How do I find all of my photos that are NOT on Flickr?
May 21, 2013 9:47 AM Subscribe
I have a few thousand photos on my hard drive and a few hundred of them have been uploaded to my Flickr account. With the new space available on Flickr, what is the easiest way for me to identify all of the photos that I have not yet uploaded?
I am using a Windows 7 PC and use Picasa to organize my photos. I would be open to other software to do this, of course.
I use Clone Spy to find and delete duplicate files. It will just give you a list of duplicates instead of deleting them. Most of my ideas involve getting a folder of all my Flickr pics and using this software. Is there a simpler way?
I am using a Windows 7 PC and use Picasa to organize my photos. I would be open to other software to do this, of course.
I use Clone Spy to find and delete duplicate files. It will just give you a list of duplicates instead of deleting them. Most of my ideas involve getting a folder of all my Flickr pics and using this software. Is there a simpler way?
Download all your photos and check for duplicates. Delete both copies of all duplicates. Upload whatever's remaining.
Don't just delete your entire flickr library unless you don't care at all about comments, view counts, sets you've created, etc, because you'll lose all that along with the photos.
posted by tylerkaraszewski at 10:01 AM on May 21, 2013
Don't just delete your entire flickr library unless you don't care at all about comments, view counts, sets you've created, etc, because you'll lose all that along with the photos.
posted by tylerkaraszewski at 10:01 AM on May 21, 2013
Directory Opus has a "sync" plugin for Flickr that may match the photos up.
posted by Brent Parker at 12:23 PM on May 21, 2013
posted by Brent Parker at 12:23 PM on May 21, 2013
Response by poster: I don't want to delete from either source since there are existing tags and organization. Directory Opus does look like it would do the job, but I only want to do this once and that costs close to $50 US. I'd be willing to pay $20 but not $50.
posted by soelo at 2:45 PM on May 21, 2013
posted by soelo at 2:45 PM on May 21, 2013
Directory Opus does have a 60 day fully functioning trial.
posted by Brent Parker at 7:30 PM on May 21, 2013
posted by Brent Parker at 7:30 PM on May 21, 2013
Response by poster: I did find a simpler way to get a list of all the pictures I have uploaded to Flickr:
They have an API and you can use it directly on the API Documentation pages. I made sure all of my photos were in a set and used this one to get a list of my sets. Then I used this one to get a list of the pictures in each set.
This gave me a list of all the files in json and I used Excel to parse that into just the Flickr ID and the Title. I had changed some titles, but most of them are the same as the file name. I have some duplicate file names, but they are easy to figure out between the Flickr set name and my folder name.
I kept looking because I had tried some of the sync services and I got odd errors some of the time.
posted by soelo at 8:53 PM on March 24, 2014
They have an API and you can use it directly on the API Documentation pages. I made sure all of my photos were in a set and used this one to get a list of my sets. Then I used this one to get a list of the pictures in each set.
This gave me a list of all the files in json and I used Excel to parse that into just the Flickr ID and the Title. I had changed some titles, but most of them are the same as the file name. I have some duplicate file names, but they are easy to figure out between the Flickr set name and my folder name.
I kept looking because I had tried some of the sync services and I got odd errors some of the time.
posted by soelo at 8:53 PM on March 24, 2014
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