> The assumption seems to > be that every photo we take is perfect. You are being to achieve wisdom, grasshopper
B > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Eric Weir > Sent: 14 August 2015 13:11 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: Flickr Are Sneaky Bastards > > > > On Aug 11, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > > I haven't noticed them trying to get anything from me. And to my tastes > their app works fine. If they asked for suggestions for improvement, I > wouldn't know what to say. But perhaps I am just naive. > > Well, I have to eat my words. > > Back in December I transferred 46 family photos taken on Christmas day from > my iPhone to Lightroom on my MacBook. Subsequently I posted edited > versions of 12 photos to an album on Flickr. As I understand it now, it seems > that in the last upgrade of the Flickr mobile app auto upload was set as > default. When I went to Flickr for the first time in a while yesterday I > discovered that the Flickr app had uploaded all the photos on my phone, > including the 46 from Christmas day, thus overriding the 12 photos that I had > edited and uploaded from Lightroom. > > I have reset the app not to auto upload, but It appears the only way to get > rid > of the auto upload album on Flickr is to delete all the photos in it. Doing > that > would delete that 12 photos uploaded back in December, though the current > copies lack whatever editing I did in Lightroom. So it seems the only way to > get back to square one with the Christmas album is to go ahead and delete all > the photos in the upload album and then re-upload the 12 edited copies > from Lightroom. A lot of trouble that I should not have been put through. > > As one poster on the Flickr help forum suggested, auto upload should have > been an opt-in not an op-out feature. Why anyone would want ALL the > photos they take uploaded to Flickr is beyond me. The assumption seems to > be that every photo we take is perfect. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > “...we are a form of invitation to others and to otherness..." > > - David Whyte > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
