#1 Title, tag and description backup?

[Anonymous]

This is a great utility. However as I've got my photos stored locally
and on the Flickr servers themselves, I don't feel too much of a need
to backup the photos themselves.

However: I've often wished I could backup all of the titles, tags and
descriptions I've written. Being able to store the comments and
notes others have written would be great as well.

I realize this might be beyond the scope of your app, but I think
there's a definite need for the ability to backup the textual information
associated with each photo as well as the photos themselves.

dave@machinechicago.com

[Stuart Colville]

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Yep I'd second that!

[Andrew Serff]

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Actually, it isn't beyond it. I have thought of backing up
al the metadata associated will the pictures you download.
I would also like to make it searchable as well. It might
be a while before all of that happens, but it is on my list.
Thanks!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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i'll second this. write the title, tag and description into
IPTC and then many other apps and services will be able to
read it.

this would save quite a bit of time.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I think Flickr could store those comments and tags in the
meta data of the photo? I don't know if they do though...
probably not I guess.

[Andrew Serff]

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As of V1.0, flickr photo/set titles will be used as
filenames if you want. So part of this may be satisified
for you guys. My next big feature to work on it saving
tags/description in the EFIX data.

[Butch]

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Hi serff,

Any update on getting Flickr Backup to save the tag/description info in the picture when it is backed up?

I have a LOT of my pics that I am needing to backup locally with the tag/description info that has been input directly on the flickr website by users, so that I can catalog it on my local PC.

I'm getting kind of desperate to find something that will do this, but am at a dead end...

Thanks,
Butch

[Dr. Bernhard Riedl]

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Hi serff,

thanks for this neat piece of software. - i really appreciate your work.
how is the development on the backup of tags/descriptions goin'?

berny

[Dr. Bernhard Riedl]

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a second thought. - flickr reads the gps-position from the exif tags if provided. - nevertheless, they store this information separately. - thus, it would also be a good idea, to get the current geo-information from flickr and update the exif tags.

thanks once more
berny

[Andrew Serff]

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Adding the functionality to backup title, description, tags, and copyright are pretty much done. I am just waiting for some license issues to get resolved before I can release it. Also, this will NOT be part of FlickrBackup. FlickrBackup is being phased out in favor of our new application FlickrEdit (http://sunkencity.org/flickredit). Please keep your eyes on the Sunkencity Blog for product announcements.

And on the geo info, I'll definitely look into that. I hadn't thought of that, but it is a great idea. Thanks berny!

Andrew