I’m only aware of 3 Flickr upload tools for the Mac:
I’m trying to upload ~18GB of photos.
Flickr Uploadr will only accept single groups of files for upload, not folders of files. Same with 1001. This is a problem.
JUploadr will accept folders, but keeps crashing.
All of these apps create a thumbnail of or otherwise process each photo before uploading which seems both unnecessary and incredibly time consuming.
Where is my “batch upload these 18GB of photos” app?
Is there one for the PC? I guess I could do this from Windows if I had to.
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Kerim Friedman adds this Comment:
Have you tried Flickr Export. That’s my favorite, but I never tried to upload so many at a time.
December 28th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Unfortunately, I don’t use iPhoto…
December 28th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Steve Makofsky adds this Comment:
I’m pretty sure PictureSync (http://picturesync.net/) will upload folders of photos..
December 28th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Dan Coulter adds this Comment:
Actually, since Flickr upgraded their pro accounts, I’ve been tinkering with making a Windows app to do just this. It’s too raw to release anything yet, but in the next couple of days, maybe I’ll have something.
December 29th, 2006 at 12:02 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Sounds intriguing Dan, I look forward to trying it out.
December 29th, 2006 at 12:31 am
Dan Coulter adds this Comment:
I threw together a quick first draft. It’s rough, but it works as advertised. It’ll upload all of the jpgs in a folder and its subfolders to your Flickr account. Try it out and let me know how it goes for you.
http://dancoulter.com/mass-uploadr/
December 29th, 2006 at 8:35 am
adam adds this Comment:
there’s a flickr plugin for quicksilver, that (IIRC, not on a mac anymore) accepts pretty much anything.
December 29th, 2006 at 9:08 am
Dan Coulter adds this Comment:
Crap, forgot to mention that the program I wrote requires the .NET Framework 2.0. It won’t work too well without that.
December 29th, 2006 at 9:58 am
Nate adds this Comment:
Dan, I’m liking your mass uploader, but I want it to create sets based on the directory names (and not just tag it with the director name). Can I have access to the source code???
January 1st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
nolageek adds this Comment:
What I would like, personally… is a program that will download all photos from a flickr account, if over the max 200 will delete them as it downloads, and then uploads them to another account preserving the titles. If it did descriptions and all I’d marry the developer.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:55 am
Dan Coulter adds this Comment:
I’ve just updated that upload tool so that it should be compatible with Mono. That means that you could run it on Linux or OSX. I haven’t tested it yet (I don’t have any linux boxes with mono installed).
January 10th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Very cool. I haven’t tried it yet because I haven’t had an easy way to connect my Windows box to my photos (don’t want to buy MacDrive and all my external drives are in use). I will try installing Mono and see how it goes.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:26 am
David adds this Comment:
Why did this thread stop? Gave up? Something found? I would LOVE to identify a tool that can take a single folder, and detect each subfolder and make a set out of each.
The question remains though, does Flickr support nested folders or would it then just be one massive group of unorganized sets?
February 24th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
kevin adds this Comment:
I, too, would love an app that can upload folders as sets. I’ve been needing one for a long time.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Linsey adds this Comment:
I’ve just updated that upload tool so that it should be compatible with Mono. That means that you could run it on Linux or OSX. I haven’t tested it yet (I don’t have any linux boxes with mono installed).
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:14 pm
David adds this Comment:
I’ve been desperate for such an application as Dan is describing and Alex and Kevin are requesting. I actually don’t even understand how the rest of the Flickr world is getting by without such a tool. Is everyone dumping all of their photos onto Flickr and then reorganizing them once they are uploaded? What a massive waste of time, it would seem.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:29 pm