Photos

Over the years the Gorse Fox has used several repositories for his photos. Flickr which was subsumed into Yahoo! Picasa which became functionally stabilised and, to all intents and purposes, became Google photos. It seems that none of these services (even when you paid a subscription) is immune from change.

In the latest chapter of these photo repositories, Flickr, which became subsumed by Yahoo! has now been sold to SmugMug. AT first we were told that there would be no changes. Now we find that they will be applying limits to the "free" accounts. Now, the Gorse Fox decided he's better check his account; after all most of the photos in this blog from 2005 through to 2015 are actually hosted on Flickr. Checking the account wasn't so easy. Once it had been subsumed by Yahoo! the sign-in was via Yahoo!. Now, BT (from whom the Gorse Fox get his broadband) provided the sign-in credentials... and in the intervening years, the Gorse Fox has changed his BT account details. The first step was to try and remember the original credentials. It took a while, but we managed.

Having logged in to the Flickr account the Avatar confirmed that the Gorse Fox was in fact a "Pro" member. Brilliant! Nothing to worry about. Well, not quite. He checked his account settings and they said he had a "free" account... and invited him to upgrade. He hesitated and then tried to upgrade. Can't do that... you're already a Pro account. The Gorse Fox seems to be in Catch-22.

Deciding that whatever happens he needed to protect his photos, he pressed the button that allowed the whole kit and caboodle to be downloaded. Nearly 7000 photos arrived in 15 separate zip packages. They were carefully moved to the correct folder and Google photos then grabbed the lot and has them carefully backed up.

Now the Gorse Fox is waiting to hear from Flickr about his account status. The thought of having to relink thousands of blog photos to new locations is quite daunting.

The Silver Vixen is back into re-organisation mode. The sewing room has been further emptied so that things could be moved about and shelves could be removed. The Gorse Fox has an appointment with some decorators' filler in the morning.