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But Raoul...do you know of any wget-for-dummies (like me) instruction manual? I would hate to SSH into my server account and kill stuff. - Jerry Chacon

Not to my knowledge. But you can't kill stuff with wget. You can only copy it. :-) - Raoul Pop

I didn't explain myself good enough, sorry. I mean between services like Adrive and Box.net, or between flickr and PIcture@AOL (just examples) - Naor Mark

In that case, no, I don't, but perhaps someone else knows of some importers? It would depend on whether those services have open APIs. Flickr has one, but I'm not sure about the others. - Raoul Pop

so where are the programmers.. sounds like interesting thing - Naor Mark

I think what you are requesting is impossible. The best programmers in the world would still be limited by the fact that the two services do not automatically talk to each other. The only way to do it is by first downloading from source to local machine, then uploading to destination machine, then checking and removing from source machine. You should know that even by viewing your flickr pics in a browser, you are downloading them to your local machine - Slappy Line

@Slippy i'm not sure I agree, since service are not talking automatically i find it interesting. Just as an example (not necessarily the best one) - since after all, all information elements are basically an objects which can be approached (e.g. web browser) a "virtual local machine" can be built to act as an intermediate storage (either for the whole file or partial) so basically the download/upload is done over larger bandwidth and faster storage platforms then local PC with last-mile connection - Naor Mark

- i'm thinking out loud here.. but if you could have even in your local machine a "virtual drive" which actually represent an online storage, or service, with its unique api, or upload mechanism... etc.etc.. - Naor Mark

@Naor unfortunately Slippy is 100% correct in his comments - A.T.

It is a shame that this doesn't seem to exist. I would like to transfer from Zooomr to Flickr or Flickr to Protrade but bandwidth constrains stop me from doing this. - CJPhoto

in your case CJ, you can possibly use the import from a url method, maybe a script to fetch a list of urls or a combination of filtering and grabbing the files from Zooomr?? @Noar, your best bet is to try and download all your files to an offsite FTP of some sorts and Let it all upload from there, costing you no bandwidth or storage device from home, just a lil time. - Tony C.

CJPhoto, there is a program called Migratr that works with a few different photo services including Zooomr, Flickr, Picasa, etc.. http://www.callingshotgun.net/ - cmiper

cmiper - I thought Migratr DL photos to your hard drive first then uploads to the new site? have you used it? When you move photos, do they get removed or copied? - CJPhoto

CJ - Originally it could only download when Zooomr had the API closed, but I thought now that it was actually moving the data, though I could be wrong, I am not using it as I don't use Zooomr any more. They do say "move" http://www.callingshotgun.net/about... Also, I know there is a Flickr to iPernity GM script that copies without downloading, so it may be possible to do it that way also? - cmiper

To answer a couple questions- Migratr doesn't delete anything- It copies from one service to the other. Also, it does download to your hard drive first, and then uploads to the new service. - Alexander Lucas