I have spent the better part of Friday, yesterday and today downloading photos from my Flickr! account because I intend to close the "pro" account and can't have this many photos. I have used the source as a backup of sorts for about 8 years so I had a lot of photos there. This photo shows the ones I couldn't find in my active LR catalog. Most of these were photos my husband took and we kept our photos separately. Yikes. I may have found them in an EHD. What waste of time. But at least I have them.
I have no idea what any of this means except..."at least I have them"
It seems to me that makes it anything but a waste of time! Happy New Year dear friend
@grammyn I had used Flickr! as sort of an online cloud to save photos. It was actually a pain in the !*$ and I hadn't posted anything on the site for over a year. So when I got the notice that the bill for the pro account was due on Jan. 6 and was almost $80 I decided I wasn't going to pay for it anymore. I needed to make sure that I had an original of every photo I had posted and tried several different ways to back up the account. I finally went through the photos and compared them to my files. I filled about 1/10 of the flash drive with photos I wanted to save from the site. This is just a photo of the flash drive files along with info about how much storage was left when I finished. Boring I know but I'd spent a lot of time on it rather than doing any "real" photography. Sorry for the long-winded reply. @shutterbug49 I agree. Thanks Debbie. @kwind Thank you. I just need to move them to other storage devices. @pusspup It went well in the end. Now it's all here and I can rearrange and organize at my leisure. (No Jan. 6 deadline looming over my head.) @mcsiegle $$ talks Mary. Had to get them off the site by Jan. 6. Thank you. I've got duplicates all over the place. ☹️ @casablancaThanks Casa. @johnfalconer Thanks, I think. @wakelys By doing this, I got out of a $80 per year payment. And I sorted through a lot of old photos. @craftymeg I know what you mean. When we went to digital we could take as many photos as we wanted. I don't know why I can't seem to organize better (have never been good at that) and throw out the junk (not good at that either). @tunia Yes. Computers are supposed to be fast. But whenever I want to do something like this I know I need to allow a whole afternoon or perhaps a day. Sometimes it takes even longer. @haskar I know what you mean. I don't organize well. I was like that at work. Things were never in a file I thought they should be so I put them there and couldn't find them again the next time I needed them.
@kjarn Yes they are expensive (as is everything). I don't know if they'll keep some of my photos on that site in a free account. I don't care either way.
@randystreat I stopped adding photos as soon as I was advised of the payment so a couple of years. I just logged in and everything is still there not that I care either
It seems to me that makes it anything but a waste of time! Happy New Year dear friend
@shutterbug49 I agree. Thanks Debbie.
@kwind Thank you. I just need to move them to other storage devices.
@pusspup It went well in the end. Now it's all here and I can rearrange and organize at my leisure. (No Jan. 6 deadline looming over my head.)
@mcsiegle $$ talks Mary. Had to get them off the site by Jan. 6. Thank you. I've got duplicates all over the place. ☹️
@casablancaThanks Casa.
@johnfalconer Thanks, I think.
@wakelys By doing this, I got out of a $80 per year payment. And I sorted through a lot of old photos.
@craftymeg I know what you mean. When we went to digital we could take as many photos as we wanted. I don't know why I can't seem to organize better (have never been good at that) and throw out the junk (not good at that either).
@tunia Yes. Computers are supposed to be fast. But whenever I want to do something like this I know I need to allow a whole afternoon or perhaps a day. Sometimes it takes even longer.
@haskar I know what you mean. I don't organize well. I was like that at work. Things were never in a file I thought they should be so I put them there and couldn't find them again the next time I needed them.