If you go back to non-pro on Flickr, you’ll only be able to see your last 200 photos. All of your photos will continue to exist, but just the last 200 will show up. Flickr is just $29/year, not month, so it’s not that bad, I think

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I did start, and I have to say, I think it’s brilliant. My only small gripe was that folders with subfolders are not recognized. And as a minor OCD trait I had a lot of my photo album folders organized and then further subdivided. not a huge loss, just a bit tedious to get the first big dump into flickr going.

I think someone closed firefox by accident the other day, so i have to find out exactly what I have dumped into flickr and what is still to upload. A shame that it can not be a stand alone programme which also remembers where the queue is, because that queue got deleted when firefox shut down.

I was wondering if after I have uploaded all my photos and I discontinue pro service, will i still be able to access all my pictures but just with upload restrictions applied. If that is the case then I may not spend the $29/month but rather a la carte when I need to do a big upload.

I found your blog very useful

thanks

When I did the big dumps to Flickr, I did them in batches based on the organization I had on my local setup. I could create new sets on the fly this way, and add them to the queue.

Have you started? How is it going?

I have to say, I’ve recently backed off of using Flickr as a backup solution. I do love that it’s unlimited storage for $29/month, but as I’ve become a more experienced photographer, I’ve switched to shooting almost exclusively in RAW. Flickr just takes jpgs, which are a derivative of my RAWs, so it really isn’t a proper archival of my original work. So, I’ve recently modified my workflow to rating my shoots from 1-5 and only uploading the pictures that I deem 3 or better (how/why I decide on a rating is a whole ‘nuther blog post ).

I’m agonizing over a proper way to backup my 300G, and growing, base of old jpgs and new RAWs… Backblaze is often mentioned, but it has a 5G file limit which doesn’t help one of my other projects – the 40G+ files produced by digitizing my old Hi8 and DV8 tapes. Mozy also looks interesting. I’ll learn more about these over time. Hopefully before the house burns down.

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Can I just ask. If you have been storing all your photos into lots of nice neat folders, aptly named and dated etc will any of this information be conferred over to flickr? I suspect that it will just be dumped into the photostream which will then need to be organised into sets and batches.

I have to say, I started using flickr as a backup process. I have always found the batches and sets tedious to to use, whehter it was my slow connection or I just didn’t “get it”. My main problem was sharing the photos with friends. I can’t remember the number of times people would reply to the invite and say they couldn’t open any of the photos, even after I had made them public, which I never intended to do in the first place but felt forced to do so.

The other point ad nauseum as you say was that the flickr uploader is just not stable. For months I uploaded my sisters wedding 700 wedding pictures. every time i got home from work, I would start again. like banging my head on the wall for months.

thank you for sharing

Darren

It is very stable and I get updates once in a while.

The length of time to update is totally dependent on your network connection. When I was uploading my 30k pictures, I brought them to work to use their fast connection

I was able to do sets as I went, but after a while I just lumped things into sets by year and let it rip.

The developer is very communicative and would love to hear any suggestions.

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you may have solved my biggest headache!! i have 47000 pics that i want to upload for ‘safe keeping’. this software may just be the thing for me. i have a few questions:

Have you found it to be stable?
How long does it take you to upload – say 100 pics?
Do you have to then do sets etc once the pics are in flickr? that could be time consuming