[mahyarm]

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?

[brlewis]

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.

[mahyarm]

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

[bad_user]

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.

[quadhome]

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

[jsavimbi]

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.