DO NOT try to "organize" your photo-toilet account

[Chicabee19]

all the pics we have are on computers)

My sister had all of her family photos on the computer - from 1986 to now. She kept saying how she should burn them all on DVDs, but she kept putting off. She recently lost them all.

This is why I will never own just a digital camera.

I really want a digital for posting quick pictures to the Internet. I still take all my important pictures with a film camera, and I can easily scan them to the computer if I want.

I've noticed that some people we know with digital cameras don't seem to value their photographs like we all did when they were only printed on paper. I think there will be a whole generation of people who won't have their precious family photos because of mishaps with the computer.

After almost losing 21GB of working files, I would never have valuable stuff on my PC w/o some kind of backup. If a friend had not sent me an external drive out of the blue, none of the work our team has done since 2002 would exist today!​

 

[Reinbeau]

I have all of my photos organized (sort of) in My Pictures. I tend to save things by Vacation Name, like Tennessee 2007, and then within that folder, subfolders - if I ever get around to renaming them. I know I would slack off if I didn't use something automated, which is why I use the Carbonite system. I disagree that my photos are any less precious to me, I'd be heartbroken if I lost them. My hubby loves to go through folders and relive times we've had. I'd never trust photo-toilet

or any other photo sharing site to be the keepers of my memories.

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

Dang phototoilet did it to us again! Now we have to upgrade to "pro" since we have to many pics on there. Or wait for it it reset on the 18th!!! I think GopherBoy will just go ahead and pay for the pro....shees....I am really sick of them "flushing" my work away!!!!


~Tiff~

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

You know.... if all your pics were hosted on BYC you wouldn't have this problem

Tiff, I'd suggest you wait until the bandwidth resets then we'll move all the pics to BYC. We can do it on the backend sinc you've got about 5 zillion pics.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Another idea:

Pay for one month ($5.00) then we can move everything, then hopefully you won't go over your bandwidth since most of the pics will be hosted on BYC.

 

[River Lizard]

What I do to backup my home computer files/photos is: I went out and purchased a external harddrive ( $ 60.00 ) and copy everything over to it once a month...During a storm I pull the plug on it so even if my house is hit by lightening and cooks my computer, I still have my external harddrive that has all my files on it.

As far as using photo bucket, the reason photos quit working after you move them is you're changing the web address(properties) of where the image is located. This happens to any image/file when you move from one location to another regardless whether it's on the same server company or not.

I think if you don't own your own website, I'd take Rob up on his great offer.

 

[swampducks]

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Re-organizing only screws you up if you've already used them in links to other places. If they're only stored there you can reorganize to your heart's content.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Great points!

Good new is that we were able to work with Tiff to copy over all of the great pics from photobucket to BYC where they will be happily kept cozy and safe

No more dreaded "this picture does not exist" or the more recent "user has exceeded bandwidth" messages.

If anybody sees these errors... ESPECIALLY the bandwidth one, please let me and/or the members know so we can make arrangements.