My Posterous Album on Facebook recently stopped receiving new photos. This was the point that I realized that Facebook has a limit to how many photos that you can have in an album – turns out that number is 1000 and I hit it. I LOVE Posterous, but this was a problem; there is no way for me to chose a different album to send my photos to, so the only option was to move all of my photos out of that album or create a new album for every post from Posterous, even if the album will only contain one photo.
I tried to unlink my Posterous account from Facebook to see if it would create a new album if I linked it back – no luck. I went to move my photos out of my Posterous album, but there is no good way to do that in Facebook; your choices are to move them one-by-one or to delete the album.
Needing a good way to move all of my photos out of a Facebook album, I created a Google Chrome extension to do just that. Chose an album to move your first photo into, and the dropdownlists for the rest of the photos in the album are automatically set to the same album. Press Save and you are good to go…except for one thing – Facebook breaks when you try to update too many photos.
Facebook has a limit to how many photos you can have in a photo album, but the limit as far as how many photos you can edit in that album is somewhat less. When you try to save your changes, Facebook throws an error everytime. MoveThemAll doesn’t really help me, but I’ve released it in case it helps someone move photos out of a more reasonable sized album.
MoveThemAll – Chrome Web Store
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You know, I am having the exact same problem. Hit the 1000 mark and now my photos no longer populate the Posterous album (or any other, despite my fiddling–with the exception of a new album with every autopost, which I definitely don’t want). Any news on a solution to this? How annoying… THANKS for your post, by the way. Glad to know someone else knows what I’m dealing with.