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

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 (0x00000001)

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!

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

I get the following several times.

Error response from Facebook:
Error uploading image: no photo id.

Any ideas?

I finally think I figured this out… I wasn’t reading Facebook’s error message properly, and so if there was an error such as “your album is full”, you’d get this not-very-helpful error from my plugin. Fixed in version .43 —Jeffrey

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.

The new version worked fine, until I switched over to the NEW Facebook, then it wouldnt detect my albums and wouldnt create any new ones. It also failed to authenticate- I suspect because of the url being parsed through- the new facebook has a changed url. So, until Mr Friedl returns the solution is actually pretty simple-
*in Facebook just select “Back to the old Facebook” on the top right;
* once in there, reauthenticate (hopefully will work)
*you’re in- uploads should work, album creation works
*once you’re done and want the new FB look, just switch it back with the link on the top left in FB.

Love your work JF.
Spike

The latest version doesn’t seem to be able to create new galleries, or detect any existing ones, making uploading impossible. At least that is what I am getting.

It seems to be working for me, on both counts. Perhaps you could email the log, after trying (and failing) to create an album from within the Export dialog? —Jeffrey

Thanks for this plugin! It works great if I only use one Facebook account.

How do I set things up to allow me to publish to a second Facebook account? As soon as I logout, I can’t seem to authenticate myself again. I have been able to clear things if I completely log out and then back in again, then access the 2nd Facebook account.

Anyway to make this a smoother transition?

Thanks,

Steve

The Web site listed in the status doesn’t exist. Not a big deal but thought I’d mention it. I love the Flickr uploader so adding in the rest. I don’t suppose fotonomy.com is on your list of sites to work with 🙂

Oops, thanks, fixed the home-page url as of .18. Have never heard of fotonomy, sorry. —Jeffrey

Anuga has the same issue with me again – I’m on XP. Stuck on picasaweb, flickr and facebook.

Just like to make a public apology to Jeffrey for my insolent comment. His plugins are great I’ve been using them for a while but my computer and me have not been seeing eye to eye and I fear I have taken my software rage (apparently now known condition!) on Jeffrey. Jeffrey I’m so sorry for dissing your valuable and very time consuming work.
My sincerest apologies to yourself and all those who use this site in future I will not post unless I have something constructive or complimentary to say.
However the question still remains is anyone else having the same eexport problems a me? :::
Failed to create album- error message right on the cusp of sending the first image
or
No activity whatsoever upon clicking the continue to export button.
Jamie

Yup, latest versin, just downloaded from this site.
It has to be something in general because I have same problem with picasa plugin, very similar error report…
Any clue what should I check, change…? Could it have sth. to do with regional settings, characters (I have english Vista, but Slovenian regional settings)?

Thanks.

Ah, that rings a bell…. there’s a bug in 2.0 that makes my plugins not work when they’re installed in a path that has non-ASCII characters (such as a username with an accent in it). Could you try installing in a place whose path is pure ASCII, and giving it another try? —Jeffrey

Hmmm, I must have something wrong as the exporter is clearly working for other people – but I am no longer seeing my albums. I saw this upon upgrading to 17. I then uninstalled the plug in and added in version 22 – same issue. Just upgraded to 23, no change.

The only option I have is
*** select at export time (useful for export presets) ***

If I carry on regardless, I am prompted for my destination but I still only have the above option. If I try to continue with export from there, it fails – sometimes silently, other times with a (justifiable message) that it aborted due to lack of destination.

I’m still not that good with lightroom – any ideas of what I should look at? The plug-in worked a treat yesterday!

Well, I tried various things and in case this happens to anyone else, the following sorted it out:

Go to the Export window
Logout of facebook
Remove the plugin
Restart Lightroom
Add in the plug in manually
Authenticate until successful message appears (took two tries)

Now my folders are there again. Clearly something went wrong with the authentication (although it recognised my name and gave the little “looking up albums” bit at the start) but it wasn’t possible to simply log out and back in.

*shrug* Works now, anyway 🙂

Think of a Facebook Page as something like a Facebook profile, only for entities like a business, a band or artist, or a product or even a brand.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Pages

Uh, so what does this have to do with Lightroom and my plugins? —Jeffrey

? Thanks for your help. I disabled the plugin and I am getting further but after a few exports, I get error response from facebook:

Error uploading image: no photo id

Aborting export after X of X images successfully uploaded.

I was exporting 51 pictures.

Thanks

==============

I’m running into the same thing…. where should I send the plugin log?

Woo-hoo, I finally figured this out as of version .43. The real problem behind that message is that your album was full, or some other message from Facebook that I hadn’t been processing properly. —Jeffrey

Hin:

This sounds like the same issue as I have. I’ve now streamlined the fix to:
Log out of Facebook
Exit Lightroom
Start up Lightroom
Go to the Facebook plugin and reauthenticate

Then the folders appear.

None of these gymnastics should be required any more, since version .41. Sorry for the hassles! —Jeffrey

Thanks Sylvia!!!! It’s working fine now!!!

Thanks Jeffrey for updating the plug-in as well!

Just updated to the latest version – for some reason, the plugin isn’t allowing me to create any new albums, thus there is no destination for the picture selection to be uploaded to. This happens in the main export window and also on the following pop up window,

I try and create a new album, but the main export window just refreshes (very quickly) and says ‘unable to create new album’ at the bottom.

I’ve tried restarting Lightroom and logging in out of facebook, but no joy.

Anyways, I love your plugins, the flickr one is brilliant, thanks so much for doing all of these essentially for free.

Thanks

Hi Jeff

firstly thank you very much for the lovelly plug ins just great work…I just updatet the facebook one and miss the watermark tool 🙁 would it be possible to add it again ? so that I can upload some pic with my defined watermark as it was possible to do it with the last one ?

regards reto

my facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1477166309&ref=profile

Sorry about that… I put it back in .32 —Jeffrey

I’m trying to export upload directly from right hand mouse click menu and I get the following.

“An internal error has occurred: ?:15888: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)”

works fine if I go into the full Export… menu and do the same export, just not from shortcut menu.
Otherwise working great, thanks.

I have been using this plug-in since LR 2.0 and it is working pretty nice.
However, I’ve got the error similar to “+743.8: At line 15259: ?:16108: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)” after I’ve upgraded my LR to 2.1. The problem still exist even I upgraded the plug-in version to 20081022.33

I am running LR in Mac OS X 10.5.5.

Thanks so much!

I still have problems with the issue below (previously reported) …. i think it is not resolved yet…. thank you
“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?”

followed by:
Error response from Facebook:
Error uploading image: no photo id
Aborting export after 0 of 11 images successfully uploaded

Finally fixed in .43 —Jeffrey

I uninstalled the plugin.
Logged into Facebook.
Loaded the plugin through the plugin manager
Authenticated
and it works.

Go figure. Hope this helps others.

I finally figured this out… it’s fixed, I hope, in .40. —Jeffrey

Hi i dont loaded the latest 11.37 and the export button is grayed out. I cant see what i an not clicking to get this enabled. Its also no showing my albums. Note two versions ago i had this working but only if i logged into FB with my browser first so i am not sure what has happened?
I use OSX thats patched upto the latest version.
I know this seems to be causing troubles but if you can get it stable like the flickr one it will be great so thank you for your work to date.

