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Important news about my photos.
Discussion started by Mike TA1 , 24 February, 2012 09:34
Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 24 February, 2012 09:34
It’s a good job this has happened before the cricket season starts.

I have just been informed by “imageshack” I have too many photos on their web site. From 1st March they are deleting all my older photos uploaded about 500, I have over 1200 on the Imageshack/Grockle web site so a lot of my older photos posted on Grockle will disappear. I am sorry about that I can’t do anything about it.

I have just registered with “Photobucket” they have no limit on the number of photos uploaded to their site.

Once I have worked out on how to use the site more I will post on this thread a few test photos (some I have already posted) to get the hang of it.

I may try and arrange my photos better on “photobucket” have a separate album for each cricket match it depends how much time it takes because my time is limited on each day of a match.

I will give more details when I have worked the site out.



http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq223/imagetony48/Smiley-photographer-animationTony.gif The link to my Photos on Photobucket - [s1152.photobucket.com]



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 25/03/2018 06:58 by Grockle.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 24 February, 2012 09:54
http://i1152.photobucket.com/albums/p490/cricketphotos1/fireworks/Fireworks2.jpg

My first test photo, loaded before on Grockle.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Sloop John B 24 February, 2012 10:09
Serious camera shake there Mike (Sm126)

Re: Important news about my photos.
Clarence Parker 24 February, 2012 10:11
Mike.

Your wonderful photographs are very much admired, and I am very appreciative (as I am sure we all are) of the many hours of hard work that you have put into making them available for us to view on here.

I sincerely hope that you are very soon able to resolve the technical aspects of the problem that you have encountered, and I am sure that we shall continue to enjoy the results of your efforts for a long while to come.

Thank you once again for all the sterling work that you have done in the past.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Haringey Racer 24 February, 2012 10:34
So they let you load them merrily for years and suddenly notice you're way over their limit? Or they've reduced their limits without any easement for those who are already over the new limit?

Either way it's a pretty poor show.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 24 February, 2012 10:55
Yep they wanted $2 a month for unlimited uploads, I didn't know there was a limit.

This is the message I got on their web site.

You have 1290 photos stored. Since you're over the 500 photo limit you'll need to upgrade to a Premium account or you'll only be able to keep 500 of your recent photos. Older photos will expire on the 1st of March.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Bobstan 24 February, 2012 11:41
Mike, I can only agree completely with Clarence Parker's words.

Apart from the intrinsic pleasure of seeing your photos, they act as a link to Taunton for those of us who live too far away to come to many games, and I know many 'exiles' feel the same.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Wickham 24 February, 2012 12:22
I should like to associate myself wholeheartedly with the comments made by Clarence Parker and Bobstan. Your photos are very much appreciated, Mike.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Norwich SCCC 24 February, 2012 12:58
I echo the sentiments above, Mike.

As an exile that can only get to Taunton a couple of times a year, I feel closer to the action seeing your excellent photos.

Long may they continue!

Re: Important news about my photos.
old boy! 24 February, 2012 14:00
Having seen you sitting there patiently near the covers or on Gimblett Hill benches, I hadn't realised the extent of your collection in 'Mikes Gallery'. I've always envied your skill in producing such excellent images of the action and the surroundings.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Grockle 24 February, 2012 14:55
Mike

Do you have copies of the 700 you are going to lose?

I will check with SN to see if they have space to house those for you. We can't operate with your day to day stuff but they may be able to set up an alternative archive for the older ones.



(Sm72)

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 24 February, 2012 15:35
Thanks for the offer Grockle but unfortunately I haven’t, I did have a folder labelled “old e/mail or web” that I kept them in, tidying up the hard drive one day I cleared out the folder thinking I wouldn't need them anymore.

Leaving 500 I estimate there should be the last two years available on here, I posted about 300 last year.

Even if I did still have them there wasn't much detail of each photo with the photo, all the detail was on the thread with each posting.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Grockle 24 February, 2012 16:07
They don't offer you the option to upload them somewhere else? What kind of image site do these clowns run?

Don't they understand snappers and their addiction to their photos?



