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Yahoo Photos: Start Migrating your Photos

Last month, Yahoo had announced that they will shutdown Yahoo Photos for the benefit of Flickr. They said that they whole process would take several months to complete and those who had stored their photos on Yahoo Photos were given different option to move an alternative service.

Yahoo has now announced that September 20th is the last working day for Yahoo Photos. By then, users must move their photos to a different service because all photos on their site will be deleted. Although they are doing this for the benefit of Flickr, they are not forcing everyone to migrate to Flickr. Instead, they give you plenty of different options like Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, Photobucket.

If you are not interested in migrating, you can download all your photos or buy an archive CD from Englaze for $6.95 + $1.70 (shipping). Englaze, which is integrated with both Yahoo Photos and Flickr, is relatively weak in comparison to other options. You can try Backupr which gives users more control over which photos they’d like to back up and a CD of photos is free (plus $3.99 shipping worldwide), adding up to a total cost of less then half what Englaze is charging.

Usually, such announcements are potential headaches for users as services get transferred, moved, and users are forced to make decisions about how best to manage their photos. Blogs and other services like personals which rely on Yahoo Photos are the ones to be worst affected by this move.

Interestingly, Yahoo Photos provides no option for users to migrate their photos to Google owned Picasa Web Albums.



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    Ramanathan
    wrote, on June 15th, 2007

    Soon yahoo will be buying the winner of the race between all these smaller serviecs like photobucket, shutterfly, etc.

    hehe.. thats the ploy.

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    Web 2.0
    wrote, on June 16th, 2007

    Is not likely Yahoo will ever provide and option to migrate to Picasa :)
    I did that move to FlickR yesterday, and it works smoothly.

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    Wallace
    wrote, on June 17th, 2007

    yeah,it is the poor decision,
    it will only lower quality for flickr.

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    Ashok
    wrote, on June 18th, 2007

    But there will be many user, who will loose their pics.

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