Anyone caught in the photobucket new fee service???
Jul 10, 2017 09:56:52 #
I currently have a 2TB drive in my pc. I have over 800GB of photos besides video and other data. I use two 4TB portable drives to alternate as backup drives. The backup drives only are attached during backup so they will not be corrupted via hacking or power surges. Of course all is on UPS.
This gives me peace of mind that all is in my control and protection.
I have several places I could use free cloud services, but do not trust my data and photos to be protected by others.
This works well for me!
This gives me peace of mind that all is in my control and protection.
I have several places I could use free cloud services, but do not trust my data and photos to be protected by others.
This works well for me!
Jul 10, 2017 10:17:00 #
Photo Bucket was used more as an image sharing site by forums. Luckily UHH allows us to upload photo's with little restraint to be fair.
Other forums are less generous and linking has become standard procedure. Many will have to rethink their policies.
It's a real pain to be looking to do something and find the green wire attaches here in the image below which doesn't exist any more.
Ebays a different matter, nobody much cares about old auctions other than when trying to identify things like lenses (e.g i was looking at a tamron lens which said vivitar on the front it was actually a series 1 vivitar 100-300mm f5 with OM mount which i let the seller know what he was actually selling).
Photobucket have been very harsh with no notice and while many users used free accounts many paid and are now forced to upgrade if they want to keep the links they have posted over the years from breaking. If Photobucket had given a transition period then many sites could have moved images locally in a fairly automated manner. Now many posts over many years may not be able to be updated, some of the original posters may not even be alive now. I don't think photobucket has given sites an option of keeping the old links or recovering image files.
Nasty move on their part, but perhaps this will ensure forum sites are made a little more robust.
Other forums are less generous and linking has become standard procedure. Many will have to rethink their policies.
It's a real pain to be looking to do something and find the green wire attaches here in the image below which doesn't exist any more.
Ebays a different matter, nobody much cares about old auctions other than when trying to identify things like lenses (e.g i was looking at a tamron lens which said vivitar on the front it was actually a series 1 vivitar 100-300mm f5 with OM mount which i let the seller know what he was actually selling).
Photobucket have been very harsh with no notice and while many users used free accounts many paid and are now forced to upgrade if they want to keep the links they have posted over the years from breaking. If Photobucket had given a transition period then many sites could have moved images locally in a fairly automated manner. Now many posts over many years may not be able to be updated, some of the original posters may not even be alive now. I don't think photobucket has given sites an option of keeping the old links or recovering image files.
Nasty move on their part, but perhaps this will ensure forum sites are made a little more robust.
Jul 10, 2017 10:35:46 #
This is VERY common.....NEVER store photos on one of these alone.......What was free will become very expensive..
Jul 10, 2017 10:57:01 #
I used amazon cloud, $12.00 unlimited photo storage. They upped it to $59.00 , so I bought another external drive, so now I backup to two drives, and to hell with the cloud.
Jul 10, 2017 10:58:31 #
Jul 10, 2017 11:16:10 #
advocate1982 wrote:
That's why I don't trust any cloud service at all. Free or not. It puts your work in a third party hands who's got no loyalty to you. If they go bankrupt, sold, close, etc. your work is gone. And it's happened more than once. So hard drives are cheap.
I'm trusting that Google and Amazon will weather the storm, very handy for a number of reasons. I also use Dropbox but not for "permanent" storage. Did you lose data from a company going down? Where has it "...happened more than once?"
Jul 10, 2017 11:23:47 #
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
I refuse to use cloud backup because I do not have absolute control of my property. Instead, I backup to a Drobo RAID system that is turned off when I am not doing a backup; thus reducing the chance of corruption or a hack. Once a week, I remove one of the drives from the Drobo and take it to the bank and exchange it for another drive that I keep in my safe deposit box. If the bank burns to the ground, my photos will still be secure. I put the drive I removed from the bank in my Drobo and it is automatically updated to match the other drives in the Drobo. This system gives me redundant backup that is always under my control.
Jul 10, 2017 13:34:10 #
ricardo7
Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile
jerryc41 wrote:
"Free" is a good way to attract customers, but it's not a good way to stay in business.
It took the print news media a bit of time to figure that one out.
Jul 10, 2017 16:17:47 #
hank6595
Loc: Amesbury, MA
I've been using CARBONITE for years and I have had occasion to use it twice. First was to recover all my data and photos when my computer died and went to hell and the
second when I purchased a new computer. They have everything in the cloud to I can go to my files and photos from my pad and cell. Happy with the set up and worth the
$59.00 I pay each year.
second when I purchased a new computer. They have everything in the cloud to I can go to my files and photos from my pad and cell. Happy with the set up and worth the
$59.00 I pay each year.
Jul 10, 2017 18:06:09 #
After a couple external HD failures, I now use Backblaze ( https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup-ad.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj6Oo8tv_1AIVx4WzCh02YAH2EAAYASAAEgJF1PD_BwE#1056 ) and my own externals. Backblaze is, for me on soc. sec., affordable and just that extra feeling of security. If the house burns down, I have my work. If an external or the computer fails, I have my work.
By the way, it isn't "if" an external will fail, it's "when".
By the way, it isn't "if" an external will fail, it's "when".
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