My account also cancelled. There's no way I would trust them for anything in the future.

Can understand members frustration over the Photobucket issue, it has left many members angry across a multitude of different forum and unfortunately there is no easy way to resolve the issue of missing photos on members diaries/posts.  There has been much said about the possibility of moving images to other photo sharing sites such as Imgur, Flickr and even the cloud, however this is not a direction I would recommend members take.  It is likely other photo sharing sites will follow Photobucket’s actions and this will once again leave members angry and frustrated as they try to go through the process of again restoring their build diaries and posts or the loss of their images. My recommendation is to store your images locally, back up on a portable hard drive or USB memory stick and upload your pics on posts using the forums own upload facility. 

http://forum.model-space....aspx?g=posts&t=244

Using the forums own facility means you can be safe in the knowledge images are safe, secure and free from any charges now or in the future, nor will your images be shared with any other third party. The only downside to this method is you cannot post text between images which I think under the present circumstances is a minor inconvenience.

We ask members to give due consideration to restoring the missing images on their diaries and posts wherever possible.  Appreciate this is going to be a timely process but it is something that can be done a little at a time.  What we don’t want to see is the forum full of the Photobucket image giving free advertising for their business, especially in light of the actions they have taken.  Those members who decide not to restore their diaries, then I ask they send me a PM with links to their affected diaries and advising the diaries can be deleted, this will then be done.  I think all members will agree a diary without its images makes no sense at all and only serves to put people off from reading.

To restore your images you would have to edit each post containing the Photobucket image, remove the direct link to the images within the body of the post.   Once the post has been edited, locate the post and then upload the replacement images for that post using the 'Attach' button. Make sure you resize your images first to ensure they are around 450 x 600 pixels or 148kb in file size.  You may also have to adjust the body of the text so everything within the post makes sense.

It’s a lot of work for some members I know, but even moving images to another file sharing site will result in the links to those images having to be edited, either way there is no easy solution. After a period of time (yet to be decided), those diaries/posts still containing Photobucket notices will be deleted…

Appreciate your cooperation

Regards

Alan

OK so big lessens learned for me as my work shared on this site since 2010 has been deviated by Photobucket.

I am currently trying to recover what I can, my situation is as follows.

I have two photo bucket accounts. the more recent one I have been able to download the content. the older one that covers the vast majority of my work is locked I cannot enter without paying money. I am trying to find a backdoor way to get in and download content how successful I will be I don't know.

Most of my backed up pics are on an old windows driven laptop with a failed screen so cannot access them so I am at risk of loosing almost all my work both builds and kit reviews.

my more recent posts use Flicker but I will be moving to attaching files at the end of the post from my Mac in future, not ideal as you cannot put text between pictures but I can work around that.

next problem is repairing the damage it could take months to do this and use time better spent in my workshop with a model.

so I have decided to recover everything I can and restore current build pics first

Warrior, Mossy, pickle if needed

then restore any finished build diaries.

finally restore any kit reviews

parked builds I will not restore and allow Model space to remove them. I will recreate them when I pick up the builds again.

this seems the best way for me to manage the workload but currently is dependent on being able to get my pictures back

Jase

great news, I have done that from one account but cannot get into my other

Hi Derek...I tried a couple of methods to regain my pics which seemed to fail miserably, the only way I could get them back complete was as I had mentioned. once I have restored my build diaries (which is going to take me ages) I shall transfer the pictures to a memory stick in future, glad it worked for you as well...
John

Same here Daran its took me hours through this week just to sort them all out now have to resize them and then put them back slow and steady but we will get there regards Phil

A reminder for those that may not have seen it. Previous post gives information on a possible solution as to how you can restore your missing images on posts and diaries. You may find it useful.....

Regards

Alan