Flickrdown - Lets you archive your flickr account

Cabaal

So lets say you have a few thousand photos on flickr and for whatever reason such as a harddrive failure (and your mad enough to not already have backups) you have lost everything.

Well now you can use flickrdown - http://www.greggman.com/pages/flickrdown.htm


from cnet.com

This small Windows application provides a simple way to pull down a large portion of your Flickr photos at a time. You just give it your Flickr credentials, pick which sets of photos you want to download and it does the rest--putting them in tightly organized file folders on your local machine. Sure you could just download the original of each shot from Flickr's pages, but that doesn't scale.

The app requires at least version 2.0 of Microsoft's .NET runtime, which you might already have installed if you're a user of Paint.NET. Also worth noting is that the tool cannot pull down any videos you've uploaded. If you want to do that you should check out a tool called Orbit++. There's a good tutorial on how to do that here.

In a time when Yahoo is heavily promoting its "open strategy," Flickr is not quite there yet. The service still does not offer FTP access for its members (free or paid) to be able to pull down full quality versions of their shots en masse, however the application programming interface has allowed for several workarounds like this that--unfortunately--require extra software.

I've not tried this it could be total ****e but it seems like a decent enough idea

Ricky91t

Cabaal wrote: »

So lets say you have a few thousand photos on flickr and for whatever reason such as a harddrive failure (and your mad enough to not already have backups) you have lost everything.

Well now you can use flickrdown - http://www.greggman.com/pages/flickrdown.htm


from cnet.com


I've not tried this it could be total ****e but it seems like a decent enough idea

Downloaded this about 3 hours ago and it won't work so it's a no good, from me

Im running windows xp professional sp2 with 3GB of ram so i dunno what the problem is....:(

Calina

Am wondering about bandwidth issues/download speed related problems?

I'll have a look at it later.

GristlyEnd

Working a treat here. Perfect timing too as my pro account expires soon and I can migrate everything over to pixie.

Cabaal

Just installed it now, working a treat, not been using pix.ie myself uptill now so just copying everything over to get myself started

nilhg

I've been using putplace, it's just come out of beta but there is a free trial until the end of Dec.

It automatically backs up you flickr account to their servers and as more services are added (pix.ie is on the list somewhere I believe) you can send files directly to the new places without having to redownload.

That's the plan anyway.......