Don’t Miss Flickr’s Extended Upload of Old Photos
If you still haven’t downloaded your old images from Flickr, you now have until March 12th for that to happen.
Last April, Yahoo sold Flickr to SmugMug. Following the acquisition, SmugMug announced that it would no longer offer free unlimited storage to users, but would instead limit unpaid users to just 1,000 images per person.
If you didn’t already have 1,000, Flickr made it so that you couldn’t upload more than that 1,000 limit in January, unless you upgrade to a Pro account. For free accounts that already have over 1,000 photos, they planned to delete those extra photos starting February 5, starting with the oldest ones.
The day after the deadline, the company decided to give users another month to load. The expansion is due in part to complications that many people have had when uploading their photos on Monday night, hours before they were supposed to disappear, USA Today reported . As it turned out, more people were delaying downloading these images than they initially expected, leading to server issues.
If you have a lot of photos stored in the service, now is the time to get together. No seriously. Now. Stop reading this and upload your photos already.
To upload images, login to your account and go to User Account and then Settings.
At the bottom of the next page, you will see a button “Request my Flickr details”. Click on it and wait.
Flickr will compile all of your images into a Zip file, or more likely multiple Zip files, depending on how many images you have. As soon as it creates these compressed files, it will send you an email informing you that they are ready to download.
And when you download those photos, make sure you back them up somewhere other than your home computer so you don’t have to worry about losing them again.