richhotrain BRAKIE Atchee,How about us folk that uses a note pad or laptop? I see no way to back up my photos. Larry raises an excellent point. I have a laptop and I also have a Seagate back up drive. But, more and more people are using devices like a smart phone in lieu of a conventional computer, desktop or laptop. What are they to do? Rich
BRAKIE Atchee,How about us folk that uses a note pad or laptop? I see no way to back up my photos.
Atchee,How about us folk that uses a note pad or laptop? I see no way to back up my photos.
Larry raises an excellent point. I have a laptop and I also have a Seagate back up drive. But, more and more people are using devices like a smart phone in lieu of a conventional computer, desktop or laptop. What are they to do?
Rich
Just like suggested above, I use a tablet during the day out on the job sites. Any photos I take that are important, I email them to myself, and download onto my desktop computer, which is backed up several different ways every week.
I skipped right over the smart phone idea. I can't see or type on those things. I actually still have a flip phone that has text messaging linked to the tablet.
I have yet to have a storage issue on my tablet.
Sheldon
richhotrainmore and more people are using devices like a smart phone in lieu of a conventional computer, desktop or laptop. What are they to do?
Email the good photos to yourself, download on the computer, and save them there.
If your phone or tablet has a micro-usb connection, which most of them do, you can get a dual use thumbdrive that has both a micro and regular connection to back up. Office supplies carry them as well as electronic stores. You can use them to transfer photos as well.
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I'm not picking on anybody, but it appears that a lot of folks don't understand how a some people use computers. Simply, they take it for granted that anything beyond the machine they bought is beyond their scope of understanding and coping. And, if the computer came with a "smaller" hard drive, something that stores your stuff somewhere else and lets you free up drive space is a godsend. And, that's how you get into people who get their stuff held hostage or have it disappear completely.
Having messed with computers at some level for a long time (since I built RAM expansions for my VIC 20s), I understand the importance of backing up your stuff. And yet, I've still managed to loose some stuff occasionally.
My proceedure now is to back up a list of personal files daily to two USB hard drives, and run a drive clone software weekly that backs up everything on the machine including software to two other hard drives, which are alternated with two other drives every other week.
Well, USB hard drives are like plugging in a thumb drive - simple. I look for deals for drives at my favorite computer store and auction site. I've got less than $200.00 invested in my backup drives and housings.
I've spent the bucks it takes to build a good computer and protect it only to have a motherboard failure take out data that wasn't easily (or affordably) recoverable.
My point here is that backing up your files isn't a complicated process and a little bit of research and investment will protect your stuff. The methods I use allow me to hit the ground running if I have a major computer failure and have to replace it with a different machine. It's been a while, but the last 1tb drives I bought were brand name bulk packed and cost $35.00 each w/free shipping. Hard to justify anybody's storage fees for that king of pricing.
Finally, I've been using the PB add-in for Firefox for a while and haven't missed a thing since. It's pretty gratifying to open KPs great thread on double tracking and being able to review ALL the pictures of interest.
doctorwayneA right-click and "save as" works well, too.
Not so much. This will save the image as it was scaled for viewing in your browser. "Download" will get you a full resolution copy of the image as it was uploaded.
I have the right to remain silent. By posting here I have given up that right and accept that anything I say can and will be used as evidence to critique me.
I have the same as Dave, I did this 3 years ago, and my annual fee is $15. I have been holding my breath at each renewal, but it stays the same.
All of the photos I have in PB, are in other places, as thats where they came from, computer, camera, seperate drive, etc.
I don't get how anyone can "loose" their pictures, as if the photos they have in PB are the only copy they have. They had to come from somewhere.
Mike.
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ATLANTIC CENTRALI have the full subscription to photobucket, no ads at all. Not that I ever need to, but I have tested it. I can download my pictures to my computer with no problem.
Same here with my $20.00 annual fee. No pop ups and all of my pictures are available.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
To everyone out there regarding Photobucket,
Next time your hard drive crashes or you get a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) remember to Write Down The Problem! Always!
