About a year ago, I upgraded to Flickr Pro which comes with unlimited storage. I wanted to remove the 200 photo cap on my account and also use Flickr as a photo backup system (I’ve since purchased Mozy for backups).
This is the old flickr organizr
So I upgraded, and started uploading pooploads of photos (marked private) from years gone by. Things went smoothly except for the occasional crash of the various 3rd party bulk uploaders (maybe this is a way to help curb excessive storage). One of the annoyances, however, was that I now had thousands of photos in my photostream that prevented me from seeing recent, non-backup photos. After some internetting, I found a decent solution–you can change the upload date of your photos (you can also change the “taken on” date of your photos in the same fashion). It seems like there’s some intentional pushback from Flickr to include this as a real feature, so for now here are two mildly unfriendly but usable methods:
