How do I save everything on the services that are shutting down?

January 25, 2023 9:52 AM

I am over the photo limit on Flickr and keep getting reminders. Amazon Drive is shutting down at the end of 2023. And I just got a notice from Shutterfly that Share Sites are shutting down effective 3/25/2023. What's the best way to download everything?

I think that's everything. I have a bunch of music files on Amazon Drive dating from my college days so it's been around for a while. There doesn't seem to be a service similar to Google Takeout on Amazon where I can just download everything at the same time. (Unless I'm looking in the wrong place?)

posted by toastyk to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: The FAQ page linked in the article gives these instructions that make it sound like you can select multiple items at once. I don't have anything in my cloud drive, but it does allow me to select multiple folders with the checkboxes.

Q: How do I download my files from Amazon Drive?
A: Using a web browser:

Navigate to amazon.com/clouddrive here.
If prompted, login using your Amazon account.
Review and select the folders and/or files to save. Following your selection, click the download icon from the top navigation that appears in blue. Repeat this process for all files and folders you would like to save.
posted by soelo at 10:35 AM on January 25, 2023 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: Ok, thank you, soelo, that appeared to work. I don't know why my eyes kept gliding off of that.
posted by toastyk at 10:41 AM on January 25, 2023

For Flickr, you can download entire albums as long as they have 500 or fewer photos. It downloads into a zip file (they email you the link after a few minutes) and the names are not retained.

I have not paid for Flickr pro for years and they do keep threatening to delete photos but I don't think they have ever actually done that. You certainly want to make sure you have another copy of anything you have saved there, but I would not worry too much about that one.
posted by soelo at 11:13 AM on January 25, 2023 [1 favorite]