Jeffrey’s “Export to Facebook” Lightroom Plugin
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This Export-to-Facebook plugin is new for Lightroom 2.0 and later, and is not compatible with Lightroom 1.
Note: this plugin is at an “early beta” stage, and is not as functional or polished as my other Lightroom export plugins.
Please see the known issues before reporting bugs. If this is your first look at my export plugins, please see the announcement post for an overview and some important information.
| 20080817.9 | Lots of little tweaks as I cleaned things up. Added a bunch of stuff to the Plugin Manager, including a “What's New” button that shows up next to the “Upgrade Now” button when a new version is available. |
| 20080814.8 | Fixed infinite cycle of 'assert' messages one might get in odd situations. A few small typographic nits. I'm not sure why the choose-at-time-of-export dialog also includes the selection "choose at time of export" (it shouldn't), but until I can figure it out, I've added a speical check to abort the export if a real destination hasn't been selected. |
| 20080812.7 | Fixes (I hope) a "bad argument #1 to '?' (table expected, got nil)" erorr |
| 20080811.6 | Moved and renamed the debugging logs to a temporary folder, and added log Show/Delete buttons to the plugin's custom section of the Plugin Manager. |
| 20080806.5 | Fixed {State} and {Rating} in preset templates. |
| 20080805.4 | Oops, the Windows versions had lost the ability to upgrade themselves. Once this version is installed manually, subsequent versions should be able to upgrade as discussed here. |
| 20080804.3 | Fixed "Access to undefined global: LrError" error that happens when trying to report a login-related problem. |
| 20080804.2 | Fixed a couple of internal errors related to the "choose destination at time of export" feature |
| 20080729.1 | Initial public release |
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If I use the export dialogue box - wait for LR to login to Facebook- then click export i get:
Info
At line 12998 popup.
Then to the “choose dest. for image” which doesn’t pull down any album names (it does login in the export dialogue before though.) then clicking export it closes but nothing happens/gets uploaded. Suspect this is due to the New facebook pages?
If I use the File-Export menu in LR 2 I get the same error as doing so for Flickr:
Unable to export:
can’t log in to Facebook: missing credentials
I think I’ve fixed the first and third of the issues you mention, as of version .2. I’m not sure about the middle issue yet. —Jeffrey
AWESOME! thank you!
When I try to upgrade your plugins using LR 2.0, I consistently receive an error message related to unzipping the new archive. Here’s what it says in the log:
Command: “”C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\My Documents\My Pictures\Lightroom\Plugins\facebook.lrplugin\Win\unzip.exe” -o “C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Local Settings\Temp\facebook.zip” -d “C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\My Documents\My Pictures\Lightroom\Plugins”> “C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Local Settings\Temp\lr-plugin-unzip-log.txt”"
exit status is 1 (0×00000001)
My hunch is that there is a problem with the command unzip.exe. I don’t see that file in the Win folder within the plugin and it’s not in the original archive I downloaded.
Doh, you’re right! Fixed in .4 —Jeffrey
Thanks for making great plugins!
It’s seams that don’t work with my windows vista and lightroom 2, I have a mistake
Ok, I find the problem. The plugin don’t support my charset. Ex :
Plug-in error log for plug-in at: C:\Users\Michaël Silvestre\Documents\Lightroom\plugin\facebook-jfriedl.lrplugin
I make a test and I must remove “é, ë, è, à, …” and the installation can begin
I don’t understand what you mean… from what did you have to remove those characters? From one of the folder names? —Jeffrey
No error messages except for the original folders not appearing in the list for this plugin, I click export and nothing seems to happen, no photos exported nor arrive at Facebook. Nothing in the log either - anyone else have this problem or is it fine for all except me?
I get the following several times.
Error response from Facebook:
Error uploading image: no photo id.
Any ideas?
Your Facebook plugin is not reading my Facebook photo albums. And when I try to get it to create a new one, it just doesn’t…
So, it’s not working for me. Bummer.
It DID work for me the other day, just fine. But now it’s not reading my albums…
Same problem here. Painful workaround was to logout from plugin, restart lightroom, authenticate again, then it works as normal. Until you start up lightroom again the next time and same thing happens. rinse and repeat. painful but better than exporting, then uploading manually.
This is FANTASTIC! Huge thanks!