Flickr limits change?

[Still Farming]

Flickr been good up to now ,but message state limits to 1000 photo's and they be deleting any over or older one's allegedly?
Anyone panic about this?
Where can we transfer too and how ?
We uploaded off devices to store there as good so no other copies stored?
What ideas or cloud based apps or Hoogle, BT etc .any good???

 

[kmo]

You could save them on to a portable hard drive. Not that expensive now.
The only pictures I've uploaded to Flickr were low resolution copies anyway

 

[Still Farming]

You could save them on to a portable hard drive. Not that expensive now.
The only pictures I've uploaded to Flickr were low resolution copies anyway

Can volume be transferred back etc??

 

[kmo]

Can volume be transferred back etc??

Download photos or albums in Flickr. Their help page.

https://help.flickr.com/en_us/download-photos-or-albums-in-flickr-HJeLjhQskX

 

[Still Farming]

Download photos or albums in Flickr. Their help page.

https://help.flickr.com/en_us/download-photos-or-albums-in-flickr-HJeLjhQskX

Thanks for this.
So once moved from Camera roll to album's and camera roll photos deleted to the 1000 limit ok then ?
Or is total on flickr be it how ever stored , limits apply?

Or other way to remove maybe ?

 

[nelson.h]

Where can we transfer too and how ?
We uploaded off devices to store there as good so no other copies stored?
What ideas or cloud based apps or Hoogle, BT etc .any good???

Google Photos I believe still allows unlimited storage for free if you don't mind that the highest resolution photos are rescaled to what Google calls "High Quality". For most users this is not a problem, more of a concern for photographers etc. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6374270. It automatically uploads to Google and I believe you can request to remove from local storage as it uploads, at least it used to do this. There are more paid solutions, but I guess if payment is fine then also Flickr works .

Lots of tutorials on Google: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=transfer+from+flickr+to+google+photos. It depends if using android, iOS, etc.

@kmo I wouldn't recommend a physical drive as it provides little redundancy, unless they aren't important. If that drive breaks you lose the photos. If you keep a local backup both can break, you can lose them in a fire etc. Cloud services handle this redundancy for you.

 

[Still Farming]

Google Photos I believe still allows unlimited storage for free if you don't mind that the highest resolution photos are rescaled to what Google calls "High Quality". For most users this is not a problem, more of a concern for photographers etc. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6374270. It automatically uploads to Google and I believe you can request to remove from local storage as it uploads, at least it used to do this. There are more paid solutions, but I guess if payment is fine then also Flickr works .

Lots of tutorials on Google: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=transfer+from+flickr+to+google+photos. It depends if using android, iOS, etc.

@kmo I wouldn't recommend a physical drive as it provides little redundancy, unless they aren't important. If that drive breaks you lose the photos. If you keep a local backup both can break, you can lose them in a fire etc. Cloud services handle this redundancy for you.

Thanks nelson.h
They change terms all the time firms.
So when I transfer from flickr to Google for instance will this take forever as thousands over the last few years or quick way as zip etc possibly ?( goodness how to do that?)
Regards

 

[nelson.h]

@Still Farming the supported way is to download them all to your PC which is annoying but it seems you can download large batches each time (e.g. one zip per year). See https://www.androidcentral.com/how-move-your-flickr-photos-google-photos

There are 3rd party tools out there to automate the copy but with various degrees of complexity and reliability, hard to recommend. The step by step to just download by batches is covered here: http://osxdaily.com/2018/11/03/download-all-flickr-photos/

 

[Still Farming]

Not certain if they will be photo's or just links to photo's if you get me?

 

[nelson.h]

@Still Farming don't worry, the links I shared above are about downloading the actual photos from Flickr and uploading them to Google Photos. Not shortcuts/links.

I used both, Google Photos was great back then.

 

[Still Farming]

Tried to save photos in camera roll to album's in flickr and hover over tick create album etc tick done seem ok.
Then closed reopened albums and photos ither showing as 1 when hundreds out in or not in order or mixed up?
Not certain whats happing??

 

[nelson.h]

@Still Farming not sure what you mean, you lost photos when moving them to albums? At this point it's tricky to assist via the forum without seeing the screen etc, sorry I can't be much more help. If you indeed deleted photos by accident you likely have a way to recover them in say ~30 (or similar) grace period, before they are permanently removed.

Given it's a one-off operation and so much data involved, you're best get someone tech savy to give a hand. It doesn't need to be in person, it's all in the cloud so you can just share your password (and change it once the work is done).

 

[Still Farming]

Maybe onedrive ,Google photo's etc have bigger photo cloud storage too?

 

[nelson.h]

Google Photos stores unlimited photos (*)

(*) https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/flickr-limits-change.287318/#post-6279672

 

[Still Farming]

Maybe ok but free has downside to picture quality detriment.

 

[Still Farming]

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2019/05/08/planned-maintenance-and-flickr-downtime/

More issues with Yahoo and Flickr?
Just hope they don't delete ALL our photos untill we can move elsewhere ???

 

[nelson.h]

@Still Farming don't worry about that message, it's not an issue, just regular maintenance time. All sites have that so they can make changes, like TFF

 

[Still Farming]

Well it's back up and running but what a mess????
All camera roll that was in date order mixed up and EVERWHERE ?
Different sizes ,no order ,poor pictures the lot ?
Where too now ???
Wish got off sooner ,worried they will delete next ?

 

[Chapelton]

I use Google Drive to back up our photos. Pick the folders to sync and it does the rest. It’s not really cloud storage but it means I’m comfortable keeping a lot of files on an SD card (which is resident in my laptop to keep some weight off the SSD) knowing they’re on the cloud if the SD card gives up.

 

[Still Farming]

I use Google Drive to back up our photos. Pick the folders to sync and it does the rest. It’s not really cloud storage but it means I’m comfortable keeping a lot of files on an SD card (which is resident in my laptop to keep some weight off the SSD) knowing they’re on the cloud if the SD card gives up.

Maybe limit on there is it?
Onedrive got limit I think too,?