That way you'll know what happened, what type of error it was, and how to reboot your computer into safe mode.
ATLANTIC CENTRAL...To move copies to your computer use "download" in the pull down tool menu.
A right-click and "save as" works well, too.
Wayne
Southgate Replying to some of the comments about backing up photos, I thought I had an arrangement to back all mine on the "cloud" automatically. I did have every photo stored in my computer that was on PB and many more. Hard drive crashed. BADLY! And I discovered I had to back each photo or album to the cloud deliberately, after said crash. I still have that hard drive. A recovery company looked into it, said at least 800 bucks with 500 down to possibly retrieve most of the photos. I'm not a gambler. If paying PB $20 will guarentee I can recover just what I had there, it's worth it. But I recon I'll sail away after that. The idea of using an external hard drive could have saved me thousands of pictures, some far more dear than my hobby related ones. Dan Edited in: I just signed in again, still get buried in pop-ups and when I finally do get a picture open, I can't copy and paste a picture, only copy link. Does that change if you pay up? And do you have to go through the same long procedure for each photo?
Replying to some of the comments about backing up photos, I thought I had an arrangement to back all mine on the "cloud" automatically. I did have every photo stored in my computer that was on PB and many more. Hard drive crashed. BADLY! And I discovered I had to back each photo or album to the cloud deliberately, after said crash.
I still have that hard drive. A recovery company looked into it, said at least 800 bucks with 500 down to possibly retrieve most of the photos. I'm not a gambler.
If paying PB $20 will guarentee I can recover just what I had there, it's worth it. But I recon I'll sail away after that.
The idea of using an external hard drive could have saved me thousands of pictures, some far more dear than my hobby related ones. Dan
Edited in: I just signed in again, still get buried in pop-ups and when I finally do get a picture open, I can't copy and paste a picture, only copy link. Does that change if you pay up? And do you have to go through the same long procedure for each photo?
I have the full subscription to photobucket, no ads at all. Not that I ever need to, but I have tested it. I can download my pictures to my computer with no problem.
To do that you do not use "copy", copy is used to create copies within photobucket for separate albums.
To move copies to your computer use "download" in the pull down tool menu.
The bucket lost me when they pulled their idiotic stunts.
My photos were removed, by me, to other sites, and I made sure they were on my hard-drive and back-up hard-drive.
I then deleted my account with the bucket, and told them exactly why, that I refused to pay any black mailer, ransomware, idiot or theif anything!
Way too late for them to try to backpedal now.
Ricky W.
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1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
riogrande5761 Thank you Mr. Wrong assumption. Like most did, all ARE saved locally. Shall I reword? "held hostage to convenience"
Thank you Mr.
Wrong assumption. Like most did, all ARE saved locally. Shall I reword? "held hostage to convenience"
Well my aplogies for misunderstanding, you sure made it sound like you did not have other access to the images.
I realize now the use of the term hostage was just another shot at Photobucket, not an actual fact regarding your images. Silly me.
Once again sarcasm seldom translates well to the written word.
Anyway, all my threads still have their photos........not all that important to me on here, but very important to all the folks at mytractorforum.com where I have posted 45 pages of technical info in the last nine years.
Bye now,
selectorTempus edax rerum. Time devours everything.
It kind of goes without saying ... especially where techonology is concerned.
Along those lines, NPR had a series not long ago about how archivists would try to preserve things of historical significance and with the constant change in methods of storage, they were actually saving audio recordings on primitive groove recordings simliar to early records; idea being that any technology used to record sound is constantly evolving and the best way to have something able to be listened too in the distant future was to record in a medium primitive enough to be fairly easy to be recreated, and avoid technology no longer available or difficult to recreate.
