go back at least ten years, even though I've moved my domain to different hosting companies a few times.
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Aug 3, 2017 16:42:43 GMT
All my pictures are still posting fine. I only have the $39.95 a year plan. With this plan I don't have ads either.
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Post by Voltan on Aug 11, 2017 4:16:32 GMT
So Photobucket has hit the forum now. Just for little icons. How petty can you get?
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Post by randomnobody on Aug 11, 2017 5:57:47 GMT
All the pictures I can think to check are still showing, such as the Forged in SBG threads. I'm wondering if they're immune because they're embedded as thumbnails, thus not qualifying as "third-party hosting," or if it's simply that there's a bandwidth limit, perhaps per photo, before Photobucket decides it's hosting for a third party?
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Post by pgandy on Mar 6, 2018 18:35:07 GMT
Got an email from Photobucket saying “We are launching a brand new website in the coming weeks with plans tailored for your specific needs.” You guys can take that for what it’s worth. I’ve been screwed over twice by them. It’s not going to happen again. There are other ways to save photos and send photos. Appears that they may be hurting for business and are taking a new approach.
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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Mar 6, 2018 18:54:16 GMT
Had to get some of my old pics from their website last week, the current state is horrible (for a free user) with adds windows everywhere and every time you click on anything, I wonder if it will be the same without premium paying account on this 'new venture'.
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