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February 1, 2008 Sony ImageStation closes.
Although they are going to transfer my 11462 pictures to Shutterfly, I'll be loosing all my captions, comments and favorite albums.
Not only that, all the threads here on PT with pictures will be gone :eek:
This sucks :(
Too bad...
At least i use Photobucket and not Imagestation!
shucks!!...... well It means new threads need to be made ;) or just change the links once they are on another site........
I hate when Zoto closed my account...... I didnīt pay for it either but still :rolleyes: .... thankfully they gave me the choice of saving my pics before they erased it.....
WOW! What a mess! I tried using the Imagestation process to transfer my account to Shutterfly and during that process it asks me to register for Imagestation! It's really messed up! Also Shutterfly doesn't allow linking (although technically Imagestation didn't either). As I have all my pictures on my computer anyway, I think I just might go over to Photobucket, which is what everyone uses anyway, right?
Thanks for the heads-up Anna, I've ordered a disc. Just the other day, when I uploaded the zoo pictures, they were asking me to renew my annual subscription, glad I didn't!
Thanks for the warning. At least that gives me plenty of time to deal with what is still there.
:mad::mad::mad:
(I seldom use this icon, but this qualifies)
I hated Imagestation from day one. When I was looking around for sites I could upload pictures to I made an account on Imagestation. I liked it for a week or so, but logging in one day, I found it deleted ALL my pictures! Boy was I mad! I then switched to photobucket. Photobucket is OK actually lol. I like it alot.
Ok, I guess they fixed it. My transfer to Shutterfly is now taking place. I have NO idea what will happen to my sig block whilst the transferring is going on. Later this week I'll start using Photobucket instead - I have a ton of pics from my vacation this weekend and from Mishi's last days to transfer. I'm on vacation this week and was planning on working on photos anyway; I just didn't think it would be this much work. Oh well.
Thank you for the info. I'll wait Sept.11th. for multiple images downloader.
Oh poop. :( Should I expect an email from Imagestation? Guess I better
switch all my pictures. :(
Wow, thanks for the heads up.
Oh no!
Guess I have to get my butt in gear and change over. :(
EDIT.
I just deleted every uploaded image by mistake, there goes loads of puppy pictures that I lost when my computer crashed last year. :(
Sometimes ago, Imagestation lost some of my albums. Now there are quite a bite of "This Image is Temporally Unavailable", does it means they are definitely lost? :(
I feel your pain, it happened to me sometimes ago.My computer crashed and so did Imagestation. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by jackie
Man Im glad I stuck with Photobucket. Really, its the best photo site around!
I use photobucket for my online pix and have not had any problems with it yet, and it's been over a year.
When I download the pix from my camera I first put them on a CD, then check that CD to be sure it got all the pix. Then I delete my camera chip, not before! Then after that I copy the disk to my cpu. My pix on photobucket are only copies, if they all dissaperared it would be an irritant but not detrimental since I have back ups. I won't ever, rely on anything online to be the sole storage of my pix, they are too valuable to me. As it is I'm thinking of getting a second removable hard drive for additional back up of my pix just in case.
Thank for the warning..I haven't checked email yet to see that. Wow that is going to be a lot of work to transfer everything!!
Awwww Gee. First Yahoo Photos is closing and now ImageStation.
It sucks is right.
It's not as much work as I thought it would be. I was able to use Imagestation's transfer feature to transfer the almost 800 pictures I had stored there. It will take about 10 days for the transfer, during which time they say my Imagestation albums will be unavailable (although they're still working for me).
I joined Photobucket and uploaded a whole slew of pics - it was hard because the majority were from Mishi's last month's with us. I created a special album for his last day with us Here
and for those who want to see what I did this past weekend, please go here
Yes, I saw penguins mating ;)
RE-Read the Imagestation Announcement ...Quote:
Originally Posted by anna_66
If you want to COPY your ImageStation photos;
or Purchase an Archive DVD of ALL your photos - with Album Titles and Captions included ...
You need to do that BEFORE you tell ImageStation to "transfer" your stuff to Shutterfly ...