All this should be fixed, I hope, in .40. —Jeffrey

Version 2008111439

Can you take a look at the issue of colorspace selection? The colorspace selection was removed after 20081011.29 and I have been unable to get the plugin to export in sRGB.

Alternatively, is it possible to build a version of 20081011.29 that does not expire?

thanks

All exports via the plugin are sRGB, or should be, so if you’re seeing resulting files that are not sRGB, it’s a bug, or some intervening “Post-Processing Action” (what I call an “export filter”, such as LR2/Mogrify) diddling things along the way. If it’s not the latter, could you send more details about what you’re seeing? —Jeffrey

20081114.40 NOW works! so far I havent had to reload plug in!
great thanks.

I’m still getting the message:

Error response from facebook: Error uploading image: no photo id.

I’ve noticed that this primarily occurs in albums with over 60 photos; is anyone else having the same problem?

I’m using Lightroom 2.0, MacOs MacBookPro Version 10.4.11

Very nice plugin, unfortunately it stopped working for me a couple of releases ago.

Current Status is:

Version: 20081204.48

Getting the following error (I am logged in via browser):

“At line 22258:
bad state:
At line 22258”

Then the dialog requesting authentication appears. After clicking on “ok” I receive an

“INTERNAL PLUGIN ERROR
attempting login aborted”

followed by
“An internal error occured: ?:22174: assertion failed!”
and the Dialog for choosing an image destination with status “not logged in”.

Well, while trying to track this down, I found and fixed a few bugs that are probably unrelated, but maybe I got lucky and fixed your bug, too. Could you try again with the latest (whatever is latest when you see this) and report back (via email is best) if the problem happens again? Thanks. —Jeffrey

Follow up on
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/facebook/#comment-30088

Tested with version .50 – looks like its fixed now 🙂 thanks!

LR 2.2 and PlugIn .51 on Vista.

I recently noticed that my images are resizing to 604 px. Reading above, I see that this decision is made automatically for me, so the settings I had in place went out the window. I had to reinstall all the plugins, and then recheck all my custom output settings. I found the checkbox for advanced users, and set the size to 500 as I want the photos to be, yet the plug in ignores my settings, and sizes everything to 604 anyway.

The tokens to set the date still do so incorrectly… setting the in camera capture date as opposed to the date the photo was actually captured to the card.

Jeffrey, on LR2.2 plugin version 20081224.52

I have noticed that whenever I create and preset, in the Facebook: Metadata management, any caption preset that I have set would not stay.

After I created the preset, and LR preset, a reload of LR will leave the Caption preset blank. The preset that I have created, also disappeared and only the default 4 will remain.

Could you look into that, please? It is a good addition to the plugin.

Cheers from Malaysia.

I’ve gotten reports of this before, but have never been able to reproduce the problem on my end. I’ll dig around some more, I guess…. —Jeffrey

I’m using Lightroom 2.0 and Windows Vista 64 bit os. I loaded the Lightroom 2 Facebook plugin 20090116.57. I can get it to load in Lightroom through the plugin manager, but when I click right click on export the plugin doesn’t show up in the list. Any suggestions……….

Thanks for your help.

Is there anyway to change the dpi output? It seems to always be 240 and I would like it to be 72.

Thanks. All other functions work perfect.

Jeffrey, would appreciate if you could put in a field to enter the “location”. I think the API allows it since the Java version of Facebook uploadr has it.

Thanks in advance!

A quick question for you.

When I install the plugin I’m prompted to either upgrade my catalog or disable the plugin. I hadn’t expected a catalog upgrade to be required. What extra metadata does the facebook plugin add?

“Upgrade” is an unfortunate word choice by Adobe, I think.. it’s just asking whether the plugin can add per-image data to your catalog. The plugin keeps track of whether an image has been uploaded to support the “reupload” and “upload only if not already uploaded” features. —Jeffrey

Your plugin should be advertised as “trialware” to which you have full access to the features for a given amount of time (in this case 6 weeks) before deciding if its worth it for you the user to pay for a serial number. Those wishing to pay the registration fee of $.01 for PayPal really arent donating at all,
and is at its basic level no different then offering the plugin as you do now for free minus the serial number. The donationware model that you’ve adopted is not optional in any sense of the word since you’re forcing people to donate or face having a crippled plugin.

Registration is required. Donation is optional. I’m not sure why you fail to grasp that, but in any case, please feel free to avail yourself of your right to not use it if the “terms” don’t appeal to you. (“Terms”… terms of use… terms of description.. that’s a pun, get it?) —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, the application is called FB-Uploader http://code.google.com/p/fb-photo-uploader/

If you look at the first screenshot that is on the site, you can see the text field Name, Description and Location. That’s what I’m looking for, and hopefully it’s a jiffy code for you to implement in the upcoming version of the plugin (:

Thanks!

Doh, okay, I missed that you were talking about albums and not photos, sorry. Just pushed it in version .68. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey, I noticed that your plugin is compiled, at least to some extent, and I was curious as to how you did that. I noticed there was a comment about looking in the manual, but I must be blind because I couldn’t find it.

I’ve tried compiling my plugin and the hello world plugin to no avail. I tried using Lua 5.0 and 5.1 with the same results:
Info.lua: bad header in pre-compiled chunk.

I assume I’m doing something wrong. Can you point me in the direction of some detailed information on compiling these plugins? I can’t seem to find it on googles.

luac -o out/Info.lua Info.lua with Lua 5.1 should do it. I’ve never seen the “bad header….” error. —Jeffrey

What I really wanted to do was include a link to the url to the image if it was uploaded to flickr. That is, facebook’s resolution really blows and I wanted to say “view on flickr” on the bottom of all my facebook uploads. I know you have a {OnlineID} for the flickr plugin, but is there a way to grab this for the facebook plugin. Thank you 🙂

That’s a great idea… I added it in version 75. —Jeffrey

Just wondering if the recently updated Facebook Pages api will enable export to Pages using the plugin (which is fantastic, btw)…
Looking at the FB API I don’t see anything new that might allow photo uploads to FB Pages. Could you email or post a link? —Jeffrey

Everytime I try to download the update, the two zips (http://regex.info/LightroomPlugins2/releases/facebook-20090429.74.zip and http://regex.info/LightroomPlugins2/releases/facebook.zip) stall out at 326k. I’ve tried even using curl -O to see if I could grab it and no luck. I really hope it’s me and not your server.

I don’t think it’s my server…. I’ve got no other complaints about download problems. Has anything changed with your network connection lately that might have caused this? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, hailing from New York City =)

Great work on the plugins!
I think I found a bug in the Facebook exporter.

environment:
Execution/debug log for Jeffrey’s facebook plugin for Lightroom, version 20090521.81
Lightroom version 2.3.0 build 539407 for Macintosh (Locale: en).

bug:
I enabled the advance user settings, restarted LR. The advanced checkbox is now checked. Changing the size and quality settings seem to have no effect.

test:
Export a file with dimensions 5616 x 3744. Change quality to 85, resize to fit long edge to 600, no enlarge. The log says quality is at 0.75 (I think this is the default) and max dimensions 604×604. The uploaded file has long edge 604.

