MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iPhoto '11
I have exactly this same problem.
iPhoto deletes flickr sets, seemingly at random. There's no option to NOT delete them, just a warning that it is going to do so.
And it happens to albums that I have NOT deleted from iPhoto.
This happened to me for the first time today- I was about to upload a new set, and got a message telling me that one of my sets was deleted. Not cool!
This happened to me today. I just clicked on the Flickr link to add a photo and suddenly a note popped up saying that an album was being deleted. I hit ok and then it said another one. I tried changing my flickr password, but that didn't do anything to stop it. Then I went to my preferences in iPhoto and tried disabling my Flickr account but it said if I did, it would delete all 200 albums, but they would still be on Flickr. Yikes. I decided to force quit iPhoto and worry about it later! This is really making me nervous about using iPhoto.
One note in an iPhoto 9.1.5 update that came today: "Deleting photos from a web album using the contextual menu now removes them from the album without deleting them from the library"
This ISN'T what was happening, but it is close enough that perhaps updating with this will fix things?? Hope so.
Hi Juhwawa,
just wondering if this 9.1.5 update fixed the problem about removing a photo ONLY from the photoset.
I have multiple copies of some photos on different sets and everytime I delete from one set iPhoto deletes the photo from the whole flickr.
cheers.
I have not read the 9.1.5 release - but the design of iPhoto is to sync with social media so if you delete photos from iPhoto they are deleted from the social media - I'm not clear if this is what some are experiancing or not but is the way the iPhoto - social media set up works
LN
I got it. But my point is, I'm not deleting it from iPhoto. I have the same pic on two sets for example. If I remove it from the first set it's automtically removed from the second set as well.
This same behaviour doen't apply to iPhoto. If I remove a photo from one album iPhoto doesn't remove the same picture from other albums that might have the same pic.
I'm having the exact same issue with iPhoto '11 (9.2.1). Any time I try to upload a fourth set, the oldest one automatically gets deleted, leaving me with three again. It has nothing to do with upload limits, or the number of photos I'm trying to upload. I really hope there's a fix for this soon, as it would be much simpler than using the Flickr Uploader all the time.
@adan88: Do you have a Flickr Pro account? With the free account you're limited to 3 Flickr sets. Maybe that's why you fourth set is no showing.
I'm having the same issue with iphoto 9.2.1 with a Flickr Pro account as of today. iPhoto announced that several sets had been deleted. I don't believe the sets actually were deleted, but this is annoying. iPhoto shouldn't be able to delete photos...the whole point of my using Flickr is to backup my photos in case something goes wrong with iPhoto or I accidentally delete something...
Has anyone resolved this? I am having the same problem as many of you. I just now started using Flickr as a way to have a web 'safety' for a lot of our photos. But each time I add a new 'set', Iphoto reports that it is removing other sets from Flicker. At first I thought that perhaps it wasn't going back and actually taking them off Flickr- but it seems that it IS. Items I could view earlier today are no longer on Flickr. What gives?
FV
Yes, this is happening to me too!!! What the ****??? That is SCREWED UPc
I agree with others here-- I am using Flickr to BACK UP my photos! This is DELETING them!!!ðŸ˜
iPhoto is designed to manage your Flickr Photos so using it as a back up is unwise. If the images are lost from iPhoto they will be deleted from Flirckr too.
So use an uploader to back your files up on flickr, not sync them with iPhoto.
Regards
TD
I believe this has to do with the restrictions from a free account. According to the link below, "On a free account, Flickr limits the number of photos displayed. If you have fewer than 200 photos, we display them all. If you have more than 200 photos, only the most recent 200 are displayed."
Check your photostream to see if the pictures are still there but the sets have been removed. If so, this is probably what happened. Hope that helps...
The site goes on to say: "It goes on to Your photos are not removed from Flickr, only from the list of your photos. If you blogged a photo and it no longer appears in your list, it will still appear on your blog, and the photo's Flickr page will still work just fine."
I have this same issue and I do have a Pro account, so I don't think it has to do with the free account limit. The photos seem to be there still, and I am not sure it really deletes the set, but each time I upload to flickr iphoto does tell me that one of my sets has been deleted from flickr.
iPhoto '11 deleting sets from Flickr