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richg1998 To those who might wonder, I have all my photos on an external hard drive. Makes no sense to put them only to another site. I knew PB would eventually fail. If I want to post a photo of something, I use the MRH forum. They do it easily. I do not trust the cloud, either. Rich
To those who might wonder, I have all my photos on an external hard drive. Makes no sense to put them only to another site. I knew PB would eventually fail.
If I want to post a photo of something, I use the MRH forum. They do it easily.
I do not trust the cloud, either.
Tempus edax rerum. Time devours everything. Imgur tomorrow, who knows next week...even Microsoft's days are numbered. I think adobe and java change themselves in one way or another regularly, but there's a better mousetrap between someone's ears somewhere.
I have moved on. Railimages suits me just fine, and as some others have said, multiple file storage places, some in an old coffee cup near my desk....thumb drives. I also run a 4 TB external backup daily.
BRAKIE riogrande5761 Shall I reword? "held hostage to convenience" Jim, convenience is a handy thing when one has 35 pages of irreplaceable photos.
riogrande5761 Shall I reword? "held hostage to convenience"
Jim, convenience is a handy thing when one has 35 pages of irreplaceable photos.
NWP SWPI may be young but I'm not daft,
I was referring to the very effusive response, not where you store your stuff.
riogrande5761Shall I reword? "held hostage to convenience"
I may be young but I'm not daft, I do not use Photo Bucket, I use Imgur, it works well and there aren't any ads.
I'm just glad I can see photos in old threads again.
Steve
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Thank you whoever for the info... I checked out Trainboard as I am still a fan of Tomkats building fronts so I managed to download them all tonight... or at least the ones that were there!
However I do wonder like many others how long it will last. PB has stuffed its own reputation in this but it is like a lot of lying corporations... once found out or made to backtrack, it will have a hard time regaining trust and thanks to their own actions, not ours, will never get to the peak it may have reached!
Trevor
riogrande5761 NWP SWP HALLELUJAH!!! LET THERE BE DANCING IN THE STREETS!!! LET THE WORLD LEADERS DECLARE THIS A INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CELEBRATION!!! Shaking my head - I think the rest of us are still too angry at PB to be so happy. As my British wife would say, young and daft. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING ALL THOSE OLD PICTURES IN THREADS!!! On one forum where I had a blog of sorts, I already deleted about 90% of the posts with photo's because they were broken. Too late. I don't trust PB any longer - this is just an open door for me to retrieve photo's that have been held hostage.
NWP SWP HALLELUJAH!!! LET THERE BE DANCING IN THE STREETS!!! LET THE WORLD LEADERS DECLARE THIS A INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CELEBRATION!!!
Shaking my head - I think the rest of us are still too angry at PB to be so happy. As my British wife would say, young and daft.
I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING ALL THOSE OLD PICTURES IN THREADS!!!
On one forum where I had a blog of sorts, I already deleted about 90% of the posts with photo's because they were broken. Too late.
I don't trust PB any longer - this is just an open door for me to retrieve photo's that have been held hostage.
Sorry, but I have to ask. Why would you have photos on a site like photobucket and not have them stored on your own computer/hard drive, etc?
I get that people are unhappy with Photobucket, that's fine. I made the choices I made about them based on time vs money.....I have more money than time.
But every one of the 500 photos I have on Photobucket is on my computer and backed up several different ways.
I'm going to work now, and back to sleep regarding this forum, as I have set new lower limits for my time on here.
NWP SWPHALLELUJAH!!! LET THERE BE DANCING IN THE STREETS!!! LET THE WORLD LEADERS DECLARE THIS A INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CELEBRATION!!!
By the way, one's Photobucket account is not automatically restored nor are the photos restored on public web sites. That godawful warning icon still appears in place of your photos unless and until you pay up. The extortion continues.
PB really screwed up in the manner they went about putting in a fee schedule. They could have done it in a much more amiable method and I suspect most folks would work with it.
But, they did what they did, realize that they ran off their "customer" base, and are now trying to get it back. That said, I would be reluctant to do so, for if they did what they did once, they could do it again.
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central