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Does it choke on uploading your entire photo collection at once? I bought a flickr pro subscription, but getting my photo collection up on there reliably was like pulling teeth.

Smugmug also doesn't support RAW/DNG uploads, which makes using it as a photo backup and sharing service unattractive.

Do smugmug staff also look at your private photographs?



As someone who runs a photo sharing service that works great for uploading your entire JPEG photo collection at once (or at least in a few 2GB batches), it would be to my advantage to perpetuate the myth that Smugmug does not support RAW. But the truth is, their SmugVault service does.


Yes but it's not a fully integrated workflow, and you have to pay extra for SmugVault.


If you know how to write Ruby scripts, checkout the "flickraw" gem. Myself I've written a script that behaves like rsync (i.e. uploads files from a directory that haven't been uploaded yet).

And overnight I ended up uploading ~ 7000 fullres pictures on Flickr. It didn't complain.


How is your script determine which files had been updated previously?


I've been using Uploadr for years, paired with direct individual uploads and I've never had an upload problem of note (>6000 uploads).

Once the photos are uploaded, well, that's another story. Photo management was never at the top of the work queue, I guess.




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