Flickr/Yahoo Woes
So, the other day I went to upload some images to my Flickr account via the Flickr Uploadr utility and after I clicked the “Go to Flickr” button the uploader froze as did my browser. How peculiar I thought. I forced quit my browser, restarted it, then went to Flickr to make sure my images uploaded successfully. I couldn’t login and I got this message:
We’re sorry, but there’s a problem.
Here’s what going on:Your potentialunfounded Yahoo! ID uses the email address juan[at]scalenine.com. That email address is already associated with the scalenine account on Flickr.
Here’s what to do:* If you are trying to create a new Flickr account for your potentialunfounded Yahoo! ID, you need to either:
o Remove the juan[at]scalenine.com email address from your scalenine Flickr account. (You’ll need to sign in to Flickr with your potentialunfounded Yahoo! ID to do this.) Or,
o Change the primary email address for your potentialunfounded Yahoo! ID. (Your potentialunfounded Yahoo! preferences.)
* If you are trying to access your scalenine Flickr account, please sign in to Yahoo! again with your potentialunfounded Yahoo! ID.
I tried doing all the things recommended by the message above, but still no success. All I got was a screen asking me to create a new Flickr account or merge an existing account. Tried merging but got the same message above.
I racked my brain trying to remember if I had done something that would have caused this. Nope, been logging in the same way since I created my Flickr account. But wait, I did try out the new My Yahoo Beta. Could that have done it?
I went through Flickr customer support and was finally told that it must be on Yahoo’s end. My only choices are to download all my pictures, let them delete my Flickr account and then create a new one.
What’s weird is the following:
1. The picture I uploaded when Flickr Uploader froze did go through. It’s the most recent image that’s up there.
2. All my Yahoo Groups got cleared from my account, yet I still recieve email updates from those groups.
3. At one point when I went to the Yahoo home page it once said “Hi juan” and another time said “Hi potentialunfounded.” Which, unless there is some randomness to that greeting, I find rather odd.
4. I went to the FlexCoders group, which I joined a while ago, and went to one of my former posts. There are details on the right of the post regarding the user who posted it and one of the details is online status. It said my status was “Offline” when I was clearly logged in looking at my own former post.
It’s as if my accounts were separated at some point.
Now I’m trying to get in touch with Yahoo, but in the mean time I’m downloading all my pics and preparing for the worst. I guess that’s what happens when mergers occur, users can slip through the cracks.