If this is really a bug it would be great if you could fix it. The work around is rather tedious: export to file, then upload the file to FB. Reason I want to change the jpg quality is there is a noticeable difference on some photos when uploading to FB if the compression is too high.

Also just occurred to me, FB may or may not re-compress the files upon upload if it falls outside some bounds (photo dimension certainly, but maybe filesize as well). Would you be able to add an option to save a copy of the file the plugin uploads somewhere so I can see if FB is indeed recompressing what the plugin is uploading?

Thanks for your time,
mark

FB does recompress the file, so there’s not much you can do. Set the Export Location (2nd section from the top) to something other than a temporary location, and the LR-produced files will be left for your inspection. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Hello from San Diego! I was using the facebook exporter (20090521.81) for the last week without a problem since I installed Lightroom 2 (now on 2.3). I just upgraded to 20090602.82 today and now the exporter no longer functions normally. When I click on export, I get an error message typically in the first photo or two as it renders and sends it.

The message states: Error response from Facebook: Error uploading image: An uknown error occurred

In this specific case, it aborted the upload before it basically even got 1 through. Other times, it has put through anywhere from 1-12 photos (more often 0-2 than anything higher).

Any thoughts? Thanks!

Kent

I think the upgrade is coincidental… a lot of people are getting the same error intermittently, including me. Haven’t heard back from FB yet. —Jeffrey

Plugin Facebook-20090610.83. Lightroom 2.3, Windows XPSP3
Jeffrey. I know you say the error that happens with this plugin is caused by Facebook and we should contact them, but when one tries that one just goes through a set of form questions that don’t include Jeffrey’s plug-in. I had the .81 version which worked just fine. My problem is that I had eight photos to upload. I would click export and it would upload one and then error, click export again, it uploads one and then errors, etc. The error says it’s an unknown error so how do I report it to Facebook. Is there some way to download the .81 version again (I assume that .83 overwrote .81 on my computer). ?

My suggestion to contact Facebook is more a reflection of the fact that one shouldn’t contact me because I can’t do anything about it, and not so much a reflection that I think contacting Facebook will actually prove fruitful. /-: .81 is still sitting on my server here, so you’re welcome to give it a try, but I think you’ll find the timing of the error and the upgrade to be coincidental (which, let me tell ou, is really unfortunate for my mailbox and productivity). —Jeffrey

The problem may be fixed. I uploaded eight images without a hitch.
Terry

Indeed, I just tried a big batch and it worked. Let’s cross our fingers…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, as always I enjoy all of your plugins. They have made life easy when working with Lightroom and my favorite sights.

Not sure if this has ever been requested, or if it has and you’ve already answered — so here goes: Can you implement the image resize function for both the flickr and facebook export plugins? As it is now, I’m exporting photos resized to certain dimensions via files on disk, adding them to the catalog, and then uploading to Facebook and/or Flickr.

It would be a super benefit to do that in one fell swoop. Thanks in advance for your comment!

I’m not quite sure I understand… Lightroom’s standard image-size section of the Export Dialog remains (see the “Image Sizing” section, 5th from the top). As for the Facebook export dialog, the image-size section is removed by default because the plugin automatically sets the size to 604 pixels on the long edge. However, if you really want control of the size for some reason, you can restore the size section vai the checkbox in the “Facebook: Tools” section. —Jeffrey

I don’t know if it is a facebook issue or the plugin, but when I create a new album either via facebook or the plugin, it does not show up in the list. I checked the logs, the returned data from facebook does not list the new album. I tried adding photos other ways and it still works but the album still doesn’t show up. I have 18 albums, the 19th and 20th don’t show up.

Bug at Facebook —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

You have written an awsome plugin dude. Having to export to JPG and then use the FB uploader was soooo tedious… your plug in is now saving me loads and probably plenty of others a lot of time. The same goes for the flickr plug in.

I’d like to know if there is any easy way I can use LR2’s filter feature in the library to filter out photos I’ve already posted into facebook.

Keep up the great work 🙂

Cheers
Matthew

In the filter, select Metadata and then Uploaded to Facebook. —Jeffrey

My system default browser is Internet Explorer (I doublechecked) – but when I go to authenticate on Facebook during an export – it opens Firefox. I keep a different user logged on in the Firefox browser than the one I upload photos to. Where is this specified and is it alterable? I didn’t even have Firefox open on my system when I tried it – I had IE open – but it opened facebook in a Firefox window for authentication. Thanks for a great plugin!

It matters what your browser is logged in to only when authenticating (which you generally need do only once… the plugin should remember from then on). As for which browser Lightroom opens, I really think it’s the system default browser, so if it’s opening Firefox, I’d guess you’re mistaken that IE is your system browser. Maybe there are multiple ways browsers try to make themselves the default? I don’t know the details here, so I may very well be wrong. Could you try reinstalling IE anyway, just to be double extra sure? —Jeffrey

Just as a note on quality. I’ve noticed that by setting the jpeg compression to 100% and leaving the resize at 604 really helps while still cutting down upload time. I assume that facebook blindly recompresses everything, so the higher quality really helps alot. At the default 75 setting, it really hurt to look at the photos.

hey Jeffrey.. using your lightroom-export to facebook for about 2-3 months now and just yesterday I donated. I just wanted to share one small detail that has fallen in my attention and somebody might have mentioned before.

When using the script.. I set the img quality to 100 and the ppi to 300.. After when I change the export method in Lightroom, to hard disc… okey. the setting is 100% and everything fine. When I want to export to facebook again.. the image quality is back to 75 and the ppi is set to 72.. is there any somehow setting to set it costantly the same.. even if I change the method in Lightroom?

Thanks man and good luck from Greece, Crete 🙂
Mike

PS. I had posted this comment in an other page. Now I saw that I had to post it here 🙂

I did see the other comment but neglected, sorry, to mention that it’s now on my list to check when I get back from vacation. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

First of all thanks for all the time you’ve spent with this to make our lives easier.

I’m having trouble exporting the metadata text to Facebook. My template is something like:

{Title:UC} – {Caption} – {City | Location | Province | Country} {YYYY}

I would like to change the dashes (-) for line breaks but I cannot find the way. I’ve used and it appears in the caption field at facebook like text: “TITLE Holidays with my friends MEXICO 2009”.

If I edit it directly in Facebook it let me add line breaks with a return key tap.

Thanks,

jmhita

I’ve just pushed .90, in which you can now use <br> to indicate line breaks. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

Thanks so much for creating a brilliant program. I’ve noticed that the photo quality of pictures uploaded to facebook using this Lightroom plugin is not as clear as those directly uploaded from facebook. Have you noticed this or tested it out?

Thanks so much for your reply.

