Zulu wrote:
Gene,
The same thing happened to me last night.
I have lost thousands of pictures on this and a cannon discussion forum I attend.
I'm pretty upset.
I feel like I've been hacked for ransom.
They want $499 a year to restore my pictures!
I have directed a whole lot of folks to WWA to showcase my work. It has been a very useful tool for me.
The thought of going back and restoring all those pictures is too daunting to consider.
I guess I will have to start from scratch after 9 years.
I am going to look into Fototime.
A very mad Zulu
If you don't have copies of your pics on your home PC, you might still be allowed to download your stuff from PB to your pc. You can do this one album at a time by selecting an album and clicking on Download Album. It will create a *.zip file of the entire album contents which you can then download to your pc and extract. At least this way you won't permanently lose any pics, but you would have to find some other way to make them available to other people. I did this last night. It takes a few minutes per album depending on the album size (megabytes). I'd suggest creating a folder structure on your PC for each of the albums you download and extract, since you'll lose any album names/structure you might have set up on PB.
Good luck.
As a side note, I think this was a very bad decision by PB. They're going to lose a lot of users, which means loss of advertising revenue. I wouldn't be surprised if they folded up their tent in the next year or so.