Flickr Migration
Over the weekend, I migrated my photo gallery to the popular online photo site, flickr. Yeah, all 3,900 photos. I’m disappointed in the clumsy way of organizing collections and sets, but flickr is more integrated into online services compared to my existing solution, the open source program Gallery2. I won’t take down the old gallery, but just letting you.
Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/saket_vora/
Terrell Said,
July 21, 2008 @ 7:34 am
What tool did you use? How much did you have to mess with the data after it was imported? Are you happy with it? Write up the process - I’ve considered it for a while, but still waiting to trust the tools a little more.
Terrell Said,
July 21, 2008 @ 7:34 am
Please :)
Saket Said,
July 21, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
Hey Terrell,
I used the plugin to Gallery2 found here: http://gallery2flickr.sourceforge.net/
You install it as a module in Gallery2, enter your Flickr credentials so it can access your flickr account. Then, in that dropdown list of actions for every album, you can select ‘export to flickr’. Before it starts you can select what kind of permission you want to set (ie, private, friends and family, eveyrone, etc) then it just runs and you’ll see that album appear as a set in Flickr. It migrates over the image title, the image caption, and EXIF data. i never tagged my photos in Gallery2, but the plugin will automatically add a ‘gallery2flickr’ tag on your imported photos. Every now and then there is a glitch where a set will appear twice, but it’s easy to delete. Later i went into flickr and did some batch edits to add tags to sets. ALso — i wasn’t brave enough to see whether the plugin would handle nested sets in Gallery2 — i exported each individual album then handled the collections on the flickr end.
Overall it was a remarkably less painful then I initially thought…considering there were like 3800+ photos.