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Originally Posted by lilslip33
For BID, did you buy the $24.95 software? I saw theres a free trial, but how long does it last.
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I bought it a few years ago, and then it's like ten bucks a year to keep it updated. I hate paying for software like this, but when you think about it, how many hours have I spent downloading huge galleries one photo at a time? It definitely doesn't work with all galleries, though, so it's not a magic bullet. But just using it for flickr can be a huge time-saver.
On the other hand, I don't really use it that often. I mean, how often do you really want an entire gallery? With, say, a Fremont gallery, I really only want a dozen or so photos of my favorite girls, and can leave the rest. It would be completely defeating the purpose to download the entire gallery to my hd, and then have to sort through them to save just the ones I want, because what's the point of a ton of unwanted photos clogging up my hd. It really wouldn't save any time or effort.
Also, another potential problem: I noticed that the number of photos downloaded doesn't always match the number in the flickr gallery. However, I THINK this might be because it grabs them by original filename (not the flickr "_o" names), and it won't download dupes. I've noticed a lot of flickr users who upload big galleries inadvertently upload big batches of duplicates, so that could be it. However, I'm still trying to figure it out. It's not like I want to use software to download 1,000 pics, then spend hours trying to cross-reference and figure out which pics are missing. THAT would be annoying.