Warning about imageshack.us hosting - how to mass export pictures and move on

Hi everyone,
first off I have to say thank you to the company from California for 7 years of service, most of them without any issues or technical hiccups.

When choosing to go "cloud" always remember that you have to trust your partner that you hand out the data. When choosing the cloud you rise and die with them.

Imageshack has lost my trust to be honest.
Not only I was paying for a subscribtion which now is rated at 18 $ / year at "50% discount" for several years now, also they did not care about my data.

Many of my links posted here on TWC rely to imageshack hosted content, such as my photobooks for Tomb Raider and Ryse: Son of Rome, but also other things like TW survey content etc.
This year I've overcome with the decision to leave imageshack.

Reasons:
- Images stored on Imageshack got corrupted dozen times (also visible in the video). They can only tried to be repaired contacting the support with each single file being corrupted.
- the customer support cannot be contacted by any means as they rely on Google Captcha Version 1, which was disbanded by Google some months ago.
Therefore you cannot use their forms anymore
- The telephone number stated on their website seems not to be active anymore, I get redirected to an answering machine, not even knowing from the greeting messsage if it is the answering machine from Imageshack office.
- They won't call back
- Costs are too high for my usage pattern and now even considering the data loss.



So my new concern was, how to get away from a cloud service with thousands of pictures stored. There is no way to ask the customer support for a brief how-to exporting the pictures. As said the support is not reachable so I would like to share a short how-to how to get your content back


1. Login to your Imageshack account
2. if you use albums choose the compact view else use the all pictures view
3. download Free Download manager (DownthemAll is no longer suppported in Firefox) http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm
4. install Free Download manager
5. in Imageshack album or all images view press "select all" on the right pane
6. select the "get links" icon on the same pane
7. in the new window make sure to setup Type: "Direct links" and Size: "Full Size"
8. All image links will be displayed and are selected automatically
9. press Ctrl+C to copy the links to the clipboard
10. in Free Download manager click on the hamburger menu
11. in the menu click on "insert URL from clipboard"
12. if you download a same kind of images (album) choose a brief folder name and repeat next time using the same name so pictures that belong together are going to be downloaded in the same folder
13. once the download has finished (might notify about damaged files, because they are damaged on imageshack.us) go back to imageshack > close the get links window, and delete the seleted pictures
14. repeat once all pictures are downloaded and deleted


https://youtu.be/SP4uZqvoLO8

Very useful thanks alQamar. :thumbsup2

Thank you Greek, given the near zero feedback I wonder if there was anyone blind enough to follow / use imageshack.us.

To be honest I have forgotten that imageshack still exists. :laughter:

What I said technically they are dead now with cut off support through lazyness

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Originally Posted by alQamar

What I said technically they are dead now with cut off support through lazyness

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Yeah I know. Not sure why this happened though. The possibility for their stuff to be that lazy or irresponsible really strikes me. :(

Don't really know anyone who uses imageshack anymore.

I can fairly understand this. I think I was old-school. Imgur was no better solution.

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I use imgur sometimes. I don't love or hate it though.

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Originally Posted by Sukiyama

Don't really know anyone who uses imageshack anymore.

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Well still some people does but if they continue to be like this, guess none will anymore.

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Sorry to hear that alQamar.

You pay, but not get a good service still. It's fraud.

:wub: imageshack. I migrated 3 years ago when couple of my images were corrupted and couldn't be retrieved. Totally unreliable.

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Originally Posted by Ishan

:wub: imageshack. I migrated 3 years ago when couple of my images were corrupted and couldn't be retrieved. Totally unreliable.

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What's your preference now ?

ImgBB or TinyPic seem alright

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Originally Posted by SharpEyed

ImgBB or TinyPic seem alright

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Have you tried imgur at all ?

Oh damn. Just noticing now that I've mixed them up :D (Thou I'm pretty sure that I've tried them both before write here)
imgshack isn't blocked in Turkey but imgur is :D (Don't know why thou, obscene stuff maybe?)

But imgshack is pay to upload anyway, so..

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Originally Posted by SharpEyed

Oh damn. Just noticing now that I've mixed them up :D (Thou I'm pretty sure that I've tried them both before write here)
imgshack isn't blocked in Turkey but imgur is :D (Don't know why thou, obscene stuff maybe?)

But imgshack is pay to upload anyway, so..

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Not sure why, imgur isn't blocked anywhere AFAIK. Maybe in Korea ?
Sounds weird though. Do you have 9gag or reddit ?

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Originally Posted by ♔Greek Strategos♔

Not sure why, imgur isn't blocked anywhere AFAIK. Maybe in Korea ?
Sounds weird though. Do you have 9gag or reddit ?

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Yea those work fine, thou I use neither.

Well either they're blocked or they blocked Turkey (if thats possible) :D
It was accessible before thou (without Vpn I mean) and I had images there.

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Well either they're blocked or they blocked Turkey (if thats possible) :D

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That'd be totally crazy. :shocked::laughter:

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What's your preference now ?

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Imgur. And google drive cloud service for private storage.

Imgur has worked very well for me