That’s why I don’t trust facebook. This shows that their servers or hardware aren’t reliable. So it’s better to use fb for fun rather than storing precious data.

“So far, Facebook has reported that about one-third of the affected photos have been repaired. But that leaves 33% of Facebook users’ photos still missing.”

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@Dan: 100% - 33% = 66%.

However, to both guys who are attacking FB reliability, I don’t see on this issue a big deal, as long as data will be recovered and, guess what? Also FB guys knows what is a backup!

If your read all the news about that, it happened that “a few of the hard drives where we store photos apparently failed all at once”, something that is rare indeed, but could happen.
Also, on this same news above, is written that “the full restoration of all the missing images isn’t expected to be complete until early next week”.

That means that no data is actually lost: it just take some time, but looks like people today can’t be patient enough.

sorry folks, for the mistype in the percentage. i modified the sentence and forgot to change the percentage after the fact.

2/3 thirds of the “affected” photos. 10-15% Originally affected times 33% still affected means 3 to 5% total photos that are still affected at the moment.

And you should never rely on someone else to store your “precious” data. Especially when you know they will drastically down sample it.

I’ve been having a problem for weeks not being able to upload any photos. When I create an album, it just clocks and clocks and then locks everything in FB up and I have to close out and start over. I don’t think it’s my computer b/c I’m not having problems with any thing else. Just facebook. Does anyone know what I should do to try and fix this? I hate that I can’t upload and share photos with my friends!

I don’t see what the big deal is? If you upload your photos to Facebook or anywhere else for that matter do you delete the originals off your local hard-drive? If not then no big thing except for the time it takes to load them back to Facebook.

In this day and age I can’t believe that people actually expect these providers not to lose data. With the enormous amount of data Facebook handles I am surprised that this doesn’t happen more often.

Also what does it cost you to post your photos to Facebook? Exactly, nothing… Remember you get what you pay for!

I noticed it over the weekend, but I didn’t care. I have every single one of my digital photos in four other places–saved on CD (I may switch to USB drives), saved on both my hard drives at work and home, and in my Kodak Gallery account. It sounds like overkill but it’s really not, considering it takes seconds to copy photos over to new storage places.

Gone are the days of keeping one copy of negatives under lock and key, so there’s no excuse for not utilizing multiple backup options for photos.

Facebook sucks

I HAVE A GROUP CALLED , BLAST FROM THE PAST SPRINGHILL N.S. VERY IMPORTANT PICS , JUST STARTED UP AND LOTS OF RESPONSE , PEOPLE ADDED THEIR PICS AND NOW THEY ARE GONE PLS HELP !!!!!
NOW PEOPLEARE AFRAID TO ADD THEIR PICS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY ARE GOING!!!!!! DO SOMETHING RIGHT AWAY PLEASE!

my whole account is disabled, please help me.

I uploaded lots of photo’s on 29th March on facebook. The album still exists but the photos are gone. What happened to them??

I am new to FB and when I try to create a photo album,,it lets me create an album name,,but when I try to add photos it just freezes,,and I have found no answers as to fix this! none of my pics are more than 70k. Wall pics load fiine,,what is the deal? How can I fix this?

My photos on a lot of my albums are gone
Facebook says it will be Fixed by Next week.
I really do hope so,as i cannot believe all those
photos and the time it took me to do these
Albums are gone into thin Air.This would have
me Very Very unhappy to say the Lease

My pictures of a photo album have disappeared but the information and comments about the album/pictures are still there!! What should I do to notify facebook about this upsetting incident?

Iya nih beberapa foto gw aja ilang, bahkan ada 1 album gw gak ada fotonya, Gimana nih?

Martini…it happened to me TODAY!!!!!. where r my pix…????

hi, can u tell me why all my upload icon r gone and on my pics there is a cross on it
. everything is nt functioning properly ..

thanks dp get ack asap

I can get on my Homepage and my profile however when i try to go to someone else site it goes blank. and i lost everyone on my friend page, cannot connect to anyone just a little blue circle going around and around and around. what
happend and how can i get them back.

