Waaaaa, Yahoo Photos is Closing Down
Months back, I’ve read a friend’s intro to one of her photo albums in Multiply that Yahoo photos is closing down. I didn’t give it much thought assuming her info might be one of those chain emails claiming this and that are closing down.
Huhuhu. I should have checked it as soon as I could.
Today, I thought of browsing through past pictures which I have saved in my Yahoo Photos accounts. I have been saving pictures in my account since 2005.
- I put them there so as to save disk space.
- I saved them there cause they remain private until I decide to share them to some chosen few
- I safekept all of them, even those not good enough ones to merit printing, just for the sake of saving them.
I lost my breath for a second as I read the warning when I tried to log in to my account. And I was literally breathing hard when I could not get to my photos for quite some time.
Good thing I stuck with browsing and just answered some survey and then my photos appeared. Whew!!! I was relieved. For a while I thought I’ve lost them forever - years of precious moments captured in pixels.
I now have some new storage media with me. I’m sure this photo transferring thing is going to be keeping me busy for some time.
