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I was getting ready to post a photo and noticed a new little option called "migrate photos beta™", so I clicked on it, wondering what it was all about.
If it works... IF... LJ will do a one-time migration of photos from a photo storage site (read: PHOTOBUCKET, but you can also do it from a couple others including Dropbox) to your scrapbook and automatically UPDATE ALL THE LINKS.
Let me repeat that: LJ will do a one-time migration of photos from a photo storage site to your scrapbook and automatically UPDATE ALL THE LINKS.
You can only do it once, but then I would only need to do it once to fix all those broken links that still make me weep if I think too hard about them. Also, while it's in beta test mode, there's no storage limits.
I'm doing it now--there's some 3K photos for it to migrate so who knows how long it will take. They'll send a notification via email when it's done.
I'm excited but trying to temper it because I don't know if this will really work (it is a beta version, after all), but if it does, I will take back every bad thing I ever said about LJ ever!
Update: Never mind. *scowl* It didn't work, not surprisingly. It migrated 3 photos, supposedly, but even those three didn't transfer correctly. Oh well. It was a good idea, I guess.
If it works... IF... LJ will do a one-time migration of photos from a photo storage site (read: PHOTOBUCKET, but you can also do it from a couple others including Dropbox) to your scrapbook and automatically UPDATE ALL THE LINKS.
Let me repeat that: LJ will do a one-time migration of photos from a photo storage site to your scrapbook and automatically UPDATE ALL THE LINKS.
You can only do it once, but then I would only need to do it once to fix all those broken links that still make me weep if I think too hard about them. Also, while it's in beta test mode, there's no storage limits.
I'm doing it now--there's some 3K photos for it to migrate so who knows how long it will take. They'll send a notification via email when it's done.
I'm excited but trying to temper it because I don't know if this will really work (it is a beta version, after all), but if it does, I will take back every bad thing I ever said about LJ ever!
Update: Never mind. *scowl* It didn't work, not surprisingly. It migrated 3 photos, supposedly, but even those three didn't transfer correctly. Oh well. It was a good idea, I guess.
