From there you can request your data and wait for the email containing a series of compressed files with your Flickr history and content inside. To initiate a download request, visit your Flickr account page and scroll down to the Your Flickr Data section. “Based on feedback from our members and complications some members experienced when downloading photos yesterday, we’ve extended our deletion eligibility deadline until March 12, 2019.”įlickr makes it pretty easy for you to download your photos, though it may take some time depending on the size of your library.įlickr’s export tool will let you download the entirety of your Flickr account, including your photos and videos, comments, descriptions and other profile information. “Our foremost priority is to be certain that every Flickr member is aware that photographs may be at risk for deletion if they are stored in a Flickr Free account that has more than 1,000 photos,” said a Flickr spokesperson to Time.

Still, the new rule jeopardized the existence of any extra images its 100 million users had, prompting an outcry from those who have yet to save their images.

According to the company’s announcement, users with fewer than 1,000 photos - 97% of Flickr’s free users - will not be affected by the change. By comparison, Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage charges $6.99 per month for one terabyte of storage.Īfter its acquisition by SmugMug in April, Flickr updated its photo storage terms, imposing a new of limit 1,000 photos for free users. That’s enough space for anywhere from 250,000 to 500,000 images, a far cry from the previous free user limit of 200 photos. In 2013, Flickr, then owned by Yahoo!, expanded its storage option for users, offering them one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of storage space for photos for free.

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