Revoke your iPhoto / Aperture Flickr permissions now · 17.04.10
The word around the Flickr + Aperture / iPhoto campfire was, that it is probably a good idea not to let em play together. I thought this was just a misconception on somebody not knowing that it is sync, not export operation. Now I know better.
I created a Flickr album in Aperture, called “Aperture Sync”, just to pass photos back and forth to Flickr. Then went to Flickr Organizr and added my “Best of 2009” set’s photos to Aperture Sync set. The sync almost worked, but didn’t get all the photos on the Flickr side to Aperture’s locally synced album.
A couple of days passed and I decided to try the sync again, with Flickr import geodata turned on. Put a couple of new photos with Places set in Aperture to the “Aperture sync” set. Just a minute or two later, Aperture removed most of the “Best of 2009” photos from the “Aperture sync” set. And now get this: it did not just drop the photos out of the set, but went on to delete both the “Best of the 2009” set and it’s contents!!!
Thank the great spaghetti monster I had the Best of 2009 contents still in my old laptop, without all the meta-data though. First things first, I revoked the permissions for iPhoto and Aperture to deal with my Flickr account. I had cold feet about letting “delete” permissions for em in the first place, but then I thought that before deleting there would of course be a couple pretty grand exclamation sign filled windows when the sync function was about to delete stuff… there is none.
On the brighter side of things, I found out a decent way to live with iPhoto. Import and fix photos, add Places, titles, descriptions and File->Export them with original size and all the metadata to a directory somewhere. Let Flickr import geodata and upload your exported photos the usual way . All you need to do thereafter is to put photos in Sets and Groups.
— ajv
