webshots has merged/gone to a different format, and will be shutting down within the next couple months.
They have created "SMILE", another site, pay for hosting after you get all your crap up there, but free for a while to entice you in....(like the pusher on the corner handing you a splifff)
if you have been using WebShitz like I have (free account for the last 13 years...) I highly suggest you go up there and download all your stuff a.s.a.p
now, when you try to merge this stuff to SMILE, it will not work, and when you try to download to your computer when they send a letter saying you are "cleared" to download, that won't work, but you need to be dilligent and tenacious, responding to them that they truly suck, and you will get these instructions:
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Webshots Customer Support.
We're sorry that you had this trouble downloading your photos. If you have received notice that your photos are ready to be downloaded, you can use these steps to locate the zip file(s) and save your photos to your computer. Please note that we recommend using the Firefox browser (
www.mozilla.org) to access Webshots to download and save your photos.
1. Go to
www.webshots.com by typing the URL in the address bar of Firefox. Sign in to your membership.
2. Paste
http://community.webshots.com/features/downloads in the address bar of Firefox.
3. Click the "Download my personal photos" button. If your photos are ready to be saved, you'll see the zip file(s) after clicking the Download button.
4. Your photos will be bundled into manageable Zip files. Your videos and Picture Show videos will be listed as individual links for download.
5. When you click on the link for a zip file, winzip will open. This will show the albums (folders) included in the zip file. Select a folder and then click Extract. Now, choose a folder on your computer to save the photos to and click extract at the bottom of the window. Repeat this process for each folder in the zip file.
7. If you have more than one Webshots membership, you will need to log in and initiate the download process within each of your Webshots accounts.
SPECIAL NOTE: The files you download in this process will be available for 2 weeks. Please DO NOT DELETE OR MOVE YOUR PHOTOS AND VIDEOS from Webshots until you have downloaded and saved all the files to your computer or other storage media! If you miss the two week window, you can initiate the download process again, but ONLY IF YOU HAVE NOT DELETED YOUR PHOTOS from Webshots.
PLEASE be aware that once photos are deleted, we are unable to recover them! DO NOT DELETE any personal photos or videos until after you have securely downloaded and saved them to your personal computer or storage media.
Eventually, the Webshots site will completely close and all photos and videos will be deleted from our database. After the closing date, personal photos or videos will no longer be available. Please save your personal photos as soon as possible!
Thank you,
Laura B.
Your Customer Support Representative
www.Webshots.com you don't need firefox, but you do need to "file for a download" to them, in order to get your links, and have them zip the files (why I don't know, the file zipped is the same size unzipped.....)
best of luck, let webshitz know how you feel, and for certain, let the new SMILE site know they suck too..... because they ARE webshots....and they forced you to go thru this....
I gus SmugMug or someone else will be getting my $$ if i am forced to pay to have my photos seen....
damned pizz's me off that 13 years of photo links I have out there will no longer work for folks....
kinda like the "crash" we had here a year ago....