Nina

I’ve heard no other complaints…. are you sure your export settings are proper? You can set the export location to be a specific folder (as opposed to a temporary folder) and the image files will be left behind for you to inspect after the upload…. you can then see whether the image is bad to begin with, or whether Facebook did something to it during the upload. If need be, feel free to send a plugin log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the plugin manager) along with an example URL. —Jeffrey

Apologies to you, Jeff. I figured out how to adjust the image quality so now the facebook photos are great. It takes a lot longer to export, but it’s worth it. Again, thanks for the awesome program. What a time saver! 🙂 Nina

First off this plugin is a lifesaver. I’ve donated a while ago and never looked back 🙂

Maybe someone out there can shed some light on this, but I notice that my photos are always darker after exporting to facebook. Has anyone else noticed this and/or know a solution? Nina perhaphs?

Thanks,
Phil

I’m pretty sure that they strip the color profile, so even if you use a color-aware browser, it doesn’t matter…. results become sort of random, which in your case apparently means a bit darker. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

i am using your picasa plugin for a while and I am quite happy with this tool. Now I tried you facebook plugin but it is creating an album on my FB with the correct number of pictures. But they are all blank. So no picutre is uploaded.
Any idea?
Kind regards
Stefan

Will you be updating the plugin to take advantage of the new capabilities of Lightroom 3? In particular, I am interested in the way that LR3 syncs comments on the flickr upload of a photo back to the original. That would be great with your facebook plugin.

Yes, they’re slowly getting new stuff for the eventual real LR3 (less for the 3 beta). Facebook will likely little new, though, because Facebook’s photo API is so very limited. It doesn’t even tell the plugin the URL of the photo at FB, so I doubt comments and ratings will make it.—Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I am a student who travels between USA and Indonesia on (somewhat regular basis)
Over the past hour, I have been doing some personal experiment on facebook (lousy) photo quality.

Here are some of my notable findings so far, all photos are uploaded using your plugin version 20091118.97 (which so far, over the past few months, have done many awesome wonder for me)…

http://bit.ly/4HTdC1 – photo I have uploaded few weeks back from Pittsburgh, USA
http://bit.ly/7agzmq – photo I have uploaded an hour ago from Jakarta, Indonesia
http://bit.ly/4DExBS – photo I have uploaded few minutes ago from Jakarta, Indonesia… in which I have specifically set the plugin to upload the jpeg with maximum quality

Based on the above three photos, you must have noticed the marked decline in the quality which I suspect is mostly caused by difference in uploading speed (uploading speed from Indonesia is way much slower than in USA for obvious reason).

Now I am wondering if your plugin actually adjust the quality based on uploading speed.
If not… I am afraid I have just found out another facebook hidden algorithm to reduce image quality.

Hope to hear from you soon

– Aditya

The difference between the 2nd and the others looks to be a color-space issue. The plugin should be forcing sRGB on all Facebook uploads. Set the “Export Location” (in the LR export dialog) to a specific folder, then look at the JPG left behind and compare that with what you see on FB. You can inspect the color space on your local copy of the image with something like my online Exif viewer. FB strips and ignores any color-space info, which means sRGB is the best you can do, but if the plugin is somehow sending something else, that’s a bug I need to address…. —Jeffrey

Hi,

I’m loving your facebook plug-in for Lightroom (20091216.103), but I’m peeved with facebook stripping the color from my photos. The plug-in outputs correctly, but I believe facebook removes the sRGB color profile on the image when uploading it. My suggestion is to add an option to boost saturation prior to uploading to offset the desaturation. Keep up the great work!

Boosting saturation might be a “fix” for a removed profile on your personal setup, but each person’s computer, graphics card, monitor, and monitor settings are unique, so doing what seems to help on your system may just make it worse for others. Anyway, FB is doing worse than stripping profiles… they’re actually changing the color data. Nothing you can do here but roll a dice…. or contact FB to ask what’s up. —Jeffrey

Hello,

Love the plugins Jeff, keep up the good work 😉 I have updated to Facebook plugin 20091216.103 and noticed that the pictures are no longer resized. I usually resize them to 600 x 400. However the batch I have just uploaded (the 1st since the update) were sent full size.

I don’t seem to find any dialogue to resize them.

Can you shed any light on it please.

Martin

That’s very surprising that they’re not getting resized… could you upload one then send the plugin log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the plugin manager)? —Jeffrey

I am experiencing a similar colorshift to some of the above listed issues when I upload my images to Facebook. I have tried several different attempts at maintaining the quality of my uploaded photos, but none have worked. I have been using the plugin for months with no major issues, although a minor quality loss, but since I upgraded the plugin, the quality of the Facebook uploaded image is awful. Here is a comparison of the same image loaded to FB as well as Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyleuga/4201846883/ . This was a screengrab showing the color/quality issues.

I am running Lightroom 2 version 2.3 . I have Vista Home Premium SP1. The plugin version is 20091216.103 . I did not have this problem before, but I believe it has come up after the most recent upgrade to the plugin.

I am from Atlanta, GA.

The issue hasn’t changed since I noted above that Facebook is having color issues with their photo processing. Each user reporting “me too” to me doesn’t help. Tell Facebook… if enough people report it, maybe they’ll fix it. I’ve reported it, but have yet to even hear back. —Jeffrey

@Kenneth and @Jeffrey

I just figured out that uploading manually a picture that is exported from Lightroom at 604x @100% has the same results as uploading it through the plug-in.

When uploading the 1600x @100% version manually I seem to get the colors right without a problem.

+ since yesterday I’m getting this error message way to often that says that Facebook has an error and not the plug-in.

That’s interesting… I’ll try some tests tomorrow to see whether having the plugin send 605px images (1px beyond their max) helps. Clearly they have some bugs in their new image pipeline, but this might be a good workaround, at least for the color things. Still can’t help with the FB internal errors, though. —Jeffrey

Hi there,

I have a problem with Facebook and uploaded images that a small change to your plugin might help. Problem is facebook’s not yours!

Facebook doesn’t process colorspace information correctly – images tagged with sRGB (from your plugin/LR2) get horribly washed out by Facebook. If you strip out the colorspace information all is well.

This image was uploaded with the colorspace “Profilename” blank

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4445503&l=6ecec37a0c&id=678239808

This one with “sRGB IEC61966-2.1” in the profilename:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4445511&l=ae2ca35af6&id=678239808

The blank profilename image was created in Photoshop CS4 with the colorspace checkbox unchecked, if your plugin could mimic this behavior I believe the facebook issue could be worked around.

Cheers
Adrian

I am on using:
OSX: 10.6.2
Lightroom: 2.6
Plugin: facebook-20091216.103.zip

If it’s as simple as that, you might try stripping the color profile on export from LR, with my Metadata Wrangler plugin. I sure hope they fix this soon, though. —Jeffrey

Thanks Jeffrey and Paul! Metadata-Wrangler removes the profile name and the images look fine on Facebook!
Great work!
Adrian

Jeff,

Just installed the Lightroom Plugin for Facebook. I am using a MAC OS 10.5. I was only able to upload 5-7 photos at a time before receiving an error message. This occurred 8-10 times during the upload process. Each time I encountered a Nil Fieild error. This is my first time using a plugin for Lightroom and I am not sure if there was an error on my end. You directions seemed straight forward and I followed them pretty easily. Any thoughts on the upload problem.

