flikr missing pictures

mikep

i have noticed sometimes pictures seem to vanish from my flikr photostream

does anyone else experience this problem?

and just so its clear: nothing happened at my end, i didnt delete it by accident or anything like that. it was there yesterday, and now its gone.

it makes me feel that it is unreliable as a storage area, and am beginning to think about moving to another provider

spraynpray

Never had a problem myself, or heard of one before.

mikep

i have noticed it happen occasionally

i have got a canned response email back from them saying that: "their records show the picture was deleted via a third party app, they dont know which app, they cant find out"

basically saying that its my fault. i know for a fact that it isnt my fault, as this week i haven been writing my dissertation and havent used lightroom, or edited any photos anywhere.

what is most telling however, is the fact that in my email to flikr, i didnt tell them which picture i was referring to just "a picture"

man their customer service is so bad. that is all i have ever received from them in the past too, canned responses, and ignorance. i am beginning to resent having paid them

paulr

Sorry to hear that Mikep I've been with Flickr for over 5 years with over 2500 images not lost one yet

mikep

well, its quite hard to tell amongst such a large number of photos. would you really notice if one or two went missing ?

i wouldnt have noticed, its just a had a blog and used flikr to host the images, and a few of the images that i had embedded on the blog became unavailable, then when i checked flikr they were mysteriously gone. i only had 500 pictures at that time.

i only noticed the one go missing today because it was the first image on my photostream, so i could hardly miss it ....

itsnotmeyouknow

It happened earlier on today. Some, but not all of my photos disappeared for a few hours

Msmoto

Photos may disappear when one does not have a Pro account. There is a 300MB limit to the photos you may upload each month. If you go beyond this, the older ones may get deleted.

itsnotmeyouknow

They don't get deleted, they just get hidden from view. if you sign up to pro, they reappear. At least that was what happened in my case

Msmoto

Thanks, itsnotmeyouknow

mikep

here is some irony

yesterday, i re-added the image that was deleted, and today it hit number 1 on explore

Msmoto

Let's see the image, Mike

mikep

i have shown already on pad a few weeks ago, but

Msmoto

Very nice...the technical aspects are so right on...5 seconds is perfect!

rschnaible

mikeep, do you live in a country that "censors" the internet?

mikep

no, well, i live in the UK, i have no idea if they sensor anything, they probably all do

here is my conspiracy theory :

a day or two before it got deleted i saw that one of the referrers to the picture was the EDF energy website. EDF energy is the company that owns the london eye

not wild enough ? well lets get even crazier :

if you read my story in the other thread about being hassled by a security guard by the river in london for being on "private property", well it turns out that i was on public property the whole time. so, to make a complaint about this i sent two emails to EDF energy last week, since i assume it was one of their security guards who approached me.

veryyyy fishy

itsnotmeyouknow

I don't think there is any censoring involved. Some of mine disappeared yesterday showing unavailable, but reappeared a few hours later. Not the first time its happened and won't be the last. The gremlins got into yahoo towers I suspect.

mikep

nah i dont think its anything complicated, merely an interesting coincidence. most likely just an error from somewhere

simplest explanation is usually the correct one, as they say

TaoTeJared

I have used a couple of iphone apps and even Lightroom uploads in the past that have deleted images. I just upload the old fashioned way now and go direct. I have heard that the loader from apple/mac (sorry I don't know the name as I use PCs) can really screw up flickr if do something. Wish I would have listened closer to know what it was to see if it was any help.

paulr

I am a mac user and I do watch my count number and it never goes down, just keeps going up
Maybe I am lucky but don't seem to have the problems other members are having. ^:)^

Msmoto

I have managed to load about 2200 photos from my MacBook Pro to Flickr and have not had a problem I remember.....maybe that is the problem...I can't remember... )

I have once or twice had Flickr hiccup, but have not lost any images.

mikep

first they told me that :

"While we cannot determine which application deleted the photos..."

today they said :

"Upon reviewing your account, I have confirmed that your photos were in fact deleted via the Lightroom third-party app. Please be advised that there is a known bug that deletes photos from your Flickr photostream when you have iPhoto, Aperture or Lightroom authorized (note that you do not actually have to be using this app for this to occur - as long as its authorized the photos will be deleted). As such, I recommend contacting Adobe directly to advise of this bug and removing the Lightroom authorization to prevent further photo deletions"

lightroom was closed the whole time .... i dont know what to make of it. just a weird occurrence i guess. keep backups ....


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