DropBox - I hate you!

[Kingster]

Well that's just great. 

All of my old links to my Dropbox images are gone thanks to the twonks changing the way the "public" folder works.

Basically it's no longer public!

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Picassa has done a similar broken link thing to me, and that was supposed to be an image hosting service.

[Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - Treasurer]

glad it's not just me with dropbox...  it's been an unruly little chap the past few days

[Kingster]

I used to be a huge fan but this has really cheesed me off. 

[Terry Everall]

Never liked it

[Andrew]

I've been using photobucket up until a few months back, when they decided I'd used up my allowance and they now want a payment ( .. or is it payments?) to up my capacity. I've resisted so far, but having lost a load of my photos due to a dying hard drive, the only way I'll see some of them again is to subscribe.

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

1 hour ago, Andrew said:

I've been using photobucket up until a few months back, when they decided I'd used up my allowance and they now want a payment ( .. or is it payments?) to up my capacity. I've resisted so far, but having lost a load of my photos due to a dying hard drive, the only way I'll see some of them again is to subscribe.

Subscribe for a short time to get them back, then BIN them. I never trust these sites, they are always trying to make money some how or other off you.

[Lawrie]

So this is the Cloud that they're trying to sell us.  Keep in all on your own PC and back up to an external drive.

[corsechris]

Personally I'd never trust anything important to me to a cloud based service. None of them offer any sort of guarantee worth a fig. 

Two backups. Physically separated and a tried and tested(!) restore route. It's fine having loads of backups but do make sure you can actually use them if the worst happens. Periodic test restores are vital.

[Andrew]

46 minutes ago, Nick - Joint North East AO said:

Subscribe for a short time to get them back, then BIN them. I never trust these sites, they are always trying to make money some how or other off you.

ha ha, that could be a plan Nick.

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

20 hours ago, Andrew said:

ha ha, that could be a plan Nick.

Also buy a spare hard drive and copy all files onto it. Although i'm advising that and haven't done it myself yet !!!

[Kingster]

For my work comp I have files on the computer that are backed up every hour incrementally to en external drive. I also clone the entire computer every week to another drive. I always have one of these off site over night. The web server gets backed up automatically every night. Then I have a cloud repository for the code I use on each project that gets incrementally backed up every time I save a change and can roll back or swap to development code (look up Github or BitBucket).

Still hate Dropbox for dropping me in it though!

[Kingster]

The thing with Dropbox is not that the files are gone - they are still there. But they changed the link to the files so that they are no longer available. So if I want to use them I have to relink each one - one at a time. 

Hate them

[Andrew]

My Photobucket linked pics are still viewable in various threads.. I just cant access my bucket!

I'm presuming it's my PC ip that's blocked.. can anyone else view my bucket?

http://s133.photobucket.com/user/dixonandrew/library/?sort=3&page=1

 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Yes Andrew, I can see them on your link.