Photobucket won't leave me alone!

[Simba's Mom]

Every day or two, I get an Email from Photobucket saying either that my account has expired and I need to renew, I'm over my bandwidth, etc. But I haven't used Photobucket in several years, since they started charging. I didn't bother deleting photos from there, though-the photos are on my phone, and I figured Photobucket would delete them and close my account. Why do they keep Emailing me?
A related question-I've never found a free photo website, very basic for the non-computer literate(me). Any suggestions?

 

[starry_solo]

Every day or two, I get an Email from Photobucket saying either that my account has expired and I need to renew, I'm over my bandwidth, etc. But I haven't used Photobucket in several years, since they started charging. I didn't bother deleting photos from there, though-the photos are on my phone, and I figured Photobucket would delete them and close my account. Why do they keep Emailing me?
A related question-I've never found a free photo website, very basic for the non-computer literate(me). Any suggestions?

Cuz they want you to subscribe. I get the same email about being over the storage limit.

Try IMGUR for a free photo website.

 

[Imzadi]

Photobucket keeps hassling you because you didn't delete your photos or close your account. They now want your money for posting those photos. (You can still get into your account and download them back to your computer.) Just hit the SPAM button on your email account and it will start deleting them.

As for a free website that I use for hosting photos to post online, I went to Blogger.com, created a free personal blog, went to setting, set it to PRIVATE. They have a text box, that looks just like on the DIS. I click on the IMAGE button, that looks the same as here. Upload a photo(s) from your computer to a blog post. No need for any text, unless you want notes to yourself. Remember the blog is private. You can create as many "blog posts" as you want as separate folders for all your photos, i.e. "Disneyland 2018," "WDW 2020." Click the PUBLISH or UPDATE button for the blog post to save changes. In the top left corner, it says: View Blog. Click on it. It will give you the "published" page of the blog, that only you can see since your blog is private.

Later, to post one of the photos elsewhere, on that (privately) PUBLISHED page, highlight, copy a photo, then paste it where ever else you want on the web. OR: right mouse click on it. Click Copy Image ADDRESS. Then click on the Image button on the web page where you want to insert it. Then look for "URL" or on the DIS it's just an icon of 2 chain links. (Don't confuse this with just the LINK button (to the left) to post a URL link, but not a photo.) Click it, paste the URL address you had just copied. Click INSERT. Done.

That's called, "Hot-linking." When someone grabs a photo from an existing hot/live webpage and posts it elsewhere on the web via the existing link. Social media actually thrives on this. They depend on "friends" copying snippets of each other's social media posts and re-posting, retweeting it, (usually along with a corresponding link,) to entice people and to help drive traffic to the fellow "friends" accounts & help friends build up web traffic and visa versa.

So, unlike a dedicated photo hosting site, which Photobucket is, it's a platform that's not going away anytime soon. I chose Blogger, as it's one of the oldest, most reliable blog companies, formerly Blogspot. Now owned by Google, unlike cash-strapped Photobucket, and not going away anytime soon. And they won't start charging us for our free blogs or holding our photos hostage, as that's not how Google operates.

 

[lynxstch]

Create a filter for the emails from them to go to either a junk/spam/or delete folder

 

[NYCgrrl]

Photobucket keeps hassling you because you didn't delete your photos or close your account. They now want your money for posting those photos. (You can still get into your account and download them back to your computer.) Just hit the SPAM button on your email account and it will start deleting them.

As for a free website that I use for hosting photos to post online, I went to Blogger.com, created a free personal blog, went to setting, set it to PRIVATE. They have a text box, that looks just like on the DIS. I click on the IMAGE button, that looks the same as here. Upload a photo(s) from your computer to a blog post. No need for any text, unless you want notes to yourself. Remember the blog is private. You can create as many "blog posts" as you want as separate folders for all your photos, i.e. "Disneyland 2018," "WDW 2020." Click the PUBLISH or UPDATE button for the blog post to save changes. In the top left corner, it says: View Blog. Click on it. It will give you the "published" page of the blog, that only you can see since your blog is private.

Later, to post one of the photos elsewhere, on that (privately) PUBLISHED page, highlight, copy a photo, then paste it where ever else you want on the web. OR: right mouse click on it. Click Copy Image ADDRESS. Then click on the Image button on the web page where you want to insert it. Then look for "URL" or on the DIS it's just an icon of 2 chain links. (Don't confuse this with just the LINK button (to the left) to post a URL link, but not a photo.) Click it, paste the URL address you had just copied. Click INSERT. Done.

That's called, "Hot-linking." When someone grabs a photo from an existing hot/live webpage and posts it elsewhere on the web via the existing link. Social media actually thrives on this. They depend on "friends" copying snippets of each other's social media posts and re-posting, retweeting it, (usually along with a corresponding link,) to entice people and to help drive traffic to the fellow "friends" accounts & help friends build up web traffic and visa versa.

So, unlike a dedicated photo hosting site, which Photobucket is, it's a platform that's not going away anytime soon. I chose Blogger, as it's one of the oldest, most reliable blog companies, formerly Blogspot. Now owned by Google, unlike cash-strapped Photobucket, and not going away anytime soon. And they won't start charging us for our free blogs or holding our photos hostage, as that's not how Google operates.

