Originally Posted By Inspector 57 I received this email from Epson this week: "The Epson PhotoCenter will officially close on April 30, 2008. As of today, customers will no longer be able to open new accounts. Starting February 1, existing account holders will no longer be able to upload new images. And finally, as of April 30, all photos remaining on the site will be deleted and will no longer be accessible." So.... ...If you have treasured photos stored only on an Epson on-line album, retrieve them! ...If you want to view other peoples' Epson travelogues -- LP'ers' photostories of their Big Meet vacations, TDLFAN's travels around the world, etc. -- do it now! Some of the photos contained in those files are priceless, and I'm assuming that not all of us Epson-account-holders will re-post them in new albums. To visit an album, to to: <a href="http://photo.epson.com/visitalbums/" target="_blank">http://photo.epson.com/visital bums/</a> and enter the account-holder's email address. Bummer.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 So what trips/events/albums do YOU have stored on Epson (that the rest of us might want to take a last look at)? I've got big albums from the 2003 and 2004 LP Disneyland Birthday Meets. (And a few small albums of TDLFAN and me touring Detroit.)
Originally Posted By SuzieQ And, unfortunately, Epson doesn't have a way to download the pictures with captions I've tried. I've got travelogues on the site from my Yellowstone vacation. At least when Yahoo closed their albums, they gave us an option to move the albums to a couple of other services. I moved mine to Snapfish and it's been wonderful! All I had to do was click a couple of links and it was done.
Originally Posted By LVBelle Aww, that's such a bummer. All of my pregnancy pictures are there, I guess I'll have to move them to Jake's website.
Originally Posted By bloona ggrrrrrrrrrrrr, I got that e mail too...I liked the site, easy to use, better than the ones where you have to e mail the pictures to yourself to get a link
Originally Posted By DJ7K I wonder if some time ago I opted to not get such updates from Epson because I just checked my mail and no word on this. Thanks for the heads up, Inspector! Hi SuzieQ, I really like keeping the captions too. What I usually do is cut and paste each of them to a text document like WordPad or Notepad. I guess I'll have to mark down myself every album, every photo stored and where to locate them on my pc because I have a quite a few albums on there. And a lot of transfering onto my flashdrive too.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut oh wow, I have to pull my photos off of there. I think there are pics from the old beach meets and a few disney meets. hmmmm...
Originally Posted By Mr X Are they shutting down completely, or just becoming a paid service or something?
Originally Posted By peeaanuut <a href="http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/View?u=4036284&a=30254654&p=61078009&Sequence=0&res=high" target="_blank">http://albums.photo.epson.com/ j/View?u=4036284&a=30254654&p=61078009&Sequence=0&res=high</a> oldschool
Originally Posted By LuLu Thanks for the heads up, I57. Hecka bad news! Many links are here: <a href="http://myads.com/LP/albums.html" target="_blank">http://myads.com/LP/albums.htm l</a>
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs You guys can also get a Flickr account; they're free and you can log in with a Yahoo account, if you have one. <a href="http://www.flickr.com" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com</a>
Originally Posted By Big Thunder wow bummer, I use Epson photos because they were one of the few sites that let you upload and keep pix at their original size for free. I like to have some of my pix there for back up and to share with friends. Like DJ, I didn't get a notice either. Guess I've have to start downloading them and put then somewhere else. Peeaanuut: Can I keep and share them with my others on the Peeaanuut Gallery?
Originally Posted By Big Thunder I just realized that many of the pictures I have on Epson are no longer on my hard drive. I transferred them to a portable HD which I later drop and all of the files in it were inaccessible [unless I wanted to spend over $700 with a data recovery company] At least a few are still up on Epson, that's a big reason why I like online photo sharing sites, so some of my files are somewhere else besides my computer hard drive. I guess Epson wasn't getting enough revenue from printing customers? I must admit I never ordered prints from my account.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder dang... this is gunna take a long time to download everything. I have 28 folders on Epson with a total of 380 photos. So far in the last hour I've been able to download 62 photos. I've still got about 5 hours of downloading to do on Epson [yawn] going to sleep for now, it's late, this will take a couple nights to complete
Originally Posted By peeaanuut BT: go ahead and upload them to the gallery. I still have plenty of space and still pay for the server. Ill let yo guys know if I am going to shut it down but that shouldn't be any time soon. I do know that my domain registration is up soon so I have to renew that but other than that you should still be good to go. let me know if you have any issue.
Originally Posted By Ursula AAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!! I have so many things up on Epson and didn't get the email. Oh, and I have some funny (well, to me) July meet Photo-Stories!!! Like I'm going to remember my passwords...Ay yi yi!!!!
Originally Posted By avromark Use the e-mail password function, it doesn't even ask a security question it just e-mails your password to you
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Photobucket is another free site. nuut, I had to take my kids pictures off your site because there were a ton of nasty comments from someone. ick.
