Friday, August 25

200 limit!

surprise! everybody's favorite website Flickr happened to pull a fast one on me yesterday which left me, instead of praising their genius, suddenly cursing their existence. Okay, that's a bit extreme, but here's what happened. After loading a hefty chunk of travel pictures I noticed that my old sets had disappeared and the cover photo for my bremen set had changed. Where did all the pictures go? Apparently with a free account you're allowed 200 photos tops, which, although generous, is NOT something I knew. (Okay, maybe I read about it somewhere when I signed up but who remembers these details 200 pictures later, without ANY KIND OF WARNING?) As each new picture loaded the system erased one picture from the beginning, pictures that I painstakingly edited, cropped, uploaded (and most likely deleted off my hard drive, cleaner-upper that I am). So I'm just ranting to WARN ALL OF YOU out there with free accounts...in case you're also nearing the 200 mark. Now I guess I'll finally purchase the account upgrade, but with a bad taste in my mouth. grunt.

5 Comments:

Blogger Carl said...

The way the 200 photo limit sneaks up on you is really lame, but you photos shouldn't be gone forever. Flickr just limits the photos you see in your photostream to the 200 most recent. See- I happen to have this one from earlier bookmarked (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gretamerrick/69739212/)
It's still there!

So they're not deleted, you just can't see them (That doesn't help much I know)

If you delete the recent ones or upgrade they should come back into your stream.

That still really sucks, I'm sorry dear.

7:20 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

stopped by merrick's bakery last week. phil is doing well.

4:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

guten tag!
thanxoxoxo for sharing!!
I know it's hard for us "visual" artists when our photos disappear.
It's like taking away our breath.
(OUCH)
So thanx again for the warning!
Please don't give up.
*
Just received some yummy coffee beans from your mom + daddy.
hOw I Love family ties & coffee table connections!
*
ciao ciao or is it tschuss tschuss?
x x x x AuntTeri x x x x x

7:15 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

!! you deleted them off your hard drive?? !!

11:56 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

oh, niwin is jack t., by the way. i don't know why it says niwin.

11:57 AM  

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