Yahoo Photo Album Downloader v2.X

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Kevin says:

re: in general:

I am sorry, but has a lot of issues pulling photos from the photostream on Flickr. If they are not public on Flickr, they won't show. And after changing them, they still sometimes won't show. I am sorry I don't have a better answer. But this is about Yahoo! Photos, so

To follow up on something from before- if you had attachments in your Yahoo! Mail account that shows in the 'My Photos' section there, those do not get migrated as part of Yahoo! Photos.

Also- the notifications of Y! Photos closing went to everyone who ever visited Y! Photos while logged in, even if you never created an account to go with it. Many people will understandably think that they have photos in that instance. (I would have, I know that.) But not everyone who got the email has content in their Photos account.

mscoonzy, tmk, JustKenneth (or rather, your wife)- the above may answer your situations. mscoonzy, tmk as I check the count for your Y! Photos account, there is no content there.

@nebr_mom- I only have limited ability to answer questions on anything that isn't showing directly on Flickr. That said, I am not sure which site you are referring to- if it is , check my first paragraph. If you have a Y! Photos module still running on , you may need to remove it; I don't know exactly.

@jus_2_sweet00, bkfrogma, alisonkemper- the photos are queued currently, and are awaiting their turn.

@alissas- there were 5 in that Yahoo! Photos account, which is what transferred.

@ahammer there were 8 over there.

@kjr & nance those were in the process of being added to your account when I checked last, they might be there right now.

@reggaecowboy those were what were in your Y! Photos account.

@smf I sent you a note regarding your sets- check that if you can.

Regarding Yahoo Profiles photos:

"When will this be integrated into Flickr????"

Sorry, I don't know of any plans to do so.

@scrappy_donna- the Y! ID associated with the account you have did not have any associated photos, so there was no migration. You might check another Yahoo! ID in this instance.

@kjr unfortunately your account migration has still not finished. Some accounts are unable to complete fully until the Yahoo! Photos engineers working on this project fix are able to fix some of these issues.
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peteshep says:

bkfrogma:
I'm no expert, and was on Yahoo Photos too. But it's very much better to Edit your photos on your computer before uploading them. One of several FREE recommended editors is GIMP. See //cromwellpsi.com
:-)
There are at least half-a-dozen of your photos showing publicly on Flickr now. Consider putting them into Sets (Albums) as you can manipulate them more in the Organizr then.
P
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jkaywoo says:

Hi,
i transfered all my photos to a flicker account, but have decided that i would like to move them to another account. I can't get my pictures to move is there a way to do this like i did when i transfered from yahoo to here? I like it here but i have decided that i would rather have all my pictures under one account.
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xblowfishx says:

Hi, received email that all my photos have been imported but I can't seem to find them. Tried the Organize button, but there isn't an option of Your Photos imported from Yahoo.

What should I do now? Thanks
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photofixation says:

can I email all my photos to any email id of my choice. I donot want them at flickr or any other photo sharing service..
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pink_jumper22 says:

hi, it's been almost a month since i transferred my photos from yahoo to flickr. i've been real patient since other users who shares the same problem as mine were able to view their pics after a while. but i think i've waited long enough.

could you please look into my account and see what happened to my pictures? i'd really hate to lose them..

thank you, kevin!
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peteshep says:

pink_jumper22
There are many of your photos already showing publicly - more than a hundred at least. Several Album/Sets. The fact that you're not showing as "pro" may indicate the process hasn't completed yet. You may want to consider your privacy settings.
I'm learning too.
P
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hemang says:

I migrated my yahoo photos some days back. Got a message saying that the photos were successfully migrated. I am not seeing them in Flickr even today .My yahoo photos account is also locked. I hope they are not lost!!


plz help
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hemang says:

plz mail me - not vwell versed with the forum either , how to find myself back- hundreds are writing day in n out
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faded letters says:

Ok, I have a flickr account under the id winniefan and am trying to show them on my Yahoo account under the id canadianwinniefan. When i click on the "share photos" in , it takes me to the "merge" page and asks me to enter the account i want to merge with canadianwinniefan but when i type in winniefan and the password, it tells me it doesn't exist? I'm in the flickr winniefan account now so i know it does exist. All i want is my flickr pics under the flickr id winniefan to be shown on my yahoo page under the id canadianwinniefan, why is this so difficult and frustrating? Am i doing something wrong? Help
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overjoyed fnord says:

Still fighting with this (see my post from my Flickr account above). I can log into flickr under either winniefan or canadianwinniefan but if I search for one id from the other, it says it doesn't exist? What is going on here? Why is this so freaking difficult and user-annoying? All I want to do is have my pics under my Flickr id (winniefan) to be linked to and shown on my yahoo account (canadianwinniefan)is that too much to ask? Is there a way to migrate my pics from flickr to another utility that will actually work with yahoo ?
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cajunview says:

On august 13 I put in a request to transfer my yahoo photos to flickr. I receieved email confirmation of this request. Later that day, I got this email from flickr:
Hi again cajunview -

Yee har! All your photos have been imported from your AT&T
Yahoo! Photos account into your cajunview Flickr account.

