Is anyone finding Photobucket slow?

Hi @longk my Photobucket got so slow over the last few months so this week that I got my account deleted,and then made a new account yesterday and its fine today,just changed all my details but used the same email

PS I know that our good friend @Zigs has been having problems also

 

I gave up using Photobucket a couple of years ago and just download straight to GC from my computer. It's quicker and easier - just drag and drop.

I don't know whether this may be a problem if each photo is too big a file. I take all mine at approx. 1.5 mg and they drag and drop easily so I don't need to reduce the file size. Up to a couple of years ago GC wouldn't allow drag and drop with photos at that size. They may even allow bigger now but I haven't tried it.

 

@longk so why don't you just drag and drop straight from your computer? It saves uploading to PB and then downloading to GC.

I don't put anything in the Cloud. I'm too old fashioned for that and don't trust anything I can't put my hands on. My photos are backed up to three hard drives. Paranoid! Moi?

 

When I had my computer upgraded, a few years ago, I had a new, bigger, hard drive installed but kept the old one in the computer as another back-up/copy. So I now have multiple back-ups. Probably a bit of overkill (with the external back-ups) but you can never be too paranoid when it comes to saving the photos and data.

We have something in excess of 70,000 photos and I know where to find all of them! The filing system in my head is still working OK.

 

My internet is much too slow to upload a lot of data to the Cloud. They've recently brought fibre into the village and my upload speed has risen to a magnificent .8mg.

 

I do. We didn't have anything like this in the Ark