Flickr Uploadr is slow? Here’s why…
After using Flickr Uploadr on my MacBook, I noticed that it’s very slow, specially compared to when I was using it on Windows. I initially thought the slowness was due to my insufficient 512MB of memory on my MacBook. (My Windows machine had 1GB)
But after spending some time investigating this issue with the help of Activity Monitor, I found out that Flickr Uploadr was designed for PowerPC! It was also consuming a whopping 1.48GB of virtual memory along with 146MB of real memory. So, my guess is that it would have been (unefficiently) running under Rosetta.
I tried 1001, a third party flickr uploader only to find out that it too was a PowerPC application and ran with the same sluggishness.
This brought me on to try and then adopt FlickrExport, another third party uploader/plugin which is universal and works great on my MacBook. The only drawback is that FlickrExport is shareware (£12). However, I think it was well worth the money as it not only uploads a lot faster than Flickr’s own Flickr Uploadr but it also integrates right into iPhoto as a plugin!
So if you you are a flickr user with an Intel Mac, I would definitely recommend FlickrExport, specially if you are experiencing sluggish uploads. FlickrExport is also available as a free demo for 30 days with the following restrictions:
- You may only upload 5 photos in any one upload session, but you can upload as many batches of 5 as you like.
- Each photo will be tagged with “flickrexport2demo”.
- Each photo will have “Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport 2″ appended to its description.
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