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You can't change that. I'm stuck with my old one as well. :(
See the FAQ
www.flickr.com/help/account/#170
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Does this mean Sukhi is going to be a bit miffed ;)
Posted 79 months ago.
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i'm confused. i'm pretty sure that when i first signed up with flickr my url was my screen name. now it's just a long silly bunch of numbers and letters. yet, a friend of mine has his screen name as his url - he said it just did it automatically.
Posted 79 months ago.
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"i'm pretty sure that when i first signed up with flickr my url was my screen name."
No, it always starts out with the hard to remember URL. But you can change that-
flickr.com/help/account/#90
The first URL assigned to you will always work; it's a user ID that is tied to your account.
Posted 79 months ago.
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That means, extrabold, Choose Wisely. You only have one shot to get it right forever and ever.
Posted 79 months ago.
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Amazingly, the 5 warnings you have to acknowledge about this url deal being permanent weren't enough..
Posted 79 months ago.
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Well Marco, sometimes in life things change and we need to change things like this. I can't believe that after all this time flickr hasn't figured out a way to do this.. couldn't you just redirect the old URL to the new one? I do things like that with my blog all the time using mod_rewrite. The fact that I messed up my two accounts is the one single thing preventing me from upgrading to pro. I don't want to use the nolageek account any more and I would like to change the nolageek2 to nolageek - but I can't.... since I have 400+ photos I can't just download and re-upload them (200 photo limit and all) and I don't want to upgrade them BOTH and pay $50 to do it. So, I'm just screwed until someone figures out a way to do this, if they're even trying to.
Posted 79 months ago.
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Why? It's just something that is meant to be more easy to remember than "48889037790@N01", and "nolageek2" is as easily remembered as "nolageek".
I have come across people who think it's fun to change their screen name every day, and they would probably do the same with their personal URLs if they could. But any personal URL has to be permanently remembered so that it doesn't break existing links, even after an account is deleted. I don't think flickr would like their database being cluttered with millions of abandoned URLs. Apart from that, nice URLs are a scarce good, and it wouldn't be fair to the rest of the community to let some indecisive people use them all up.
But in your case, even if you could change personal URLs as often as you like, you would never get "nolageek" for your second account because it is already in use. As you said yourself - if you could change your first account's URL, "nolageek" would have to redirect to the new URL. And if you deleted your first account, it would redirect to the page saying "nolageek is no longer active on flickr". It is permanently tied to the first one. Forever. Your problem is not that you cannot change "nolageek2" to something else. Your problem is that the URL you want to have is already occupied. By your own account. Use it.
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That's the argument for either being able to merge accounts or move pictures to other accounts. At first I was using nolageek as my 'professional' account and nolageek2 as my personal account. I accidentally joined nolageek2 with my yahoo account and after a couple of years(?) of using this one, I've forgotten the login information to the nolageek account. I've e-mail flickr several times about this and have yet to hear back from anyone... so, now that I've added several hundred pictures to the nolageek2 account, I would like to switch to the other one... but flickr doesn't offer anyway to do this. I'd have to upgrade nolageek2 so that I can gain access to all of my photos, then download them... then upgrade the nolageek account and upload them all. I don't have $50 burning a hole in my pockets. While I understand the need to maintain link history... there should be a way to do this.. even if it's a pro-only or 3rd party option. I would gladly upgrade for this immediately. They could limit this to once or twice a year or something.
Posted 79 months ago.
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Using the flickr API it should be possible to write a "crossloader" tool that leeches one photostream, including photos, titles, notes, tags, geotags, even comments, and pushes everything up to another photostream (with the perceived author of the comments now being the new account owner, of course, as you cannot post comments on behalf of someone else). But obviously such a tool could also be massively abused.
Posted 79 months ago.
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If a user has two accounts one using the permalink of their choice though they now upload photos to a different account that does not have a permalink attached to it as yet, if the account with the permalink is deleted will the old permalink become available again and as such be able to be migrated to the account they now use?
Posted 78 months ago.
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Netweb, no. I'm pretty sure old permalinks will never become available again.
Posted 78 months ago.
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The old permalink then points to a page saying "deleted_user is no longer active on flickr", and that's it.
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