Once you tell them to TRANSFER your stuff, your entire ImageStation account
will be locked or frozen - and you won't be able to access it again. :eek: :(
Make your Copies;
or order your DVD -
BEFORE you do the Transfer to Shutterfly!!
Luckily I do have all my pictures on CD already (I never trust any online storage!) but this is just the pits.
I've been with IS since I started here on PT and since I got a digital camera. I hate the thought of changing to another site:o Plus I liked the fact that you could upload the "original size" pictures and would have them there for a back up. Does Photobucket or Shutterfly do that? I also had unlimited storage. Are the other sites like that?
I had better get moving.
To answer your questions about Photobucket take a look at the faq section here: http://photobucket.com/faq?catID=29&...=f&topicID=320Quote:
Originally Posted by anna_66
I have the pro account and am very happy with it.
I didn't have nearly the number of pictures in Imagestation that you did, Anna, but I sure do appreciate your letting us know about this. I did not receive an email about it from them. I have a Shutterfly account, so I will definitely be transferring my photos over there. But I ordered a CD, first, so I'll have a permanent record in case something goes wrong.
I think you would do well to get the DVD, probably Anna, just in case.
Logan
I put my new photos up on Photobucket last night and like it, except you can't rearrange the photos in the album like you could on Imagestation and you can't decorate the albums - at least I couldn't figure out how. Their slideshow feature is limited to only 20 pics; however uploading seemed faster and easier than Imagestation.
I didn't play around with any of their editing features as I prefer to edit before uploading on my PC, keeping the original size here with me and uploading smaller pics so they're easier for people to view.
Well I ordered the CD. I wish they would change the automatic message on their reply:
"Thank you for shopping with Sony's ImageStation(r)
service. We're glad that you've chosen us for your
digital photography needs."
Doesn't quite fit, does it?
I love the way they kept asking me for more money - and THEN they tell you they are closing.
This sucks is an understatement!!!!
I use www.boomspeed.com Minimal amount of money for huge storage. I've been with them since 2003, I think. And the site hardly EVER goes down, which is a great plus.
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Originally Posted by Logan
Don't wait around for them to email you, because they won't do it.
I am so glad Anna posted this, or I wouldn't have know anything. :mad:
When you login to your account on IS, it explains everything.
I had 30 albums on IS and was very surprised to learn of them closing the site so I chose for IS to transfer all my images to Shutterfly. I requested this on Tuesday and today when I checked all my albums and photos had been transfered with no problem.
I'm very glad to hear this. I may start my transfer soon then.Quote:
Originally Posted by catlover4ever
thanks for the warning.
I can not even open imagestation at the moment :(
will have to try again later and move all the pictures.
That's good to know. My transfer was started yesterday, so hopefully it will go as smoothly as yours.Quote:
Originally Posted by catlover4ever
I was afraid to initiate the transfer to Shutterfly, where I already have a lot of albums, until I knew that they had completed my CD. At least we have the benefit of some time with this. I will probably have many, many duplicates of the pictures, but I had some precious ones of Murphy, Mimi, Zipper and Lilly that I didn't dare want to lose, since our home computer crashed and we lost our harddrive when it did.
Logan
I have all my pics on my harddisc as well- I used Imagestation only for the communication. But still- I'm so used to it and getting used to a new thing is bad in my age ;)
Thanks for posting this Anna. I had ordered the archive disks a few months ago so went ahead and started the transfer to Shutterfly. Meg I am glad to read that your pictures are already there.
Shutterfly looks to me like it is set up the same way as Imagestation was. I don't know why but I never used IS to link to - was it allowed? I have my PT pictures all in Photobucket.
Thanks again Anna.
I started my transfer yesterday.
:mad:
Good thing Logan. I just read that if you are having a disc made you should wait to transfer until you get you disc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Logan
Although I have them already, I just went ahead and ordered 2 DVDs. What's it going to hurt to have backup;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Logan
The first album link in my sig is to my Photobucket account; the second link is to the new Shutterfly account. Could someone please click on the second link and let me know if you can access the albums. As I'm me and it's my account, of course I can see them; I just want to make sure YOU can see them. Thanks!