I’m looking to update my Jeffrey’s Folder Watch – but Adobe says the plugin doesn’t work in LR7 – I can’t see your replacement – which is the one I should download please

The one linked from the plugin’s home page, which is listed above on this page. —Jeffrey

Looks like Google announced a new “library” API for google photos today at their conference, any thoughts on if that would make a Photos plug-in possible?
https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-google-photos-partner.html

Looks promising! I’ll dive into it…. —Jeffrey

Hi there Jeffrey.
Thank you for offering so many usefull tools for Lightroom!
I do timelapse shots alot, and i was wondering if you have a deflicker in your tools or know a way to deflicker timelapse weather in lightroom or premiere.
Thank you & have a good day.

I have no experience in this stuff, but if you want to even out the visual look across frames, would the new “Auto Tone” perhaps do it? —Jeffrey

This isn’t a bug in your Flickr plug in but I’m having trouble. I bought a new external hard drive and created a new LR catalog for that drive. I then moved all my images over to the new drive and I’m using the new catalog. Everything is fine, but I’ve lost connection to my Flickr images previously uploaded to jf Flickr using the other catalog? Can you help me regain that connection?

It might be easiest if you use your old catalog, but re-point the base folder in the catalog to the new location on your new disk. Then you can just carry on as before. With the new catalog, you can try to associate photos in Lightroom with ones at Flickr (see “File > Plugin Extras > Flickr Extras > Associate), but due to the fragile nature of that, it’ll almost certainly be a frustrating, unsatisfying process with an incomplete result. —Jeffrey

I’ve been using your plugins for years with Zenfolio and love them. I’m try to upload to Zenfolio and one or two photos upload and then I get a Zenfolio note saying SERVICE UNAVAILABLE. I’ve reloaded your plugin and it still down’t work. Zenfolio said contact you. Help!

Sadly, it’s a problem with Zenfolio’s servers, but they’ve been aggressively antagonistic about it, even going so far as to make a video with worthless suggestions instead of bothering to contact me. It’s surreal and disappointing (and exceedingly frustrating). —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey! I would encourage you to move to another way to pay for your Lightroom Plugins. PayPal is nothing but a frustration. I have been trying to register a plugin for the past half-hour and PayPal just keeps getting stuck mid-transaction and it never goes through. I’ll try later, but this is why I avoid PayPal unless there’s no other option.

Also, at a minimum $1.00 donation (I’m in Canada, maybe that’s why it’s not the $0.01 minimum that you refer to) I suspect they are making more money off my registrations than you are. Major Lightroom updates are more frequent now, and as a result I expect that most people are donating smaller amounts, which means that PayPal is taking a bigger share of the revenue. If you don’t want to move away from PayPal, how about allowing five activations per PayPal transaction so that I could give you a single bigger donation and you’d get most of it?

Hi Jeffrey. Now that I’m not as frustrated, I’ll try, again, to explain the problem I’m having while trying to install your Zenfolio plugin. Thank you for your patience. I deleted all previous files related to the plugin.
1. I downloaded 209181017.315.zip from your site. the “.zip” was not orange.
2. It dowloaded zenfoliojfriedl.lrplugin 1.1mb. It was NOT a zip file!
3. I moved the file to my plugin folder.
4, I opened Lightroom and opened plugin manager
5.I added Zenfolio-jfriedl.lrplugin using plugin manager
6. It says I have the latest version and that it is registered.
7. I go to plugin extras and it only shows “Zenfolio extras”.
8. I’m really confused because the plugin manager says installed and running!!
I tried another plugin (focus points) and it works fine.
I hope this explanation is better than the rambling one I gave you the other day. The comment you didn’t understand was an attempt at humor while I was frustrated. Sorry.
Stan

The surprise in step 2 is because your browser apparently unzipped it for you automatically. Everything else except #8 is as expected. The main work of the plugin is via the Export dialog, or, more commenly, as a Publish Service. See the docs for more info about publish services. —Jeffrey

I just installed the latest updates for my Adobe Creative Cloud Photography subscription, including Lightroom Classic CC. After completing the update and launching Lightroom Classic CC, I received several messages warning me to update plugins that are not compatible with Lr8. For example jf Creative Commons, the messages say “The version of the “Creative Commons” plugin you have does not work in Lr8. Please upgrade your copy of the “Creative Commons” plugin to the latest version from Jeffrey’s site.”

