LJ, I checked both of them and on W10 Home 21H1 64-bit it worked fine then.

Ila,

Thank you for your suggestions Ila in Maine; I'll check both of those out.

My two children bought me some really nice presents for Fathers day (an essential oil lamp combined with one of those globes that changes colour, as well as new summer house coat, and several essential oils; plus some really strong dark chocolate. My daughter is also getting me an apparatus that enables me to extract essential oils from various plants. (I extracted Lemongrass oil when I was doing first year chemistry at university, and remember the process. You just need to know the boiling points of the various oils so that you can extract them using a condenser and other glassware). They have also been doing all the daily household chores and are cooking the main meal this evening; ( a very rare event). :)

I'm always spoiled in June as my birthday is usually a few weeks before Fathers day. :) plus my wife is usually off for half term at the end of May/ early June that usually lasts until my birthday. We usually have a three way birthday celebration as my wife's birthday is 8 days before mine and her dads a week before hers. But the last two years have been cancelled due to Covid.

RE: re: storing images...

Another quick couple suggestions in case it helps: perhaps Delenn knows of a way you could script the file transfer -- I recall her earlier suggestion about registering the itch.io games -- since it would be almost impossible to manage that large a transfer manually. 2nd, I'm guessing that your kids use Microsoft Office 365 -- a few times a year the family plan goes on sale for ~$50 per year, & that would give you a total of 6TB OneDrive storage.

Whiterabbit-uk,

Thank You. My birthday was the day before Father's Day. I planned that pretty well, didn't I?

The US just made my birthday a Federal Holiday - though not because of me but for much more important reasons.

I'm very happy you had such a great father's day. You certainly deserve it.

My daughter has a birthday at the beginning of June, her best friend's in on the 9th, and of course mine. We used to do a big party including my son for Father's Day (his is just before Mother's Day in May) but people have moved away and scattered, so now we exchange text messages which somehow just doesn't have the same sentiments.

It is nice to be spoiled, isn't it?

I hope we are done with Covid keeping families apart.

Ila

mike,

Thank You for this suggestion.

I will check with Deleen about the file script.

My children are all grown.

Using the free webpages, as long as I make a 'webpage' but don't publish it, I can have up to 1T of images per page and I can make unlimited pages.

Since my income is very limited, I am disabled and on SSDI, the web pages will have to be it for me at this time.

However, I will pass along the suggestion to a couple of people I know who have been looking for a secure place to store images and files who don't have to worry about funds. I know they will be grateful.

Thanks once again.

Ila

mike,

No, off the top of my head. And I don't have a clue who to ask. Plus it would depend on where you want to transfer.

Sorry!

Be nice Phil K. The overworked, underpaid dev(s) came up with a storyline they could use with a minimum of time & effort. Please don't overthink it. Check out WR's many suggestions of free games, plus there's plenty at low cost, and you can play as any sort of creature, or any race or gender you desire. Happy Gaming! :)

Phil K, It shouldn't matter to you. It's just a game! Just think of it as playing as a HUMAN BEING and enjoy the game!

tiscrea © - The Netherlands,

Hi tiscrea © - The Netherlands

I've been using https://postimages.org/ for the past three years, uploading images for these reviews on an almost daily basis. It was relatively new when I found it following the demise of a previous host I was using. If you see any of my reviews from around 2017 and before all the images have gone b3ecasue the host closed down with no warning. Postimage was totally free when I started, but they recently added a paid for mode. whether they are going to go the same way as Photobucket; I really don't know, but so far they have been excellent. It's not Photobucket, but they have improved their service significantly since I first started using them.

I don't post personal images an those sites.

Personally I won't post any family images online unless it's a private server such as Discord; I don't even use Facebook except to keep in touch with some old friends and only have one image of me and my wife at the top of the account.. I know that cloud sites are extremely useful for sharing photo's, but I still prefer creating slide shows on DVD's and giving them to other family members. If I want to share a photo with friends it's usually posted onto Discord or other messaging servers.

I've only ever used cloud based sites to upload images of the games I've reviewed.

I can actually access a few hundred megabytes of images from each of my accounts. What I was thinking of doing is downloading those, then deleting them, so that it would free up more images, but with tens of thousands on each of the five accounts it would take a considerable amount of time.

There are a couple of accounts that hold a few thousand images for a massive review (at my last count it was over 1000 pages long) of in game images of all the battlefield 2 mods and images of each map as well s in game images showing what the map environments look like. Which I started working on many years ago, but keep putting on the back burner because many of the links I place (as hyperlinks) to the various downloads for the maps and mods of which there are over 1000 mods and more maps for the game. Each mod is described in as much detail as possible and each map that works with that mod is described, with advice on tactics for the better maps as well as links to each download. The links end up disappearing when the host site (usually a dedicated clan site) decides it's no longer practical to host the files or when they decide to move on to newer games. I'm considering creating a server specifically for the downloads, which amount to well over a terabyte of mods and maps just for that one game an make it available at weekend sonly to the Battlefield community, so that I know that all the links will work. :)

Sadly I just don't trust cloud based storage.

