Starting from semi-scratch (the words are still there!), well, worse things have happened. You've been so helpful to all of us with your information, thoughts and ideas. Truly thankful to those of you who can find the time to get your threads even partially back up or at least continuing from this day forward. I'll have to look into Imgur or Google or something to continue the story, will admit to being rather gun-shy at the moment. He's gotten some of his albums downloaded, I think he's down to one and that's taking a long while. when logged in and viewing your album you should see to the top right a link saying 'album options', click on it then select 'download this album' it will take you through to a dialogue box that will prepare your download and ask you to repeat a code in the box (this to check that you are a human not a spybot etc :grin and then a button is there 'zip files' click on it and it will then take you to another dialogue box which tells you that your download is ready and will be available for 24. My husband was paying a little for extra storage for his account- some of his pics disappeared off the forum today. Most pics I've posted all over can also be found in there anyway. The downloaded pics retained the last part of the address (dunno what it's really called) so I was able to quickly-ish find and replace the pics in my build thread. I downloaded the pics off of my free PB account when they started randomly disappearing last week.