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GTA Intro and Help => GTA Forum Help Desk => Topic started by: roj on July 19, 2017, 02:10:54 PM
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In searching the various "gates" for info and assistance, a great many of the photos posted in those posts do not appear. Instead there may be a Photobucket message or the ubiquitous kitty cat. Is this occurring somehow on my end or have the photos on those hosting services expired? This is especially problematic when researching DIY info for tuning and mods and the like.
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LOTS of discussion on the forum about what photobucket has done to many of us.
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=128819.msg1266095#msg1266095 (https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=128819.msg1266095#msg1266095)
I have over 1,000 photos in threads and will fix them as I can find the time. THANK you photobucket....money hungry extortionists.
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Oh sure roj... poor salt in the wound.
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=128721.0 (https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=128721.0)
;)
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Have time ... now right there is FUNNY stuff !!
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Yeah, I know Scott. You can't buy that kind of humor.
;D
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Whoa! I did not mean to pick at a scab. Since I have never used one of those hosting services, (I can barely load photos from my desktop), I had no idea what was going on. Bummer...
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I'm here all week... try the veil.
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Fill out reviews of Photobucket often, and loudly.
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.photobucket.com (https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.photobucket.com)
Tweet your sweet revenge.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40photobucket&src=typd (https://twitter.com/search?q=%40photobucket&src=typd)
Yell at Photobucket here there, and everywhere.
https://www.facebook.com/photobucket/ (https://www.facebook.com/photobucket/)
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LOTS of discussion on the forum about what photobucket has done to many of us.
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=128819.msg1266095#msg1266095 (https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=128819.msg1266095#msg1266095)
I have over 1,000 photos in threads and will fix them as I can find the time. THANK you photobucket....money hungry extortionists.
I've been doing the same thing when revisiting threads where I had pics from photo bucket myself Dave. Luckily I don't have near the amount you have but I still see one every now and then and will edit it because most of them I still have on my puter plus the fact that I'm leaving photobucket in limbo and I can get the needed photos from there and either upload them here or to flickr 8)
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IMO, all the "free" cloud storage sites will eventually take away your free storage space or require a fee membership.
It has happened to me with Dropbox, Box, Amazon, MS OneDrive and a few I can't remember.
They may have left me with some minimal space, but have taken away my bonus space earned through referrals.
I even ran my own cloud server here at home, but lost interest paying electric usage to run my own server.
Now I just burn a dvd of older photos and keep others on my local drive and copies on my wifes desktop linux pc.
Linux lets you partition your hard drive with a separate "home" partition so I can reload or change my OS without losing files, web links or passwords.
Unfortunately for me, MS OneDrive doesn't have a sync application for linux, so I need to manually upload files to it.
A bit inconvenient, but they provide a bit more freespace than the others. It works for now.
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I've been happily using Linux Mint since soon after it was released :D
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It's not just the GTA forum that is affected. This sounds like it could be a MASSIVE class action lawsuit.
In effect, these providers pulled a bait-and-switch, and are now holding hostage the intellectual property of thousands of American citizens.
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Well sense Photobuket no longer allows free third party image hosting. Here's a test post to see if google works.
(https://photos.app.goo.gl/bmiQL5afz8khTpX43)
Well ^ that ^ didn't work
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Well sense Photobuket no longer allows free third party image hosting. Here's a test post to see if google works.
(https://photos.app.goo.gl/bmiQL5afz8khTpX43)
Well ^ that ^ didn't work
(http://www.w0ipl.net/Shock1.gif)
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Yea... All I could get to work with Google was a link to my video a while back.