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Flickr integration in the new Photos App in OS X 10.10.3
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I had been looking forward to trying out the new Photos app with the newest version of OS X.
Now it has arrived and it is alright, for what it does, but it's not going to be taking over my photo processing.
The one bit where I feel seriously let down is the Flickr integration - in this area it seems to be a big step backwards from iPhoto.
Has anyone else though been struggling to understand how to access Flickr properly through it?
I can upload photos, but I cannot open my Flickr albums to look in there, as I could with iPhoto. Or is there a way of doing this that I am missing?
The upshot of this is that I cannot use my Flickr feed as a screensaver on my mac at the moment... There are hundreds of curated photos that make me happy, of my friends, family, nice memories, trips that I have taken, in an album on Flickr for this very purpose.
Previously I simply set my mac at work, and my one at home, to use the Flickr album as the source for my screensaver, but now that the Flickr album doesn't appear for me in iPhoto, this is not possible.
Has anyone else run across this? Has anyone else come up with a solution?
(Also did anyone else's inner cynic connect this and the screen asking them to sign up for the iCloud photos solution, and if so, did you silence that cynic or give it free reign?)
Posted at 4:29AM, 10 April 2015 PDT
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jayen_aitch:
the new Photos app with the newest version of OS X.
That's Apple software. As with all 3rd party software that can interact with Flickr, it will use the Flickr API for the interaction, but the software itself is not made by Flickr. At the Flickr end is no control about the way 3rd party software works. You better ask at the Apple end.
Posted 18 months ago.
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ernstkers:
Mmm, good point, I have cross posted this to the apple forums for photos, which seem to be up and running now.
I wonder if there is any other (possibly third party) flickr software that might do this job for me. I tried flickery, but that didn't seem to do it.
It is frustrating to find functionality taking a step backwards, especially when there doesn't seem to be a technological limitation involved.
Posted 18 months ago.
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Okay, the answer for the time-being seems to be to keep using iPhoto for this task.
iPhoto is still in my applications folder (but for how long).
So, I can use iPhoto for managing my Flickr and Photos for everything else.
That's the theory anyway and I'm going to give it a go until and unless a better option presents itself, please do let me know if you have one.
Posted 18 months ago.
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This may help
www.imore.com/how-share-images-and-videos-facebook-imessa...
Posted 18 months ago.
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My problem is that with iPhotos I could easily upload an album of images (200 images) to Flickr without a problem. All the titles would upload also. Now with the Photos app I can only upload 30 images at a time and the titles don't upload. If I try to upload more than 30 images and click the "share" button, Flickr is not given as an option for upload, only ICloud. I spoke with Apple support and was told it is an integration problem on the Flickr side. I guess I have to keep using iPhotos!
Oh, in addition, I can't use the Flickr website's upload software. Photos I select from the Photos app cant be moved the flickr upload screen.
Posted 18 months ago.
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I'm in the Uk and about once every 5 logins or so I get asked for a mobile number-so far I have been able to skip the screen (it lets you) and login carries on as normal.
Posted 18 months ago.
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I have the same experience.
A feature I was using is the upload of an entire album (IPhoto event). That is no longer there. There was also a screen in IPhoto showing all albums I had on Flickr. Now, I have no control over what I have uploaded to Flickr and what not unless I open the webbrowser in parallel. Also titles, description were synchronized automatically - that is no longer working.
I like the edit tools of Photos and will continue to try the publishing to Flickr. but at some point I will have to give up - I hope not.
Posted 18 months ago.
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fdennstedt:
Oh, in addition, I can't use the Flickr website's upload software. Photos I select from the Photos app cant be moved the flickr upload screen.
You have to export them the library first then upload, this is what I do. I do NOT trust any software to sync with Flickr.
haralds2:
Now, I have no control over what I have uploaded to Flickr
Are you saying Photos randomly posts photos for you?
Posted 18 months ago.
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I would suspect that Apple is more interested in you using their own cloud photo service.
Posted 18 months ago.
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Brenda Anderson:
You must be correct. It is crazy, I can still upload photos with titles directly from iPhotos using the intrinsic Flickr uploader included in iPhotos. I am sure Apple will "update" iPhotos so I can't do that anymore.
Posted 18 months ago.
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I have been experimenting. There is apparently a maximum number of photos the integrated uploader in Photos can handle.
I can publish a single photo to an existing Flickr album quite easily. I can also publish a single photo directly into my Flickr photostream by not selecting an album in the uploader menu in Photos.
I can do the same with two selected photos, whether or not I direct them into an album or just directly into the photostream. It would be nice to be able to create a new album when publishing -- which I think I could do in iPhoto -- but that's not a big deal.
I don't know where the maximum is. I tried selecting all 67 photos in the album I want to publish to Flickr. It hung up on "publishing to Flickr -- about 5 seconds" each time, whether I tried to send the pics to an existing album or just into the Flickr photostream. It doesn't freeze Photos, but it just never completes the upload. I've walked away for an hour and it never progresses.
The workaround for me will be to dump all of the photos into a Desktop folder and upload via the Flickr website. This is hardly the only issue I'm having with Photos. It was clearly rolled out before it was ready, and is one of the worst things Apple has done in a long time. Grr.
Posted 18 months ago.
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Brenda Anderson:
I agree .. however, I will continue to use iphoto and with flickr .. it works better than what is 'new'
Posted 18 months ago.
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johnmbarcus:
I see the same strange behavior with different amounts of photos. It's rather annoying to have to export and then upload... hopefully they'll resolve this in a future release.
Posted 18 months ago.
