I have decided to abandon flickr for picasa. While flickr does offer quite a bit more in the way of editing, I already do most of that myself. The biggest selling point for me was Goog’le’s picasa gives you a full gig of storage for free vs Flirckr’s 200 megs. On top of that, flickr charges $24.95 for their ‘pro’ account. Google offers a whopping 20 gigs a year for only $5.00. Oh hell yeah! lol
The one thing I will miss the most is the ability to do subfolders within albums. [1]flickr refers to it as collections and sets. For the cost savings, I’m willing to forgo the previous perks. Now comes the arduous task of physically moving the files. Sadly, I couldn’t find a direct transfer method. I did, however, find a nifty free program that downloads everything from flickr and allows to re-upload it to picasa. Actually, you can pick and choose from a whole list of different sites. Anyway, I opted to manually re-upload myself as the download process dumped everything into one big folder. It also gives me a chance to filter out duplicates, or so I’m hoping. That didn’t sound so bad until I realized how many pics I really have. lol I easy have almost 2 gigs worth of photos. Who knew?
Anyway, I’m still in the process of moving stuff around. Once I’m done, I plan on ditching flickr all together.
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You could "fake" subfolders by using a consistent naming convention… such as Album1_sub1, Album1_sub2, Album_sub1, etc., etc. It's not true subfolders but could help organize things. I don't know if there are limits on the album names. But it's worth consideration.
Best regards,
Ron
Can you share the free program you used to download all the pictures from Flickr automatically? Thanks!
@John ~ Do a google search for "migratr"