Thanks
Bill

“nil field” sounds like an error in the plugin. After you get it the first time, please send a plugin log (via the “send to Jeffrey” button in the plugin manager). Thanks. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

First of all, thanks a lot for this plugin for Facebook. I’m really loving it.

i do have one question though and that is with the jpg compression. When I export to disk, the pictures are nice and sharp and I can set the jpeg quality, but this is not possible when I export to Facebook. The pictures in the facebook gallery seem to be using a pretty high compression. is this in the plugin or it’s just a setting Facebook uses for images sent to the albums there?

Kind Regards
Teddy

Facebook uses heavy compression. FB photos are just for sharing snapshots…. it’s not a place to highlight great work. —Jeffrey

Nice Plugin. Would you add a feature to enable choosing the album within facebook to export to as the public facebook plugin for iPhoto does?

Thanks

Is the album list in the “Facebook: Destination” section of the export dialog somehow not sufficient? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey…a new user from Colorado here…thanks for all your work on these plugins!

We are trying the Lightroom/Facebook plugin, and we are unable to authenticate. It just keeps saying “CannotConnectToHost”, counting down from 10, and repeating, This is 20091230-107 we’re using

Ive double-checked the defult browser (I’ve tried Safari and Forefox), and it just seems there’s no communication going on between the plugin and the browsers

Lightroom is distinct from whatever browser you may or may not have, except that once LR gets enough info from FB, it’ll launch your system browser to view a specific URL. You’re not getting to that point, so the problem is that LR can’t connect to the web. Since your browser apparently can, it’s likely something in your system is preventing it. Check your security settings and apps. Also, do you use a proxy? I don’t think LR can be configured with a proxy, but I’m not sure how that all works. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,
Real quick, I just registered the Facebook plug-in and I was wondering if there is a possibility we will be able to connect to our business pages through the plug-in.

Thank you.

No, sorry, for some reason, Facebook does not allow it. —Jeffrey

Please, I’m begging you. Please release an update to the Facebook plugin that makes the “unknown error” dialog not modal! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_dialog when Facebook is acting up, it renders Lightroom useless. I just registered this plugin tonight, and will have to stop using it if turns my machine into a uni-tasker. Okay, that’s a little dramatic. I will have to resolve to only use your plugin when I’m completely done with Lightroom. That will have a terrible impact on my workflow.

LR doesn’t offer a plugin anything but modal dialogs, so I’d have to just quietly keep retrying. Would that be useful? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I enjoy the convenience of this plug-in, but I don’t use it much because of what I am about to explain below, and I hope you can help with this:
I have a Facebook Fan page specifically for my photography that I created via my regular page. I don’t want to upload images to my regular Facebook page, but to my Fan page. Right now I don’t see a way of doing that with the Facebook export plug-in. It goes automatically to my regular page to authenticate and only gives me the option of working with the albums in that page. Any way of being able to chose which page to which I want to upload?
Thank you for your help.

Unfortunately, no, not until FB allows it. They currently don’t, for reasons no one (outside of FB?) knows. —Jeffrey

Hey, Jeffrey! Thanks for the response.

I tried again this morning, and four times in a row the upload aborted. I actually got four different error messages, in this order: “invalid API key”, the “unknown error”, “invalid signature”, and “session key invalid or no longer valid”. I did send over the log file, though it warned me that it was huge (534kb).

Thanks again for the help!

It’s hard to imagine that the plugin is suddenly going wonky like that, so I’ve got to wonder whether they’re having some major issues these days. I know other apps are also giving the “unknown error” problem. I’ll take a look at the log tomorrow, but I’m inclined to think FB is going through a rough patch. —Jeffrey

Nice tool, I’m pleased overall. Thank you for creating it. But I do have two issues I’d like your reply to.

1. Exporting to Facebook works fine, but simultaneously it also exports a second copy to the original folder. How can I prevent this?

2. After exporting to Facebook, when I return to Disk, resolution and size settings have been rest to what I previously exported. i.e., 400×700 at 72dpi as needed for Facebook, but not correct for my typical exporting. Can your plugin allow LR retain my normal settings when I return to normal export actions?

Using the latest 2.x version of LR, btw.

I may not get back to this blog, so please send any reply to my email address (provided), if you can.

Thanks again!
Steve

For 1, choose “temporary folder” in the “Export Location” section of the Export Dialog. For 2, that’s how LR works by default, so I can’t change it. I did make it so that my plugins remember their state, but unfortunately, I can’t control the LR built-in stuff, or other plugins. The best I can recommend is that you crete an export preset that encapsulates your normal disk export and its settings, and click on it in the export dialog as a starting basis. —Jeffrey

I seem to have to reauthenticate to FB fairly frequently. Either every session or every day, or something like that.

Is that usual?

i

(unable to supply version number currently, but its been this way over all versions I’ve used)

It’s unusual… most people need to authenticate once, and that’s it. This could be a sign of a partially corrupt Lightroom preferences file… not sure. If it happens again, please send me the plugin log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the Plugin Manager) and I’ll see what I can figure out. —Jeffrey

Connections from Malaysia to Facebook is screwed up. It happens every now and then that I have to reupload to Facebook.

The problem is, I am using the Auto-Title destination, and I upload many pictures at one go (all diff titles to diff ‘folders’). Whenever the connection gets wonky, upload fails and I had to reupload again, the plug in creates a new folder (doesn’t check if there’s an existing one) and upload it there instead.

Question, can we have an option for the plugin to check for existing ‘folders’ before creating a new one on Facebook? Cheers!

Yikes, it was supposed to be doing that, sorry. Had a typo. Just pushed v111 that fixes it. —Jeffrey

Facebook just pissed off a lot of people by displaying that “Uploaded via Export-to-Facebook plugin for Adobe Lightroom.” message at the end of the photo. Way to go Facebook!

I don’t know why this would bother people, but they’ll probably add an option to turn it off. Flickr did. —Jeffrey

Update: now that they’re putting the app name everywhere, I’ve gone ahead and shortened the name (removing references to Facebook, since that context is already apparent) so hopefully it’ll look less ugly, and hopefully they’ll give users an option to hide it if they want. —Jeffrey

Thanks for this plugin!

The “create new album on the fly” option seems to be visually broken. It now shows a dropdown for “album date” with the data for selecting who can see the album (everyone, only friends, etc.).

I’m using L3/plugin.113, OSX.