All of my photos are missing. What in the world happened?

when i post my pics. on my f.b. wall they instantly dissapear, what can i do to fix it?

I went to post photos and found that most of my photos were gone…do I have to post them all again???

I just experienced the exact same problem yesterday! I posted pictures from a wedding and now they’re gone! Any ideas out there???

yes i have loads of pics from different albums now missing …please tell me what to do to get them back???

My wife is missing tons of photos. Does anyone know if they have had all the photos restored since March?

I have just checked my albums and several have just disappeared. Pictures gone! That is over a hundred pictures. Please help! The titles of the albums are there ~ just no pictures!

Aren’t there supposed to be RAID hot-swappable disks that make data loss all but impossible? Why wasn’t that done?

cannot upload any pictures AT ALL. seems to time out and is not working. my computer for everything else is working 100%.

I use a Mac and when I am on Facebook my profile picture and all my friends icon pictures do not show…but when I use my husbands PC all the pictures are there. Any idea how I can view the pictures again on my Mac?

i cant see some of my pics in my albums..other people can see them…i also cant see some of other friends photos..dont know why this is happening

Others are able to see my photo but I can’t see anyone photos All my albums are in tact

My friends images have been missing for over 3 weeks.
Oops come up when I try to find them!! Very annoyingh!

Its such a shame that we place so much importance on facebook, i work in mobile customer services and its amazing how many people think their life is going to end just because for some reason they cant get on to face book through their mobile phone - sad state of affairs we live in today…..

I can’t see my profile picture and profile pictures of others? Where’s the problem?

my photos are gone on face book after my profile was hacked , please i need to know how to get them back , it’s very important foe me ,, help me please

I have “?” in about 50% of my albums which now list “0″ photos. I guess the restoration process is taking a long time, or they have stopped trying.

I can’t see my profile picture and profile pictures of others? Where’s the problem?

Same thing here as Dave-got no help from facebook

he con ta baj??????/

I CAN’T GET INTO MY FACEBOOK AT ALL , LOST MY FRIENDS ,

i can c my photos but the other people cant….

Same thing has happened again-pics were restored for about 3 days now they’re gone again. This is getting REALLY old.

I have friend’s name but lost photo and my profile and trying to get them back but can’t get.How can I get it back ? what happen ???

I’ve created a group over 6 months ago, and I’ve been posting photos all this time. Group members commented on several photos. Last night all the comments disappeared. Can anyone help me?

I was missing all of my friends. This evening I have 5 of 40-something back. It’s good to be able to go to their walls, so I’m thankful for that, but I’m eagerly awaiting the return of the others. Thanks.

cant find my facebook photos

some of my photos are gone !!!! wtf is this ????

it’s happening to me as well. what a pile of shit this new update is

lost all photo’s and friends

lost all photos

Lost my photo of the twin towers.. give it back to me!!

My facebook profile, and friends comments and even my pictures are all gone. Where is my fb page??? What happened??

Avant hier j’ai été sur facebook, et j’ai répondu à un lien d’une amie avec les sims, maintenant j’ai plus de 64 albums sims qui se sont créer dans mes photos et j’ai perdu presque toutes les photos de mes albums. comment porter plainte ou écrire à face book. Il s’agit d’un énorme spam

I’m bloody pissed with this. Fucking restore my photos now

Facebook is a load of crap and I will report all of this mess to the state of Texas I will speak at our Tea Party to get people to cancel you all over the country. You have the worst site on the network. You should be tsken off the network for fraud. In Texas we have a law called the Deseptive Practice Act And my lawyer has adviced me this is where it will be handle.Facebook is a load of “sh”.

HELLO I HIT THE WRONG KEY AND BLOCKED ALL MY PHOTOS CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO RESTORE THEM THANK YOU

my friends pix are only gone on fb when i login on mozilla firefox…………not when i login on fb on internet explorer! so it’s not necessarily fb, but mozilla!

DAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! DID ANY OF U PEOPLE TRY LOGGING IN ON INTERNET EXPLORER?????????????