Q.My hard drive died and took my photo library with it. I have most of my pictures on Flickr, though — is there a way to grab them back to my new Windows 10 PC from the website, without having to download them one by one?
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A. For years, the quickest way to download photos in bulk from a Flickr account was to use a third-party utility like Bulkr or Flickr Downloadr, but Flickr added its own solution this year. As part of a site update announced in May, you can now download albums and pictures in large batches from your account’s Camera Roll page.
To download photos this way, log in to Flickr and click the Camera Roll tab on the left side of the page. The Camera Roll can be sorted by the date the pictures were taken or by Flickr’s Magic View feature, which attempts to recognize and sort the images based on basic subjects like architecture, people, food and so on.
Flickr Bulk Downloader
Apr 23, 2018 Three years ago, Yahoo added a bulk download mechanism and redesigned album pages to give your photos another out. From Flickr's album. Only problem I face with Flickr is that it is not very easy to download the photos in full resolution back on my computer. FlickrEdit solves that problem. FlickrEdit is a free software to bulk download your Flickr photos. It lets you bulk download the photos in their original resolution. Flickr.com is one of the world's most popular image hosting web sites. And contains many hundreds of millions of images. Bulk Image Downloader makes downloading from flickr very quick and easy. Your Flickr content is available for download at any time. You can also download pictures & videos from other members as long as they’ve given perm.
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Once you have sorted the photos your way, click the Select All button at the top of each batch until you have collected the batch you want to grab. After you select that first group of pictures, a box will appear at the bottom of the browser window with a Download button. Click the Download icon, and Flickr will create a compressed .zip file containing all the selected images at their full resolution.
Click the blue Download Zip button to copy the file to your new computer. Once you open the compressed file full of photos, you can move them into your Pictures library or import them into an image-editing program.
To guard against future loss from a failed hard drive, you may want to consider adding a backup routine to the mix. Windows 10 has a backup program, and you can have copies of pictures automatically archived online with services like Microsoft OneDrive, Google Photos Backup, Mozy or others.