What if Flickr suspend your account without informing you? You might loose a number of your precious photos on Flickr. So its always advisable to save all of your Flickr photos to your local hard disk. FlickrDown is a handy software which will help you to download all of your Flickr photo sets at once. It will create a separate folder on your hard disk for each photo set and will preserve the original filenames and description of the photos.
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Follow these simple steps to backup all of your Flickr photos:
- Download FlickrDown [Direct | Mirror]
- Extract and install FlickrDown on your local hard disk.
- Run FlickrDown and click on the "Authorize" button, you will be redirected to Flickr website and will be asked to enter your yahoo username and password.
- To make sure that this is a genuine request, you must click on the NEXT on the right side [Marked Red]
- After successful authorization, you will receive the following message
- Now get back to the FlickrDown software and click on the Complete Authorization button.
- Now enter your yahoo E-mail address and choose e-mail from the radio buttons.
- Click on the Lookup button and FlickrDown will provide you with a list of all sets you have created in your Flickr account even if they are private. If you have not created any set on your Flickr account then choose [*All Photos*], probably the last check box in the list.
- Click Browse button and choose destination.
- Click on the Download button to begin download.
- Now sit back and wait for the download to complete.

FlickrDown Main Window
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Choose Options - On Flickr

Authorization Success

Complete Authorization

FlickrDown Main Window Ready

Download In Progress
As a blogger i found FlickrDown as one of the most useful software because in case Flickr suspend my account due to any reason or if Flickr server goes down for a while, i should have a backup of all my photos on my local hard disk.
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