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I forgot my password!!

That's OK. It happens to the best of us. You can make a new one here. To get a new password, sign out completely.

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How do I change my password?

If you know your current password, you can change it here. (You can change your password as often as you want.)

If you forgot your password, you can follow this link, which will create an email that contains a link to a Flickr page where you can enter a new password.

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I have two email addresses, and I want my friends to be able to find me in here using either one. Do I have to create two accounts?

No. You can associate more than one email address with your account here. You must confirm that any address that you want to add is real and belongs to you.

Each time you add an address, you'll need to respond to the confirmation email we send to that address by clicking the link in the email.

You can mark one of your addresses as your Primary Address. It is the address that we will use to send you email from Flickr.

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I don't want people to see my real name. How do I fix that?

The "Real name" field on your profile isn't required, so you can leave it blank. But, you can also set whatever level of privacy you are comfortable with on the privacy settings page.

The default settings are as follows:

 

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Email address Any of your contacts
Instant messaging names Any of your contacts
Real name Anyone
Current city Anyone

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Do I have to get an email from Flickr for every little thing?

No. You can tell us how much email (if any) you'd like us to send you on the Flickr notification settings page.

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How do I set up email notifications?

If you'd like to receive immediate, daily or weekly email digests about new activity within your photostream or receive an alert when your contacts upload new photos, set up your email notifications.

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I signed up to receive notifications daily (or weekly), where are they?

You'll get your first notification 24 hours (or 7 days) from when you edited your notification settings.

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If I sign up for activity notification by email, will I get an email for each and every comment/fave/note added to my photos?

Nope. We don't want to bring the wrath of the email gods down upon our heads and we're batching immediate activity. You'll receive no more than 3 emails an hour for either recent photostream activity or your contacts uploads.

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HTML email, ugh!

The email is actually multi-part, and many email clients can be configured to prefer the one or the other.

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Can I make all the photos I upload to Flickr private without setting it for each one?

Absolutely. We provide a page where you can set the overall default privacy level you will apply to your photos.

You can change this setting for individual-photos when you upload your photos.

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My friends have "friendly" Flickr URLs while I have a string of numbers. How do I get a friendly URL?

You can make your own Flickr alias. BUT!

You only get ONE SHOT at it, so choose carefully!

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Why can't I change the personalized URL I created for my account?

Flickr has a firm policy on not changing personalized URLs to maintain data, metadata and link integrity.

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What is the email address I use to send my photos to Flickr?

Everyone is allocated an individual email address to use. You can set up the email-to-Flickr address here.

You can also add photos to your own personal moblog on the fly. Each time you add a photo to Flickr, you can set things up so your photo is posted to your blog automatically.

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How do I delete my account?

We're not sure if we should tell you... but... of course you can delete your account at anytime. Here's a link. *sniff*

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I deleted my account, but didn't really want to! What do I do?

Although we're sorry that you deleted your account, we're happy that you want to come back to Flickr! Unfortunately, all photos in your deleted account were also removed from the system. Your best bet is to re-register with Flickr, under a different username, and make sure that you really want to delete your account before you click the "Are you sure you want to delete?" button for the third time.

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Can I automatically update my Facebook when I update my photostream?

Yes you can! We’ve made it even easier for you to use Facebook’s import feature. Just go to your account and activate the link (you may be asked to login at Facebook if you are not already). Once you’ve done that, your latest Flickr uploads will be added into your Facebook News Feed and Mini-Feed.

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Why aren't my new uploads showing on Facebook?

After you have activated the link, photos marked as safe and public will appear in the feeds. Videos currently won't appear although we are hoping to add this in the future.

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