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Webshots photo site is closing 1st December 2012
Received this email a few days ago

I've stored photos there for over 10 years!

Dear John ,

Webshots has been acquired from American Greetings and the original founders are introducing a new service called Smile by Webshots.

Smile by Webshots is an innovative photo management service for today’s modern family – helping you store all your photos, find your memories and effortlessly share life’s moments with the people you are closest to.

We are transferring your membership plus your photos and videos to Smile by Webshots. Just log in by December 1 using your Webshots member name: ******* (and password) to confirm your account and get started.

IMPORTANT: the current Webshots site will be going away as of December 1. If you do not want to come over to Smile, please
download and save your photos to your desktop or anywhere else you choose.

Sincerely,
The Smile by Webshots Team

PS. For more information, read the details of the transition or go to Help.



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The origional team have done an MBO and started Smile-Webshots (new platform and new software) and have provided download facilities for your pictures - but safety means downloading everything and deciding whether the new offering is suited to your needs.

Any pic locations (like the ones given to relatives/forums etc) become invalid on 1/12/2012

I have about 6500 pics on there.

Naturally I have backups as well but it just goes to show that any of the web depositories are vulnerable.

Webshots was one of the biggest photo storage sites in the USA.

These are my stats for public folders on Webshots

overall Photos 6381 views 806642 downloads 8147


The site contains 692 million photos !!
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