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Originally Posted by drwho6
After many users put in a lot of hard work to save their pictures. Imagebam announced they were not closing after all. I'm beginning to wonder if it was all a ruse to get everyone to maintain their site without having to pay anyone to do it. 
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I continually hear this - hard work put in to save uploaded images to hosts
Which reminds me of ex-farmer who got into the habit of uploading files to filehosts and then deleting them from his computer - to save space presumably.
Big mistake because as even the hosts who claim images are kept for ever say
Imagebam - Should I keep a backup of my images on my local machine?
Last Updated: Sep 15, 2015 10:49AM PDT
Yes, you should always backup your files.
The definition of saved pics or films or clips or scans should be saved on a
external hard drive (encrytped) , dvd , usb flash drive etc offline
I left out hard drive as that makes saving a failing system messy
and keeps you 1 step beyond the real threat of ransomware
The cloud - file & image hosts should always be treated as temporary storage at best
even if files are up for many many years because they close - ie some image
servers go bad - backups fail and dmca notices are always being sent out in the tens of millions.
Best thing to come out of this is its made uploaders revisit a lot of older posts
which in reality the majority rarely do unless their reminded by a thanks received
or are in the small group who systematically up , check periodically & re-up when required.
Its made them think about the risks associated with having too much content on one host
Downloaders have been going out of their way to visit what they value
Result saved copies now in existence have increased immeasurebly
The more members who save content the more likely it survives when original uploaders have had enough