Backup images

[dtexley3]

Any suggestions on how I can backup the images on all my current listings?  eBay has lost all the photos on all my templates and lost all images on GTC listings that renewed late last week.   I've been using the apps to add photos to my draft listings and the downside is I don't get a local copy to archive. Since eBay continues to bungle along as a "tech company" I would like to snag copies of what I have uploaded.  Any suggestions?

[dollybeauty]

I did not go thru all 1000 of your listings, but did not see any missing images.

I used a tool from Shipscript to scan your images - http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ListingPhotoSizes.htm (put your userid in the box on that page, not your store name).

You may be able to do a more complete examination of your item images that way.

As to your question...Look to the bottom of the above tool for General CSV. This would be a great undertaking, but you could view all of the images as stated in those instructions and capture them with your browser. You have a great many images.

If this is really important to you, you might consider using a listing program such as SixBit, to 'Synchronize' your listings to offline storage. This may also be a large undertaking, as you would have to move those images to your hard drive and name them something that would make sense to you at a later date. Using SixBit and other programs might be a bit expensive for an account with 1000 listings.

As you can see, there are no easy options. For future images, you might consider, moving the images from your phone to your computer, for storage, and then upload to eBay.

[shipscript]

@dtexley3

As @dollybeauty suggested, you can get a report of all eBay photos using this tool:

http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/BulkPhotoScanner.htm

The quickest method is to choose a "Fast Scan" and then generate a script report at the bottom when the scan completes. That will give you a list of all photos in a format that can be pasted into a file and viewed in a browser. But it doesn't neatly download your photos to your computer, which is what you need for archiving. Additionally, all eBay photos have the same name (s-l1600.jpg), so saving each one to your computer would require renaming each as you do so.

But, and this is only for the tech types, if you clear cache before copying and running the resultant script report on your computer, that script will display all photos, thus saving them in your cache and you could perform a massive backup of that cached data (might need a browser plugin to view and save cache) and the photos may not carry useful names.

This next tool will archive a zip file of all photos for one listing, and each photo will be numbered according to the item number:

http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ShowLargestListingPhoto.htm

But that is not much solace when you have a thousand listings.

Transloading and zipping thousands of photos puts quite a load on a server, and that is why a bulk download is not offered on these free tools. If such a tool were added to the above suite of tools, it would carry some sort of cost, perhaps $10 - $20 per thousand photos. Such a tool should use the item number or the item title as a file name, or a combination of both if listings share the same title.

[snipereyesmediagroup]

Try searching ebay for LISTING BACKUP SERVICE. You will find what you are looking for.