Sorry about that… work-in-progress with another plugin leaked in. Just pushed a new version without the “album date” label. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff

I have a question about the photo quality/picture on facebook. When i use the plugin to uplaod the photo, the picture seem to have a lot of noise! or very strange color.
Do you have any idea why? I just use the standard upload, no changes at all

Filesetting – JPEG @ 100%
No Resize
Sharpen for screen, high

Sameple 1 – upload by facebook uploader (from webpage)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4530108&id=585057904#!/photo.php?pid=4530108&id=585057904&fbid=355015667904

Sameple 2 – Upload by Lightroom plugin
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4530108&id=585057904#!/photo.php?pid=4530105&id=585057904&fbid=355014172904

Please help

Please see other comments on this page… Facebook dorks the colors, and applies extreme compression. —Jeffrey

If that’s so, I woul like some more info so I can take it with them. I noticed that the plugin alters a photos’ metadata. I think that’s completely “un-cool”, but at least I get an option to clear them “after you find out”…
While exporting, I used to always check the box “Minimize embedded data”. Does the plugin by any chance leaves any information about itself in the exported metadata? Facebook decided to tag photos that I exported over a year ago – it’s hard to believe that they retained the exporting app info for that amount of time, if it’s not already in the file’s metadata.
Either way, I think you should be the FIRST to care about this. Facebook SPAMS the photos of people that trusted and used your work, forcing upon them links that point to a page that “you didn’t even know was there”. Many people are complaining about this SPAM, and will not be spending time to find out like I do.
Of course all this will also be posted to FB…

to Sifis and Jeffrey

Jeffrey, from what I see, the guy ‘Iosif’ is Greek and more specially, Cretan. Like I am.. probably he is new and doesn’t know how things work.

Sifi, once you upload something on FB, you know that they have the right to do whatever they want with it. This information will be stated somewhere with small letter as always do.

Second, Jeffrey offers a free plug-in and I am sure he doesn’t do that to get yelled by people like you. You could have asked it nicely and a from what I know. Many times, we have gotten positive results through this page by talking to each other nicely.

I am not writing my surname in this page, but having my website link, it’s easy to find out who I am and what I do.

PEACE and Jeffrey, keep up the good work. Many people support your work without knowing that this topic (forum page) exist.

Hi Jeff, I have your Smugmug and Facebook plugins for Lightroom. My question is whether or not my licenses are transferrable? My computer crashed and it’s currently being repaired. I anticipate reinstalling Lightroom and your plugins when I get my computer back. Would I be able to use the same confirmation numbers or do I need to re-donate in order to use the registered versions when I reinstall? As you can imagine, starting over is a huge frustration so any help you can give me is appreciated. Thanks!

Sorry to hear about your computer woes. Codes are good for multiple installs, so you’ll probably be fine, but if not (or if you can’t find them), a new one is just a cent. The registration system will be different in LR3, tying to the LR serial number, so these stupid gymnastics will be avoided…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey !

Thank you for the great plugins. Would it be possible for you to reduce the length of the export plugin sentence ? Example on Facebook : via “Adobe Lightroom Export Plugin”. This is very long and it causes the “Comment – Like – Share” links to be on a 2nd line when using Fcebook in French. This is a little bit annoying…

😉

Hah, it used to be much longer. —Jeffrey

I would like to upload images into my facebook fanpage. Once logged in, i only see photo albums from my personal FB profile, but none of the my fanpage?

smugmug to facebook / 20100323.117 / Switzerland

FB doesn’t allow third-party apps like the plugin to access fan pages. That’s why I have the warning in bright orange at the top of this page. —Jeffrey

I feel for you…

How many times can the same question be asked over and over when you have clearly given the answer over and over!

I see this in so many forums…people asking questions without bothering to if they have already been asked and answered before.

I really do appreciate that you do monitor and respond to all questions though…you have more patience than I.

D Bell

Jeffrey,

Thanks for your contributions. Your professionalism, expertise and images are very pleasing.

My query concerns the ability of multiple keywords (tags) when combining LR2.6 and your “Export to Flickr” plugin V 20 100324.166 trial.
In the “Image visibility at Flickr” section, my wish is to list several keywords in a single field using an ‘or’ operator between keywords. I do not know if this is even possible and if it were possible what seperators to use.
My end result would be to tag images in LR, upload a bunch of images to Flickr with your plugin restricting the images that were keyworded with certain people’s names, to a higher level of Flickr privacy.

Looking forward to LR3 and enjoying the blossom petals –
Marcel
Melbourne, Australia

It’s not currently possible, but should be easy enough… I’ll work on it. —Jeffrey

Dear Jeffrey,
first of all compliments for the great work!

I used the Facebook Export Plugin for Lightroom for several months without problems.

From yesterday I’m having this problem: the plugin doesn’t show my facebook albums so I can upload only in the “Export-to-Facebook plugin for Adobe Lightroom Photos” default album.

The plugin is:

Facebook Export Plugin for Lightroom – 20100323.117

Thanks,
Raffaele

Sounds like you’re getting bit by the widespread FB error noted on my “Current Issues” page. 🙁 —Jeffrey

Hi,

looks like I just solved thev “Invalid signature” error just by deleting the plugin from thge list of allowed applications in FB, then having it requesting access again at next upload (and authorising it again).

JF

I used Jean-Francois’ technique of deleting the LR plugin from the list of allowed apps on FB and reauthorizing. It worked – I now have access to my album list again. Thanks, JF!

I’ve had some reports that re-authenticating has fixed the problem, but followups have always showed that the problem returns. This continues to point to a bad server in FB’s API-server rotation. —Jeffrey

20100428.119 uploaded my latest batch of photos to FB in record time, with no dreaded timeouts! Great work, Jeffrey!

Hi Jeffrey, I’m from Italy!

I have a problem with your facebook plugin, when trying to configure it. Everything seems just fine, but when I try to upload something I got some strange errors (I can provide this to you). Looking into the facebook plugin settings, i see this strange message:
“This old publish collection is not compatible with this version of the plugin”. What am I missing?

Thanks!

What version of the plugin are you using? I didn’t think I had yet released a version with that message. The Publish system is not really working in the Lr3 betas, and is completely different under the hood between the betas and the real Lr3 (which is not out yet), so any Publish stuff you have in the Lr3 betas will not work in real-Lr3 versions of the plugin. If that’s not the root of whatever problem you’re running in to, send me a log. —Jeffrey

Required info: MAC OS Leopard, newly released LR3 (not B2), plug-in: .119

Dear Jeffrey,

Thanks for your hard work. I just upgraded to LR3 and also upgraded the facebook plug-in. It is giving this error msg:

“Could not upgrade your catalog for plug-in metadata. The plugin-specific metadata in this catalog is newer than the what the installed version of this plugin supports.”

Does this mean that your plug-in needs an additional upgrade for the full version of LR3? If so, I will be patient until you release your newer version. – Thanks.

I’ve not yet pushed a version for Lr3, but the error you’re getting is unrelated to that… it seems that you pointed Lr3 at an older version of the plugin than you were using for the catalog in Lr2. —Jeffrey
Adriana

Hi Jeffrey. Thank you very much for that plug-in. However, I must say that I’m lost. It’s not user-friendly.
Do you have a tutorial on how to use this plug-in?
My version is: 20100428.119.

Thanks again 🙂

No I don’t, sorry. It’s a lot of work to do documentation, and with people forever clamoring for new features, it’s hard to carve out the time for documentation. I’ve been trying to do more of late, though, and have a doc on the Publish feature of the new version of the plugin for Facebook, here. Take a look at that, imagine the amount of work that went into it, then consider that’s just one slice of one plugin, and I have 20+ plugins, and have to build the plugins to begin with. Yikes. —Jeffrey

Thanks a lot. I guess I missed the old version. I would upgrade, but I’m on a bit of a budget and don’t really have the funds. And anyway, lightroom 1 still works for what I need to do with my photos. Thanks again for this great plugin!

