Big clean out!

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

I knew I was a prolific screenshotter, but today I attacked my external hard drive and dumped thousands, (Literally) of old and unused screenshots taken over the past few years. I freed up something in the region of 120GB of space on the hard drive! Many of them were parts of old FS98 and FS9 storyline sequences that never left the computer, or those that did were sent into Photobucket never to be seen again! Those that survived the cull are now in much tidier files. It took me nearly all day to do it but certainly needed it. Hopefully It won't take me so long to find things now.. Oh what fun! LOL

[lionwing 71]

Sounds like good therapy.

 

I use Google Photo to store my screenshots.  They don't count toward any storage limit as long as you accept they will  stored as "high quality" images rather than in their original file size.  Honestly I can't tell the different from one to the other.

 

Now you have 120GB to fill again!

[mutley 4,498]

1 hour ago, lionwing said:

Now you have 120GB to fill again!

 

Noooooooo!!!! 

[allardjd 1,853]

@ Al - I'd love to see you repair the broken Photo*ucket links in your earlier posts.  All of those are broken and we only see that stupid grey PB image.

 

You can recover the images from PB, but it's a bit tedious.  I'm working on mine and putting them in OneDrive, then editing the links in my old MH posts, using the OneDrive links to replace the defunct PB ones - slowly.

 

John

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

2 minutes ago, allardjd said:

@ Al - I'd love to see you repair the broken Photo*ucket links in your earlier posts.  All of those are broken and we only see that stupid grey PB image.

 

You can recover the images from PB, but it's a bit tedious.  I'm working on mine and putting them in OneDrive, then editing the links in my old MH posts, using the OneDrive links in to replace the defunct PB ones - slowly.

 

John

I could try that but I have about half a dozen PB accounts all under different user names. I cannot remember a lot of the passwords or names now. I'm not that bothered tbh as most of the pics were still on the Hard drive anyway. I may dig them out of PB at some point but right now that is not my top priority.

[allardjd 1,853]

If you've still got the original image files with the original image file names it's a lot easier .  If you right-click on the broken link in the MH post and choose "inspect element", you can see the file name buried in the mess that it reveals, with "%20" replacing any spaces in the name.  That makes it a lot easier and you do not have to bother trying to recover the image from PB.

 

You've made a lot of great posts and I hate seeing them become unintelligible.

 

John

[mutley 4,498]

Photo*ucket have really pooped on many communities from a great height. As a result, it has made many of our screenshot based posts null and void, that's potentially over 44K posts. 

 

FS-Snaps is run on a shoestring, but you can upload your best shots there and link into the forums. 

 

 

[mutley 4,498]

These people https://postimages.org give a good service for bulk images as an alternative to Photo*ucket 

[allardjd 1,853]

It's a good practice, given our experience with PB, to keep the originals of any uploaded images in a local place, i.e. on your PC or some kind of portable media with the original file name used in the posting.  If whoever you choose as host does a PB on you, recovery is a lot easier.  I have most of mine but not all.

 

John

[mutley 4,498]

1 minute ago, allardjd said:

It's a good practice, given our experience with PB, to keep the originals of any uploaded images in a local place, i.e. on your PC or some kind of portable media with the original file name used in the posting.  If whoever you choose as host does a PB on you, recovery is a lot easier.  I have most of mine but not all.

 

John

 

Me too, there are so many online companies giving TB's of cloud storage it makes sense to back them up there.