You have a Pro account, at no cost as long as you keep your

I clicked on the link in that email - No photos.

I tried emailing flickr and got some auto response about it taking up to 7 days. It has been more than 7 days and still no photos.

I tried online chat help from the yahoo photos page - a giant waste of time.

Still no photos.

Are my photos gone forever????
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Kevin says:

@cajunview- they should be importing (or done) now. (Update- we traded some emails, so it looks like you see them now.)

@xblowfishx- I don't see anything associated with the Yahoo! account that is tied to your Flickr account. Do you have another Y!ID? If so, please try logging out completely, and logging back into Flickr to see if you have an account with it.

@hemang- we just tried the process again, but you'll probably get the "arrived!" email again but nothing imported. So, this is something we have to fix

@photofixation- there is no option to email you actual files to yourself.

@pink_jumper you sent them to a different Flickr account associated with another Yahoo! ID. I just gave you details off-forum.
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Jolanda van Tuijl says:

Could you please explain to me why you have blocked me? Did I do something wrong? I still don't receive Flickr e-mail notifications about new comments on my photo's. That's for more than a week now. Could you tell me if something went wrong on your side? I always use these mails and think a lot of other people do to. I am receiving the notifications about new posted pictures from my friends again. I'm glad that's working again (with an occasionally hick-up) but that's OK.

Thanks in advance for your response.
Mrs. Jolanda
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aleeshka says:

- i'm pretty sure it is nothing personal. :) there appears to be a glitch in the system. take a look at this discussion for more info: cromwellpsi.com
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All You Photo says:

I am wondering should i go pro. I see theres a lot of nice pictures on here but im afraid. that if i trust in them all online that something could happend that would not let me get them back. has this ever happend to anyone. i really dont want to lose my pictures. but i also dont want to save them all to my hard drive.
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Dr. Keats says:

"i really dont want to lose my pictures. but i also dont want to save them all to my hard drive".

Then, burn them onto CD / DVD's. But, don't EVER rely on an on-line site as your sole means of storage - if someone phishes your account, you could lose the lot! It's happened
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All You Photo says:

yeah your probably right. well dvd is prolly the way to go.
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nance 16 says:

Kevin, tksgot the photos. U made my day ;)
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candyafter6 says:

Hi I just got into Flickr this evening and as I took the tour I came upon The Forum and to my dismay I saw a number of complaints that the photos are not grouped/classified/set as in the original order in Y! Photos. I have over pics in my Y! Photos account and I am worried that I will have the daunting task of going over them one by one! Can I get some feedback on this? If this is normally the case, then I have to cancel my migration process and burn my albums in backup CDs in the meantime. Please get back to me soon so I have enough time to meet the deadline. Thanks guys!
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maialsouz says:

dear sirs
Though i have received a message from flickr:"All your photos have been imported from your Yahoo! Photos account to Flickr.", no of my yahoo photos were teansfered to flickr but 2photos and 3 photos which does not belong to my yahoo mail.!!!
what happen?
how can i find them?
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kkwiwimaemae says:

I was one of the many who changed to Flickr when Yahoo! Photos closed down. I have been enjoying the good quality and unlimited amounts ofphotos I was able to upload in Yahoo. However, I noticed that my pro account expires in about a month. What will happen to the thousands of photos and many sets I have created if I do not renew? Will I still be able to upload new unlimited photos? Will my existing photos be deleted or 'hidden'? Thank you for taking time to read and hopefully reply.
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Dr. Keats says:

If you don't renew, only the most recently uploaded phohos will be visible. The rest will be hidden (but they'll still be there). If you upload new photos, they'll be visible; each new one will hide the current oldest one. Pretty sure only three sets will be visible.
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yawndave says:

I apologize if these questions have already been addressed, but I didn't feel like reading through all 11 pages.

I "told" yahoo photos to move all my images to flickr yesterday. I got a confirmation email that the process had begun, and 19 photos were immediately transferred. Since then, nadawhich makes me suspicious. Does the migration process go on intermittently over a long period of time? Yeah, the FAQ says to wait a week, but I want to understand how this thing works.

Also, I read that we were entitled to a "upgraded" account for 3 months. How does that work? Does the software know when I've transferred too many images for the free account?
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celestefrenz says:

Kindly return my pictures to yahoo. i want to change my yahoo profile picture and they keep prompting me to login to Flickr to do so but there is no way for me to do that.

