"Photobucket no longer working. Why ?
I can no longer copy the HTML code or URL and copy across to
SD, does anyone else have this problem , and what may I do ?
Also many of my old photos have been deleted from SD by photobucket.
5 Answers
It seems photo bucket has changed it's policy to make more money.
You would get a certain ammount of storage on photobucket for free, and you could link those pics to forums or sites no problem.
But now Photobucket is going to charge for bandwidth. so if you have your picture linked to a forum somewhere, everytime someone goes to that page (i guess) it is pulling info from photobucket thus moving over the net from photo bucket to that page and using internet band width, Photbucket has decided to charge people for that bandwidth, you get so much free bandwidth free per month, 10gb, but once that is used up, they cut you off and your pics will now not show up untill the next month and the clock restarts. I have only a few pics going to a few sites, and they hardly get looked at and yet I too have gone over the 10gb, (or so says photobucket) I am now currently looking for an alternative to photobucket.
I have just noticed that some pics have vanished from this thread.
We need to dump Photobucket.
I can not find where it explained it on photobucket but I did find this on a photobucket forum..
All of my linked Photobucket photos and videos have been replaced with this thing:
(A BLANK SQUARE WHERE YOU PIC WAS THAT NOW SAYS PHOTOBUCKET)
What does it mean, and how do I get my photos back?
Don't panic, and don't delete anything! Please, let us explain.
Bandwidth is the total amount of data transferred from your Photobucket account to the sites you post photos and videos on. It's kind of like the data plan on your phone. If you have a free account, you can use up to 10GB of bandwidth per month.
Imagine you have a photo that is 1MB in size, and you post it on your blog. Whenever a friend sees your blog, 1MB of data is transferred from your Photobucket account. That counts toward your 10GB per month limit (10GB = 10,000MB, and most photos are much smaller than 1MB).
Now, imagine your blog has a lot of photos on it, and their total size is 5MB. That would mean that 2,000 blog views would max out the bandwidth on your free Photobucket account. If you're linking multiple photos in multiple places, or you post photos on a popular site, your bandwidth can add up pretty fast!
There are two ways to get your linked photos and videos to show up again:
Wait until your cycle date. Your bandwidth limit resets every month on the date you created your account. Check your page to find out when your cycle date is and how much bandwidth you've used since your last cycle date. Go Plus. Plus accounts have unmetered bandwidth, no ads, and full-size photo storage. You'll love it!
Now imagine you have a photobucket picture as your avatar on a popular forum, can you imagine how fast you will go past your cap?
Eddie said:
once that is used up, they cut you off and your pics will now not show up untill the next month and the clock restarts.
O M G....that's news to me! I'll be looking for another free site.
Also, a V E R Y important note: I found that Flickr posted my private photo online for the whole world to see and there's no option to delete them.
Edit: Here's a list of photo hosting sites and what they offer, cost, etc.
I have been wondering for a while what has been occuring.
I guess there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
Thanks Ray - Marianne - Eddie.
Has anyone tried this
