How to
Step-by-step instructions for everything you can do on Dlacks. Pick a task to see how.
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Getting started
How to log in to your account
Sign in with the email (or sign-in name) and password you registered with.
How to reset a forgotten password
Get an email with a link to choose a new password.
How to accept an invitation
Someone invited you: create an account, or look around as a guest.
How to keep your access after being a guest
Guests lose access when the invitation ends. Registering keeps it.
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How to update your profile, picture and password
Change your display name, profile picture, or password.
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How to turn on two-step sign-in
Protect your account with a code from your phone as well as your password.
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How to add another email address
Link your other addresses so invitations and shares to any of them reach your account.
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How to choose which emails you get
Keep the emails you want, turn off the rest, and get mentions once a day if you like.
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How to choose a legacy contact
Name someone to receive your events if you pass away or can no longer manage your account.
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Watching and photos
How to browse the library
See every event you can watch and filter the list.
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How to search for events and people
Find events, mini clips, people, and contributors by name or keyword.
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How to watch an event's video
Play a video and use the tabs under it.
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How to download a video
Save an event's video to your own device, when the owner allows it.
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How to download files set aside for you
When we let you download a video, mini clip or photos (for editing, say), they wait on My downloads.
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How to get told when a Future Content event is ready
See what's coming, and get one email when it can be watched.
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How to see who has watched an event
Find out who has looked at an event's video or photos.
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How to look through an event's photos
Use the photo viewer, slideshow, and full screen.
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How to comment, reply, and follow discussions
Talk about an event or a single photo, and catch up on new comments.
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How to see what happened on this day
Your home page brings back events from today's date in years gone by.
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Your events
How to create your own event
Start a new event for a birthday, wedding, reunion, or any occasion.
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How to add a cover, photos and videos to your event
Upload pictures and clips to an event you own.
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How to choose the main video and the covers
Pick which video plays as the event, and the picture shown for each video.
Event owners
How to keep an event as Future Content until it's ready
Let people know an event is coming, and tell them when it's released.
Event owners
How to link your event to someone else's event of the same occasion
Two people made an event for the same day? Share your photos and videos into theirs without uploading again.
Event owners
How to let someone else name the videos and photos
Give the host, say, permission to edit titles and captions, and nothing else.
Event owners
How to edit titles and captions
Name an event's videos and write photo captions, all on one page.
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How to add chapters and captions to a video
Let people jump to the best parts, read along, and download the video.
Event owners
How to contribute photos or video to someone's event
Were you there too? Add what you captured to an event.
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How to manage the photos and videos you contributed
Change captions, take uploads down, or download your originals.
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How to edit, archive or restore an event
Change an event's details, or hide it without deleting anything.
Event owners
How to review contributions and manage photos
Approve what others add, choose who sees photos, and edit captions.
Event owners
How to print a QR card for an event
A card with a code people scan with their phone to open the event, its main video, one mini clip or its photos. Good for reunions and memorials.
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How to make a memorial page
A page in someone's memory, built from an event's video and photos, where family can share memories.
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Inviting and sharing
How to show videos and photos at a party (Party Pools)
Print QR cards for a party, reunion or memorial. Guests scan them and watch on their own phone with no sign-in, only while the party is on (up to 8 hours).
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How to invite a guest by email
Send someone an email invitation to watch your events.
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How to invite someone who appears in an event
Pick a person's face from an event and invite them.
Event owners
How to share events with other members
Give people who already have an account access to your events, and undo it any time.
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How to create a pool of events
Group events together so you can share them in one go.
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How to create a share link
Make one link you can text or post, usable by a set number of people.
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How to check on or cancel an invitation
See whether people opened your invitations, and cancel ones you no longer want.
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How to choose how your events can be shared
Allow, approve, or block sharing for each event you own.
Event owners
How to pick which mini clips get shared
Share most of an event and keep some clips, like a family moment, to yourself.
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How to approve new-content notices
Decide who hears about an event when it becomes available.
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Faces and participants
How to find faces in an event automatically
Let the site detect faces in your photos and videos, then pick the ones to add.
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How to name the people in your events
Link faces to people so they're tagged across every event.
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How to give or remove a tagged person's access
Connect a person to their account so they can watch events they appear in.
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How to explore and build the family tree
See how the people in your events are related, and add parents, children, partners, brothers, sisters and cousins.
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Transfers and help
How to order a video or photo transfer
Ask us to digitize your tapes, film, or photos.
How to follow your order and pay for it
See where your order is, pay once we've set the final charge, and leave a review.
How to buy or use a gift card
Give someone a transfer of their memories, or use a card you received.
How to earn credit by telling friends
Share your referral link: your friend saves on their first order and you get credit.
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How to report a problem with a page
Tell us right away when something on the site doesn't work.
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How to send us a message
Ask a question, report a problem, or suggest a feature.
How to book a pickup time
Choose when we collect your tapes and photos.
How to check a preview of your transfer
See a sample of how your media is coming out, and tell us it looks right.