People’s saves do disappear occasionally – it’s usually because of a Flash update or a faulty virus checker. If you haven’t got your characters saved anywhere else, you’ll just have to remake them.
A good strategy to stop that happening is to use the Text Save function – click on Save, then Text, copy the text onto a Word document or Notebook file, and save the document. You can then use the “Load from text” function to load it back onto HM later.
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h464/Kaylin88100/TextSavedemo.png
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h464/Kaylin88100/TextLoaddemo.png
If Export isn’t working for you, try using a screencapture. Go to widescreen mode, printscreen, and paste into an image editing program like MS Paint. Then you can crop it and save it.
Hope some of that was helpful!
Edit: Oh, and no – you don’t have to keep an image on your computer once it’s on Photobucket. My computer crashed, deleted all my files, and when I looked on Photobucket they were all there, safe and sound.