Jeffrey,

Would it be much work if you add a “if else” condition to the “tokens”

Example, if I have uploading a photo to FlickR, my flickr ID would be in {FlickrUrl}

It would be nice if I can have something like

if {FlickrUrl}=true, echo “View bigger picture at {FlickrUrl} else http://www.flickr.com

Thanks!

I’ve been using your FB plugin for years on LR2 and just upgraded to 20100428.119 with LR3. I’m pretty sure I have the publish stuff figured out for Flickr, but I can’t figure out how to create a new album in FB. I published with the FB plugin to an old album and that worked.

How do I create a new album using the plugin?

Posting from Boulder, CO.

For Lr3 you’ll want to use the new Lr3 versions, in beta here. You can create new albums from the Facebook Tools section of the export dialog, but not (yet) from Publish. —Jeffrey

Plugin: Jeffrey Friedl’s “Export to Facebook” Plugin
Version: 20100428.119
Lightroom version: 3.0

I installed this plugin and am getting this error now. I was only able to publish one photo. Restarting LR did not help. I saw this was (hopefully) resolved in a release a while back.

An error occurred while attempting to load this plug-in’s portion of the Export dialog.
?:19531: bad argument #1 to ‘?’ (table expected, got nil)

Sorry, try the version in beta here —Jeffrey

I’m writing from Portugal. I’m using LR3 and whem using the plug-in to Facebook the colours of the uploaded pictures are significantly different from the original I see in LR3 (I’ve a calibrated monitor). Usually coulours at facebook using the plug-in are much more saturated. Is there any option to change this ?

Facebook tends to vacillate between merely stripping the color profile when it accepts an image, and proactively dorking the colors with extreme prejudice. It’s clear from their bugs and meager photo support that they’re not serious about photography or art… they just want to allow people to share snapshots of the weekend get-together. Party on, dude. /-: —Jeffrey

Version 20100703.129

i was registered before, but when i upgraded to this new version, my registration was no good anymore.. is my previous registration no good? i don’t have my old registration info, that was a long time ago…

Yes, sorry, I’ve had warnings on the registration page and this page since last year that registrations in Lr2 would not carry forward to Lr3. Lr3 plugins in Lr3 use a new registrations system. You can generate a new code with a one-cent transaction at PayPal. Sorry for the hassles. —Jeffrey

Version 20100703.129 on LR3

Hi Jeffrey, thank you for such a great plugin.

I’ve just upgraded the plugin from version 20100630.129 to 20100703.129, and uploading to Facebook using the “File > Export…” menu. Everything uploads fine, except for the @!@ Missing Live Component @!@ caption on each and every image.

I’ve set up an export preset with the following Caption Preset:
Taken {LUA=if City ~= “” then return sprintf(” in %s, %s, %s”, City, State, Country) end} on {Month} {Date}, {YYYY}

It was working prior to upgrading. Is there something I missed?

Just pushed a new version that fixes this. My apologies to those who reported it before… sorry for the long delay. —Jeffrey

Ah, OK. That makes sense. Strange they don’t allow that. But – decent workaround, thanks!

Jeffrey:

OK, I’m a little “slow”, but I finally figured out why I’m getting so many postings from you: because you are developing plug-ins for a bunch of different sites, and I’m only interested in Facebook. Is there any way to limit your RSS feed to just FB? If not, then I think I can set up rules so that Outlook will delete anything that’s not FB related.

thanks,

The “Update Log via RSS” link at the top of this page is Facebook only. —Jeffrey

When I setup the facebook plugin (version 20100715.133 and pre) I can do all the first time, but when I go back later and want to add new albums to the plugin I cannot add anything since the plugin never logs into facebook anymore. I havce to deactivate/reactivate to make it work. Is there an easier way?

btw: the flickr plugin works – it just takes a few seconds for the plugin to re-login and all is OK.

Try visiting the regular export dialog, authenticating to Facebook there, dismissing the export dialog, then returning to Publish. Publish services created with a version of the plugin that was current for only a short time a few weeks ago require this one-time fix. If you need to do this more than once, something else is wrong, and you should drop me a log when you run into the problem. —Jeffrey

I’m receiving an “An error occurred while granting permission to the application” message after pressing “Allow” to authenticate the program on Facebook using Firefox 3.6.8, Lightroom 2.7 and your latest plugin. I’ll try again, but just in case it isn’t a temporary Facebook issue, I wanted to report it. Thanks.

If it’s at Facebook, it’s a Facebook issue. Whether it will temporary or not is an open question… they don’t have the greatest track record in this area /-: —Jeffrey

Hi, Jeffrey. Feature request, if possible through the Facebook API: When publishing multiple photos, put up a single wall post showing multiple photos, rather than a separate wall post for each (see example on my wall from tonight). It worked this way with Export (rather than Publish) in the past; see an example on my wall from May 5th.

The plugin has never done any kind of wall post… it just uploads photos. Facebook completely changed their API, and plugin versions from June use the new one, and perhaps the new one doesn’t group similarly-timed uploads into one post. Dunno. They don’t give me any control over it. —Jeffrey

“Facebook doesn’t do photo keywords. —Jeffrey”

OK. Chalk up another reason for not liking Facebook.

I suggest you remove the keywords checkbox from the plugin since it provides no function and actually adds to the confusion that keywords should export. Thanks.

Could you remind me where this “keywords checkbox” is? Oh, do you mean in the “Metadata” section of the dialog? That’s a standard Lightroom section that refers to what’s included in the exported image itself. It’s not particularly relevant to Facebook and I could remove the whole section, but I figure I should give users control of that. —Jeffrey

Yes, the keywords checkbox in the Metadata section.

Since it appears Facebook strips out all of the embedded metadata on upload, I’d disable the keyword checkbox and put (not supported in Facebook) somewhere in the dialogue box.

It’s apparantly a known limitation. See if you recognize anyone’s name on this page 😉
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/socialmedia/

Great piece of work – well done!

Hi Jeffrey, I managed to get it to work OK. Was basically a matter of a) copying all the folders in [user]\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom on the XP system to the [user]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom folder on Win 7, b) openning the LR catalog file in Win 7 , c) telling your plugin in LR where it was now located, and then d) working out how to reauthenicate with FB, which was a bit tricky, but there was a comment you wrote on another page on your web-site that helped. So all going well now thanks.

Is there a way to upload photos to my business page that is attached to my personal page? Am I overlooking something, Thanks.

You’re overlooking the warning on the top of this page, repeated countless times in the comments (and now here again), that Facebook doesn’t allow it. —Jeffrey

I’m getting errors trying to create Albums via the plugin.

Facebook is either having “issues”, or has changed something without announcement or documentation. I’ll dig further, but we probably just have to wait for them to decide to fix it. —Jeffrey

Facebook is now supporting photos up to 2048 pixels tall/wide: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=432670242130

Thanks for the heads up…. just pushed v140 with the new limit, but be sure to see the release notes for some caveats. —Jeffrey

The old pre-LR3 version of the plugin had a UI to create a new Facebook album. Any chance that could be restored? It’s not ideal to have to leave Lightroom and go create a new album by hand when I’m uploading a new batch of photos. Or maybe it’s still there and I’m just not seeing it?

