Photobucket Rescue!

[Dayzedandkonfuzed]

After years of trying to get my photos back from the the stranglehold of photobucket, I was finally able to today with no issues! Last time I tried, every zip file I downloaded was corrupted, and I wasn't about to navigate a dozen albums to download hundreds of pics, one at a time.

So anyone else with this issue should jump on right now and save everything! Before they do their semi-weekly website overhaul and nothing works again!

 

[565bbchevy]

I just looked at mine and of coarse it has been so long I had to reset my password but luckily I have all of the pictures that are on there. I stopped using them when they decided not to be free anymore.
Years ago I went back and reposted pictures in posts that were relevant..

 

[Bonnewagon]

I transfered all my pics to my computer. Unfortunately they came unlabeled. Some rainy day I will label them so I can find them easier. Photobucket really sucked the big one when they stopped letting you link to the photos. Now they can KMA.

 

[Streetbu]

Can't wait until they finally go under. They get what they deserve!

 

[melloelky]

photobucket?bunch of prudes..

 

[motorheadmike]

Can't wait until they finally go under. They get what they deserve!

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Sort of. The model was doomed to failure as the demand for hosting imagery grew and server space isn't exactly free (profit from ad space isn't what it is today), but everyone was hooked on their services. So it was more a case of:

 

[Streetbu]

I have no problem with them trying to make money. I have a problem with how they did it. Going behind peoples backs and suddenly locking their pics up. Killing millions of threads. All they had to do was give some warning and I wouldn't have cared.

 

[motorheadmike]

I have no problem with them trying to make money. I have a problem with how they did it. Going behind peoples backs and suddenly locking their pics up. Killing millions of threads. All they had to do was give some warning and I wouldn't have cared.

I understand. It ruined a lot of things for a lot of people, but PB's bills still needed to get paid. Users being held over a barrel was probably a desperate move. You have to imagine their overhead and operating costs were insanely high at the time.

 

[Streetbu]

Lucky for me, it's not my problem. Them trying to force their problems onto their users is what killed them. A really bad decision to try to cover for a poor decision years before....

 

[Bonnewagon]

Like everything else- poor management. They had plenty of irritating pop-up ads for revenue. And if they had a really great service to sell, they would have made a fortune. But logging on was a headache, constant mis-routing, endless pitches for nothing I wanted. Good riddance.