When games started to become more popular via digital downloads, I remember saying to a few friends that it was a mistake as many of the sites that offer those downloads won't be around in ten years. Of the many sites I've purchased digital games from quite a few no longer exist, for example, I purchased over 900 games from Reflexive arcade who were bought out by Amazon several years ago. They gave anyone who had purchased games from the original vendor six months to redownload and activate the games before shutting the servers down. The problem there was that when you upgraded your computer, the activation code was deactivated and you'd have to reapply for a new code. So long as you had the original order number you'd get a new activation code. When Amazon closed the servers, that was no longer possible, so I was left with 900+ demos a sI had the installers for each game, but wa sunable to get new codes. I payed $19.99 for every one of those 900+ games, all of which were lost until I found one of those hacker code generators that someone had uploaded. That enables me to re register some of the games, but not all. As for the other sites I've never been able to re register those as they had similar systems to Reflexive arcade, but I've nver found any code generators for the games. DRM destroyed the gaming industry as far as I'm concerned. I wish we could go back to the old CD/DVD based games where you could reinstall to your hearts desire. I'm still playing old games that are on disk. In fact I just reinstalled Battlefield 1942 last night and am reinstalling Men of Valor later today, both games are 16+ years old now and still activatable (real word)?

'Scuze the rant...

Whiterabbit-uk,

Thank you for your information. Personally I don't have Facebook, Twitter and whatever other "Social" media sites you can use. I also don't use cloud services, because I'm not a big fan of those either. I prefer keeping files on my computer only.

I also thought about moving all my images for my (creative) weblog to another host, but there are a lot (!!!) and also I have to change all the links I posted during a few years...

Also I prefer the good old DVD/CD of XHD for storing private files. I don't even use WIFI but am still cable-connected. My mobile phone still work with smoke signals ;-)

By the way, I have an extensive collection of HOG's that I downloaded over the years and they are mostly still playable :-P

tiscrea © - The Netherlands, I wonder if the 404 error you are seeing is caused by a Web page referenced within the game no longer being at the same address as it was when the game was created?

tiscrea © - The Netherlands,

Same here with respect to keeping all my files on DVD's Blu Rays etc. All my SD and Micro SD cards I've used in my cameras, once full are placed in a solid waterproof proof box made specifically for SD and Micro SD cards and I back them up onto either DVD or Blu Ray (usually both, plus place then on one of my external drives). I also don't use Wi Fi. When we moved to this house several years ago we spent a small fortune extending and modernising the place. I had CAT 6 cables run to all the rooms (under the floors and in the cavity walls) apart from the kitchen (an oversight), with switches placed to ensure each room has at least one connection; though the living room has two and my study has three wall sockets for wired connections. My daughter uses Wi-Fi with her laptop and iPad, but has the option to connect via cable if she is downloading of watching movies as cable is much better than Wi-Fi for such things. Everything else is wired.

I do have a Facebook and Twitter accounts, but they are only used for getting free software. I don't use them in the traditional sense i.e. as social media. Actually my Twitter account was suspended last year as apparently they don't like you using them to advertise second hand for the software you get for free for placing the add on your twitter account. As I've never sent a tweet in my life I've never bothered to reactivate the account.

When we used to go away on vacation (pre Covid), you rarely saw anyone in the reception areas except when new guests were arriving. However, several years ago I noticed that the reception area's, that usually had the best Wi-Fi connections were suddenly becoming inundated with people, all on their phones, laptops and iPads. :)

"Sadly I just don't trust cloud based storage. ">

Microsoft, Amazon, & Google clouds are safer than anything else -- probably trillions of dollars worth of biz depend on them. For one thing, their data centers are more secure than most banks, and that includes measures against physical threats like floods, fire, and natural disasters. For another, everything is stored on multiple drives that are monitored constantly. And they have security against cyber threats that you could never implement on your own -- when stuff stored on Amazon is leaked/stolen it's always because some idgit didn't configure their account storage properly.

BTW, Amazon also offers cold storage that's Very cheap -- the catch is that you can't get to your stuff immediately.

aws.amazon[.]com/glacier/

"DRM destroyed the gaming industry as far as I'm concerned."

DRM was/is the result -- the culprit is basic human greed. On the one side, some people want everything they can get their hands on for free, whether they actually need or will use whatever or not, and on the other, some people want to squeeze every penny out of as many poor souls as possible.

"Same here with respect to keeping all my files on DVD's Blu Rays etc. "

Might double check those BD discs from time to time -- while DVDs will last 100 years, the BD discs you burn have generally poor longevity.

" I also don't use Wi Fi."

Wired is faster and more reliable, But, with LOTS of devices it's either unavailable or only available on more expensive models, e.g. my Roku TV in the bedroom. While it's dependent on your home's wiring, powerline network extenders can work very well to give you wired connectivity in every room, and some offer WiFi access too, so no dead spots. That said, WiFi 6 is more secure, though both devices & network have to be WiFi 6 to matter. Otherwise, while WiFi is definitely hackable, you can limit your vulnerability, e.g. don't have sharing or remoting etc. turned on, always use a VPN away from home and so on.

mike,

I agree Mike, Greed is what forced developers to add DRM, but it was a step back for honest gamers who always supported the developers by buying the games. Because of the greed of others, I've lost thousands of pounds/dollars worth of games simply because the games I purchased with DRM from small developers/distributors, who no longer exist, so I can no longer play those games; at least most of them. Thankfully some of the developers that went under; for example, Real Arcade, at least were taken on board by other distributors so I still have access to the games I purchased from Real Arcade (I think it was Gamehouse that now hold the rights to all of Real Arcades old games).

After all that said, I've purchased so many games, I doubt I'd have time to play all f them before I'm dust. I still think supporting developers by buying their games is the way to go; that way we get better games from them as many developers will invest the profits they make into new technology to create even more interesting and different games If I've really liked a game given away via the game giveawayoftheday I'll often either buy it or have already done so. Many of the original giveaways from 2006 to 2008 I'd already purchased via sites like Reflexive Arcade and Alawar.