Attention Pic Posters....

When does Tiny pic start to delete pics ...?????????? This means that all our pictures will be deleted ...????

(by the way most of my pics on my blog will be gone too ...Siiigh)

This is a very serious problem as every archive of pics will be deleted ...(funny enough on my blog I used tiny pic for africam pictures becouse blogger made them automatically smaller)

It looks like tinypic now belongs to photobucket ...so it explains the change of policy ...

What we can do then ??????????

Fani, do you have an account with tinypic?  Create one for now if you haven't already.

This is what it says in the help section there....

How long are images and videos kept?

Images and videos is in your account will not be removed. Images and videos that are not associated with an account are kept until they have not been viewed for 90 days. After 90 days, they may be removed.

I only discovered that myself after looking back in our pic thread and finding so many missing pictures. 

Thank you very much for the alert Ingwe ..until automn all pics are obvious in africam and my site too ...I have never done an account in tiny pic as it was free and never deleted the pics ..(I used it more than three maybe four years continously) But I suppose they changed boss and they changed policy too ...I have noticed in automn that they did changes but couldn't imagine they would delete the old pics without warning ...

The majority of our pics on boma will be deleted soon ...This is very sad ...

this is really sad news

 If you make a  new pic of the old one  .   Then delete  the old pic  and replace the new one.   !!!!!!!!!!!

They are thousands of pics ...I hope yours will be on site ...at last ...

For those they want to sign up in Tiny pic ...It is easy and the environment friendly ...Tiny pic belongs now to photobucket ...so I suppose both works with the same way ...

Here is my addy there ..to have an idea how it works ...

http://tinypic.com/4duimgso

The only I don't know is what is the space we have there ..Please for those the english is native language ...try to search the small letters of the terms ...It is rather difficult for me ...

Can someone tell me what is the difference with photobucket (about space I mean) ??

I was able to look at tinypic's help area yesterday but today the links don't work for me.. so maybe they are making some changes now.  I will  try to check again at another time.   For photobucket free account which is what I have, I get 1 GB of space total, and 25 GB of bandwidth.  They do offer a for pay service that gives much greater space, no bandwidth restrictions and several other features and added benefits for about $40 USD a year.   I just joined tinypic and didn't notice anything like photobucket has showing space used or bandwidth so maybe it didn't restrict that?   One unfortunate thing I noticed is that by looking at the picture properties we can't tell if it is associated with an account with no time limit on viewing or if not associated with an account and does have the time limit before it is deleted. 

I also noticed that photobucket seems to be much better for uploading more then 5 pictures at a time and some other free features.  

hope this helps.

I couldn't find anything about the amount of space we can use on tinypic.

I suppose when an album is full, they will ask you to create another album - as they do in photobucket..

 i dont know what limit is in phot bucket

but i put 1000 pics in each  alblum so far

i have seen some people put 1600 in one 

i have 10   alblums and am putting  1000 in each one

i take cam pics that member have put in streaming cam

pluss cam pics i have taken 

i put them in my pictures- then use  irfanview to sharpen 

each pic - then i put them in  photo bucket  then into 

africam book- so far with  nearly   4000 pic most are

photo bucket others  are tiny pics  so far

i have lost  none      knock on wood

barry

Barry if you look on your account options (link at the top right)  in the account dashboard section you will see how much you are allowed, and how much you have used .  For bandwidth it shows you what you used last month ("month" is from the date you started to the till next month of that date)  It has nothing to do with number of pictures since that could very due to size of the picture and colors vary the actual kb size.  Hope this helps.

Thanks for this most important info, Ingwe!

And thanks to all the others trying to find a solution to it!

I am very sorry about all the precious  pics you lost! A huge treasure has gone... Poor Fani, I think of your blog!

Blogger gives also 1GB ...but it is just the pics of a year or something more for me ...LOL!!! One of the reasons I stopped immediately to update it is to save the space for a future upload of lost pics again ...

I will try photobucket too ...but I don't understand that about the bandwidth ...what it means ..and how does it's connected with pics

I used photobucket since the beginning, I like it.

I just checked and I have more than 12.000 pics there now in different albums, 99% are africam pictures and I only used 23 % of my  1 gb I have available there on a free account.

It depends on the size of the pics Gerda ...On my blog there are almost 25.000 pics and half of them are on blogger ..I have already covered the half of the space (1 GB)...Africam pics were always ' bigger' and if you noticed after the change to flash mode they became bigger ...and they eat space quickly LOL ...Just do the division ...If your pics have an average of 20kb per one then you can have the double space of one who the average is 40 kb ...I estimate 1 GB lasts for around 26.214 of 40 kb pics  or 52.428 of 20kb !!! You can find the size from the properties ...and it depends also on the quality of snap program and if you have changed contrast or brightness

OK I think creating different accounts you can still have plenty free space ...

Also I suspect that the terms of tiny pic will be soon the same as photobucket ...

Yes you can open different free accounts, also on photobucket, you just have to register with different email address.

I just hope photobucket won't decide to delete pics in the future... than I have a big problem...

I did a try on photobucket ...if you want my opinion ...is a complete site to work with pics and photos ...and I understand why you choose it ...and really I hope it won't change boss and policy ...the next years ..

