Upset with Yahoo photos!!

[Anonymous]

I don’t know if any of you had photo albums saved on yahoo but they closed that little option and they gave you choices of where you wanted your albums moved. Well, we chose one and they said that upon completion of the registration for the new place, all albums will be transfered. Unfortunately, I didn’t check right away and recently wanted to check out the albums…I was terrified when I saw that only 1 album was transferred. All of our memories are gone!! Our honeymoon pictures, Ariella’s birth to one pictures, our vacations, all of it!! I cried like a baby when I saw this. Yahoo doesn’t give you an option to contact them and when I did call their number (which took some research to find), they keep sending me to a help place on their site. I am beyond upset. Any suggestions on what I should do??

[Anonymous]

I’m no computer expert, but wouldn’t these images still be on your hard drive somewhere?

[Anonymous]

Oh no! That would be so upsetting. I hope you can find the pictures. I agree with Christine they should be on your hard drive somewhere if you uploaded them to Yahoo… unless you already deleted them or something. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Christine and Heather. I was able to retrieve Ariella’s birth pictures but cannot find our honeymoon pictures. I’ll keep looking. I’m glad that I was able to find her pictures. At least not all is lost 🙂

[Anonymous]

That’s good news! My dh can always find things on the hard drive that I could never find. Maybe you can ask someone who knows a lot about computers to help you.

[Anonymous]

If you’re desperate, you can take your hard drive to a computer place and ask them to try and retrieve the file. Tell them what the content was and what it was saved under…. or if you have a friend or a neighbour who’s in IT they can probably help. We were devastated when our computer broke with all of our pictures saved on it, and the most recent few months without backup files. The computer guy was able to save the day and all of the pics got retrieved. I did learn something though…

Even the computer discs that many of us are saving our backup files on are not permanent. There is no guarantee that in 50 years there will be the technology to open them or that the CD will retain the pictures for that many years. I’m going to start trying to print off more of the newer ones so we have hard copies, but it seems so daunting of a task… we have 2.5 years of pictures that we’ve never printed.

Anyhow, hope you can find them.

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