# Yahoo Photo Albums

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-photo-albums/250602>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 16, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-photo-albums/250602 "2004-06-16T03:30:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-photo-albums/250602/1 "2004-06-16T03:30:39Z")

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Is there a limit to how much space Yahoo allots each user for photo album space? Is this a free service, like the free email? (I imagine it is not.) What’s the skinny?

- Jinx

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-photo-albums/250602/2 "2004-06-16T03:32:32Z")

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30MB. It’s free.

Zev Steinhardt

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-photo-albums/250602/3 "2004-06-20T10:18:38Z")

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How is it possible that I can link to a friend’s Yahoo photo albums from that friend’s website, and yet going directly there from a saved link gives me a Yahoo error message early this morning “albums are not available”? Has anyone ever experienced this? - Jinx

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-photo-albums/250602/4 "2004-06-20T10:20:55Z")

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> [@Jinx](#):
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> How is it possible that I can link to a friend’s Yahoo photo albums from that friend’s website, and yet going directly there from a saved link gives me a Yahoo error message early this morning “albums are not available”? Has anyone ever experienced this? - Jinx

More correctly, the key term is “inaccessible”. Could it be undergoing an update while somehow still the older version can still be found, indirectly? - Jinx

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**Author:** ![daffyduck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@daffyduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffyduck)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-photo-albums/250602/5 "2004-06-20T16:06:50Z")

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A couple of possibilities come to mind. The page from the link could be loading from your browser cache. Or it could be as you guessed and they are moving stuff about and so have disabled the link from their pages but your older links still works because that particular server has either finished the update or hasn’t been updated yet.

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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-photo-albums/250602/6 "2004-06-20T16:10:18Z")

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> [@Jinx](#):
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> How is it possible that I can link to a friend’s Yahoo photo albums from that friend’s website, and yet going directly there from a saved link gives me a Yahoo error message early this morning “albums are not available”? Has anyone ever experienced this? - Jinx

The Yahoo photo album has a choice for the owner of the album. You can either make the album publicly accessible or not.

It seems to me I pay $2/mo for the Yahoo album.