What the.. Flickr Dropped Most of My Photo Sets When It Migrated Me From Pro Back to Basic
After clicking a link in my blog which pointed to a Flickr photo set, I found out that my group of images no longer existed – well, at least in the set that I originally created. Curious to find out what happened I started poking around and remembered that I let my Pro account expire this month. It turns out that Flickr will drop all your photo collections (including your page layout showing collections) when your Pro account expires. I get that. But, in doing so, Flickr also (I expect inadvertently) dropped around 30 of my sets, leaving me with only 6!
I’ve got to say I’m a little peeved. I put a lot of work into creating those sets and now they are showing as non-existent. The funny thing (or maybe not so funny) is, if you know the original link to one of your “missing†sets, you are presented an empty set that still contains your set description and title (see above pic). Go figure?
UPDATE 1: It’s actually way worse than I first figured. Flickr deleted removed all my older photos! They only left me with my last 200 images!!! I had… I don’t know… over 2,300 or so images. Luckily I keep a set of all my photos on my PC. Lesson learned: Don’t rely on online services providers to protect your assets.
UPDATE 2: Guess what? This is standard practice from Flickr when migrating customers. How user friendly of them. I’m sure no one has ever freaked out about not seeing all their images.
I have a free account. Some of my photos aren’t showing up. Why?
On a free account, Flickr limits the number of photos displayed.
If you have fewer than 200 photos, we display them all. If you have more than 200 photos, only the most recent 200 are displayed.
Your photos are not removed from Flickr, only from the list of your photos. If you blogged a photo and it no longer appears in your list, it will still appear on your blog, and the photo’s Flickr page will still work just fine.
If some of your photos aren’t showing up, don’t panic! Just upload some fresh ones. Or upgrade to a Pro Account.
Note: If your free account is inactive for 90 consecutive days, it will be deleted.
UPDATE 3: After further thought, I think the way Flickr *should* handle migrating Pro accounts back to Free/Basic status is to go ahead an limit the total navigatable images to 200 and LEAVE the photo sets a user has previously created up and active, since lots of time they’re being linked to on the web. They do it with older blogged images, why not with photo sets?
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Alexander Grundner is a San Francisco Peninsula based web publisher who spends most of his time tracking down news stories for eHomeUprade, attending technology events, or working on his next big project.
For fun he likes to stay active outdoors, take photographs, shoot video, hack together PHP/Python code, play with Linux, and test new technologies.
