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This somehow isn't good enough for some folks. Because free is still available? I had the same experience as this guy. The problem is I couldn't figure out ho
by robg 17y ago
This somehow isn't good enough for some folks.
Because free is still available?
I had the same experience as this guy. The problem is I couldn't figure out how to recover my photos without paying, not even with FlickrDown. That somehow seems wrong to me. Hide all but 200 photos if necessary. Don't let me upload more. But don't make me pay a ransom to get at them privately.
After I paid that ransom? I too moved all my photos to Picasa. Even better that it's a smoother integration with my desktop experience.
- greyman 17y agoBut when you do want to use it as a backup, isn't picasa rather expensive? You get 1GB for free, but that's just enough for uploading smaller version of your photos. Otherwise, the price is rather high, and what's worse, you pay for disk space...so as your collection grows, you will end up paying more and more. I also use Picasaweb, but just for sharing a few resized photos with my friends. If we talk about photo backup, is there something better than Flickr? My collection is around 25GB, and grows about 5-10 GB per year.
- robg 17y agoGood point. I just swap out albums as necessary with Picasa desktop. But for your use case I know I'd love to hear alternatives to Flickr. Doesn't his (and my) complaint still stand though? There are surely other ways of throttling use besides holding data for ransom. Limit to 200 public views and prevent new uploads, for instance.