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 🙂

Hi Mate, as far as I see, you are one of the most experienced LR developers. I have a question. If you answer it, I would be appreciated.

I created a plugin and want to upload it to “adobe exchange” but I didn’t find any document. Do you have any idea how I can publish my plugin?

Thanks in advance..

When Adobe Exchange came out, I found it to be way too much hassle to want to bother with, so I don’t know much about it, sorry. Probably best to ask on the Adobe Community Forums. —Jeffrey

How can I remove the submitted tag from the metadata, that has been added by the lightroom alamy bridge plugin

I don’t know anything about this “lightroom alamy bridge plugin”, so I don’t know what it is that you want to remove, nor where you want to remove it from, sorry. Need more information. —Jeffrey

I have just made a clean install upgrade of windows 10 from win7 and have reinstalled lightroom cs6 and installed and re-registered your Flickr plugin. Now most of my published collections are empty, about 1000 photos missing. I can’t find where how I might retrieve the missing information.
Thanks for any help and thanks for a great plugin I have enjoyed for years.

I’m a bit confused… if you copied the catalog file (the *.lrcat file), nothing at all should have changed, except perhaps the ability to export/publish/develop photos whose master file Lightroom hasn’t been re-pointed to on the new system. If you didn’t simply copy the catalog file to the new system, then whatever you did do (what?) probably explains the discrepancy… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey–Longtime user of your plugins, thanks. Having an issue with the Zenfolio plugin. I’m setting up the plugin for a new catalog but when I publish I’m getting the following error: “attempt to index field ‘tag’ (a nil value)”. Any idea what the issue is? I have the most up-to-date version. Thanks!

This sounds like a plugin error… would you mind sending a plugin log immediately after encountering the error? Thanks. —Jeffrey

I’ve been a happy UK user of your Flickr plugin for several years.
But Flickr’s new owners Smugmug have just migrated Flickr onto AWS servers.
After a period of instability, Flickr seems to be up and running on the new infrastructure, but I cannot publish from LR6 to Flickr using your plugin.
So I tried reauthenticating to Flickr. I got as far as receiving an auth code from Flickr which I pasted into the plugin. Then after a delay the plugin showed the following error message in a popup window. This is similar to the error messages received when I try to publish.

Unexpected HTML reply from Flickr

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<TITLE>ERROR: The request could not be satisfied</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>504 ERROR</H1>
<H2>The request could not be satisfied.</H2>
<HR noshade size="1px">
CloudFront attempted to establish a connection with the origin, but either the attempt failed or the origin closed the connection.
<BR clear="all"/>
If you received this error while trying to use an app or access a website, please contact the provider or website owner for assistance.
<BR clear="all">
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by following steps in the CloudFront documentation
(<A href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/http-504-gateway-timeout.html">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/http-504-gateway-timeout.html</A&gt;).
<BR clear="all">

Yes, lots of folks are running into this, including me. Hopefully, the folks there get a handle on things sooner than later….—Jeffrey

I just came back from a trip to Africa and somewhat I managed to accidentially delete between 1000 to 2000 raw Images (out of 13.000) but they are great pictures anyway. Luckily I still have most of them as previews in LR. The catalog is Version 8.3 and as I read and as I discovered your tool does not support Version 8.3, or vice versa LR does not like the version of your Plugin.
Is there any chance you are planning to do an update for your plugin to support Version 8.3.1?
Maybe we can work something out?

best regards, Heinrich (from Austria)

The latest version (from last October) should work in Lr8. If it’s not working for you, I’ll need more info. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey!

Do you know of any way to ‘publish’ or ‘export’ to a local Apple Photos library? This process seems clunky right now.

Thank you!
Patrick

No, sorry, I don’t know anything about Apple Photos. —Jeffrey

Jeffery, I am looking to solve a task. Your lightroom goodies comes close, but I still do not have a solution and thought you might have a suggestion or idea. It relates to batch editing image titles.

I use Lightroom to catalog and edit my image files – raw, psd, etc. I have a systematic convention for naming the actual files. The raw start with YYMMDD-jobcode-nnn where nnn is a sequence number. When I construct a master psd file I append -mv1. Then when I construct a print file from this master I add -p22x28@360 for example. In summary my file naming convention is cryptic but useful to me and it indicates the relationships between the original raw and derivative files and keeps them together by name.

I would like to also assign a simple but useful title to a set of images. For example I may have 100 images of the Grand Canyon in a folder. I would like to name these Grand Canyon #1, Grand Canyon #2, etc where the sequence number cycles by file. In this way I will have simple titles that an end client can see when I post to a gallery and the titles are also actually in my image files back here on disk.

Your export to Zenfolio allows me to perform such a title assignment when publishing to Zenfolio, but this does not update the original disc file embedded Title (do not want to use the file name).

Do you know of any method to assign sequential titles to the actual files in my catalog?

Thanks, Mark Muntean

I don’t understand what relation the filename discussion has with your actual question, so maybe I don’t understand your actual question, but you can use the “Write Field” feature in my Bag of Goodies plugin to update the Title field within Lightroom, and can then use Lightroom’s write-back-metadata-to-disk feature to get it into the master file (or its sidecar). —Jeffrey

Can no longer use my Zenfolio App. Error message is as follows:

Can’t upload: Zenfolio says that you don’t have permission for some aspect of the upload

Any help would be appreciated.

Bill

I just pushed out a new version of the plugin that should provide a better error message. If that doesn’t clear things up, please send a plugin log. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,
I’ve not been terribly impressed with the facial recognition built into LR6 (maybe it is better in later versions?). Have you ever thought about writing a program that would allow users to user AWS Rekognition?
Josh
Not really. That would require uploading every photo, and somehow mapping the results back in Lightroom, but Lightroom doesn’t allow a plugin to create face regions, so it’d all feel very klunky. The face-recognition engine changed from Lr7, and seems to me to be much better, anyway. —Jeffrey

In the Boston area. Have used your Lightroom smugmug export plugin through many iterations. It has recently started to fail. It will randomly not upload the image to the website, although within Lightroom, it looks like it is working fine. Reloading the plugin and restarting Lightroom, but that has no effect. The only way I could get it to work again was to uninstall the plugin and reinstall it. That worked for about half a dozen photos, and then it failed again.

I am using the most recent version of the plugin with the most recent version (8.4) of Lightroom classic.

Is there any way for me to fix this?

thanks very much.

Please send a plugin log after you encounter this, and I’ll take a look. Please be sure to mention in the log comment exactly which image didn’t get uploaded (and what URL Lightroom thinks it’s at). —Jeffrey