As noted in the little pre-amble post that is stuck to the top of the main page I’ve been trying to be more careful with what images I use for this blog. I’m trying to only use images I feel are not copyrighted – concert posters, ticket stubs, pre-made cover art, etc. This means that quite a few posts don’t have any images at all. I’ve always felt an image makes a post look better. I’m a visually minded person so I like having an image at the top of each page.
That is going to end for a while. I’ve used Flickr for about as long as I can remember to host images on this blog. They have mostly been a good service. They are easy to use, their embed feature is intuitive and for a long time they allowed you to upload an unlimited number of photos.
Their login process has always been crap, though. At some point, years ago, they were bought out by Yahoo and you had to create a Yahoo account in order to use Flickr. Like probably most of you I allow my browser to remember my user names and passwords for most things. So whenever I went to Flickr it automatically logged me in and I could just upload and share photos. Every now and again something would go wrong and my browser would no longer remember my password, and I’d have to try and figure it out. Apparently some of these times I wouldn’t be able to figure it out and I’d just create a new account.
Last night I went to Flickr only to be told I had to create a new password. Trouble is I couldn’t remember my user name and Flickr wasn’t giving it to me. I tried to fetch that information using my main e-mail. After a whole annoying process it gave me a new password and I was able to log into the Flickr account.
Surprise! While it was my Flickr account it wasn’t the one I’ve been using for the blog. This account only had a few old personal photos on it. So I tried my secondary e-mail address. Same whole annoying process, same result. More of my old photos but not what I’ve been using for the blog. I spent an hour digging around for possible other e-mail. Found two Yahoo e-mails used them and got the same stinking thing. I tried a bunch of old e-mail accounts I created in order to get new Mediafire free accounts and there is nothing associated with them.
I’ve exhausted everything I know. At some point in time, I created a Flickr account with an unknown e-mail and used it for a long time. I uploaded over a thousand images on it to use for this blog. I even paid Flickr to get a pro account because they started making you pay when you reached 1,000 images. But now all that is lost.
I don’t have the patience to create yet another account and start over so for. now we are going image less. Images will of course still be included in the bootleg files if they were originally included. But I won’t be searching for them.
I know, I know. I’m an idiot for creating so many accounts in the first place. I feel like an idiot and am completely frustrated I seem to have left no trace of it anywhere.
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Mat – First of all WELCOME BACK!! It’s great to have your music back on line again! Re: your post on images – I use MSN.com (or Google or Bing or any search engine come to think of it!). In the search bar, I type in the name of the singer or band and when the SE comes up with its results, there is usually a tab at the top of the list that says “images”. Click on this and invariably you will find photos, album art, concert tickets, posters etc. Works for me about 90% of the time. Regards Chris Field
Thank you. The trouble isn’t where to find images. I’ve used similar processes to what you just laid out many times to great success. The trouble is with hosting the images. In order to put them on my blog I have to upload them to an image hosting site. As noted in the post I’ve used Flickr for years, but now I cannot find my user name/password and thus cannot gain access to my account. The whole process has been very frustrating which makes me not want to deal with any images for the time being.
No worries, Mat. I’ve created multiple accounts for sites I couldn’t remember so many times it’s embarrassing. The posts are fine without images – we come for the music. Thanks for all the tunes!
It is ridiculous. I keep a text file of the major passwords I need to remember but there are lots of non-essential stuff I don’t bother to write down. Guess I should have written this one down. 😉
Glad to hear I’m not the only one who created multiply emails to access a service and then forget what email I used. I’ve been using a password manager ever since. Thanks, really appreciate your efforts..
I have so many e -mail addresses and accounts with different e -mails it is ridiculous. Do you have a password manager you recommend?
This is how it usually goes..Create a Password and write it down or forget to write it down. Goto login screen at a later date. Either i have forgot the password and i can`t find the page where i wrote it down or i wish i had remembered to write it down. I don`t know about freeware password storage apps..
I’m right there with you.