FLICKR users need to urgently save their photos – or risk having them deleted forever.
The website is planning a huge photo cull that kicks off on Wednesday, making Tuesday the last day to save your old snaps.
You should download your old Flickr photos right now
Last year, photo-sharing service Flickr was bought up by a company called SmugMug.
As part of the takeover, Flickr announced that free accounts would be limited to a maximum of 1,000 photos.
After all, storing huge numbers of photos is expensive, and likely putting a big drain on Flickr's bottom line.
Part of the photo cap involves deleting old photos uploaded by users – and yours may be at risk.
Even if your photos aren't at risk of being deleted, it doesn't hurt to create a local back-up of your snaps
Starting on Wednesday, Flickr will begin deleting your photos until you're under the 1,000-post limit.
Flickr will begin deleting photos from the oldest first, so some of your most treasured photos may be at risk.
If your Flickr account has fewer than 1,000 photos, you'll be exempt from the cull.
If you really want to keep your photos on Flickr, you could quickly upgrade to Flickr Pro, which will cost you £5.99 a month.
Alternatively, you can download all of the photos ahead of time.
How to download Flickr photos
One of the best ways to download your photos is to download the images an album at a time.
Hover over the You section in the toolbar at the top of the page, and click on Albums.
Then hover over a specific album you're trying to save, and click the Download icon.
If the album contains more than 15 photos, it'll save the photos in a .zip file.
There's also another method, which lets you save photos through the camera roll.
Go to the Camera Roll page on Flickr, which you'll find here.
Next, simply select the individual photos you want to download. Once that's done, press the Download icon at the bottom of the screen.
Be aware that this method will limit you to downloads of 500 photos at a time.
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