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Additionally, has anyone noticed that it's no longer possible to batch upload more than one video to Flickr through Photos? I've posted the similar question / problem in Apple's Support Communities, but have not received a response...
Posted 18 months ago.
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Apple Photos is a nightmare.
And they appear to have intentionally made it impossible to use anything other than their own, very expensive "cloud" service.
Yahoo, Inc should file an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple, as this is a clear violation of anti-trust laws.
Posted 18 months ago.
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Neo Venator:
Select the photos you want to upload.
File>Export to a folder on your desktop.
Drag/drop from that folder to the Flickr Upload page.
Posted 18 months ago.
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Brenda Anderson:
Select the photos you want to upload.
File>Export to a folder on your desktop.
Drag/drop from that folder to the Flickr Upload page
+1!
Posted 18 months ago.
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Brenda Anderson:
Thanks Brenda. That's a great workaround...sad that Apple only seems to be making it harder.
Posted 18 months ago.
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What about "DOWNLOADING". I've got all my cell phone shots going to Flickr. I've got 15 years worth of photos and videos in Aperture and backed up on CrashPlan.
What I want is to regularly pull the Flickr photos into well, whatever. Photos, or maybe Aperture if Photos is just a freaking portal to force you to pay for iCloud (What Would Jobs Do?).
Posted 17 months ago.
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nflores44:
Annoying work around if you later are confused about what all these exported photos are and whether they're already in Photos or not, or from some friends, or downloaded from your mom... And so you copy them in and then you have duplicates in your library and then the library is too big and your hard disk is too full to do the full copy backup, and iCloud wants waaaaayyy too much money just to store your photos??? Frustrating indeed. There's the new Flickr uploader I see advertised, maybe that helps but probably still involves exporting first.
BTW, what I'm saying is #SayNoToiCloud untill they give us 5Tb free space. Apple used to give a complete solution when you bought a computer from them. Now without getting gouged on a monthly basis, you are no longer given a complete solution. This is a huge mistake that Apple has made... Share this message. Yes it's totally random that I'm posting here but I just remember how annoyed I am that Apple thinks all of us will accept a subscription service after giving them a premium for their hardware. So hello Apple, just give us 5Tb. Ooops, I guess Flickr wouldn't like that... So lucky Flickr with your free 1 Tb. That's a WHOLE LOT BETTER than a whopping free 5Gb Apple gives. How generous... Flickr, if You upped your amount to 5Tb, I might use you for a lot more stuff... Ok rant over.
Posted 17 months ago.
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My problem is that when I use the new Photos app to share to Flickr, it will allow me to upload duplicates. Sometimes, I forget which albums in a folder or month I've uploaded already, so before (with iPhoto) I was able to select all the photos I wanted and click "upload" and it wouldn't re-upload anything that was already there. Now, it will. Very frustrating to see this move backwards like this.
Ideally (and I know this will never happen), I'd like to see cloud-to-cloud services that will allow my "favorite" pictures that I've uploaded to iCloud to be synced to Flickr automatically.
Also, I suppose I could use the iOS app to upload my pictures, but this uploads all of them; not just my favorites, and I carefully curate my streams and albums on Flickr, whereas my photoroll and iCloud are more of a backup.
Posted 17 months ago.
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Also very annoyed by the new program...
Here's my work around thus far:
> iPhone backs up to Photostream
> Photostream backs up to new apple Photos app when open on my computer
> Flickr Camera Roll takes over automatically and uploads what imports to the Photos app.
[Videos have to be manually imported from my iPhone to Photos app and then manually uploaded to Flickr one by one. - which has always been the case for me]
Camera Roll easily opens to it's own webpage and it's pretty simple to select which photos I want to group together in an album, delete, edit with tags, etc.
I keep everything private for uploads to Flickr and then curate / turn public the albums I wish to share.
Posted 17 months ago.
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jayen_aitch:
I am afraid I can offer no solutions other than continuing to use iPhoto as long as possible, while hoping that Apple might fix the glaring Flickr integration problems in OS X Photos.
I should like to make one observation; Apple used to have a very nice photo album site called Mobile Me Galleries; I really liked it, as it was simple and elegant, and had every feature I wanted. Then Apple scrapped it, saying they were not in the online photo album business, and steering Mobile Me Gallery users to Flickr. I was very annoyed, and did not like Flickr at first; it was overly complex, confusing and duplicative; a bit like Windows. However, I worked out how to use it and eventually came to like it somewhat as it slowly improved. Now it is being suggested that Apple is providing poor Flickr integration on OS X Photos because they want to steer customers to iCloud photos. If this is true, then I am REALLY annoyed! iCloud photos has very poor functionality compared to Flickr or Mobile Me Galleries, and Apple could have spared us all this annoyance by sticking with Mobile Me Galleries. I am happy to use an Apple photo-sharing site, and I am happy to pay for it (at a reasonable price,) but I am not happy to be messed around by Apple the way I have been.
Does anyone have any inside information to confirm or contradict the assertion that Apple is providing poorer Flickr integration in order to steer customers to iCloud photos?
Posted 16 months ago.
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kiwirat:
I download my photos from my X100 to IPhoto, it created automatically an event, edit, tag, describe, used the batch update too, then, when I had the event clean, published it to flickr. The upload automatically created an album with the same name of the event, uploaded all description, tags. When I updated a photo in IPhoto in an event (add a tag for example) it would synchronize on Flickr the same information. I used Flickr to publish my photos to groups, relatives, friends ....
Posted 16 months ago.
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This thread was closed automatically due to a lack of responses over the last month.
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