Will you be porting your plugins to “New Lightroom”? Or do “plugins” even make sense in the new Cloud ecosystem? Should we run as fast as possible in the other direction, clinging to LR 2017 or whatever it’ll be called?

Currently there’s no plugin infrastructure for the mobile stuff. Not sure how it’d work there anyway. Personally, I’m sticking with the venerable desktop app. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Been a registered user of your plugins for years—don’t know what I’d do without them. I was really hoping Adobe was going to add better support for syncing Smart Collections to LR mobile app in the 7.0 release. Clearly, they are heading in a new direction and I don’t expect much in terms of new cloud support for Lightroom Classic. Any chance of you creating a new plugin/modifying something in to keep a Smart Collection synced with regular Collection so we can sync that to the Cloud?

I’m told syncing of Smart Collections was high on people’s wish lists so I’d think such a plugin from you would get a lot of adoption. Would be so helpful!!!

Mark

I think you can already do that with this plugin, but be warned that things could seem crazy if you forget that the source of images in that collection is the other, smart collection. If you delete or add on the mobile device, it’ll get undone by the plugin. —Jeffrey

hey, just wondering if there is going to be an update of your fade time lapse settings for the newest version of lightroom?

thanks

I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking, but my Timelapse Support plugin works with Lr7 (“Classic”). Lr7 (“CC”) doesn’t support plugins of any kind. —Jeffrey

I am writing from UK, Brighton.

Saying my copy of the Jeffreys Folder Watch plugin is too old for this version of Lightroom. Lr7. Need to upgrade my copy?

Thank you Sharon

Yes, if the plugin copy you have is too old for the Lightroom you have, please upgrade the plugin. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I am writing from the UK, Brighton

Adobe updated my lightroom CC to Classic. What do I need to update my lighroom plug in manager jf Folder Watch?

What comes up is – my copy of the Jeffreys Folder Watch plugin is too old for this version of Lightroom. Lr7. Need to upgrade my copy?

Can you help please,

Sharon

I’m not sure what to say beyond what the self-explanatory error message says… please upgrade the plugin. There’s an upgrade button in the plugin manager. —Jeffrey

Hi from Bellevue, WA

I use and enjoy a number of your plugins – thank you!
As I accumulate photos through various routes, I end up with many duplicates. I wonder if you have considered developing a duplicate finder plugin. (The existing ones haven’t worked for me.) In my case, I’m interested in finding copies of the exact same source image with different names or in different folders.

I’ve long thought about it, but it’s difficult and time-consuming (CPU and disk) to do well. I guess it’s always been a case of “Perfect is the enemy of good enough”. I’ll bump it up on the todo list. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey – if/when you create a new LR plug-in do you announce it in the Home page of your blog or just list it in the Lightroom Goodies page?

I’ll usually announce it with a small blog post. —Jeffrey

Hi. I have many presets. When I work on one image, I’d love to see a grid of what all these presets would look like, instead of going through them one by one. Is there any way that you know of to do this? Thanks for your time.

No, sorry. It’s a common request, but Lightroom doesn’t allow for it. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
some time ago I asked your opinion regarding an error message shown when shutting down LR with the backup enabled: “Attempt to make a request on a closed server.”

You supposed it could be related to a bug of LR and this seems confirmed. Here the information posted by John Ellis on several threads :

“This is caused by plugins running tasks in background tripping over a Lightroom bug.  I’ve changed one of my plugins (Any Source) to work around the bug, but another still needs the workaround (Any Tag). The error message is harmless and can be ignored.

You can see if this is causing your instance of the error message quick enough: Go to File > Plug-in Manager and disable all plugins. Exit LR, asking it to do a backup.  If the error doesn’t appear, then one of the plugins is triggering the bug. You can re-enable each plugin in turn to find out which one. 

Send the plug-in developer a link to this post: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2440474“

I hope this could help others experiencing the same problem. The message is harmless but really annoying since you need to click OK multiple times (once for each plug-in) in order to complete the backup.

I added this comment here also because I suppose your “Photo safe” plug-in could be affected by the same lightroom bug.

Once again thanks for your time

Paolo – Milano – Italy

It could be the same underlying Lightroom bug, but not exactly the one that John refers to, since none of my plugins use LrShutdownApp. —Jeffrey

Hi, I’m having problems with exporting from Lightroom Classic to Zenfolio, I keep getting the error message “LIghtroom couldn’t render a copy from a master image “Users/Di/Pictures/In the Round/Rotterdam.psd” because it can’t access the file. Perhaps it’s been deleted or is on a disk that’s currently offline”

The image is not offiline, or deleted – it’s in Lightroom, and will export happily to the desktop or any other application. I’ve updated your plugin, but am not seeing any errors in the plugin manager.

I’m also seeing a message to include profiles to include which I’ve never seen before.

Any good ideas?
Thank you

Sounds mysterious…. could you send a plugin log after getting the error? —Jeffrey

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