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Hot Rods what's going on with photobucket?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by 36-3window, Jan 17, 2019.

  1. When I bought my desktop MAC I had additional memory added knowing I would need it. I keep all of my photos on my desktop MAC. My desktop MAC is backed up to an external drive using software called "Time Machine" from apple. It backs up everything several times a day. I still might consider an online backup of all of the data on my computer as a third option.

    Charlie Stephens
     
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  2. leon bee
    Joined: Mar 15, 2017
    Posts: 1,167

    leon bee
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    You can go the other way, too. My flip phone takes and makes calls, nothing else. I buy another cheap desktop whenever the operating system of the old one gets totally obsolete. 10 year old laptop still works enough to stay in touch on road trips. I dug out my old 35mm camera to take shots of the important stuff- cars and pets.

    I've been on a couple motorcycle forums for years, posted many informative photos, and looked at hundreds more which helped me. We all used photobucket and instructed others how to do it. The PB deal completely fucked all that up. Like an illustrated encyclopedia flushed down the greed dog drain. Fuck all that.
     
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  3. jnaki
    Joined: Jan 1, 2015
    Posts: 11,024

    jnaki








    Hello,

    Thank you, Stogy...you said it very clearly. An external hard drive can be purchased for the cost of 3 years of photobucket and enough to buy a second, for more backup. Ever since computers came on the scene, I have been lax in backups. My son kept harping on me to go to the "cloud" or some off site location like photobucket. I kept telling my self it was OK to use the current computer to store stuff and nothing will harm those files. (trust in new technology...ha!)

    In the early days of downloading MP3 music, I had just finished downloading over several weeks, a formidable set of rock, , oldies, blues, jazz, and Christmas songs in the new mp3 format. It was over 2500 high quality files. It took one bad email attachment from a friend that froze my whole computer hard drive. Internet security was in its infancy then and much better, now. At the time, our household papers were not scanned into digital files...that came later.

    So, ever since, I have followed my son's advice with a backup to a backup. Automation makes it simple to transfer new files to both external hard drives. Being a fanatic about computer files, photos, and family files, there is one last external hard drive with all files on it for our safe deposit box. Once a month it is backed up. So, that is my offsite storage. It is not something like photobucket or the cloud storage from other companies.

    My old films have some value, because they are one of a kind, in drag racing/hot rod history. Those can be stored for history sake, but they are on three separate hard drives. There are two that get taken in an emergency and one in the safe deposit box. So, we are covered for now. It is a little over the top, but we are safe.

    (last summer we had a fire within a block of our house and neighborhood. The hillside had one last firebreak to go before the "evacuate" notice would have been broadcast. The flames were quite tall and visible. We had our "necessary to go" bag ready with both external hard drives. This bag, our dog, granddaughter, wife and cars were all that was necessary. Everything else is replaceable. )

    Jnaki

    Here is a new development. Since our granddaughter is now 13, she has an Iphone. But, along with the Iphone, her school has computer files she has to access. So the "cloud" is the source. She is part of the Apple family with a Mac book and with the whole family on Iphones, an Apple Cloud account. They store millions of photos by her, her movies, and projects for a small monthly fee. Less than photobucket. But, Apple never watermarks photos for ransom, either.

    My son is happy we, "old timers," store stuff on external hard drives, but is now telling us the advantage of the Apple Account and its simplicity. So, you guys need to pick some reliable storage place and stick with it, even with the ups and downs.
     
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  4. When PB tried to ransom my pics, I immediately began researching other hosting sites and settled on Smugmug. After 6 or 7 years, I am still very very happy with it. The features seem to be endless with the ability to sort or rearrange the sequence of pictures adding notes and titles and to reconfigure the presentation characteristics . AND NO FRIGGIN' ADS! The base fee is $5 a month as I recall but I sprung for a first-stage premium account which allowed larger fields to add descriptions and text for an extra $3 a month. And their customer support is excellent. I asked them one time if they ever had considered adding a little house next to the word home because some people are more familiar with that. Within hours a programmer called me back and said he could customize my site by adding a custom little house and the upper left corner next to the word home. You can either have galleries or albums and various other ways of arranging your pictures. All this makes it very simple and easy to send links to friends or family or other websites like the ham or hot rodders. Com or Facebook . You can upload videos of any size without limit. I can take a picture with my phone and then select the picture and upload it directly to SmugMug in about 10 seconds.

    I also have a thumb drive and off-site storage with automatic backups.

    I guess since I'm 75 now and have no heirs the next owner of my car will have some idea of how it all went together.

    The thing is that every aspect of the car is all in one place. Plus I've got other galleries that have such things as pictures that I've run across of my high school days and weddings of friends, a restaurant business adventure that broke me , and the garage that I'm building right now.

    If I last long enough it'll probably be pretty much a documentary of my life, as boring as it is. ..hahaha haaaa

    Check it out:
    https://49fordcoupe.smugmug.com
     
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  5. Stogy
    Joined: Feb 10, 2007
    Posts: 26,948

    Stogy
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    No matter what we do we pay so in essence in a nutshell there are pay sites that offer a better service...that Ole Custom of your Brothers was awesome 49...
     
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