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I just checked my account, and it seems I have lost every one of my 158 images in my Gallery, I have nothing left except the text associated with the descriptions of each one. For me this represents years of work, lost. Also I noticed that my account has been dropped down to the free account, from the Premium it used to be; and this is concerning because obviously there us no backup for the account status. I just paid in January for this year, and I will not be paying again. I also will not be wasting my time uploading 158 files and cleaning up his mess.
Luckily, I have all my files backed separetly to my PC hard drive, on a 3 Terabyte drive, including all my final RAW files after completion of processing, and the jpgs that were sent to Astrobin. However, it would be significant work to wade through all the jpg versions I might have for a particular one to fill that blank at Astrobin (kicking myself now for not developing an Astrobin file naming convention), but really I would not be uploading 158 new versions anyway.
I noticed that Astrobin is running dog slow as well, and that is not surprising given the people scrambling to have a look at the damage. Uploading again is probably going to be very dicey in the near term, if your considering that.
As to Salvatore's pitch for more money, which I declined, the timing is incredible. He is sure to lose subscribers.
Make sure you check your or entire gallery, would be my advice, not just recent stuff.
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