Nice app!

Seems like the compiled .air provided here is not compatible with the latest AIR installation. I'm getting the installation error "This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version." Would love to get an updated version.

I get the same..

Hey Mike,

This application is (was) awesome on Beta 1. Any chance you can put out an update? This is an extremely useful app...

I have just updated it for AIR 1.1. Sorry it took so long.

This is a great tool! - Except there doesn't appear to be a way to specify a set of photos or to specify photos with a specific tag or to set a limit, or date uploaded range. I'd love to be able to download a set based on one of those criteria.

@talkinhonky

Good suggestion. I think I might be pretty simple to filter by tag as well as the other info. I might already be downloading all of that info anyways.

Ill look into it and see how easy it would be to add.

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

hi i've attempted to install this on linux but with no success. i get an error message saying "sorry an error has occured". "the application could not be installed because the air file is damaged. try obtaining a new file from the application author". latest version of adobe air running on xubuntu 8.04. cheers.

I have the same problem with Adobe Air for Linux, the same error message, using Ubuntu 8.04.

Thanks.

ygallardo.

same here. seems not wo work with air for linux :-(

Great tool. Thus far the only working flickr downloading tool I have been able to find.

A filter for downloading specific sets would or by tag would make this app perfect.

ill look into the linux issue.

mike

I think the linux issue is that I compiled the AIR file for AIR 1.1, but the AIR linux alpha is based on AIR 1.0.

Ill compile a 1.0 version of the AIR file and see if that fixes it.

mike

I just uploaded a version of Flump that will run on the Adobe AIR Linux alpha:

http://code.google.com/p/onairbustour/downloads/list

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

This was EXACTLY what I needed! My hard drive crashed last week and I lost everything. Thankfully, I had uploaded most, if not all, of my pictures to Flickr. It took a few hours, but I think I have my pictures back...it's not that it's slow...I just had over 2,000 pics! Thanks for creating this!!!!

the new linux version works great for me on xubuntu 8.04. thanks how difficult would it be to add account authentication for downloading pictures that are not public?

I am going to post a version with auth support very, very soon.

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

New version is posted (.91) with account authentication.

great! I spent the day trying to implement account authentication with only half way succeeding. Then without seeing this update in the comments I checked out a fresh code base for reference and started seeing all the new code. I was so tired by then I thought it was stuff I had written somehow but didn't remember writing. haha. Then I realized it must have been updated since the last time I checked out. this is a good lesson for me though, even though I failed at finding the solution, now I can compare where I fell short with a working copy

In trying to export a release build I get an error:

Error creating AIR file: 303: ERROR, flump.png

If take out the icon it builds just fine.

This is on OS X 10.5.4 with Flexbuilder3 and SDK 3.0

What should I do-- I type the name of my friend's Flickr account, identify it as first Username, second try with ID when Username doesn't work, and in both cases I get the message that it's an unknown user. I know I've got the name of the account accurate, that it is a Pro account, and that the person has marked their photos as public. Thanks.

@jmikuta

Make sure it is the correct username. The user name is not necessarily the name in the URL. If that doesnt work, email the username to me, and I will look into it.

mike chambers

mikechambers@gmail.com

I would like to back-up a Pool. Hope that will be possible

I know this was a proof of concept, but are you open to feature suggestions? I've pulled down the code and looked at it, but I'm not sure I have the AIR and Web skills to pull off making the change myself.

I'd like to also pull down the data that I've associated with the image (i.e. title, description, tags, etc.). Not necessarily comments. Put the results in a single CSV or XML file or one file per image. Doesn't really matter. Once I have the image and data back on my local drive, I can run Perl or a custom C app on it.

Thanks for a cool app

wow was REALLY excited to find this after hours of searching for something like this for mac os...

Installs fine - runs - but when I instruct it to work - it only downloads ONE image?

gives me this notice: "Downloads complete. 1 of 988 images downloaded from Flickr." What about the other 987 images?

any suggestions? thanks!

Great app! Does just what I needed.

thanks!

This is exactly what I was looking for! It downloaded all my images in one fowl swoop!

Works Great on: Max os X 10.5.3 intel Air Ver 1.1 Flump .91

Thanks for a great resource!

