Before you read too much note that this works with Vista and/or Windows 7 only. 

This Flickr Drive tool allows users to browse and edit your photos as if they were located on your own hard-drive.

Users can...

  • access features such as drag'n'drop to add photographs to their online Flickr photosets;
  • manage photographs by editing tag properties directly in Windows Explorer;
  • browse photographs from other Flickr users by adding accounts to the root of the Flickr Drive folder;
  • search for photographs with specific tags by adding a Tag Search folder (similar to a regular search folder in Windows Vista);
  • in their own Flickr account - add and delete photographs and photosets too.

Note:- when browsing a photoset folder, make sure to toggle the thumbnail view in Windows Vista, or Windows 7, so photograph previews are available. Flickr Drive uses the Flickr API over the Internet to browse files so downloading images and previews may be slow depending on your Internet connection;

...that while this application utilizes user authentication provided by Flickr, no information about specific users is collected, used, stored, or disclosed to anyone associated directly or indirectly with Flickr Drive, nor any third parties (including advertisers).

You are as safe using Flickr Drive as if you were using Flickr.

Visit http://www.viksoe.dk/code/flickrdrive.htm to find out more and/or to download the Flickr Drive Shell Extension.