And since that was a really long sentence, let me explain. I don't upload enough photos to Flickr to justify a Pro account, so I've never upgraded. Instead, I just put the thumbnails on a webpage or in a blog post and link them to the photo page. Flickr makes it easy by providing the code. Then, should I ever want to use those photos for anything, I can still find them.
Yesterday Cory asked me to remove a picture in one of my blog posts. I thought I could just mark that photo as private, and I could still see it because it's my picture, but no one else could see it. Wrong. As soon as I marked it private, I was redirected to a page that said I didn't have permission to view that photo. I hit the back button on my browser and tried to change it back, but that didn't work. As far as I can tell, that photo is gone, forever.
Yes, I have it here on a DVD, but I can't find it on Flickr any more.
Another tip for people like me who haven't upgraded to the Pro account on Flickr: tag all of your photos with your username or something unique to you. Then, you can always search Flickr for photos with that tag, and your photos will be the ones that come up - all there, whether they're still part of your photostream or not. Unless, of course, they've been made private. :P
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I have lots and lots of photos on flickr. One day I was trying to log in and kept getting a message saying I was putting in the wrong info. No I wasn't. I used the same info for years. Didn't matter. I tried everything. I sent them email and even called them. I told them I could see my profile and all my pics. I gave them my 2 emails, password, secret question and answer. No good. I was locked out. They couldn't tell me why. I will never use flickr again.
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