Yahoo! Photos Migration Info.

[Mamma Roo]

What is the Yahoo! Photos migration?

Yahoo! will be ending their “Yahoo! Photos” service on September 20, 2007 and any current user of this service will be forced to offload their content if they wish to retain their photos. Yahoo! Photos is offering you the option to “migrate” your photos to Photobucket, and we’re glad you’ve chosen us as your new image hosting service!


What can I do with my Photobucket account?

Photobucket is the web's most popular creative hub, linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites, including: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger and Xanga. In addition to linking, Photobucket users share their personal digital media by email, instant
messaging, and mobile devices.

Photobucket offers both a free and paid membership. Although you will initially create a “Free” account, you will always have the option to upgrade to “Pro”. Please click on the links below to learn more about what is included in a Photobucket account:

Free Account (http://photobucket.com/faq?catID=29&catSelected=f&topicID=320)
Pro Account (http://photobucket.com/faq?catID=39&catSelected=f&topicID=520)


How will the migration to Photobucket work?

When you log into your Yahoo! Photos account, you will be presented with a landing page that will provide you with additional information about the approaching closure. Follow the simple steps below to migrate your photos to Photobucket.
1.) From the Yahoo! Photos landing page, click on the Photobucket option at the bottom of the page.
2.) Click on the “start” button to proceed.
3.) Verify your Yahoo! ID and Password.
4.) Agree to the terms indicated.
5.) Create a new Photobucket account or log into an existing one.
6.) You will receive an email that confirms your photos are ready to move.


How long will it take to migrate my photos?

Our goal is to transfer your photos from Yahoo! as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, this process may not be instantaneous. The amount of time it takes will depend on the number and size of images being transferred and the amount of accounts that are in front of you in the migration queue. In general, the migration should begin almost immediately and should be completed within 24-72 hours. Please allow at least 48 hours after receiving the email confirmation indicating that the photos are ready to move before contacting Photobucket with status requests.

Once the migration has begun, you will no longer have access to use your Yahoo! Photos account.


How will I know when the migration has completed?

We will send you a confirmation email to the address you used to register your Photobucket account with when your photos have actually been moved. The status of your migration will also be displayed at this time, and will include one of the following pieces of information:

1.) Fail - If 0 photos are uploaded, or 20 photos fail, you will receive a "fail” email. If this happens, you will be able to log back into your photos.yahoo.com account to try the migration again, or try a different affiliate to migrate your photos to.
2.) Partial Fail - If 1 or more photo(s) are uploaded, and less than 20 photos fail, you will receive a "partial fail" email with links to the hi-res URLs to the failed images so you can download them directly to your computer. You will no longer be able to log back into your photos.yahoo.com account ever again.
3.) Success - If 0 photos fail and more than one photo is uploaded, you will receive a “success” email. You will no longer be able to log back into your photos.yahoo.com account ever again.


The Yahoo! info page is found here
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/photos/photos3/closing/

How do I contact Photobucket if I need help?

If you require assistance with anything related to the Yahoo! Photos migration, please send us an email directly to yahooimport @ photobucket.com and be sure to include your Photobucket username, your Yahoo! Photos ID, and your question or concern.

You can also use the ‘contact us (http://photobucket.com/contact)’ link at the bottom of any FAQ answer on the site to reach us, but your email will receive special attention if it is submitted to yahooimport @ photobucket.com.

If you have technical or product questions, please try the following:

1.) Frequently Asked Questions (http://photobucket.com/faq) – This list answers many of the questions that we find our users have about using Photobucket.
Yahoo! migration specific FAQ are here (http://photobucket.com/faq?catID=65)
2.) Tutorials (http://tutorials.photobucket.com/) – We have dozens of tutorials that can visually walk you through most of the features of Photobucket.
3.) Forums (http://forums.photobucket.com/) – The forums are a great place to post questions and get quick answers by our incredibly knowledgeable and friendly support staff.
4.) Photobucket blog (http://blog.photobucket.com/) – Our blog contains posts for the latest news and information about features and updates at Photobucket.

Please refer to our contact us (http://photobucket.com/contact) page for additional assistance with any aspect of the site.

[Mamma Roo]

What kind of folders (or sub albums) does Photobucket have?

Your photos will migrate from Yahoo! in the exact same folders (or albums) that you had originally created them in prior to the migration, but there are some exceptions because Yahoo! and Photobucket folders (or albums) behave a little differently. These differences are outlined below:


Photobucket ROOT ALBUMS have a limit of 1000 images. If you had more than 1000 photos in your ROOT Yahoo! account (not a sub album), anything over this number will be placed in a newly created sub album called "album1" (or album 2,3,4, etc) For example, if you had 2,500 images in your ROOT Yahoo! album, the additional 1,500 photos will be put into two new sub albums (album1 and album2).

Photobucket SUB ALBUMS have a limit of 1000 images. If you had more than 1000 photos in any SUB ALBUM in your Yahoo! account, anything over this number will be placed in a newly created sub album called "originalname_1" (or originalname_2,3,4, etc). In these cases, the sub album with more than 1000 images will simply get an "_1" added onto the end of the ORIGINAL sub album name. For example, if you had 2500 images in any sub album in your Yahoo! account, the additional 1,500 photos will be put into two new sub albums (originalname_1 and original_2).

Photobucket album names cannot have special characters. Photobucket does not allow any special characters in album or sub album names other than a dash or a hyphen (i.e. '#$@!.*(,...etc). If your Yahoo! Photos albums had any special characters in them, they will be stripped out from the name once migrated into Photobucket.

