Comments on: FAQ: What to do with your Yahoo photos

Yahoo Photos will begin shutting down on September 20. What should you do if you have pictures there?

[n3td3v]

Yahoo should let users login for a year or so

Yahoo should terminate new uploads and disallow new users, but they should allow yahoo accounts with photos stored to continue to login for a year or so to have the chance to move their photos.

To just have a deadline and delete all photos will truely turn more folks anti-yahoo and will do yahoo no favours, as their public opinion and stock market rating reaches an all time low.

you'll turn more folks to google if you treat users with this much disrespect.

what happens to all those folks who don't hear of the new until its too late, and you can be sure that situation occur for the majority of yahoo photos users.

[mrlemarquis]

YAHOO.........? WHOOO.......?

The question is more "what to do with Yahoo!"
It appears most of the high placed experts/managers are leaving,I personally have a grudge against their search engine which picked out places I had never been on the web and inserted them in their search results given under my "alias", the "Yahoo" groups area is a catastrophy,The once upon a time EXCELLENT "Flickr" programme is almost unusable because of the complicated "log-in" procedure imposed by Yahoo, and all in all, I wouldn't use Yahoo at all, except - strangely - their "home page personalised" service is actually the best from Google/MSN/Yahoo - but for how long?
I've already stopped using "Flickr", with systems as good as "Picasa" around, who needs it?
It would be nice, and competitive, to have an alternative to the Google system, but frankly, the only other possibility is still MSN.
Shame-but I think I'll just let my Yahoo photos disappear, but WOE OH WOE if I see them turning up elsewher on the Web!

[brichard]

This is exactly why...

I haven't yet posted any of my photos online yet. No matter how big the brand name, you have no way of knowing whether one day they will shut you down for whatever reason.

I keep master copies of all my digital photos (taken at maximum quality setting for my camera) on my hard drive.

I back everything up to an external hard drive which I keep at my mom's house, in a fire retardent safe.

When I have time to buy web hosting, build a family website with selected photos and point my domain name to it, then I will post my photos online.

I realize many users are not quite savvy enough to take all the above steps; and it's a pain in the rear end, but that's my two cents worth for today.

[niravabhavsar]

Migration is one step only.

Although it sucks that yahoo photos is closing and we have been forced to move all photos to other services it seems that migration process is very intuitive and only one step. Can't complain about that. I didnt' know it was closing until I logged into yahoo photos and then they didn't have migration process noted anywhere at the time.
But, some time last week I noticed they had buttons in yahoo photos that would let you migrate photos to other services. Since I already had Flickr and Kodak accounts it was very easy for me. It did take 2-3 hours (in the background) to migrate all my 2000 photographs. And, I was notified via email once it was complete. On the plus side I got additional 3 months of flickr pro account. For me it was worth spending 10 mins.
Perhaps it took less time for me to move my photos than reading this story and other users' expeirences and writing my own.
Good luck!

[mythu]

Let me knw

hey can i know where these buttons to mirate the photos are located please let me know?

[hdansky]

winkflash.com

I've had it for years. It's free and I have tons of photos on the site. The price for printing and shipping is also pretty cheap.
www.winkflash.com

[yeungj]

www.imagestation.com

Yeah, sucks to Yahoo! Photo users. Even though I have a Yahoo! Photo account but I never used it (I only have 1 album). I always used Sony Imagestation when they were free for over 10 years since I was in high school. Now they charged $4.99USD/yr for their Silver plan. That's why I had the Yahoo! Photo created but was too lazy to move over 1000 pictures to Yahoo! plus $4.99/yr was not much and am happy now that I didn't make the switch back than. I don't print much so it's not a bad deal and I live in Canada so will never print from them anyways. I used either Futureshop or Walmart for printing.

[AwesomeSpaceMonkey]

Free Flickr Pro for DSL subs?

"Yahoo members who have Verizon and AT&T broadband subscriptions will get free pro accounts for as long as they subscribe."

Is this true? I haven't been able to verify this anywhere.

[biverson1]

AT&T users not given same Yahoo Photos migration option HELP

While regular Yahoo Photos users are given a variety of options, as a reward for our monthly fees, AT&T Yahoo customers can't migrate to anything but Flickr which is not a viable alternative in my book.

I have been told by AT&T Technical Services "the option to switch to Snapfish is available for regular Yahoo! users only. At this time, Flickr, is the option available for AT&T Yahoo! users"

Is there any way to get AT&T to change or make exceptions to this less than customer friendly policy? Or notwithstanding that is there any way to transfer the photos under my AT&T Yahoo Photos account to a regular Yahoo Photos account, so that I may then migrate them to Snapfish?