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dpgerson
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Jan 18, 2018

photobucket

I see my pics on Photobucket are now longer displaying but instead a message shows that says I need to update my account and to go to a website. Once there, they want a lot of money to continure hosting. Is there any way to fix this?

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  • Nope, no way to fix it. I deleted all my images and then closed out my account, but not before making sure I filled out that exit survey and I stated my reasons why I'm canceling with them. I think it went on deaf ears because nothing became of it.

    Best solution, use a different site. For the moment IMGUR.com seems to working and still allows photo sharing.

    Hopefully, you don't store your originals on Photobucket, but only post out there what you want to share with someone else, because, pulling the photos off and resaving them is almost impossible. You have to do that one photo at a time. Fortunate for me, I never use any of these web-based (pie-in-the-sky cloud companies) retain any of my originals. All mine are on an external hard drive with identical copies on 2 different computers.

    Photobucket pi**ed off a LOT of folks doing this who left Photobucket completely too.
  • Forget photobucket, they dug their own grave so put them in it.

    Use imgur, it is free and far superior for ease of use and their mobile app is great.
  • Yes, use another hosting site. I think most of us who used photobucket have abandoned it.