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Migrating from flickr to google photos

With flickr putting the kibosh on unlimited photos with the free account I'm wondering if there is a known automated way to migrate thousands of photos from my flickr account to google photos. I've ...
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Why doesn't Flickr love me?

I was going to ask why my upload never finished, but this was more interesting: x-flickr-loves-you: 0 This is an actual HTTP header returned by the URL https://s.yimg.com/pw/combo/1/3.11.0 during ...
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Login to Flickr account knowing only my account

I want to access my Flickr account. I know the account name, but not the email associated with it. I tried a couple of emails but Flickr doesn't recognize them. What can I do?
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Can I change my Flickr account to use Gmail instead of my Yahoo account?

I want to delete my Yahoo account (do you need to ask why?) but I realised it's used to login to Flickr. Flickr allows you to transfer your account to a different Yahoo account and allows you to ...
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Does deleting Yahoo! account delete the associated Flickr account as well?

Flickr is owned by Yahoo!. After deleting my Yahoo! account, my Flickr account was left intact and I have to contact Yahoo support to get the account removed. I haven't created Flickr account ...
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How to update date of multiple photos in Flickr?

I have uploaded 184 photos to Flickr, but the "date taken" of those photos are incorrect. I would like to batch update the dates instead of one by one. How can I do that in Flickr?
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Can no longer upload to flickr.com

I've been using the flickr.com online photo service since like forever, and I've always uploaded plenty of photos and videos. On one of my accounts I've been uploading photos yesterday. It worked at ...
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How do view Flickr.com using the OLD style, consistently & automatically?

I know there is a "secret" way to display pages from Flickr.com in the old style -- which the majority of old users preferred. How do I consistently and automatically view pages in this style?
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How to list only videos in an album in Flickr

For example, I have 500 items in an album. In it, I have 12 videos and the rest are all images. Is there a way I can see all the videos together or search only for specific videos in the album?
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When sharing photos on Facebook, how does Facebook prioritize sharing methods? Certain methods don't show up in friends' feeds as often

What I mean is, if I add photos to an album via an external source such as iPhoto, Flickr, or IFTTT, it is rare that I'll receive any likes or comments. When I share a photo directly to Facebook from ...
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Is there any way to select multiple photos in a Flickr Album?

Is there any way to select multiple photos in a Flickr Album? I have 1 album with three different cameras, so they are very out of order. I want to select 3-6 at a time and move them to another part ...
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Can’t log in to Flickr without cellphone

When I’m trying to login, Flickr wants to verify the account by call or messaging to the cellphone, that I don’t have access to. What alternatives do I have?
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Is there any way to get a Flickr image of custom dimensions?

There are several custom sizes offered by Flickr available here, but is there any way to get an image of custom dimensions? Say for an example I want an image which should be of 32x32px. This is ...
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Is there a simple way to attribute a CC image on flickr?

To legally reuse a CC image from Flickr, you must attribute properly the source and license, as explained on this blog: http://librarianbyday.net/2009/09/28/how-to-attribute-a-creative-commons-photo-...
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Add non-Google login option to Flickr account

I signed up to Flickr using my Google account. This has become a major usability headache since I moved to China: While Flickr itself is not blocked here, Google's authentication redirect dance (which ...
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Gravatar image in Flickr?

Can I link my Gravatar image to my Buddy Icon on Flickr using the web URL setting in my profile?
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Does Flickr have support for transparant PNG images?

I tried uploading a PNG image to Flickr and after being uploaded I copied its link (enlarged version) but the image was JPG thus had no transparency. I just moved to picasaweb to upload png images ...
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What version of Leaflet does Flickr use? [closed]

As a user of the SmoothWheel Firefox extension, I sometimes come across apps that capture the scroll event but don't prevent it to propagate further, resulting in, for example, a map zooming while the ...
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Sorting Flickr photostream

I have been using this great tool (http://sortmyphotostream.michael.tyson.id.au/) to sort my Flickr photostream by the date of the photo rather than the date uploaded. It seems to have disappeared ...
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Is it possible to search for images on Flickr using regular expressions?

I want to search for images on Flickr using regular expressions - e. g., (Yahoo|Google) ("Image search"|"Web search"). Does Flickr support any kind of regular expression searching (like Google Search)?...
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Why Are Flickr Resized Images Larger in File Size?

I have a 1440x900px JPG that is 128KB. When I upload it to Flickr, it resizes to a couple of sensible web defaults but the Large (1024x640px) image is now 303KB. I'm outputting the original through ...
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Find photo info page for Flickr profile image

Given a Flickr static image (like http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7753425102_02f23b5a21.jpg), I know how to find the info page for that image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75151585@N07/7753425102/),...
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Make photo public but keep set/collection private in Flickr

I want to make a couple of photos public in a specific set, but when I do that, the set itself becomes visible in my profile. Obviously with just the photos I made public, but I don't want the set to ...
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How to move photos from Picasa albums to Flickr?

I am looking for a way to move my Picasa web albums to Flickr? I don't find downloading and uploading very easy. Is there any website for this purpose?
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Is there a way to batch edit all private photos on Flickr?

