As I mentioned back in July I was planning to move all my blog pictures from Flickr to Google Photos. I'm making progress having completed two of the three phases of the move.
Phase One was downloading the pictures from Flickr. This didn't take too long. I had to download each album separately but it took only six days after I started to finish downloading the three hundred and twenty-one albums. Actually it was only four days since I did not download while we entertained the Best Man and Matron Of Honor.
Phase Two consisted of the unzipping of the files, renaming of the pictures, and the uploading of pictures to Google Photos. This took a bit longer. Unzipping the files was a couple clicks for each album. Some of the renaming was easy since I could rename a files in bulk but some of the albums required each picture to have a unique name. One such album had over three hundred pictures ... each with an unique name that had to be entered one at a time. Uploading was easy with only a few tweaks to picture dates to insure the photos were in the correct order. In all, this phase took fifteen days with only a day or two in there when I took breaks.
Now I start Phase Three. I now go through my thousand plus posts and relink all the pictures. This could take awhile.
One thing I've notice as I was uploading the pictures was how fun it was to look at all the pictures I've taken and posted over the past eleven years. As a matter of fact my eleven year blogging anniversary is next week. It will be interesting to reread all my posts and, probably, correct some of the thousands of spelling errors. A nice long walk down memory lane.
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