Photobucket compresses all pictures to a mere 160 by 120 pixels requiring only 3 to 4 kilobytes to store. I have 44 pictures right now. That’s less than 200KB. Photobucket is telling me I have 3 megabytes of storage consumed and no free space left, unless I send them money. Or delete old pix. Should I do that, then my old posts will loose their pictures, which is somewhat unpleasant.
Anyone know a free photo website that lets you save more than a few dozen pictures?
Photobucket tells me that I am only using something like 10% of my total allowable volume, but I still routinely cull images. I don’t care about the broken links scattered around the various forums I visit.
If you only have something like 44 images stored, and I have close to 30, but am led to believe I have 90% of my available gallery space left, something isn’t adding up. I am not a paying user of PB either, so why would your 30% more images use up close to 90% of the space alloted to each of us?
-Crandell
Hey
Why don’t you make another “free” account, then you dont have to pay and still can use photobucket, the only downside is you have to remember another password. [:(!]
Thats just my [2c]
Taylor
No. Photobucket does not compress all pictures to 160 x 120 pixels for you.
But they do present to you thumbnail versions of your pictures that are 160 x 120 pixels big in their listing view. Click on the thumbnail to get picture in full view, then look at actual image size for the actual image size.
I currently have 113 images stored. But I try compress them to a sensible size for web display before uploading (less than 100 kB per picture), and consequently have about 18 MB, or 3% of my free quota of 500MB stored. Room for quite a bit more.
http://photobucket.com/faq?catID=29&catSelected=f&topicID=320
Your mileage may vary.
Smile,
Stein
I just checked by free photo bucket account. I have uploaded 110 photos and 12 videos. I have used only 17 percent or 88mb of my account.
You did not say but it sounds like you got an email. It could be someone phishing.
Rich
My account has about 445 photos in it and it is at about 11% capacity—this sounds more like a phishing expedition than anything else-----seen this lot before–
It does seem rather strange. [%-)]
I have over 2500 images in my free photobucket account, which represent 362MB of data, or about 72% of the 500MB of free storage allowed. The “account bandwidth used”, which I believe applies to the number of photos to which you have posted links, is 1.9GB, which is 18% of the 10GB allowed, and this one resets itself to zero on the anniversary of your joining photobucket.
Wayne
http://s83.photobucket.com/albums/j284/cudaken/
I have 354 pictures, 15 vidoes, used 58 MB and 11% of storage used? I have yet been asked for a dime?
Cuda Ken
I would say that whoever sent you that E-mail has been paying too much attention to those E-mails from Nambia or Zimbabwe, or wherever they’re coming from, asking for your checking account number so that they can deposit those millions of dollars into your account.
In other words, ignore it.
I’ve got about 80 or so photos in my Photobucket account, and according to them, I’ve only used about 8% of my storage. If you get another E-mail from the same person, report it as “Spam” and see what happens.
Tom
See next post…
This site is doing some strange things tonight…???
David, first of all go to yur photobucket account , log in, and click “My Account” it will tell you haw much space you have used. If you indeed are out of room, it may be that you have been uploading full resolution photos. For me, a full res 6" x 4" photo at 712 dpi is 7 Mb… Before I upload, I will change that to a 72 dpi 900 x600 pixel photo that is compressed using Photoshop to a 4 (low quality) and is all of about 200k. Photos at 7Mb will fill up your free account very fast…
So go check out your account and see. I have 2227 photos in my Pro account and have only used all of 331Mb (about 1% of my account). Bandwidth is the size of the photo by the number of hits. It is the amount of the “pipeline” from thye server used to communicate your files with others. Every time someone clicks on your photo here and the full sized photo appears, they have used bandwidth. You can also see what photos you have put up there are most popular. For instance yesterday I had 2539 hits on my photos. Most of them from here.
73
That sounds like a bad account creation error on the part of Photobucket. There’s not much you could do, if it persists, other than move your photos to a safe place, delete the account and create another one.
In answer to your question David, you might give SnapDrive.net a try. I’ve been with them for some time and they’re free account is about as good as Photobucket in my opinion.
I have 545 images and 7 videos and used 12%…So,something isn’t adding up.
I have 2800+ files in the Bucket, using 310 MB, 61% of the 500 MB on a free account. My shots all get resized to 800x600, for posting in various places. Something is not adding up in your case…
I don’t need Photobucket. I get space to post my own web sites and photos with my Internet account.
Besides, Photobucket takes “forever” to display. I prefer Snapfish. Much faster.
Mark
I have hundreds of photo’s (about half over 600x800) and a handful of vids on my free photobucket account, and I’m only 58% full.
I’d check your settings and make sure all is kosher there before I sent any cash!
If it takes a long time to display, then the problem is probably at your end. Any photos I’ve posted or have seen that were hosted on Photobucket are there in the message when I open it.
This image is from my Photobucket account.
I agree; same thing here.
I have over 600 photos and one slideshow in my various albums (all under the same account) and I’ve used 267MB, or 53% of my account space.
I don’t know what the benchmark for display speed is but in my little laptop it takes ----- doing a stop watch timing on it—oh,—about 5 seconds for the page to come up with my pix.
Now------to upload-----I usually upload about 20 at a time—without bulk uploading----last batch was 2 minute and 36 seconds--------hardly breakneck speed here------but not crawling on hands and knees either-------oh, BTW, the upload was affected by the fact that I was also having 5 sites on at once and was working on an Excell workbook[8D]