But my impression is ...that you must use it for sometime to learn how it works ...it is rather slow ...and not too friendly as all the applications with a lot of abilities ...For fast and without a lot of thinking work ..tiny pic is still the best site ...and maybe this is why photobucket keep it alive ...but after the delete of old pics ..who can trust it ...for the future ....If they change boss ..or if photobucket decides to transfer all at the main site ?? (It happened before some years with yahoo pics and flcr !!!No I didn't lose my pics then but I had to transfer !!! )  

bandwidth is the amount of data being transmitted and is what really is a major cost factor for the websites.  Simplified.. think of it this way.. if you have one picture that is 20 kb on this page.  and 5 people view the page, it sends a total of 100 kb from photobucket to the viewers pc.  Any time a picture is seen it is coming from photobucket unless it is cached on the pc already which in most cases it isn't.  Hope this helps.

Hello all (espacially Fani)

I have just seen this topic . I was away suddenly 5 days.

When i go to Tinypic.com now i do not see any changes! (i emptied my cache) Cleaned my computer from all history and went again to tinypic.

I cannot find any info on Tinypic's site about the changes.

I went to Fani's BIG BLOG! and i checked a couple of hundred old uploads they all work!

I do not doubt what is posted in this topic! But maybe ? I just wonder? things have been set back to as they used to be ?

On many many forums ppl use Tinypic as there uploads.

I can imagine that they have gotten a BIG BIG amount of emails!

Its unclear to me were i can find the new policy? can anyone help me on that?

It is also not clear to me if it really is gooing this way as described above .. will  they delete ALL old uploads ore is it just starting for new uploads? and will the old uploads from years ago be safely stored so they keep on working!

I know that Fani has put a HUGE energy and time in keeping her blogs up to date! ( thank You! Fani!)

I have knowledge on a forum about the universe ( star watching) that has thousands and thousands of uploads at Tinypic about picture's taken from telescoops, The space-shuttle , the space labs, and more.

I really cant imagine that it will be all trown in the trashcan.

I do now sometimes "free sites"are created and when they run well allover sudden they go for money (:

It happened to Photopoint.com also ( it was a free photobook for anyone) and when the site was really running well ( over 5 million members) they allover sudden asked for $ .

I had uploaded about 800 picture's there (from a camera) ( with a 14.4 k modem and wanted to be save on that  so i payed 49,95 for a year.

3 weeks later the site was down. (:

I am not saying that it was done on purpose! but imagine 1 million ore more people have been paying !

I also know from Tinypic that it did occur several times that uploads were deleted and the properties they had were given out again to new uploads.

That creates a really strange situation! Because a topic with uploaded picture's allover suddenly had picture's that were completly different and not relevant to the topic!

For here on Africam there is a way i think to prevent thoose things.

If Africam opens it own "upload" server available for uploads only from the webcams and we all use that to upload our screenshots we have it in our own hands!

I have no idea what the cost are to create a server like that.

anyway i am willing to donate to  such a server! (africam screenshots )

also site's like Photobucket, flickr are very good indeed but who can tell  they will still exist in 5 years???

Fortunatly i have saved each and every screenshot i took on a hard drive ! ( Fani have you also saved all you'rs ?)

maybe its an option to backup and save you'r complete Blogs on your Harddrive so you always have everything you have done on your PC.. ( I already saved quit a few pages of your blogs)

But it is impossible to go back in time and upload them all again 1 by 1  in the correct topics.

I do hope i get an answer back from the Tinypic team.

Wishing you all goodluck!

Espacially Fani!

it must have been a big shock to you to read this topic and realize that maybe all the hours , days, maybe weeks of uploading and keeping your blog can all be vanished just by 1 push on a button on the server were you stored them!

A Big Hug Fani!

Take Care.

Ice.

Thanks Ice ...for your interest and your thoughts ...

I know that everything in web isn't for always ...this is why ..external hard disk is something you must always have beside you ...Yes ..I didn't miss anything ...but it is a huge work to upload them again ..on Boma and blog ..The date of last updates at help on Tiny pic is 28 Oct. 2008 ..so I suppose they started to delete pictrures lately ...as before christmas holidays I could see all ...I'm almost sure that they won't delete all at once ...but slowly ...

I agree with you that the only safe place for boma ...is to upload snapshots immediately here ..

My decide is to keep working on blogger ...even I don't trust them too ..at least it is less work for me LOL . Only it needs a new account and a new page almost every year !!! .Let's hope at last Google we will treat us carefully in future !!!

Hi There,

I looked at the daily seeings on 24/25 december 2006. ( when the lions killed a buffalo) It is really strange. A lot of tinypic uploads are deleted , but also a lot still are viewable.(also Tinypic uploads) Some even in 1 post 2 are deleted and 2 are still there.  I dont understand the policy on what they delete and what they dont delete.

I have sended 2 emails at the day this topic started ( but still no reply).

I just made a registration and created an album.

Like Fani also said it is very user friendly. It works the same: Upload a picture (same way as always) save it in a created album, and copy the img settings and paste it in the correct topic at Africam.

When having a registration ( free) it also allows you to upload more picture's as 1 by 1.

Well as also was said nothing is sure on the internet but i hope this way all the tinypic uploads will be safe for years.

I dont know if admin saw this topic , as i said i have no idea what the cost are to create an upload server on africam itself so we can upload our screenshots directly to africam.

Be Safe and Take Care.

Ice

As far as I know Tinypic has always been associated with Photobucket.

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http://wimg.co.uk/

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