Photobucket also requires that your album or sub album name be a minimum of two (2) characters in length. If any of your Yahoo! Photos album names were less than this, or are under two characters due to special characters being stripped out, the album name will be changed to "album1" (or album 2,3,4, etc).

[Mamma Roo]

Update ....


We are currently aware of a technical difficulty that is causing some accounts with a lot of content to take longer than 72 hours to migrate.

We have been reassured that this issue will be resolved within the next 24 hours, and that your migration should continue as normal at that time.

You will receive a confirmation email from Photobucket once your transfer has been fully completed.

We apologize for the inconvenience that this may be causing you.

[Kristal]

My experience with the Yahoo Photo migration was extremely positive. While going through the process, I understood that the migration could take longer than anticipated due to the number of Yahoo Photo users attempting to migrate at the same time. However, my rather large collection was moved, with everything in the same albums I'd set up, in less than 3 days. I consider that fast and a very nice feature for Photobucket to offer. I am glad I chose to upgrade to the Pro membership and have enjoyed it. Keep up the great work!!:PBilove:

[Mamma Roo]

Hi Kristal,

Thanks very much for posting to let us know it went smoothly. Mostly we've only heard from people who have had problems. :PBVal:

I hope that your experience with Photobucket continues to be this positive! :flower:

[mojocon]

After I click the agreement, I get a confirmation page with my photobucket account info -- when I click yes to confirm the account it loops back to the same page. Is my account placed in a que for transfer or is there a problem?

The url that the yes options loops back to:
http://photobucket.com/yahoophotos/confirmlogin

[Mamma Roo]

It sounds like there may be a problem with cookies on your computer. Please have a look at your settings and make sure that photobucket is not blocked, and that cookies are enabled.

[mojocon]

Have photobucket permissions set to "always allow" in the privacy tab and still get the same loop upon selecting the yes button to verify the account to upload my yahoo photos. What's next course of action?

[Mamma Roo]

There must be something blocking as there have been many thousands of Yahoo! users that have transferred without issue.

You can try going through our FAQ thread post #4 to see if anything there helps. There are a number of maintenance suggestions that help a lot of folks.

http://forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?t=5399

If you do all that's recommended and still have trouble, please use the 'contact us' link at the bottom of this page to send in an email.

[Thomas Ride and Driv]

I'm having difficulty with mine. They transferred but did loads of duplicates within each album and through I spent time deleting them, they keep coming back to haunt me!

[Mamma Roo]

http://forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?p=135984#post135984

[angrygrrrl]

hey guys,
i have read all the info reguarding the yahoo transfers and i did it correctly.
i recieved an email from photobucket saying my transfer was complete and i followed the link. problem is, none of my yahoo pics are there. yesterday when i logged into photobucket i had 38 pics. after i recieved my conformation email, i still have 38....
i looked up how to retrieve your yahoo photos and it says they should be in with your photobucket ones or in folders or sub albums.
ive looked in all them and i dont have the pics in any of them.:PBmad:

any suggestions?

[River]

What is the name of your account?

[DearDorothy]

Hello. I am having the same problem with my account as 'mojocon'. I have been trying for over three weeks to get my photos moved, but I just keep getting looped back to that darn page. :PBdoi:

I have read all of the FAQ's, followed the instructions, cleaned my computer and still have no luck. I asked my husband to transfer his photos from Yahoo over to photobucket also last week and he had no problems at all. He said all of them were transferred within 48 hours even though he never got a single confirmation email from you at all. :PBconfused:I then had him try to move my photos the exact same way he got his moved, but my photos won't move.

So, I am now still trying to get my photos transferred from the same computer and still nothing is happening. I have contacted you using your contact form, sent you an email using one of the addresses you provided for another forum user and now I am posting here. I only have two days left to get them transferred and I am counting on you to do it since the darn site won't let me even transfer them one at a time. Please help. Thank you for your time.




mojocon said
'After I click the agreement, I get a confirmation page with my photobucket account info -- when I click yes to confirm the account it loops back to the same page. Is my account placed in a que for transfer or is there a problem?

The url that the yes options loops back to:
http://photobucket.com/yahoophotos/confirmlogin '

[River]

DearDorothy,

What email address did you send to? Did you get a reply?


http://forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?p=135984#post135984

[dd03]

Hello. I am having the same problem with my account as 'mojocon'. I have been trying for over three weeks to get my photos moved, but I just keep getting looped back to that darn page. :PBdoi:

The same thing is happening to me....and now I only have one day left! ack!

[dd03]

The same thing is happening to me....and now I only have one day left! ack!
btw....on my second yahoo acct....these photos transfered...I got a confirmation that it was being processed. The difference was that I activate a new acct for that email addy.

I got the loop when trying to transfer my photos to an existing acct (this one dd03)

Please help.
Thanks!

[Mamma Roo]

dd03, you need to send an email in to the yahooimport address please.

[HollyHobby]

It sounds like there may be a problem with cookies on your computer. Please have a look at your settings and make sure that photobucket is not blocked, and that cookies are enabled.That is not the problem. I am having that problem also but I DID NOT have it yesterday. I believe it is the site not the users.

[River]

HollyHobby,

Are you having problems with Yahoo! Photo Migration? Can you please supply a little more detail?

[Amethyst]

Update - Dec 27, 2007.

Yahoo Photos is now permanently closed down. You will no longer be able to migrate any content that you may have had on Yahoo into your Photobucket account.

Yahoo Photos has been informing their users for over 7 months that they will be shutting down at the end of 2007 and all images that were not transferred would be lost at that time. Unfortunately, there is nothing that we can do to further assist you at this time. Please contact Yahoo directly if you require additional help. Thank you.