If you delete your Yahoo account, your Flickr account automatically goes with it - an easy way to close out Flickr. You do not have to close your account, nor do you have to close your Yahoo account if you leave Flickr, though many people maintained a Yahoo account over the years only because it was linked to their Flickr account.

Google Photos: Unlimited space and uploads, but photos can be stored at a maximum resolution of 16MP and video at 1080p.Īfter you’ve removed all your photos from Flickr, you can close your Flickr account if you want. Photobucket: 2GB of storage, but with lots of ads. Here's what you get with the free version of each.ĥ00px: lets you upload up to seven photos per week and store up to 2,000 in total.įacebook: Unlimited uploads, but it compresses images. Here are several other photo storage and sharing sites, each with their own features.

Upload your photos to another storage serviceįlickr isn't the only place where you can park your photos online. Bulkr’s free version is no better than downloading directly from Flickr, plus you have to pay Bulkr a premium for original resolution and to access tags, titles and descriptions. Use a third-party app to download your photosįlickr’s updated download utility is so flexible and complete that it supersedes older third-party Flickr download apps - like Bulkr (), a free Adobe Air-based app that hooks directly into your Flickr account, or the free Flickr Downloader (), which provides a good deal of that functionality, including limited JSON text files. It’s not a perfect setup, but at least you can access all your sitewide information, which is good for people who took time to name and comment on photos or who joined groups over the years.

The downloaded files include all your lists, groups, and comments and a specific JSON file for each photo or video. It took two days to process 15,000 or so images and videos in 30 Zip files from my Flickr account. When Flickr is done gathering your files, it will send an email letting you know your Zip files are ready for download.

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