Pixel and I came up with a way to perform a site backup of all my full sized images, in at least 500 folders, and possibly 300 more, from Flickr. It's a Python program running under Window's, with a batch file to fire it up. We call it a bulk archival extraction and preservation process.

The only problem was, I had no Python compiler installed on my laptop. So Pixel gave me the perfect direct link to the current Python installer, and how to verify it was.

It's been running for hours, building albums and copying everything, to an external drive, which then becomes the back up. It's not cluttering up my laptop drive, and when it's done we can copy it to my server where it can be treated like other images, and say goodby to Flickr.

It's done! Think I'll check out Python tomorrow, who knows?