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.
Have you tried Flickr Export. That’s my favorite, but I never tried to upload so many at a time.
Unfortunately, I don’t use iPhoto…
I’m pretty sure PictureSync (http://picturesync.net/) will upload folders of photos..
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.
Sounds intriguing Dan, I look forward to trying it out. 🙂
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/
there’s a flickr plugin for quicksilver, that (IIRC, not on a mac anymore) accepts pretty much anything.
Crap, forgot to mention that the program I wrote requires the .NET Framework 2.0. It won’t work too well without that.
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???
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. 🙂
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).
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.
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?
I, too, would love an app that can upload folders as sets. I’ve been needing one for a long time.
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).
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.
This is what you are looking for, it backed my 80GB of pics in not time to flickr:
http://code.google.c[...]ders2flickr/
I tried using folders2flickr (python version) on my headless Ubuntu 11.10 server. After walking through my 8GB of photos, it always halts on the upload. Did you use the exe version or py?