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I can’t wait to read all about your trip. I’m so glad you had such a good time!
It was great trip and one of my best to WDW and USF! It will take some time to get that portion of the TR going, which will be in here. Still have to finish my other one from last October with just a few more updates left.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Thanks. An unbelievable trip and looking forward to sharing it! Even ten days foes by rather fast! Will take some time as still finishing last years!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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Welcome home! It sounds like you had an amazing vacation! Cannot wait for the trip report!
It certainly was an one of my best to the Orlando area! The TR will come, but may take a bit of time. I know you will enjoy it!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
It was such a great trip and one of my best! Looking forward to sharing it with everyone!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Test photo from Flikr and hope this works as just trying it out.
Came out too large. Will re do.
Now it looks fine as meets size limits!
Thanks for the assistance Cheryl as it looks good and the links are removed which I wanted!
Flikr definitely takes more work with the editing then Photobucket does, but at least I know my photos will appear in my TRs. So far, my photos in my other TRs are safe and probably due to my subscription in PB. We'll see if PB decides to make things more affordable down the line with the photo hosting!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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I'm not holding my breath about Photobucket making things cheaper. I had an email from them at some point, telling me how many people had paid for their new product, and I thought then "they're not going to lower the price". I did fill in a survey saying it was too expensive, but that's about all I can do.
Flickr is more work, but it's worth it for me for the savings...
I'm not holding my breath about Photobucket making things cheaper. I had an email from them at some point, telling me how many people had paid for their new product, and I thought then "they're not going to lower the price". I did fill in a survey saying it was too expensive, but that's about all I can do.
Flickr is more work, but it's worth it for me for the savings...
Took a little while to get the feel of but fairly easy to use. One thing about uploading photos is that you should do them in small groups of 20 or so as if you try about 100+ a lot of times some won't upload and then have to redo.
I think Flikr is the best option, even though a bit more work as the price is good for at least now. Who knows how true that info PB gave you about others subscribing is true. They're not going to say fewer people are subscribing to that high end package of $400 as it's not good for their business as they want to get you on board for this.
Now I just need to figure out how to create sub folders for my photos. I create these for each day of a trip as I did this on PB. Makes it easier to sort through them, when posting. I created a trip folder and then a sub folder for each day. Let me know if you know how to do this on Flikr as was quite easy to do on PB. Just can't figure out where and how you can do this! May need to search around more and become more familiar with the site.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Thanks! Glad Cheryl gave me some good tips on removing the links in the TR posts. Takes a little more work, but the photos will look better in the TR. I hope to get this TR going by the weekend, but we'll see as approaching the holidays and becomes more difficult! But it will come for sure!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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Took a little while to get the feel of but fairly easy to use. One thing about uploading photos is that you should do them in small groups of 20 or so as if you try about 100+ a lot of times some won't upload and then have to redo.
I think Flikr is the best option, even though a bit more work as the price is good for at least now. Who knows how true that info PB gave you about others subscribing is true. They're not going to say fewer people are subscribing to that high end package of $400 as it's not good for their business as they want to get you on board for this.
Now I just need to figure out how to create sub folders for my photos. I create these for each day of a trip as I did this on PB. Makes it easier to sort through them, when posting. I created a trip folder and then a sub folder for each day. Let me know if you know how to do this on Flikr as was quite easy to do on PB. Just can't figure out where and how you can do this! May need to search around more and become more familiar with the site.
I know what you mean Dave, as I liked to create sub folders for each day as well.
Flickr is a little harder to navigate and I haven't tried to do that. I created an album for our Western trip after some trial and error and then a month later had to do the same thing for our Disney trip and couldn't remember how to do it! I knew I didn't want them public, so the main thing for me was to mark them "me only".
They offer something called a collection in addition to an album...maybe you could put each day in an album and then put all the albums under one collection?
It does take long to upload. Even after they are resized.
Well, good luck. If you learn anything new please share!
I know what you mean Dave, as I liked to create sub folders for each day as well.
Flickr is a little harder to navigate and I haven't tried to do that. I created an album for our Western trip after some trial and error and then a month later had to do the same thing for our Disney trip and couldn't remember how to do it! I knew I didn't want them public, so the main thing for me was to mark them "me only".
They offer something called a collection in addition to an album...maybe you could put each day in an album and then put all the albums under one collection?
It does take long to upload. Even after they are resized.
Well, good luck. If you learn anything new please share!
Thanks for the great info and will let you know how things progress with Flikr! Hoping for a positive transition from PB!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Took a little while to get the feel of but fairly easy to use. One thing about uploading photos is that you should do them in small groups of 20 or so as if you try about 100+ a lot of times some won't upload and then have to redo.
I've actually found the limit is 500 - after that, it throws back a lot of errors, but I've regularly uploaded 300-400+ photos in one go.
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Now I just need to figure out how to create sub folders for my photos. I create these for each day of a trip as I did this on PB. Makes it easier to sort through them, when posting. I created a trip folder and then a sub folder for each day. Let me know if you know how to do this on Flikr as was quite easy to do on PB. Just can't figure out where and how you can do this! May need to search around more and become more familiar with the site.
All I did was went to "albums" on the top bar and then created them - be careful though, what I have discovered is once you've created an album, it is difficult to go back and edit them and add more in, so be sure you've got all the photos you want for your album at the beginning....
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It will take some time to get that portion of the TR going, which will be in here. Still have to finish my other one from last October with just a few more updates left.
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They're not going to say fewer people are subscribing to that high end package of $400 as it's not good for their business as they want to get you on board for this.
But it will come for sure! 
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