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January 18, 2006help me restore my Flickr data
I need your help in getting data back, particularly in terms of contacts... If i used to be your friend/contact, can you take a look at your account and re-add me? If you sent me a message via Flickr, can you send it again? If you had a photo that i favorited and you remember, could you remind me? If i was in a group with you, can you let me know? The Flickr team is working hard to make sure data boo-boos never happen again, but you may want to know that you can order DVD backups of all of your photos in case you tend not to have second copies of those photos. I'm so sorry for the hassle... Category: social software Tags: flickr
Posted by zephoria at January 18, 2006 5:12 PM
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Unfortunately, last week, an error occurred over at Flickr resulting in the destruction of my Flickr account. (Don't worry - this won't happen to you!) Although the team did everything they could, they were unable to retrieve recent contacts, groups, favorites, tags, messages... 
Comments (11)
Jesus, that's a pretty big boo boo. I hope they at least gave you a free lifetime pro-account.
Posted by oso | January 18, 2006 8:29 PM
Posted on January 18, 2006 20:29
That explains why Stewart dropped off my cobntacts list and why there are no photos earlier than June 2005 in his stream.
Posted by vanlal | January 19, 2006 3:13 AM
Posted on January 19, 2006 03:13
ohh! thats soo sad. anyway, you can always restart! you can find me at www.flickr.com/photos/vinu all the best with the ctrl+alt+del :D
Posted by vinu | January 19, 2006 8:25 AM
Posted on January 19, 2006 08:25
Heh. Two weeks ago, while attempting to increase storage space on our email server, the techs wiped *everything* out.
We were without any email for 5 days, and they tell us we'll likely lose a month's worth of email anyway. Supposedly, we won't find out for another week or two.
I'd been using my email to store job contact info and application deadlines. Lesson learned.
Posted by Ken | January 19, 2006 9:26 AM
Posted on January 19, 2006 09:26
I need to know if you are real.
Posted by Saites | January 19, 2006 4:29 PM
Posted on January 19, 2006 16:29
Just stumbled onto (into?) your blog, found it interesting, and thought I'd let you know you have a reader in Nebraska.
Posted by chris | January 20, 2006 10:32 AM
Posted on January 20, 2006 10:32
Do Your Worst!
Posted by George | January 20, 2006 12:59 PM
Posted on January 20, 2006 12:59
Sorry to hear that you lost your account. What happened?
Posted by Jeff Milner | January 20, 2006 3:39 PM
Posted on January 20, 2006 15:39
?? Has this been fixed? Just checked my Flickr account and you're still shown as a friend, and you have 228 photos, the last one posted Dec 13.
Posted by Nancy | January 21, 2006 10:04 AM
Posted on January 21, 2006 10:04
No - there is no fix. All of my photos are there. All of my friends who i connected with prior to March 2005 are there. None of my groups are. Fractions of my tags/favorites are (the ones prior to March 2005). It's a weird mix of things.
Posted by zephoria | January 21, 2006 11:40 AM
Posted on January 21, 2006 11:40
That's bad news. And why did it happen only to you?
Posted by Nina | January 23, 2006 1:33 PM
Posted on January 23, 2006 13:33