The Flickr will start today deleting photos that are over the new limit it set in November 2018.
Flickr after was purchased by SmugMug, announced on November 2018 that it would restrict free accounts to a total of 1.000 photos and videos. The change will take effect from today, and if you are above the limit, your extra photos will be permanently deleted.
With a statement in November of 2018 had announced that the change in limits will start after February 5, 2019, i.e. from today, and the deletion will be done starting from the oldest to the newest until the account contains only the 1.000 most recently uploaded archives.
*Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. On February 5, 2019, photos and videos over the free account 1,000 item limit will be at risk of deletion beginning with the oldest photos and videos.
If you are above the limit and want to download all your photos from Flickr there are two ways to do it.
Method Camera Roll
Επισκεφθείτε το Camera Roll που βρίσκεται κάτω από το αναπτυσσόμενο μενού στην επάνω μπάρα. Πατήστε το Select All για την επιλογή όλων των ομάδων φωτογραφιών μέχρι να επιλέξετε περίπου 500 φωτογραφίες. Τέλος, κάντε κλικ στην επιλογή Download στο κάτω μέρος της οθόνης για να δημιουργήσετε ένα αρχείο ZIP. Όταν η λήψη είναι έτοιμη για να κατέβει θα λάβετε μια notice (also found in the top menu).
Album Method
Visit the "Albums" page below the drop-down menu at the top. Hover over any album and you will see a download icon for that album. By clicking on this icon, you can create a ZIP file for this album. Once the zip file is ready to download you will receive a notification.
Note that it may take some time to create the ZIP file before it is available for download. It depends on how much data fill in it.