Photobucket Ransom.

[theforceuk]

What a nusence, how can I get my avatar back? $399 for the upgrade, ok hold on I'll just get my wallet. :roll:

 

[Richard_H]

That's an idea. You could pay the subscription and then we could borrow some of your allowance and problem solved.

 

[theforceuk]

Send me your credit card details Richard and I'll sort it out today.

Avatars are overrated anyway. :lol:

 

[TheJabbaWookie]

As a new user I looked at photobucket when I couldn't view half of the photos in the posts. Some of the links I clicked on in the photobucket site pinged up virus alerts and threats. Ran from there straight away.

Reading your posts here I think I'll post imagery and manage content through the forum itself until it all blows over, or a better service arrives.
Cheers
Jay

 

[theforceuk]

As a new user I looked at photobucket when I couldn't view half of the photos in the posts. Some of the links I clicked on in the photobucket site pinged up virus alerts and threats. Ran from there straight away.

Reading your posts here I think I'll post imagery and manage content through the forum itself until it all blows over, or a better service arrives.
Cheers
Jay

Yeah I git some virus alerts as well from photo bucket, what the hell is going on their?

 

[edd_jedi]

Any virus alert through your browser is a scam, it's basically a really dodgy way of making you install software you don't need. Unfortunately the internet is very spammy these days, I highly recommend using a plugin like AdBlock:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom

 

[ODB]

Any virus alert through your browser is a scam, it's basically a really dodgy way of making you install software you don't need. Unfortunately the internet is very spammy these days, I highly recommend using a plugin like AdBlock:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom

I would also recommend something like Tab Cookies to manage your cookies as well. I've used both of them for so long that it comes as quite the shock when I use a browser that doesn't have them, ads, ads every ******* where.

 

[TheJabbaWookie]

Yeah I knew it was a scam, you'd just think they'd work hard to stamp that s**t out with so many people on the forums relying on it as a trusted tool.

 

[Palifan]

Started to notice even more pictures disappearing from here, it's a real shame as I suspect a lot of the vintage showcase threads are just going to be gone forever.

Ian

 

[poncho]

my showcase photos have gone! well thats annoying

boo boo photobucket :evil:

what about the our fallen comrades showcases? have they gone too

 

[Michael Sith]

And the Baggie guide use that all the time, Frank will be gutted with that.

Bloody nightmare!

 

[mr_palitoy]

And the Baggie guide use that all the time, Frank will be gutted with that.

Bloody nightmare!

Its easy enough to download your images from photobuket and migrate, just takes time to reload in another image hosting site and redo the links.
I'm doing one of my limelights every few days.

Next up, my 2-1b focus:-

http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3582



Jason

 

[TheJabbaWookie]

I really hope Frank has the energy and determination to update the Baggy Guide (but it's massive). I finally finished reading all the posts in the fake baggy scam article. The work that went into that was phenomenal from all the guys involved and I was going to cross reference my tiny collection of baggies against Frank's awesome guide. Like you say it'd be a travesty if all that work disappeared.

 

[Mrleemur]

my showcase photos have gone! well thats annoying

boo boo photobucket :evil:

what about the our fallen comrades showcases? have they gone too

I just took a look into whether we could work at this to restore them. I'm assuming the Craig Bootleg thread is one of the ones I question??

For the most part, if you right click on an offending image, select properties, you get one of these boxes with the full URL for the picture.

If you copy everything, except the file name, it will take you in to the album containing that image. in this instance, that would be -

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/Craignwo4life/

HOWEVER, this album is private so not possible in this instance I'm afraid :|

Of course should you find one that you can get into, would just be a question of saving said images and then re-uploading them to a different provider.

if anyone has any other threads that need checking to see if we can save the images, I'm happy to do the leg work on that, drop me a PM.

 

[Mrleemur]

Oh, and I've also checked the Wayback Machine too, no joy there for either this forum or photobucket

 

[laurencedyer]

my showcase photos have gone! well thats annoying

boo boo photobucket :evil:

what about the our fallen comrades showcases? have they gone too

I just took a look into whether we could work at this to restore them. I'm assuming the Craig Bootleg thread is one of the ones I question??

For the most part, if you right click on an offending image, select properties, you get one of these boxes with the full URL for the picture.

If you copy everything, except the file name, it will take you in to the album containing that image. in this instance, that would be -

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/Craignwo4life/

HOWEVER, this album is private so not possible in this instance I'm afraid :|

Of course should you find one that you can get into, would just be a question of saving said images and then re-uploading them to a different provider.

if anyone has any other threads that need checking to see if we can save the images, I'm happy to do the leg work on that, drop me a PM.

Will this work with the image's on the baggie guide?

 

[Mrleemur]

if they're all in the same album, yes.

http://s103.photobucket.com/user/frunkster_2006/library/Jeff%20G%20Fakes?sort=3&page=1

only checked the first image, will take a better look at lunch to see if there are multiple albums involved.

 

[Mrleemur]

Looks as though there are 3 different albums

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m126/frunkster_2006/Jeff%20G%20Fakes/
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m126/frunkster_2006/baggie%20front%20view%20only/
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m126/frunkster_2006/Temp%20photos/

all of which appear to be public albums.

I've saved a list of the image names as well if that helps anyone pick out which ones they are, though i'm not sure you can do any searching on the image names within photobucket.

that thread can definitely be described as image heavy!! :lol:

 

[mr_palitoy]

Another couple of limelights fixed:-

palitoy/trilogo cardback limelight:-
http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8332

Palitoy boxed spaceships, vehicles and playsets collection:-
http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12054



Jason