Issue with LR's Flickr Publishing Service

I posted this on Flickr's help forum, but figured I'd get

I've been using Lightroom 5 Flickr publishing services to upload images for over a year. It's great. Had an issue today after I uploaded a photo that I subsequently needed editing. I deleted it from Flickr and made the edits in LR, marked the photo for republishing and made several attempts to re-publish it using the LR service, but had no success. What's the secret to get flickr. (I'm aware that I could upload a jpg, but that's not the point here. I want to get the LR service working for me.) Thanks.

I think the problem is that you deleted the image from Flickr, when you actually just wanted to republish a changed version. Unlike Instagram, Flickr supports the updating/re-publishing of images during which the existing image gets overwritten with the new version. But if you delete it from Flickr there is nothing to overwrite.

Yeah, I reached that conclusion yesterday. The solution was to rename the file in Finder so it could be reimported. Renaming it in lightroom didn't work.

I did it again. Sure glad I had this thread to refer to.

Most of my advise isn't even useful once. Glad I have managed to come up with some that has helped twice