The same message is generated for:
jf Facebook (which I understand will no longer work but there doesn’t seem to be a way to delete from LR)
jf Flickr
jf Tumblr
jf Twitter

Are you planning to update these plugins so they will work with Lr8?

Thanks

They were updated on my site the moment Lr8 came out, but you have to actually do the update on your own computer. —Jeffrey

Quick question. For the past couple weeks my uploads from Lightroom to Zenfolio (with your plugin) are running ridiculously slow. SO slow it times out. So slow i have been unable to upload a wedding in the past 3 days. My workflow has completely halted. Are you aware of any issues that are happening? Just trying to troubleshoot and wasn’t sure if it was with Zenfolio or Lightroom. Thought maybe you would have some insight.

I’ve gotten sporadic reports like this for years, but have never been able to figure out the problem, whether it’s at Zenfolio, the user’s computer, or Lightroom. My code is the same for all my upload plugins, but only Zenfolio suffers this kind of problem (and only sporadically; I’ve never been able to reproduce it). You might try contacting them while it’s happening and ask them to check out the server that you’re connected to, or something. I’m really at a loss on how to debug this. )-: —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

Do you know if there is a plugin that scans all image files in a catalog to make sure they are not corrupt (after they’ve been imported, of course)?
I found a small external utility “Bad Peggy” that does very well for standard formats of photo files (jpg, …), but NOTHING for RAW files.
The only solution seems to be to use Lightroom’s DNG conversion function, which lists images that can not be converted (but you need to have room to store converted images … or delete them as you go. .. Not cool !

I suppose you could just ask Lightroom to rebuild previews for every photo (perhaps after deleting cached previews); it will tell you if it couldn’t build any. —Jeffrey

Running LR6.12 and as of today, 01/12/18, the Map module is no longer supported. I had thought your geoencoding plug-in would take over but it hasn’t. I’m sure there is a simple way of getting this to happen but I can see it. Can you help me?

Thanks

The geoencoding plugin doesn’t replace the Map module (nothing can do that). The plugin, which predates the existence of the Map module, provides various geoencoding-related features, and I use those features instead of those that the Map module provides, but YMMV. —Jeffrey

Brilliant! I’ve been using Lightroom since v1.0 and never figured this out. You’re awesome.

I name all my photos with “timestamp_short-text-field” such as 20181230_093015_1234_ChicagoTrip.cr2 or jpg or dng etc. Sometimes I forget to rename photos.

Does the lightroom query language allow me to find all photos I have failed to append a short-text-field?

In other words, I am looking for a wildcard search that would work like this:

Filename_AnyInteger.AnyFileType
or
Filename_NoAlphaCharacter.AnyFileType

This works: filename contains 0. but then I have to do 1. 2. 3. 4. etc.

Can I just use a wild card for AnyInteger.

No matter what the file type is – cr2, jpg, dng, etc.

I tried filename comtains [0-9].* annd several other variations but they did not work. I google SQL wildcards but I have had no success.

Thanks Jeffrey.

I’m not sure what “Lightroom query language” you’re speaking of, but FWIW, I just added the ability to do what you want to my Extended Search plugin. Set it to find “Filename Without Extension” that “does not start with” the “Lua pattern” of “%d+_%d+_%d+_“, and you should find the ones you’ve not yet renamed. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, please would you recommend a lightroom plugin that will allow me to change the “Flickr upload date”? My Flickr account has several series of images which were uploaded over a long period of time and I now want them to display in consecutive “uploaded to Flickr” date order.

Thanks, Andy

I don’t quite understand the question, but to answer it, I don’t know of anything that lets you change the “uploaded to Flikr” date of photos already at Flickr. I don’t have much experience with Flickr as a user, so maybe it’s something you can change there… I don’t know, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey, ever thought about creating a Plugin to (automaticly) speed up LR by renaming the Main RAW Folder? Together with creating Smart Previews it gains a lot of Speed, as it doesnt read the original Files (can’t find it :-p), but the Previews instead. By now i do this all the Time manually, but wouldnt it be awesome to do this under the Hood, the User even not realizing this niffty trick?
I think it should just recognize whenever one’s importing/exporting, and rename the Folder to the original State – oh and yeah of course, an Startup/Closing automatism 🙂