flickrsmartsync is a tool you can use to easily sync up or down your photos in a drive/folder to flickr since now it has a free 1TB storage you can probably sync all your photo collection.

Simply run the following:

$ python setup.py install

or PyPi:

$ pip install flickrsmartsync

Both run from source and command line have same parameters:

start uploading all photos/videos under that folder
$ flickrsmartsync
ignore videos for others use --help
$ flickrsmartsync --ignore-videos

start downloading all photos on flickr to that folder
$ flickrsmartsync --download .

start downloading all paths starting with that path
$ flickrsmartsync --download 2008/2008-01-01

Generate custom set titles from YEAR/MONTH/DAY folder hierarchy:
$  flickrsmartsync --custom-set='(?:.*)((?:19|20)\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{2})' --custom-set-builder '{0}-{1}-{2}'

for direct python access
$ python flickrsmartsync

• github.com - source code
• altlimit.com - website
• blog post - blog post