How to Move Photos from Flickr to OneDrive?

Flickr and OneDrive are two popular photo storage and sharing services. Many users have photo libraries stored on Flickr that they now want to move over to OneDrive for consolidated storage or other reasons. While not difficult, properly moving photos from Flickr to OneDrive does require following some key steps.

In this comprehensive guide, we will walk through the entire process for smoothly and safely moving your Flickr photo collection over to OneDrive storage. Follow along as we cover exporting photos from your Flickr account, downloading them to your local device, and then uploading and saving the images within your OneDrive cloud account.

Prerequisite Steps Before Migrating Photos

Before starting the actual transfer process, some important preparatory steps must be taken first for optimal results:

Clean Up and Organize Flickr Account

Go through all photos and albums in your Flickr account and clean up or reorganize anything prior to exporting. This makes the transfer simpler and means less work later arranging things in OneDrive post-transfer.

Consider:

• Deleting unwanted, blurry, or duplicate photos
• Consolidating multiple albums
• Adding or improving captions/descriptions
• Standardizing titles, tags, dates for albums/photos

Leaving the Flickr account organized also maintains that archived Flickr library nicely if you ever still want to access it again in the future.

Check OneDrive Storage Capacity

Assess how much storage space you have available in OneDrive before transferring photos over from Flickr.

• OneDrive provides 5 GB, 50 GB, 1 TB, or more depending on subscription
• Know how much space Flickr photo library requires first
• Upgrade OneDrive subscription if needed to fit Flickr contents

Ensuring adequate OneDrive capacity avoids situations where photo uploads suddenly get rejected mid-transfer due to exceeding storage limits unexpectedly.

Download and Install OneDrive App

Get the OneDrive app for your computer desktop installed ahead of time before trying to move hundreds or thousands of photos over.

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The OneDrive desktop app syncs the cloud storage to your local computer, providing faster and more reliable uploads/downloads than using web browser alone. This prevents potential timeouts or other upload errors when later transferring many large photos from Flickr over to OneDrive storage.

Exporting Photos From Flickr

With the preparatory steps completed above, we can now actually start the photo migration process beginning with exporting photos out of the Flickr account:

Select Photos to Export

Decide whether you want to export all Flickr content over to OneDrive, or only some specific photo albums/galleries you select instead:

• All photos: Simplest option exporting everything in your Flickr to OneDrive
• Selected albums/galleries: Export only particular photo albums over rather than everything

Consider storage space in OneDrive when deciding how many Flickr photos to export and transfer.

Choose Export Settings

Configure these optimal settings when exporting original photos from Flickr library:

• Original file size and quality: Avoid resizing or compression
• EXIF metadata included: Keeps helpful capture details like date, camera, settings intact
• Add descriptive titles/captions: Makes finding photos later easier

Maintaining full original quality and metadata allows the photos to be reused or reprinted again in future if ever needed.

Export Flickr Photos

Go through Flickr's export tool to actually download your selected photo galleries or entire library locally to your desktop computer or device hard drive.

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This can take awhile depending on number and size of photos you are exporting from the Flickr account, but is safest approach ensuring no data or quality loss before transfer.

Transferring Photos into OneDrive

With your Flickr photo collection now exported out to local storage, the next phase is transferring everything into your OneDrive cloud account:

Create New Photo Folder in OneDrive

Before starting mass upload of photos, create a new dedicated photo folder within OneDrive to receive the incoming Flickr collection transfers.

Keeps everything neatly organized together rather than mixing randomly with existing OneDrive contents.

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Setup OneDrive Photo Upload Destination

Configure the OneDrive desktop app settings to target transferring files into your newly created Flickr photo folder:

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Ensures all subsequent photo add uploads go just to the desired folder area rather than randomly across OneDrive storage or require constant folder picking later.

Upload Exported Flickr Photos

With OneDrive desktop app locked and loaded for our photo transfer target, begin uploading your entire Flickr photo library export from local storage into the OneDrive cloud!

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OneDrive desktop app is optimized for these batch uploads and includes pause/resume capability standard.

Managing Photos Within OneDrive

After potentially lengthy but successful upload completes, your prior Flickr photo contents are now safely transferred over into your OneDrive cloud storage environment.

Some final management steps help polish things up:

Organize Uploaded Photos

Referring back to your original Flickr library organization, rearrange the newly uploaded photos within OneDrive storage to best mimic previous structure:

• Recreate any key album folders
• Sort photos among albums
• Adjust filenames, captions as needed for clarity

Match prior Flickr organization to extent possible/practical to ease later lookup and access.

Optimize Photos for OneDrive Performance

Apply any OneDrive-specific optimization tweaks for maximum storage efficiency and photo performance:

• JPEG compression adjustments
• Resize overly huge megapixel images
• Video encoding compatibility fixes

Reduces any unnecessary storage bloat from Flickr-originated library.

Clean Up Residual Flickr Account

With photos now fully uploaded into OneDrive, last step is removing imported gallery content from your Flickr account or deleting inactive account entirely:

• Hide/remove uploaded galleries
• Cancel paid Flickr subscription
• Delete Flickr account

Prevents double copies filling cloud storage and retains full photo access solely within OneDrive now for simplified management.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here are answers to some commonly asked questions around transferring Flickr photo contents into OneDrive smoothly:

Does exporting from Flickr reduce photo quality?

Exporting directly from Flickr using optimal settings maintains full original resolution and quality, along with key EXIF metadata. Results in no changes or reductions before OneDrive transfer.

Can I export photos directly from Flickr into OneDrive?

Unfortunately there is no direct export integration between the two services. Requires downloading to local device first always as interim stage before OneDrive uploading.

What are best practices to handle upload timeouts/errors?

Use OneDrive desktop app for most reliable transfer, pause/resume on any failures rather than starting over, break up into smaller chunks if needed.

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Conclusion

Migrating entire photo collections between major cloud storage platforms like Flickr and OneDrive brings unique challenges relative to everyday simple file transfers.

By approaching the project step-by-step using the optimized methods detailed above, you can achieve great success moving your photos from Flickr over into consolidated OneDrive storage smoothly and securely. The increased consistency and simplicity gaining a single centralized photo management platform makes tackling the workload very worthwhile long-term.