flickrsmartsync is a tool you can use to easily sync up or down your photos in a drive/folder to flickr since now it has a free 1TB storage you can probably sync all your photo collection.

Simply run the following:

$ python setup.py install 

or PyPi:

$ pip install flickrsmartsync 

Both run from source and command line have same parameters:

start uploading all photos/videos under that folder $ flickrsmartsync ignore videos for others use --help $ flickrsmartsync --ignore-videos start downloading all photos on flickr to that folder $ flickrsmartsync --download . start downloading all paths starting with that path $ flickrsmartsync --download 2008/2008-01-01 Generate custom set titles from YEAR/MONTH/DAY folder hierarchy: $ flickrsmartsync --custom-set='(?:.*)((?:19|20)\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{2})' --custom-set-builder '{0}-{1}-{2}' for direct python access $ python flickrsmartsync 

• github.com - source code
• altlimit.com - website
• blog post - blog post