Super irritating
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yawndave says:

Lets see hours since I posted a question, and no reply. Pretty much the same response I got from yahoo. I guess support people must have Labor Day weekend off, huh?

You know, I wouldn't be so angry if I hadn't been FORCED into making the change after yahoo BRAGGED so much about unlimited storage. Yeah, I know that web is an evolving thing, but there's something to be said for loyalty to customerseven if you consider them a dime a dozen.
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James J Williams says:

Yahoo have moved my photos from Yahoo to Flickr BUT none of the photo descriptions have been transferred.

Please can this be resolved. Thanks.
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send2anh says:

Sooo about the old duplicate problem.. I reported it like a month or two back. And it seems like some staff member finally took care of my case. Just not in whole :-(.

When I looked at my account in terms of sets, I still saw a lot of "duplicate" sets, which share the same name and mostly same content, except one of each pair might contain more photos than the other.

When I looked at my account in terms of photos, I saw a lot of duplicate photos as well. However, in most pairs, one would be public and the other private. I guess it's because I followed the directions to make all my photos public after I transferred.

This is very upsetting!
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passi_mee says:

i wish to download my pics back to my computer since i do not intend to be a pro. how do i do this? have gone through the mail about third party option; what is that please? could you please help.
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Dr. Keats says:

"Third party" just means that you have to go to a different website to do it!

Try this one: cromwellpsi.com
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passi_mee says:

i have tried the flickerdown; and it stops at " you have to first install v of .NET Framework. what is this? and could someone please help me to know how this is done.
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Dr. Keats says:

Not sure - maybe this one will work: cromwellpsi.com
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sford says:

It seems like I'm not the only one this happened to. I have tried the suggestions that are listed above and I still don't see my old yahoo pictures. The ones in my account now are ones that I've uploaded since switching over. I'm sure you are swamped, so I appreciate your response! Thanks

Here was my original post:

I had a yahoo photo album and I transferred all my pictures over to here when that closed down. Well, they never made it and as soon as I migrated them, my yahoo account was no longer accessible. I e-mailed Flickr and they wrote me a very long e-mail telling me where to find them-- which would have been very helpful if they were actually there! ;-) I wrote them back saying that were not, in fact, there. And I've been ignored ever since. It's not a HUGE deal, but I wish my pictures were there and I wish I could get an answer as to what happened to them.
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Stevekin says:

passi_mee The site linked to informs you that you need .NET and provides a link direct to Microsoft to download it.

Just do itFlickrDown will get you your pics !
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lizjonesbooks says:

I wish h I could post the image I get when I try to migrate my photos. It's basically a closed logic loop--
flickr sends me to
cromwellpsi.com ,
which says hey guess what, we're closing-- why don't you check flickr out?
I have gotten no help from Yahoo, despite searching forums and having one-directional email with( at least theoretical) human beings in the help site. The first said he couldn't find my photo page, and then didn't respond when I sent him the direct link. The second directed me once more to the closed loop page. Aaargh.

If there is anyone who could tell me if there is some way to get around the photo migration lockdown, I would be forever in your debt.

I'd love to move my photos, but I am getting no results from the recommended link, and I totally lack the time to do them one at a cromwellpsi.com in advance!
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lizjonesmrpa says:

Well, I finally tracked this one down myself. It looks like my usual yahoo account is a different one from the one I used to upload the photos-- and apparently yahoo is unable to figure out that I'm the same person.

Ergo, I now also have two accounts on flickr as well(it couldn't cope with signing me in as another user even with passwords. Very inefficient, but whatever), but at least I know where my photos will be when they migrate through someday.

SO-- for anyone who can't seem to access the migration screen-- check the url of your photos page, and check the name you're signed into yahoo under-- they may be different. if so, you'll have to figure out how to sign back in as your alter ego in order to access the migration screen, but once you do that, you'll be able to transfer photos just like everyone else. Good luck-- I hope someone out there can benefit from my floundering! (PS-- I'm really lizjonesbooks above)
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fluttering earth says:

I've been asking for ages about putting them all back in Yahoo so that I can transfer them elsewhere but no luck.

You really have to store photos in at least 2 different sites, otherwise what do you do if they go missing? Every site will tell you the same thing, they don't accept responsibility for losses.

Lila
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kjr says:

[Flickr Case ] Re: Yahoo! Photos

So I got two more emails from flickr, this would be the fourth and fifth time I get one saying that my pictures are there but I cannot see them. This time atleast I see the folders but the pictures have a little "x" like an error or something. They are all like that, the only pics I can see are the ones I downloaded to flickr directly. What happened to my yahoo photos now?
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arslan_ibn_da&#;ud says:

I am trying to migrate about 50 pictures from Yahoo Photos to Flickr. But when I go through the normal transferral process, I get an error page "Wait! There's a problem" when I click the "Import from Yahoo" button, and my Flickr account reveals no photos. I've tried this same import process 5 days ago with the same result.

