TomT wrote on Oct 16^th, 2017 at 3:06pm:

I lost all my pics in trip reports and my avatar too bc of my free account with photobucket. I'm interested in what you did there ST.

I don't want to downplay that there maybe changes to the PB policy on 3rd party hosting, but I got it too work but ONLY on the thumbnail page.

I went to my album, clicked on it and up comes the thumbnails. Under the thumbnail, there are boxes with the different image codes in them.

I clicked on the one that says IMG, it turned blue for me and then right clicked for my options.

I chose COPY and then went to the QJ reply box and pasted in the IMG code. It shows as JUST code in the reply box so don't let that throw you.

I always hit PREVIEW before posting to make sure things look the way I want them too.

In the PREVIEW, the IMAGE will show FULL size.
If it's what you want, then just post as usual.

TomT, I have no clue why you would LOSE your trip pics/Avatar on PB? I could see them NOT allowing FREE 3rd party hosting, but the purpose of having FREE accounts is to get you to PAY for other services.

Could it be you exceeded the LIMIT for free storage?


If you go to Solotripper which are public albums, you'll see at least a dozen or so albums. As far as I know NONE of the pics have been deleled, at least not the last time I checked?

Have your tried sending E-mail to Customer Service and see what they have to say?
I'm going to do some checking myself to see IF there is something going on?