I don't even know how to feel.... Nearly 7 years of saving art and references and pretty much all the stuff that meant something to me is now all gone...

Ever since I changed PCs to upgrade I moved all my images over to Imgur and today I popped on to put something in there only to discover the 100+ images I had stored.... are all gone... only 9 items remain.... I looked through everything and only 9 images remain....

If anyone knows if I am doing something wrong please let me know.... otherwise.... I've lost everything that's been saved.... I guess its my own fault for now getting a usb drive.... but I barely had time to move stuff my old pc was dying.... [edit] After doing some digging turns out if your images don't get a single view every six months they will be deleted... and yet I never saw that info posted anywhere.

Amei, I'm sorry. I've been having a lot of issues with imgur. I can't upload anything anymore.

I sent an e-mail to their contact support but won't hear anything till Monday. If they cannot do anything then I'm royally screwed.

I hope you can get your files back! I don't store my things online so, I'm really hoping for you.

Thanks. I just used Imgur because I needed to store my stuff.... I regret not doing more.

Safest thing? A USB drive or a backup external hard drive. I have one and tons of USB sticks.

I've lost online photobucket accounts and there's not one thing they can do about it.

Whhaaaat??? I had no idea! D: I've always used photobucket until recently when it started acting up on loading. I guess now I know not to upload anything important to imgur... Thanks for the cautionary tale :/ Any news? Were they able to help you get your files back??

That can't be right about the six months thing, my Imgur has images from years ago still on it and I know they haven't had views. O.o

Still, I am so sorry that happened. External HDs and USBs save so much hassle and heartbreak.

Were you able to recover your images?

Nope. They said there was no indication that those files existed.... which makes no sense because I saw them uploaded and no one ever had access to my account.

...I've just taken the loss and don't really... care anymore. That's the sad sad reality now.

I feel for you. I've lost things when omgimages went down, and I've had a computer implode. I have pictures of a cat that passed away a year ago that I've backed up multiple places because I'm so scared of losing them.

I've had this happen before... though not on an image hosting site. I've had computers die on me but at the time the images were nothing of value.

I think I'll be far more cautious from now on just to play it safe.

Maybe take your old computer into a computer shop to see if they can salvage it? I had pictures once recovered that way, the motherboard had died but they were able to pull the hard drive and make it go :(

Sorry this happened to you.