You have a few options, and they’re not great (nor 100% free, sorry). Now that you have your photos downloaded from Flickr…what next? Yes, I know you may have forgotten your old Yahoo login, but bite the bullet and do the password reset. Here’s how to download your photos from Flickr:įirst, log in. 5: IT WILL DELETE YOUR PHOTOS!!!!! Starting with the oldest photos, it will purge them from the site, and you won’t be able to recover them. json files with metadata.įor the next few weeks, Flickr won’t delete your extra photos, but it will hide them. You’ll just get your photo files and some basically meaningless. Unfortunately, if you had meticulously organized your photos on Flickr with albums and sets, all that organization will be lost.

Or, download them and be on your merry way, to do whatever you want to do with those weird photos you had on there in 2009. You also won’t be able to upload any more photos to your account if you’ve hit that 1,000 limit.Īs of today, you have two options: Keep your photos up and pay for a Pro account ($50/year). From now on, Flickr will only host 1,000 photos for free, and if you have more than that uploaded to the site, it will stop displaying them. Then, in November, SmugMug-owned Flickr announced that it planned to end the free unlimited image storage the site offered users, starting Jan. Here’s the rundown: In April 2018, Yahoo sold Flickr to a company called SmugMug, which has been around a long time, mainly as a professional photographers site. It sucks a lot! You don’t want to lose your photos, so pull up your big boy pants and actually log in to Flickr and take care of this TODAY. You need to download those photos NOW, or they will be DELETED. If you have over 1,000 photos on the image-hosting site Flickr, this is VERY IMPORTANT.

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