Hmmm…very odd. I still have a free account with a few albums and images left on there. When I log in I get a pop up that says “Over Storage Limit” and gives me two choices: Manage Storage or Upgrade.
I click on Manage Storage and it shows me the albums in my bucket and non-album images sorted by date. I can select an album or multiple albums or multiple images at a time and download the zip file. Strange that it’s not working that way for the OP…I guess my results are different because of something I did to my account back in 2017?
Good news is that I needed to allow time for all those files to migrate. They are now there and I can access them - phew.
The bad news is that although I can select one or many pics, or even whole albums, I can still only dl one pic at a time.
I am guessing that this is a restriction for free accounts. The question is - do I sign up for a month and then cancel, or is that going to commit me to a 12-month deal?
If I were to do this I’d use something like the following. (The cool smart kids have even better ways.)
foreach f ( {List_of_Files}.jpg )
/bin/perl Read_url.pl "http://photobucket.com/whatever/$f~original" > $f
sleep 10
end
I’m sure there’s some equivalent that would work under Windows, though you might have to download a useful shareware utility. (Microsoft policy is to keep its [del]customers[/del] victims disempowered, but surely there are some Windo$e aficionados here who know exactly how to do this.) The hardest part is preparing the List_of_files (though that can also be partially automated), and accommodating multiple folders.
Do you need to worry about Photobucket detecting what you’re doing and reacting with malice? The sleep 10 in the script is to make the mass-download less obvious. (And test your script at some other site before deploy.) I’d volunteer to attempt all this on my machine but, at best, I’d end up with hundreds of megabytes I’d need to shuttle back to you.
For a long-term solution let me repeat the suggestion I’ve frequently made here. Do NOT use “free” Internet servers. For $6 per month or thereabouts you can get your own server with huge personal power and no restrictions. Get eleven other Dopers to join you and the per-person price will be just $6 per year.
Thanks for that Septimus, but I am neither cool nor all that smart, so PERL scripts are beyond my abilities and I have no inclination to learn.
As for your suggestion above, I fully agree. In fact, my ISP offers 500 gigs of cloud storage, together with auto backup as part of the package. All my digital photos are on that, but the ones on Bucket are some old ones that I scanned from prints. I lost the original scans when my old computer expired so I either have to scan them again and that is really tedious, or dl them from Bucket one at a time - boring and tedious, but less so than scanning.
I just signed into my free Photobucket account and was able to download everything in one go. Clicking an album or image highlights the border in blue. I clicked each one, clicked download, and got them all in a single zip file.
Did you try doing it in different browsers? Sometimes what doesn’t work in Chrome, works in Firefox or vice-versa. When neither work, I try the Brave browser.
Given that this is supposed to work for free accounts, and does work for some people, then I agree there is a possibility that your browser may have a problem.
Clearing the cookies, cache and temp files can help. A less dramatic way to do this just for that site, assuming you are using Chrome ( or the new Chromium based EDGE):
Go to the page.
Press F12. This brings up a pane on the right for analysing what your browser is doing (a developer aid) but you can ignore all that.
With the pane open RIGHT-CLICK on the normal “refresh” button top left, just before the URL address.
This brings up 3 options, use the “empty cache and hard refresh” item.
F12 closes the developer pane.
The sleep 10 in the script is to make the mass-download less obvious. (And test your script at some other site before deploy.) I’d volunteer to attempt all this on my machine but, at best, I’d end up with hundreds of megabytes I’d need to shuttle back to you.