Such a shame! But I'm happy to have seen them all when I first discovered your Journal here on LJ. Your Frodo posts with their images deepened my love for an already beloved fictional character. Thank you for that.
Yes, it's too bad, Ambree. But the price of keeping those photos up is much too high. Thank you for your attentive, appreciative readership over the years!
Yes, it does seem more than a bit greedy. For years it's been free, though they began cutting back service at least a year ago, taking down all my images about midway through each month, then putting them back up at the start of the next month. But 300! I couldn't believe my eyes.
I have glimpsed your entry titles during the last few months and see that you moved, really and truly moved from idyllic San Diego to New Jersey. I know why you had to do it, and that it will be a loss, but hopefully your new place and its environs will have lots to offer once you get settled in. You are such a warm, friendly person, I am sure that can only help. Best of luck, Shirebound!
I still can't believe that we really and truly moved. It all happened so quickly! Thank you for your sweet words. I've met very nice neighbors so far, and that's very encouraging.
Without telling the name of the town, can you tell me which part of New Jersey you've moved to? Decades ago, driving back and forth for years between NYC and Washington D.C. I thought of New Jersey as what you could see from the New Jersey Turnpike. I since have learned that is not representative at all. :)
I'm having the same problem. I used Photobucket exclusively for pics for my fics, so now they can't be seen. I'm going to try to go back and fix it by uploading them to a different photo-hosting service, but we're going back a lot of years so it could take a while.
This PB policy is asinine since I imagine everyone who uses their service uses it to post in other places. It's just a way to make more money from their members.
I hear you, Ink Gypsy. If my posts, especially the first years, which concentrated on presentations of screencaps with a reflection or poem of Jan's to go with them, were not so image-dense, I might go through the trouble to reload everything. But it would take forever. :(
I don't come here very often these days, but recently I noticed that there's a "warning" about updating my account re 3rd party users visible down both sides of my page.
Like you, I have a huge amount of photos in my LJ account. Unfortunately, these will be lost, because I will not be held to ransom by Photobucket. It's extremely disappointing that I won't be able to scroll down through my LJ page and look at what I've posted over the years.
Lately my life's full of lemons, this is just another squeeze. :(
I hope all's well with you and your family, Mechtild. :)
Meawyn, hello! I, too, haven't been on LJ much. My last post was last September and I rarely browse. I've been too wrapped up with real life concerns and duties--elder care and health stuff (nothing fatal, mostly joint replacement surgeries). My immediate family is ok, though, no serious worries
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Your poor husband! He's had health issues in the past but nothing as devastating as this. It's as though you are already losing him, yet remaining in a sort of neither-here-nor-there state. Alzheimer's disease is prevalent in my husband's family on both sides, and both sides are numerous and long-lived. So while few of them have been stricken with cancer and then made wonky by the pain medications they must take to make life endurable, their minds still have deteriorated, eventually meaning separation one from another, one spouse at home, the other in a care facility, both of them in a sort of limbo. I am relieved and gratified to hear your sons and their wives are being so supportive. What a boon that is. Again, I am so sorry, Maewyn. It does seem the luck of the draw (except in the case of heavy drinkers or smokers), not anything resulting from life style choices and health habits, who gets a devastating disease. But it is always devastating
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I know. It's unfathanable why pb did this. I can't imagine very many people are willing to pay that huge amount. It's heartbreaking for someone such as yourself and your beautiful posts that we have lost these wonderful photos. But thank you for the direct link to them. Your screen caps are some of the best anywhere.
Why, thank you, Primula. :) I'm glad I made them when I did, for later generations of video playing programs I've been compelled to use (when they are no longer compatible with the latest new operating system) have made it far more difficult to make really good screencaps. Not what I'd call progress. ;)
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Good heavens, don't waste your life doing that!
It's a darn shame PB is being so greedy. :(
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I have glimpsed your entry titles during the last few months and see that you moved, really and truly moved from idyllic San Diego to New Jersey. I know why you had to do it, and that it will be a loss, but hopefully your new place and its environs will have lots to offer once you get settled in. You are such a warm, friendly person, I am sure that can only help. Best of luck, Shirebound!
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This PB policy is asinine since I imagine everyone who uses their service uses it to post in other places. It's just a way to make more money from their members.
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Like you, I have a huge amount of photos in my LJ account. Unfortunately, these will be lost, because I will not be held to ransom by Photobucket. It's extremely disappointing that I won't be able to scroll down through my LJ page and look at what I've posted over the years.
Lately my life's full of lemons, this is just another squeeze. :(
I hope all's well with you and your family, Mechtild. :)
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I know. It's unfathanable why pb did this. I can't imagine very many people are willing to pay that huge amount. It's heartbreaking for someone such as yourself and your beautiful posts that we have lost these wonderful photos. But thank you for the direct link to them. Your screen caps are some of the best anywhere.
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