Any Alternatives to Photbucket??

I have used Dropbox and PB with a few issues but don't like the idea of a possible virus being added to a photo/s. I went out and bought a 2 TB external drive (more memory than I could ever use but not that much more $$$ than a 1 TB drive). I have hundreds of pictures stored and never have problem loading them to a site. It takes a little longer but so what? Are we all in that much of a hurry? If you are, you are passing buy the good parts of life.

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Just for awareness, I have been using and saving lower resolution images ( which use less memory) but plan to start being a large file RAW photographer which I will have to likely plan ahead for someday having a lot of memory to use. IF I was more interested in a commercial vein, I would be certainly using safety methods of several disconnected spots to save files. External memory drives are a smart and actually cheap investment for everyone to use. I had a crash about 10 years ago and lost early Buck photos. Most were of a quality I am not currently proud of .....ha But also lost some hunting photos of my only Bull elk trophy. If nothing else go buy some large thumb drives and save your most/bestest precious photos on those.

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As long as we're talking about saving on an external hard drive, just get a computer made by that outfit from Cupertino. Everything is automatically saved every hour to an external drive. For really important stuff, you can save it manually anytime you want.
 
Bert,

The "government" is likely saving our stuff for free.....ha..... Somewhere....

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I don't know if this is much help at this point, but I use Google to host my pics. If you have a google or gmail account, you have a ton of storage available.
The very short version is to look at the top menu under "more" and you will see a link for "photos" you can upload them there. Once they're uploaded, just open the photo you want to post and right-click (with a PC; Mac, not sure) and select "Copy Image Location" (this is with Firefox; IE has something similar). Then you paste that link into the image tag here in the forum. After you do it once or twice, it becomes second-nature.
Hope this helps.
WM
 
Hi Stumps,

I also don't like the so called up-grades to the PB system. It used to be very easy to your up-loading and down loading of photo's. After this last forced change the system was just about un-usable for me. I did not use any sub-files, as a result I had to scroll over page after page of photo's and the system was so sloooooow. Then when I picked a photo to down load the system went back to page one and I had to scroll slow page after page again. I knew if I moved my photo's to sub-files all of my past threads here would loose the photo's I had in years of old thread topics.

But, the new system forced me to make the change. Now I can use the system a little faster. Do I like it.....hell no....but, it's free. I have to be careful now when loading bulk photo's, if you pick the file up-load every photo on your disk will get up-loaded:eek:. Sorry for all of my old posts that are now full of empty photo cells:(
jb4570
 
I complained to Photobucket a couple weeks ago about their new homepage and changes, and they gave me back the original homepage. Don't know how they did it, but now I'm back to loving it.
 
TinyPic is a decent alternative to Photobucket, all though it's a pain to upload more than a couple of photos at a time as you have to click through adds.
 
I used to hate Photobucket, and would often recommend ImageShack. But the Shack decided to complicate their user-friendly procedure. So now I use Photobucket instead. Not perfect, but far better than what the Shack has become.
 
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