OT: Yahoo Photos closing

had been made aware of it.

I didn't know but I can't say I'm really surprised... Yahoo photos was only semi-usable at best, and after their latest changes I never could manage to make it work! Photobucket is worlds easier to use, and I know their market has been expanding because they're actively working on making it simple to incorporate photobucket photos into blogs, diaries etc without any messing around...

I'm not surprised. It isn't very user friendly. I don't know why they had to make the changes they did. I bet the got lots of complaints about it.

had been made aware of it.http://www.photographypress.co.uk/news/news.phtml/6230/7254/yahoo-pho... > > --

Wah!! :-(

I've have beau coups of pics on yahoo, dadgumit!! Now I've got to transfer them all to my external hard drive...I can't save my html webpages at geocities though, darn it!! There's no way to download them that I can figure out.

This makes me very sad. I always liked yahoo photos just in case of a fire or tornado or something {GOD FORBID!} at my house--so I wouldn't lose anything. Dang.

Thanks for the headsup, Marilyn. I've got two yahoo sites to dismantle now. :-(

Carolyne > Hi everyone....I came across this today and wondered if our Yahoo Photos

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Carolyne...you will find more info here

Not sure if this will affect webpages at geocities...unless the pages includeimage links to yahoo photos account. You can save your pages to your PC by using the View Source from the right mouse click menu....here is how!

Make a MyWebsite folder on your Desktop or in My Documents....browse to your site on Geocities....right mouse click on the page...select View Source....the page will open in Notepad showing the source code. You can then use File....Save As....browse to your newly made folder on your PC......name your file, i.e. index.html or whatever you have named it originally...hit save. If you have done it correctly you will be able to open this page in IE without being online.

Just be aware that your links will still point to the pages on Geocities but you will have all your pages to backup. You should also remove the code placed on each page below the last as this code is what triggers an applet that runs the PITA popup they put on every page...LOL HTH

Take care, Marilyn

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Marilyn--

I've been dabbling in basic HTML for years now, and the old browsers (Netscape) I used had the page source option BUT NO WAY TO COPY THE PAGE INFO!! D'OH! I remember literally hand copying pages in the wayback days to use them as hard copies for backup--gosh, what a headached that was, because then I had to go into my word processor and retype them up again and save the file as a backup. Last night I found I could cut and paste (couldn't do that in the old days either) so I did copy the page source HTML sources to wordpad to save them, never even thought to check if Firefox had 'save' option! :-)

I never would have thought to use IE (never use that) to open the files for review, and imagine my joy when I discovered that Firefox will open the files too! Woohoo!! :-) I'll go back later on and edit the html properly when I have some free time (read: probably never!).

THANK YOU so much for the heads up again--saved me a lot of grief! I did many of my web pages like scrapbook pages (way before I officially became a scrapbooker) and I really wanted to save the layouts. You helped me do that, and I really appreciate it. :*)

Carolyne > Carolyne...you will find more info here

> Not sure if this will affect webpages at geocities...unless the pages includeimage links to yahoo > photos account. >

mouse click menu....here

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DH pointed this out to me last week. I'm pretty sure anything on our Yahoo photo page is on the hard drive, but I need to confirm that. Sounds like a weekend project to me. LOL It doesn't surprise me, though. I wasn't happy with Yahoo when they redid the photo stuff some time back. It takes even longer to setup an album because you have to manually make every photo public. It used to be that all the photos were public as default. But then yahoo had to go and change things...the dirty rotten rats. LOL DH said Yahoo owns flickr so I think I'll check that out. It definately means finding something else!

Does anyone have any insight as to how to transfer your photos from Yahoo to Flickr? The Yahoo help says that will do if for you, but that means waiting for them to get it done.

Is there a way that I can migrate them myself short of downloading them all one-by-one?

Shustes

They don't have that technology, unfortunately, as far as I could find-- I had to download one picture at a time (s-l-o-w-l-y!!). I couldn't figure out how to download albums either. That would have helped incredibly.

Let me know what you find out!