Moving Images from Flickr to Ovi Online Share

With all the news going on about Ovi's Online Share I'm sure I haven't been the only person to experience a bit of outages.  I guess people are killing the servers! :)

Since there is no method of importing your images from another service (yet), I searched for a solution that could possibly get my images from Flickr to Ovi Share without having the knowledge of a brain surgeon. 

Thanks to Matt Miller of ZDnet blogs,  and whom I had the pleasure of meeting at MWC, has informed me of a solution.  Albeit a bit stressful, but still a solution. 

Flickr Backup is a java application that allows you to download your photos to your harddrive  so that you can have a backup of your media.  In this case all you have to do is temporarily store your media and then upload it to Online Share.  Whats great about this is that if you have sets on Flickr you can upload the whole folder.  Ovi's Online share gives you the option to upload your media individually or by folders.  Now as you can see I have over 1200 images.  This is where time consumption comes into play.  It took over 8 hours on a wifi connection to download all of those images and then upload them.  Since the server kept crashing not all of them showed up.  Well, nothings perfect, but at least it was a solution that I could live with.  Unfortunately I'm using a laptop that has Vista on it (Vista is the devil!!!)

If anyone comes up with a better solution please feel free to share it!

Flickr Backup is a Java application that allows you do download your photos and back them up to your harddrive or to media. This is useful if your local harddrive goes bad and you don't have a current backup.

Comments

[Duncan Sample]

As nice as Share on Ovi is, I can't help but look at Flickr and still see the beauty in it's uncluttered interface.

The real killer for me though is whether there are applications for Ovi like there are for Flickr? Think the iPhoto integration on a Mac and the Explorer integration on Windows as well as Flickr's own Uploader.

I'm a Nokia advocate, but until the desktop app quality and features are up to the same standard as other company's Flickr apps, I think it will have a hard time.