Comments on: Jeffrey’s “Export to Facebook” Lightroom Plugin

By: Walter Layson

Walter Layson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:04:17 +0000

Hi Jeffery, I have been using your LR to Facebook plugin for quite a while with great results.
I run it on an XP laptop and back in Nov of 2011 started using it on a new Win 7 laptop. This is the one that is giving me trouble.

Lightroom to Facebook export plugin
Version: 20111006.185

Everything was fine until I tried to upgrade:

Now:
Problem 1- To upgrade, it says: Plugin not installed in location where lightroom can write it.
I do not know how to adjust permissions and do not know if I need to remove and re-install.

Problem 2- When I export it has to re-authorize with Facebook on each and every export. this just started last week. Up utill then all worked as usual. Not sure if the upgrade attempt has anything to do with this or not.

The machine is an Asus, win 7 home premium, i7, two internal drives,
Drive 1 has a partition called C: with program files and a partition called D: with Data on it
Drive 2 has 2 partitions, one with my images and the other with my lightroom catalogs.

My Lightroom is 3.6

Let me know of suggestions to resolve.

Thank you for your plugins!

Best Wishes,
Butch Layson (registered as Walter Layson)

Problem 1 is easy to get around by doing a manual install… just delete the old plugin folder, download and unzip a new one, put the new one whereever on your machine you want to leave it, then point the Plugin Manager at it. (If the location is different than before, just remove the other instance from the plugin manager, before or after adding the new one). The second issue is more worrisome… it sounds like you might have a corrupt Lr preferences file that needs to be recreated. —Jeffrey

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:19:30 +0000

Thanks Melvin. For some strange reason, I have two wall albums and neither one is wall(fan). Maybe I’ll try deleting the second one and refreshing.

By: Melvin Foong

Melvin Foong — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:58:24 +0000

Jim, you need to look for the album name Wall[FAN] in order to get that into your Pages’s wall. This is how I do it, and it works.

Cheers.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:17:41 +0000

I’m using your facebook, smugmug and flickr plug-ins, all with great success. I do have one issue (maybe user error?).

When uploading to my facebook fan page, I’m unable to upload to my wall. I have two “Wall” galleries listed but both seem to lead to my personal page. I have to upload to another gallery, which of course doesn’t put the comments on my wall.

When it comes to what FB allows the plugin to upload to, the plugin is at the mercy of FB, so what’s listed is what you get. It’s inconsistent, at best. )-: —Jeffrey

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:20:02 +0000

You can connect your Flickr account to Facebook which does exactly that for you automatically except it will do it for everything you send to Flickr.

By: Melvin Foong

Melvin Foong — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:32:19 +0000

@Ken, try to put it in an album call Wall Photos, it should be there if you have previously uploaded any photos via your Facebook. That is the album that it should be if you want it to appear on your newsfeed.

By: Dick Hoogendijk

Dick Hoogendijk — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:29:45 +0000

Now I know what it is you want Ken. It wasn’t obvious (at least not to me) in your first request. No it’s only possible to upload to albums with the plugin. Personally I don’t mind. Uploading a single photo is bestl done using the FB interface. Just my 2 ct.

By: Ken Deemer

Ken Deemer — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:59:34 +0000

Thanks, Dick, but that doesn’t do what I want. The only choices in the plugin are to add photos to an ALBUM. I just want to post a photo on the News Feed/Home Page as in ‘Add Photo / Video’. For example, I just uploaded an entire gallery of images to a Flickr gallery, which worked great, and I now want to post one of the images to the Facebook News Feed with a comment and a link to Flickr. I can do it easily by exporting to my hard disk and uploading from there, but it seems like an obvious task for the Facebook plugin.

By: Dick Hoogendijk

Dick Hoogendijk — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:33:59 +0000

@Ken uploading a single photo.. make sure you have set in the plugin that it has to go to the website after uploading. At Facebook you can now safe any description of your photo before saving it.

By: Ken Deemer

Ken Deemer — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:28:23 +0000

I’m sure this is simple, but I can’t figure it out. With your Lightroom / Facebook plugin, how do I upload a single photo and manually write a comment?? I don’t want a template. I don’t have any metadata. Just ‘Here’s a picture of my dog, Spot’

Thanks

Currently there’s no way to do that. It seems like a basic thing, I know, but that’s not how Lightroom users generally work (and you’re the first in all these years to ask). Just put it into the image “Title”, I suppose… —Jeffrey