AOL extends Xdrive and BlueString shutdown deadlines.
Checking xdrive.com and bluestring.com tonight I saw that AOL has extended the shutdown deadlines by 12 days on both sites. That means you now have until Jan. 12th to get your files before AOL deletes them. In light of AOL's botched soft-closing of Hometown and AOL Journals [item #5], which was handled so badly that many users claimed they never even received an email about it, and thus did not know they had to retrieve their files by a certain date or else lose them forever, AOL is slowing down the remaining closings to give people more time to find out what's going on. Unfortunately (and rather inexplicably), AOL did not extend the deadline on the closings of AOL UnCut (Dec. 18th) nor AOL Pictures (Dec. 31st), so if you haven't retrieved your videos and pictures by now, you're most likely out of luck.
Instructions on how to retrieve your files are included in the following related post: AOL closing down Xdrive, BlueString and AOL Pictures by Dec. 31st..
Dates
Checking the sites. AOL Pictures is still showing December 31.
However, AOL is still letting users back up their photos?
Re: Dates - yet no one ever believes I'm a ditz. I must hide it well.
Edited at 2009-01-05 05:11 am (UTC)