This is incredibly important. My friend lost some incredibly rare and important photos on PhotoBucket and sadly didn't back them up. They were photos of her baby brother who died a couple years ago, and all the other photos were destroyed. Tonight, someone managed to figure the password to her account and deleted everything, including the photos. Is there *any* way possible at all to recover pictures from the administrator or anything? This is very important because Ive been on the phone with her for an hour, and she has been balling in tears. I posted this on the main forum hoping someone might be able to help. The photos were deleted about an hour ago on Photo Bucket.

I guess there's a remote possibility that the image could be saved on their servers. But with a site that has that much traffic, I imagine they flush their cache often. Is it possible the images are in the Temp. Internet Files on either of your computers?

I use Opera so they wouldnt be on mine.

Use the internet wayback machine.

You could try e-mailing the admin, there's a chance they might still be recoverable (I don't know anything about web hosting though, so I'm probably wrong).

Google-cached maybe? Highly doubt it though. Best bet is temp internet files on anyone who viewed the pics.

That can be used for photbucket site?

http://www.waybackmachine.org/

the Waybackmachine didnt work. I was able to recover some of them though, but they were the smaller icon photos.

email photobucket quickly and ask if they do backups?

They said they don't. She is fine with the smaller pictures though.

Apperciate the help. I wouldn't have thought to go diving into the Opera archives to find it though.