Good Morning. I have a problem downloading. I click "start flump" and I get for example "Downloads complete. 0 of 147 images downloaded from Flickr". I tried with several usernames.

Any suggestions?? Thanks!

works great.

but i wish it would pick up the file names for images... that would really work very nicely.

i have the same issue as siris603; no error messages, just "Downloads complete. 0 of <foo> images downloaded from Flickr". The value of "foo" seems correct, so it is connecting but not downloading anything... Suggestions?

hi thanks for the app.

unfortunately it is not downloading any images although it was installed successfully on my mac leopard... any advice? thanks

It only downloads images you have permission to download.

mike

I use proxy server to get to internet ... and I can't use Flump ... :(

thank you. filenames and tags capture would be fantastic, as would be filtering by folder, date, and/or tag....

Can Flump download flickr videos I have uploaded?

This is a great tool! I too had a hard drive failure and this is saving my skin (to the tune of 4,255 images!)

A suggestion would be that when it downloads the pics, to put them in folders as they are in sets... it would save a lot of work after pulling them all down. Two thumbs up for the way it is now though, many thanks!

Thanks a ton. This is a great tool. I also had a crash and lost versions of about 6 months worth of photos. This will save a lot of editing time.

This tool looks really promising. Just wondering if it supports downloading of metadata as well as the images?

Just what the Dr ordered~! An indispensable tool and easy to use. Highly recommended.

My daughter inadvertently dropped a 500G external HD which was housing her pictures. We installed in the case another HD and presto, she has her pcitures once again.

Thanks People!

It seems to work for users with a small number of images...but for a large number of Flickr pages (220 or so, times 18, so almost 4000 images) the number it counts up to is zero, and it either stops early and freezes, or it just keeps counting forever, past 4000. Never gets to the download bit. It does fine on someone with 16 pages of images.

No problems with access to images or anything. Is it a fixed size array or something -- I assume it's dynamic. Tried it on Vista, XP.

In Vista, it works sometimes, then other times, it counts up, though the second number is zero, then it just stops. I waited for 15-20 minutes just to be sure, closed out all other apps, etc.

Ever have it just seize up with large number of files? It randomly seems to stop between 50 and 1165 (the highest it ever got).... is there an array limit, or is it completely dynamic?

@Mike:

Is the issue with damaged .air on OS X related to: a) version of AIR Runtime installed? b) version of AIR SDK used to create the .air vs. what's used in app descriptor? c) strength of the RSA encryption while creating the cert? d) anything else?

Its quite frustrating to have this issue even AIR's been here for 2 years...

Any solution to the "downloads complete. 0 of x images downloaded" issue yet? I have tested with my authenticated account and am still getting nothing!

You need to have a pro account for this to work, I think. Flickr does not allow access to the original images with a free account.

I have a Flickr account, but havn't posted pics to it. I accepted an invitation from my daughter's preschool's Pro Flickr account in order to view her SET of pics. I am able to download images one at a time, so I assume I am marked as a friend or family and have permission to download. There are 90 pics in my daughter's set and I would like to download them all. I have entered the preschool's user name when I open Flump, but do not know where I can specify the path of the user name>collections>name of collection>name of set. Any help would be appreciated.

I am not getting anything either, besides do I understand correctly you can only download your own images? after all, you can only authorize yr own account. And yes, I think it only works on a pro account, or, to be more exact, on your own pro account

Any chance you can do the same magic for Facebook? I have a ton of photos on there I'd like to archive, too. Thanks!

Dear Mike,

Fantastic!. I was sent a link to your application by the Flickr help team when I wrote asking them where to point a web archiving tool after a hard drive failure ;-)

I've just backed up my 4GBs of (1900) images in just a little over 2 hours. Sure I'd like all the bells and whistles that others have asked for, but the honest truth is that I am so pleased to have my images back, that I don't care about having to go through and sort them out.

Thanks a million for creating such a simple 'does exactly what it says on the tin' application.

Richard

It appears the answer for the "0 images downloaded" problem is to buy a Pro account. Solved it for me.

Hi Mike, I have a flickr pro account. I would like to download some images from other flickr members. I can download their files manually one by one, at original size, without problem. However, when I enter another users account username in flump it results in the message : "Downloads complete. 0 of 640 images downloaded from Flicker." Any advice? Mark