Hi Jeffrey,
I dont know if my question here is appropriate, so feel free to hide the comment if needed.

Since a while, when I backup my Lightroom Catalog I am getting this message: “An internal error has occurred: Attempt to make a request on a closed server.”
Sometimes when these messages appear, after pressing OK through all of them the backup seems to complete without errors and Lightroom quits. Some other times I had to revert to task manager to kill lightroom without completing the backup process.

Now the point is that it ***seems*** that disabling ALL plugins (not only yours) solves the problem, but I am not able to identify if the error is really related to one or more plug-in(s) or getting lightroom working when plugins are disabled it’s just a coincidence.

Could you be so kind to advise if in your opinion this kind of errors could be in some way related to plug-in(s) or I’m totally wrong and need to investigate in other directions?

Thanks a lot in advance
Paolo – Milano – Italy

I’ve never seen this kind of error, though I know it’s deeply related to Lightroom’s internal communication. As best I can guess, some part of Lightroom is trying to update the catalog after some other part of Lightroom has shut the catalog down. I can’t guess whether it’s related to a plugin, but if it is, I’d think it’s a Lightroom bug. Your best bet, I suppose, is to report it to Adobe. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I’ve used your plugins for years -they’re fabulous. Thanks for all that work. I have been searching for this answer for weeks . I have a new PC. Moved all the photos and LR Catalogue to the new HD. But none of the Publish Collections came along. I use them extensively and have for over 10 years so the thought of recreating them and trying to connect up what I’ve published where is a nightmare. I can’t believe this information isn’t somewhere in the catalog, or a config file somewhere in the Lightroom folders somewhere. I thought if anyone would know, it would be you.

Thanks for you help.

Jeri
Mill Valley, CA

It’s all in the catalog file (the “*.lrcat” file). If you moved that actual file to the new machine, it will all be there. You’ll have to re-add each plugin via the Plugin Manager to ungray the Publish Services and actually use them, though. —Jeffrey

Thank you Jeffrey for pointing me to the “Show Focus Points” LR Plug-In. I installed the plug-in and it works great. Btw, the Author of “show focus points” gives you credit for helping creating this product.

Hi Jeffrey,
After a reinstall of Lightroom CC and moving some folders my Metadata Viewer plugin called for registration again. I use this plugin quite often, so I happily made a $5 donation today, Oct 2/17. The confirmation number on the PayPal receipt was rejected. After a number of tries and rejections, I dug out a PayPal receipt from July 10/16. Lightroom was happy to accept it.

Odd. Or not?

Thanks for all of the interesting work that you do.

John Sanders
Vancouver, BC

Thanks for your kind gift(!) Did the new registration number perhaps end with three digits instead of four? PayPal has a bug whereby if the first digit is a zero, they omit it and shift everything over, so it ends up in a “####-####-###” pattern. It’s a really stupid bug that I reported a year ago. Since it seems that they won’t fix it, I’m in the process of updating my plugins to handle the broken code, but I haven’t pushed them all out yet. —Jeffrey

Thanks for your quick reply; when I enter a code in the jf Tumblr plugin in Lr 7, I get a “bad hash” error as shown here:

https://imgur.com/xVPxavb

I have Tumblr plugin version 20171019.66.

Sorry about that, there’s one update since that fixes this bug. —Jeffrey

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