How can I share one Flickr album privately without exposing my other albums?

Asked 10/16/2014

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I want to email a Flickr album to a changing group of people so they can view that album without creating a Flickr account or password. Right now, if I send the normal album URL, recipients can also browse my other albums. How do I share only one album privately, and what Flickr link should I send?

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The problem appears to be that you are just copying the link to your album, which won't work if everything is marked private. You have to send the email from the 'Share' icon located in the upper right when you are on your album home page - with this facility, you can either get Flickr to send the e-mail or just get the Guest Pass link yourself and copy and paste that into your e-mail. For your use case, the second option is probably easier.

This assumes of course that all your photos are marked private, which is what you need to prevent anyone else from looking at them.

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Yes—use Flickr’s guest pass/share link, not the normal album URL.

If you send the regular album link, viewers may still be able to browse other public albums. To limit access to just one album, make the photos you don’t want visible private, then open the album you do want to share and use the album’s Share option to generate a Guest Pass link. That special link is the one to email or paste into your own message.

In practice, the shared link should be a Flickr guest-pass URL rather than the standard album address. Recipients can open that link without creating an account, and it should take them directly to the shared album only. You can also expire the guest pass later if needed.

So the key fix is: don’t copy the album page URL—copy the guest pass link created from the album’s Share button.

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