How do you do it?!?
I've tried every way I could think of unsuccessfully and am reduced to taking a screenshot of pics to upload them to my hard drive again.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I have a photobucket account somewhere, but I filtered out the emails a long time ago.

 

[low-key]

I have a photobucket account somewhere, but I filtered out the emails a long time ago.

me too

 

[starry_solo]

How do you do it?!?
I've tried every way I could think of unsuccessfully and am reduced to taking a screenshot of pics to upload them to my hard drive again.

There should be a little download key at the right of the picture

 

[Imzadi]

How do you do it?!?
I've tried every way I could think of unsuccessfully and am reduced to taking a screenshot of pics to upload them to my hard drive again.

I found the Download button missing. Plus, when it was there, it took longer to download each photo as it was more steps. It was faster to right mouse click.

You have to click on each separate photo, so it's on a page of the single photo, like below. This one is of a pink daisy:

Place your mouse cursor ON the photo, right mouse click on it. Where it says "Save Image As," (the words may be slightly different depending on your browser, but it's definitely SAVE or Download. Not "copy.") Click on that and save it to a folder on your computer. You can even rename your photo before saving it.

(These photos were uploaded to my private Blogger.com blog (as in a previous post,) and seamlessly posted here. )

 

[NYCgrrl]

@Imzadi and @starry_solo Thank you both for your assistance. There is no longer a download button on my acct so I'll give Imzadi's comprehensive tutorial a try.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Thanks all. It never occurred to me that at least I can mark Photobucket as "Scam" and their Emails won't show up in my Inbox any more. And I'll check out that IMGUR

 

[seashoreCM]

Doing a print screen to download your photos back to your own computer may result in loss of picture quality (generation loss, from making a copy of a copy etc.). Ideally you should have kept the original photos on your own computer.

I don't remember the exact steps to do it but right clicking the middle of the picture while it is showing seems to me the best way to get it downloaded. Each picture will have to be done one at a time.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Every day or two, I get an Email from Photobucket saying either that my account has expired and I need to renew, I'm over my bandwidth, etc. But I haven't used Photobucket in several years, since they started charging. I didn't bother deleting photos from there, though-the photos are on my phone, and I figured Photobucket would delete them and close my account. Why do they keep Emailing me?

Put them into your "spam"/"junk" filter.

A related question-I've never found a free photo website, very basic for the non-computer literate(me). Any suggestions?

Google Photo. If you have an Android phone, they will automatically upload

 

[declansdad]

How do you do it?!?
I've tried every way I could think of unsuccessfully and am reduced to taking a screenshot of pics to upload them to my hard drive again.

I refused to pay them because it was them that kept upping my limit not me. When they kept telling me I need to subscribe I kept saying no, just let me download full albums and I would delete the photos. They kept telling me I had to do it one picture at a time which would have been a real pita. They finally launched their new site and you can now select all your photos in an album and download them as a Zip file.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I refused to pay them because it was them that kept upping my limit not me. When they kept telling me I need to subscribe I kept saying no, just let me download full albums and I would delete the photos. They kept telling me I had to do it one picture at a time which would have been a real pita. They finally launched their new site and you can now select all your photos in an album and download them as a Zip file.

The new site is just as wonky as the old one and they won't even take my money for a subscription.
Right now it's been "thinking" on one of my album pages for over 20 minutes. GRR.

 

[Imzadi]

The new site is just as wonky as the old one and they won't even take my money for a subscription.
Right now it's been "thinking" on one of my album pages for over 20 minutes. GRR.

Make sure you turn off your Ad Blocker. It hangs up & freezes that site because there's so many frickin ads it blocks.

Download all the pics when your watching TV. That's what I did. It took a couple days, but I got them all eventually.

 

[declansdad]

Make sure you turn off your Ad Blocker. It hangs up & freezes that site because there's so many frickin ads it blocks.

Download all the pics when your watching TV. That's what I did. It took a couple days, but I got them all eventually.

I agree. Took me a few days to download them all and delete them.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Make sure you turn off your Ad Blocker. It hangs up & freezes that site because there's so many frickin ads it blocks.

Download all the pics when your watching TV. That's what I did. It took a couple days, but I got them all eventually.

Turning off my ad blocker was the first thing they directed me to do and it went thru fine.
It'll take me a few longggggggg movies like "Dr. Zhivago", "GWTW", etc to download all the pics there. Found them at the start of the 21st century. Oh and FYI......the page is still, I say, still dreaming of opening <insert headslap emoticon here>.

 

[Imzadi]

<insert headslap emoticon here>.

I think this is the smiley you want. I was able to rescue this one from there.

 

[Imzadi]

Google Photo. If you have an Android phone, they will automatically upload

Google Photo is great for storing photos. If one wants to post them elsewhere online, it doesn't work for that. A few of us tried. The photo will post initially, but Google's security software apparently does sweeps every several hours, and ultimately figures out that a photo is being hotlinked onto another site elsewhere and stops it being displayed. Then all that shows up are little boxes with a red X inside, indicating that an image is supposed to be there but doesn't display properly.