wish I could help on the Photobucket, but do not use such services because I knew this would eventually happen. Bait and switch, a common business tactic.
All my photos are on a couple of hard drives and or burned to DVD's.
Backups for backups.
Only cloud storage I use is for Amazon ebooks and unfortunately email stuff.
I would never have used it, either, except that my cow forum doesn't allow attachments, so you have to link pics from a photo-hosting site. Back then, Photobucket was about the only game in town, and everyone used them. I have all my pictures on my hard drive, except for a string of them that went poof when my second-to-last computer died. SOMEWHERE around here is a CD-ROM with all the previous pictures on it, but I didn't find it when I looked last. It's here somewhere, though. Anyway, then from the time I got my last computer until now, the pics are all on the hard drive. I wasn't too worried about the lost ones because they were on Photobucket and I could get them "when I had time." Which never happened, and now they want them deleted.
That just sucks, Lannie, I mean all of it! I wish I could help you, but I've never had a photo bucket account. I truly hope you get logged in and save all of your pictures
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I did get logged in, finally. I wasn't properly "intuiting" what to do. Now whether I can get logged in AGAIN is another question...
However, Rich said we could go ahead and pay one month's ransom to give me time to figure out which pictures need to be downloaded (and to hopefully find that missing CD-ROM) and get them moved over to my new hard drive.
I ditched photbucket years ago because I didn't like their interface and it wasn't as intuitive as other photo hosting sights. There should be a way to save a photo to your local computer but it may have to be done individually and not as a batch.
Found this after a google search. Hope this helps.
https://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/200724174-Copy-or-Download-a-Photo-or-Video
Thanks for looking.
There's actually a quicker way (right click on the thumbnail and select "save as") but that was having hiccups yesterday, so if it gives me shit again today, I'll try doing it the way that link says. It's just that there are so many ads on that site now, it takes forever to open one single pic. I was hoping to be able to copy/download an entire album, but I guess that's not possible. Oh, well, I have my work cut out for me for the next month. I didn't have anything else to do anyway.