With photobucket, you are right, if you move them you break the link, and of course deleting them, but I don't think by adding pic to an album will break a link because I add pic to my album all the time and it is still OK. But I know when I tried to move my pic to a Sub-Album within the Photobucket it warns about breaking original links.

As far as GW goes, since this is a slower moving forum, the pages last longer, you will see old Posts disappear very quickly off the Main Decorating forum, the server only seems to "hold/store" posts for so long in that Section...

I can still do a search on my name and find my pictures from last year, whereas in the main decorating forum, my stuff is long gone.

Jim, Adding pics won't break the link. Are you sure you haven't created a new album for them or something like that?

Also, one time all of my pics on posts went to an X, but when I looked later, they were all back. It must have been a Photobucket problem that was then fixed. Have you tried again? Maybe they will magically reappear--let's hope. Luvs

Judith and Luvs - Thanks for the info.

I don't think I moved any but...

Luvs - I've had that happen to my avatar at another site too, and it did reappear later. So I'll have to recheck later on.

Thanks again

Jim