(I will pay $20.00 if someone can download the photos sucessfully)

There is a web site ..www.photoisland.com where members can have their
photos hosted. They are shutting down this month. They have a facility
to "download all photos"....but neither myself or 3 others on separate
PC's can download anything. It needs a Java enabled browser, that
abouts it..but still cannot download nor can by friends who tried to
assist.

I wish to pay someone $20.00 if they can download the lot then send
them to me as an email attachment.  I will provide the login and the
password to enter the site.  Would some one like to try for me ?

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Request for Question Clarification by hammer-ga on 14 Nov 2004 15:29 PST

facultative-ga,

It looks like you can post a Guest login and password to allow friends
to view your photos. If they are shutting down anyway, perhaps you
could post Guest login info that we could use to try to help you...?

- Hammer

I would be very careful
- there is some sort of JPEG exploit going around

I'm not going anywhere near that site.

The site I quoted I have been a member of for 4 years, there is no
security issue , it is a simple matter that they are shutting down but
I am encountering problems downloading my own photos from their site.

Ok - describe the problems

Also why, you reckon, that Java (not JScript) must be enabled.

I assume you got the stuff up there using FTP
- why not FTP it back down ?

Why on earth would you want to download your own photos?

And why, indeed, would you have uploaded them in the first place?

Facultative,

I see that you are new to GA and that so far none of your questions
has been answered by a researcher.

You might like to know that researchers are identifiable by having
their names in blue and underlined as links that take you to their
answer history.  The rest of us, with no special treatment to our
names, are just commenters who drop by to read and sometimes remark on
other people's Q's and A's.  All who've posted here so far are
commenters.

You can't post anything to a researcher here that the rest of the
world won't see.  And you can't correspond privately with a
researcher.  Those are against the rules.  So there's really no secure
way to send logins and passwords to someone through this system.

My comment is a question:  Don't you have your own originals?--that
is, whatever you uploaded from?  If so, why not just let the website
go down without worrying about it?  You won't be losing anything.

Surely you did not destroy your only copies after uploading to share
with friends or whatever--?

In any case, even a small number of photos would make an awfully large
e-mail attachment.

Archae0pteryx

In answer to the comment above. Thanks for your comments and all noted.

1. If I had all the originals I would obviously not bother to try and
recover these photos from the web site. I guess that should go without
saying.  The site has hosted these photos for over 4 years -

2.
Large email attachment is not a problem if both sides are on broadband
 or use FTP to transfer to my web site.

Hi there facultative,

Just a few thoughts.

A sudden exodus of clients from www.photoisland.com may have caused
some technical difficulties at the site. Have you contacted the
webmaster?
webmaster@photoisland.com

I checked out the download instructions, and it appears you have the
option of right-clicking on individual images and downloading them one
at a time. Are you able to do that?

Or why not pop down to your local Internet cafe or business centre.
For $20, I am sure they can tackle the technical problems and try a
bit of downloading on your behalf (as long as the images are legal
etc).

I hope I have not misunderstood the question.

* j *

Re answer above, I have been a member of the site for many years, and
Yes I know where to download from and the options. Problem is no one
can seem to be able to download in bulk or individually. And yes I
have written to the webmaster at the site you maintains no problem.
Hnece why I am trying to get someone else to download. These are just
normal photos open to public viewing.

I might could offer to try, but I think that it's going to be hard
without a login and password... even as a guest.

Can you advise login details for your section.  I will download and
ftp to your site this afternoon

This has now been resolved.  The photos are with the Questioner.

Bluegerbil

Many thanks to Bluegerbil, who resolved my problem.