Can I download all of my flickr photos after the expiration of “Pro” subscription?

Question

I let my "Pro" account of three years expire in August. I logged on to renew and noticed that only some of my photos appeared. Apparently, it is policy that if you aren't "Pro", they will only show 200 of your photos. I have a few thousand photos and no longer trust Flickr with my photos.

Is there a way to bulk download all of my photos without going "Pro" again? If I went "Pro", how would I go about it?

Answer 1

The restriction to see only 200 pictures in your photostream is indeed a pro-only feature that you can properly work around only with some dough.

@Flimzy commented:

If you download 200, then delete them, do a new 200 become visible?

From an answer to another question, this isn't impossible:

[…] Flickr will also only list the last 200 of your photos. Your older photos are there, flickr just doesn't list them in your photostream. If you have the urls you can still access them.

However, the pictures you are able to download from a free account (even if the free account was your own) are downsized (and compressed) versions! So, unfortunately, the only way to access your originals is to upgrade to Pro. They are still at Flickr's servers in case you'll upgrade, but they're just not accessible.

And as a last note, some Flickr → Lightroom tools can be found from a previous question: How to import photos and metadata from Flickr to Lightroom?

Answer 2

Sorry to hear you're unhappy with the 200-photo limitation, but that in fact is the major limitation of free vs. pro accounts. While you might not like it, Flickr's very clear about this limit being in place for non-pro accounts.

If you have a pro account, you'll be able to access all of the photos. There are a few ways to download all photos from Flickr, one popular option is a software tool called Bulkr.