How To Delete Flickr Auto Upload Album

If you're one of the 75 meg or so people using Flickr's photo-sharing service, you might be fretting nearly the future of your online photo collection right about now.

Verizon in 2017 acquired Flickr's former parent, Yahoo, and now SmugMug simply acquired Flickr from Verizon, and the irresolute corporate priorities might take you thinking it's best to have copies of all those pictures you uploaded over the years. Or perhaps the alter in ownership reawakened interest in an account that's been gathering dust along with your Blogger and MySpace pages.

It used to be a pain to retrieve lots Flickr photos, just no more. Three years agone, Yahoo added a bulk download mechanism and redesigned anthology pages to give your photos another out.

Here's a look at the two options. Notation that y'all'll need a computer -- the download features aren't in the phone or tablet app.

Exporting your whole Flickr drove

To become all your photos, or big batches of them, beginning open your Flickr photographic camera roll, an interface that organizes all your shots by the date they were taken. This is essentially Flickr's file-management interface, letting you select many photos that yous might desire to add to an album, contribute to a grouping, restrict to friends and family viewing -- or export. On the upper right of the screen, you tin change the view to show larger or smaller thumbnails of your photos.

Flickr camera roll photo download — Flickr'south camera roll lets you download photos y'all've selected.
Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET

Next, click on the top left photograph -- the most recent shot. The photo thumbnail will get a checkmark, and information technology'll announced in a pane beyond the bottom of the page.

And so comes an awkward part: selecting a group of upwardly to 500 images, Flickr'due south current maximum for each download batch. Gyre downwards until a few dozen photos have slid by. Now hold down the shift central and click a photo to select all the photos between that shot and the first yous clicked. The selected photos volition go checkboxes and appear in the bottom pane. Check the left side of the pane at the bottom of the screen to see how many photos you've selected. Keep adding more photos with the shift-click technique until y'all approach 500. If you overshoot, you can click individual photos in the pane across the lesser to deselect them relatively swiftly.

Afterwards you've selected a batch, click the Download button at the bottom of the page. Flickr will parcel all the photos into a compressed file and send you lot a download link through Flickr'southward message system. You lot can check for Flickr letters by clicking on the bong icon in the upper right of the main Flickr.com page, but don't look immediate gratification.

Next, repeat the pick and download process to retrieve another grouping of upward to 500. Yes, it'due south a pain if you have thousands of photos, but the good news is SmugMug has said it hopes to ameliorate the process somewhen.

Exporting a Flickr album

If y'all don't want to export everything, you can select merely a subset of photos in the photographic camera roll. Or you lot can use a different approach, downloading just a single collection of photos you've collected into an album.

Flickr album download — From Flickr's album page, you can download individual groups of your photos.
Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET

For this method, first become to Flickr.com, then toward the upper left click the "You" button and then the "Albums" choice.

When you lot've found the album y'all want, hover your mouse pointer over it and click the down-pointer button that appears. Over again, you'll get a notification through the Flickr message system.

First published April 23, 4:54 p.k. PT
Update, April 24 at 1:22 p.m.: Adds details about how to piece of work around the limit of 500 photos per download batch.

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Source: https://www.cnet.com/culture/two-ways-to-get-your-photos-out-of-smugmugs-flickr/

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