File this under: cool application you'll only use once every blue moon.Yesterday, after rooting around the web for a solution and then chatting with Fabienne a bit about porting a version of the app to OS X, I tripped across FlickrBackup. Sure, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Fabienne wanted, like preserving tags, groups, comments, notes, etc. from Flickr, but it does one thing and does it well: it downloads all the pics you've previously uploaded to Flickr to a central location on your computer, to a zipped archive, or to a CD or DVD backup. Of the over 1600 pictures I just downloaded from Flickr, only about 12 of them didn't come down the pipeline properly, instead resulting in a blank image with a Flickr logo and a note reading "This image temporarily unavailable." This would seem to be a Flickr issue, rather than a problem with FlickrBackup.
All in all, not too shabby. It's especially good if you've just got a new MacBook Pro and you wanted to grab just your favorite pictures for carrying around rather than sifting through all the pictures archived in iPhoto and other photo-management applications on all your other Macs. ;-)
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Update: Use this tool at your own risk! So it did a great job of downloading all those pictures, but it also somehow managed to delete several of my recent pictures. Not cool.
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5-01-2006 @ 7:00AM
proximo said...
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5-01-2006 @ 7:22AM
alpi said...
seems to be a nice tool..
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5-01-2006 @ 7:42AM
Jeremey said...
Perhaps it's because it's 6:30am and I've had three hours of sleep (apologies in advance), but it's curious to me that now that we've almost conquered backing things up to the net, now we need to back the net up back to our computers. I propose that if we want to back up our images to DVD or have them on our hard drive, we just do that when we have the images in the first place, rather than laundering them through flickr. But that's just me (and the lack of sleep). Maybe it should be called FlickrRestore instead. :)
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5-01-2006 @ 12:23PM
umijin said...
Actually, Flickr and any other Yahoo tool is just plain 'not cool'.
Don't support companies that help authorities jail journalists in China.
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