I'd like to add tags to all private photos on my Flickr account. Is there a way to do this in the Organizr or using a 3rd-party application like h4ppierphotos?
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Transfer photos from Flickr to Google Drive without downloading [closed]

Is there a way to transfer my photos from Flickr to Google Drive without downloading all the data onto my computer - maybe using a Web Service?
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How to get photos of a Flickr group organized

Is there a way to organize photos of a Flickr group? Now the pictures in our group are just one stream. For an individual account you have sets and collections. UPDATE: A lot about this in the Flickr ...
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Flickr and/or Yahoo account for a company or institute

I want to set up a Flickr page for an institute, but if want to fill in the sign up form I have to fill in birthdate, gender, surname and so on. Should I fill in fake data or is there a smoother way?
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3gp video format viewable in Picasa/Flickr/Facebook?

Is the 3gp video format viewable in a simple browser once uploaded to Picasa or Flickr or Facebook? If not, what is the best format to transform it to so that it can be viewed in all of these 3 sites?...
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On Flickr, how do I set a photo location using latitude and longitude coordinates?

On Flickr, while browsing my photostream, I can click "Add this photo to your map!" to add location information to a photo. The "Add this photo to your map!" input field then allows locations to be ...
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Flickr upload by email to Tumblr

Is it possible to upload an image to Tumblr over Flickr by email feature? It looks like Flickr is offering that but it's not working for me: (Login required) http://www.flickr.com/blogs.gne
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Flickr has 300MB bandwidth limit for photos, what is the meaning of this?

300MB bandwidth limit for photos on flickr, how do they calculate that exactly? Is it: size of image X number of views?
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What, exactly, is a Flickr collection and why is it better than a set of sets?

This is what Flickr's FAQs have to say about collections: How is a collection different than a set? A set contains photos. A collection can contain sets (or other collections). Isn't ...
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How can I download, in bulk, all of the photos in a Flickr "guest pass" URL set?

A photographer friend sent me a Flickr guest pass URL for an event my family also attended. I'm interested in downloading most (might as well be all) of the photos in the set. However, I'm not ...
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How to download all photos that I uploaded to Flickr into my computer?

Related thread but for Microsoft Windows, my question is for Mac OS X 10.5.8 I found all tools only to upload mass photos from local computer to Flickr here, how can I download all of my photos ...
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Flickr to Picasa migration on a Mac [closed]

I am looking for a way to migrate all of the photos from a Flickr account to a Picasa (soon to be Google Photos) account. I would prefer not to have to download all of the files to my local hard drive ...
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Upload a photo to Flickr from a URL

How can I upload a photo to Flickr from a URL? Is this possible?
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Customize font or background image of a Flickr page

Can I customize elements on a Flickr page, like the background image or the font color, the same way I can customize a YouTube channel or a Twitter page?
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Flickr available only through phone. Can't reset password

I can access the account from my phone, but I'm not able to save any pictures. I can't access my account from the web because I created it using Google. Then when I didn't know how to get my pictures ...
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What are those image tags that appear in Facebook comments and Flickr photo descriptions?

I have seen some strange text in some Facebook comments Some random comment made by a user followed by some machine generated tag [cid:[email protected]] While searching for such ...
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Finding the exact URL of a Flickr photo given its ID

How can I automatically retrieve the exact URL of a Flickr photo when I pass the ID to the API? I have the IDs of all pictures and I'm currently using the flickr.photos.getInfo method that takes the ...
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How many pictures can I download from Flickr per day?

I need to download thousands of pictures for my thesis research and I was wondering if there is a Flickr download limit. How many pictures can I download from Flickr per day?
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Downloading 270,451 pictures from Flickr

I need to download 270,451 pictures from Flickr. They are two years old (I have the IDs, and I need to download those specific pictures). I guess there is a download limit. Do you think I can make it ...
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How can photos in one flickr account be "seen" in another one?

I took 382 photos for a martial arts school that my children attend, opened a flickr account and created a set for them. The school has its own flickr page, which is linked from the school's website. ...
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Does Flickr have 'Anyone with the link' sharing option like Picasa?

I want to share photos with my family but they don't have accounts on Flickr, is there any feature like Picasa's 'Anyone with the link' in Flickr? so they don't have to create account on Flickr.
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Queue photo uploads to Flickr

I would like to do a 365 project on Flickr, but don't really want to upload my pictures one/day, but rather do a series of uploads in a queue, or at least with programmable publications dates, so that ...
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Quickly add tags in Flickr

Is there a faster way to tag photos in Flickr, one at a time, besides pressing "tag" and typing then pressing the "next" link?
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How to get "public but unlisted" privacy in Flickr?

Is there any way to make Flickr Pro photos "unlisted" to random passers by, but let anyone with a link to the Collection access the photos without having to login? I understand that's not really ...
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flickr Gadgets on Blogger

What I want is a way to attach Flickr photos and photo sets to individual posts on a blogger.com blog. I want to include all of the descriptive text, and possibly comments, roughly as it would appear ...
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Does Flickr have support for private URLs?

Picasa Web Albums lets me give out a private URL to view an album. Is a similar feature available in Flickr? I know I can adjust permissions based on the contact level, but I'd like to give semi-...
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