So what is the problem and how do I work around it?
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marfita says:

It has been weeks and I still do not have photos transferred from Yahoo to my Flickr account. It does now say at my old Yahoo Photos account that they ARE being transferred, but nothing has shown up. I'm getting really, really worried. Really, really worried. It has simply been too long!
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ByInvitationOnly says:

I have a joesgrl90 yahoo ID which I was using for personal reasons. I had family photos attached to this ID which transferred from Yahoo to Flickr (under the same joesgrl90 name) extremely easily and quickly. A couple of days ago I deleted the joesgrl90 flickr account, changed my Yahoo ID from my primary joesgrl90 to another ID called ByInvitationOnly (I wanted to use my as a biz account now). I activated another Flickr account (with different photos) under the ByInvitationOnly name but now I can't get my new Flickr account and photos to work with my ByInvitationOnly Yahoo ID. If anyone signs into my ByInvitationOnly yahoo profile they see my old pics and if they click on them there is an error message saying that Flickr account no longer is valid. I've tried going into PhotoStreamSharing and changing my Flickr user ID (from joesgrl90 to ByInvitationOnly) but I get an error message to say that account name isn't found. What gives?
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barbtaub says:

I can't seem to get to the "welcome" screen -- how do I transfer photos from Yahoo to flickr?
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Kevin says:

@arslan_ibn_da'ud- it turns out the apostrophe was a fly in the ointment, we got that fixed and the photos are queued to move now. Sorry about that!

@marfita- we re-queued them for transfer, I see you got the message that they transferred but none actually arrived. They won't be lost however.

@ByInvitationOnly - I'll try an untangle your case, I'll send a note to you directly.

@yawndave- Actually transferred, I just sent you information on how to filter them out in your photostream (it's also noted at the top of this page if anyone is curious).

@maialsouz- we only show 5 photos that were in that Y! Photos account. If you have another Yahoo! ID, you'll need to start the process to transfer those as well separately. If they were part of your Yahoo! Mail section of "My Photos", that is not part of this process at all.

@James J Williams- we checked photo descriptions and they did match what was transferred over.

@sford sorry about that, I found your help case, and just responded, I think we got this going for you again.

@candyafter6- I just sent a help note to you- they are in queue.

@Lila, I'm pretty sure we did that for you already. :-\

@kjr per the email we just sent you, they are indeed in your account. Try checking out this FAQ:
cromwellpsi.com#

@barbtaub- your Y! photos account does not look like it has any photos in it. Everyone who visited Y! Photos while logged in got that email that Photos was closing, even if none were in there. If you have another Y! ID, check that as well; otherwise we have to refer you to Photos Customer Care if you still think there are some in there.

@lizjones, we took care of that issue via the help case. :-)



We're redirecting further Y! Photos questions to this topic.
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Kevin (staff) edited this topic ages ago.

Need Gallery help? Try the new community support forum: cromwellpsi.com

The Gallery team has decided to take a step back from actively maintaining this project. Truth be told, most of the core team got busy with their lives over the past few years and we haven't had the time to really actively maintain the project in a long time. The forums have continued to be lively and helpful and there is still plenty of good conversation there - but no new code has been written in the past 6 months and that's not likely to change.

So after over 14 years, 3 major revisions of the project, many tens of releases, hundreds of contributors, tens of thousands of lines of code, almost a hundred thousand forum topics and almost four hundred thousand comments, it's time for us to shutter up shop.

Why not just leave the site up and operational? Unfortunately - it takes time to actively maintain and police our site. The Gallery website is constantly under attack by spammers and our servers require maintenance. We've been doing that for years, but it's time to call it quits.

So what's next? Sometime soon we'll make the website read only. All the forum posts and topics will still be there, but we'll stop letting people log in and add new content. This will greatly prevent the spread of spam through the site while still allowing search engines to find useful content. Then we'll put the whole site into a very low-overhead maintenance mode until we run out of money to keep it up. Then we'll shut the site down.

While the site is hibernating, some systems will continue to work. You'll be able to download translations for Gallery 3, for example. But at some point we'll stop accepting translation uploads. And when we run out of money, translations will go away. Sorry about that.

It's been a great ride. I'm glad that you could join us with it. But now it's time to move on.

regards,
Bharat

PS: If you're interested in taking over the project - email me and we can talk. You need to be serious about it though because I'm not handing this over to somebody who just wants to use it for SEO purposes. My email address is easy to find. Also, I won't be reading private messages.