(Sm72)

Re: Important news about my photos.
Grizzers 24 February, 2012 16:12
Three cheers for your continued efforts Mike - much appreciated, (especially by those of us too far away to get to H.Q. very often !).

Grizzzly

Re: Important news about my photos.
Sloop John B 24 February, 2012 16:56
Is there no download option Mike? That seems pretty poor.

Have you asked them for a download facility. If they knkow you have no other backup they might be amenable - even if you have to pay a small fee for the privilege.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 24 February, 2012 17:03
I have the originals John it is the re-sized and cropped photos for the web that will be lost.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 24 February, 2012 22:22
I have just had a thought (I do sometimes) I have a backup computer that may still have the old web photos on it, I will check tomorrow.

If I have it wouldn’t be possible to link them to any of the old threads that has had photos deleted by imageshack after 1st March, what I will try to do is divide the photos into separate albums by Somerset players and upload them to the new site and give you all the link to the new site so you can look at them there.

First of all I have to see if I have still got them tomorrow.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Haringey Racer 25 February, 2012 11:47
Fiddly, I know, but are you able to download copies from the old site and then upload to the new one?

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 25 February, 2012 12:33
Yes it would be fiddly, I could right click on a full size photo and ‘save as’ but to do that with about seven hundred would be ………

I have found a lot of them on my back-up computer and I am going through them and trying to add more detail to them so they are understandable looking at them on the new web site. They will not be as detailed as I would like but it will have to do.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 27 February, 2012 12:03
I am almost ready to add more photos to ‘photobucket’ but I wanted to make sure everything is working first.

Try this link and see what you think - [s1152.photobucket.com]

There is not much on there yet I will see if you get on okay with the link first, if it is okay Grockle can add the link to ‘Mikes gallery on the left.

There are two photos I have to turn around the right way up.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Clarence Parker 27 February, 2012 12:24
The link worked OK for me, Mike.

Re: Important news about my photos.
old boy! 27 February, 2012 13:20
Seems fine Mike - are you going on 7th?

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 27 February, 2012 13:27
7th?

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 03 March, 2012 21:57
Imageshack is now saying 1st April they will be deleting photos above 500, if they are hoping I am going to pay $2 a month they are wrong.

I have uploaded quite a few to the new site, the biggest amount was from the Memory Lane Thread (78) because I think most if not all the photos from that thread will disappear when they do the deletion.

I like the new site better anyway, it allows more information to be added to the photos and it is best I upload as many of the old photos now before the season start.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Grockle 04 March, 2012 12:44
Thanks for the work that requires Mike. I'm sure it is much appreciated by those who enjoy your work



(Sm72)

Re: Important news about my photos.
Clarence Parker 04 March, 2012 14:12
It certainly is much appreciated, Mike.

Re: Important news about my photos.
old boy! 06 March, 2012 17:38
As well as Mike's excellent work, I've discovered Gallery with plenty of action shots for individual players on the SCCC website.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 08 March, 2012 11:27
This is an update.

I have now uploaded all the photos I rescued from my backup computer a total of 477.

The main lot is for the years 2008 and 2009 which is a good thing because years 2010/11 should remain on the old hosting site.

Any before 2008 should disappear off the Grockle site after Imageshack finally do their deletion they have said they will do on 1st April, there shouldn’t be many missing because I had a few years of not being able to visit the cricket much because of caring duties for about four years before 2008.

On the new site you are able to look at the photos for each year on a match by match basis this is far better than the other site.

By the way I am told this morning that the most viewed photo is the ground floor view of the Ridley Stand, you strange lot!

Now for the start of the season, I can’t wait.

PS. Thanks for what some of you have said about my photos.



http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq223/imagetony48/Smiley-photographer-animationTony.gif The link to my Photos on Photobucket - [s1152.photobucket.com]

Re: Important news about my photos.
Mike TA1 08 March, 2012 11:40
Incidentally for a bit of fun now and again I will give you stats on the number of views of my photos, in ten days since starting the new hosting site there has been 2,471 files viewed.

Re: Important news about my photos.
Grockle 08 March, 2012 13:15
Mike. How many photos will you lose? Are they all the ones before 2008?



(Sm72)

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