It’s there, but only in the Export dialog, not in the Publish-Service dialog (yet). —Jeffrey

I cant seem to authenticate the export to facebook plugin, the plugin doesnt bring me to the authentication page, but instead to the regular facebook homepage,

It’s working for me…. not sure what to say. Maybe you have some kind of security app jumping in the way and dorking the url? I’ve never heard of this problem before. Or maybe FB had a temporary glitch? —Jeffrey

Just got an email from the folks at Zenfolio that the new Facebook API allows uploading to Facebook fan pages. Thought I’d pass that along. Apparently they have enabled FB uploads from their site now. I’m going to have a look.

Hi Jeffrey,

I am a web developer and we also do interaction with facebook. Now I have seen that you have resolved the publishing to fan pages and groups. Could you give me some indications on how you did it? I currently use the Old REST API to upload photos to profiles with the photos.createAlbum and photos.upload methods. Do you use the same methods for uploading to fan pages and groups or do you use the Graph API.

I hope you can send me in the right direction!

Thanks in advance. Kind Regards,

Geert

See “Page Login” on the Graph API docs page. It silently appeared in January. You’ll get new per-“Page” access tokens, that you then need to use when accessing Page-related things. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

My version: 20110121.151
LR3

Simple issue that i don’t know how to rectify.

I simply amended my fbook password yesterday, and now I cannot upload any images to fb from LR. Where do I re-authorise or amend my password in the LR-FB plugin please…?

Thanks
John

It’s not too clear, sorry. Visit the export dialog and you can log out and re-authenticate in the top section. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey — right now I could almost shoot myself for not having subscribed to your RSS feed before to know about the ability of your FB plugin to export directly to Fan Pages. THANK YOU!!!!! I will be promoting this plugin as much as I possibly can to my dental colleagues. I just happened to be going through my plugin manager and realized a couple of your plugins I’d previously used hadn’t gotten updated when I upgraded to LR 3.3, came to your blog for the updates, and voila – there was your statement about exporting to Fan Pages. Thank you again! I hope I can drive a lot of business your way, and I was more than happy to send $20 your way, and I will be sending more for other plugins, too.

I think i had a bad serial number for LR3. Now mac laptop constantly shuts down when trying to run LR. Is there a way to completely remove LR and instal it afresh? I did remove (proper uninstall) LR, re-installed it, but I was never asked to enter a serial again. It somehow remembers it. What can I do?

This is really a question for Adobe, but I think the answer is easy enough: Visit Help > Lightroom Registration then select License and enter the new number, then restart Lightroom. —Jeffrey

THANK YOU for the ability to add an album! Not to mention the great plugin 😉

I just downloaded and successfully installed the Facebook plugin version 20110419.160.

I then authenticated with Facebook. I went to Facebook, created a new group and created a photo album in that group through the Facebook website.

I then attempted to update the album list in the Lightroom jf Facebook plugin and the album did not appear. I waited 45 minutes, tried again. Tried both through the Publish settings and the Export dialog.

The photo album inside my Facebook group does not appear.
NOTE – I set the privacy settings for the group to “secret” when I created it on Facebook’s website.
NOTE 2 – This is the first time I installed the Facebook plugin. I also tried logging out and re-authenticating per the instruction on your website.

How can I publish photos to the photo album inside the group? Am I doing something wrong?

Group albums do not show up in the lists until you add a photo to them. Seems to be a Facebook bug to me. If you create the album via my plugin, it’ll add the album to the list it presents to make it appear it’s there, so you can actually add a photo to it. If you create the album at FB, well, you’ve seen how that works. )-: —Jeffrey

You’ve mentioned in your changelog a replacement feature for the facebook plugin, although I can’t seem to get it to replace the original photo when republishing in Lightroom. Am I missing something?

Latest version, Mac.

I don’t know what changelog-entry you’re referring to, but Facebook does not allow images to be replaced. —Jeffrey

The add to Facebook when I delete photos from the library gives me the following error: Facebook: 1339: Attempt to index field ‘? “(a nil value)
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My name: Juan Luis Fuentes Velilla
Adobe LightRoom 3.3 Windows7 enterprise 64bit

I sounds like you’re not using the latest version of the plugin, but in any case, it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to delete photos at FB from the plugin, because for inexplicable reasons devoid of any apparent logic, Facebook stripped this long-available permission, and didn’t even bother telling developers about it. I have no idea what’s going on over there, but as a developer of an app for their users, I’ve grown pretty weary and bitter. —Jeffrey

Pretty much everything seems fixed right now. Thank you for such an awesome plugin!

Works with Firefox. Not with Chrome.

The new authentication stuff? That’s disconcerting. I futzed around with it, and as best I can tell, Chrome is simply flaky in this regard. Unexpected. As a workaround, I put the old method as a fallback, so it’ll go through automatically if it can, but you can still copy-n-paste the access code if need be. This is as of version 168, which I just pushed. Thanks for the report. —Jeffrey

Hi,

I’m using 20110623.169 and I want to upload to an album in a group I’m in. I am allowed to upload, as I can create and upload albums from the web interface, but your plugin just doesn’t show my group albums. Using Lightroom 3.4. Already tried to log in and out again, but the albums just don’t show up the list.

Did you try to de-authorize the plugin from FB? (Under “Apps and Websites” on the Account > Privacy Settings page). If re-logging in after that doesn’t do it, please send a log with a comment about which group is not showing up, and I’ll take a look….—Jeffrey

Is there any way to quickly reset all the settings eg sharpening, image size, etc to the default values that come set on first installation of the plugin?

No, sorry, it’s best to go through each setting carefully to set it as you like, but you can then make an export preset (upper-left of the export dialog) so that you can quickly return to your personal default settings…. —Jeffrey

My wife has the same constraint, so I just use the facebook interface to create an album with one (junk) photo and set the album permissions appropriately. Then I select that album from within the plugin and upload away. The album titles are more indicative of the permission settings than an event though: “Family Only” “Wife Only” etc. I add as needed, but have only needed 3 for our needs. It’s a bit of a pain, but gets the job done. Recently signed up for Google+ and it seems like their circles will handle privacy concerns much more logically. Haven’t done much with it yet though since everyone in the family is still on FB.

Great idea. Didn’t even think of that. Thanks.

@Cassandra: Use the same workaround for setting a Private album: Create a new album in FB first, set it to Private (“Only me”, or whoever you want to be able to see it), and then use the LR Plugin to upload to that now-private album. That way there is no window of time when the album is completely out in the open. Then pull up your private FB album in a browser, find the secret URL at the bottom of the album thumbnails page (labeled “Share this album with anyone by sending them this public link”), and send that URL to your clients. Only those with the secret URL will be able to view it. They can even directly comment on these private photos (e.g. “Please delete this one,” etc) only for you to see. Then once they’ve approved the photos, you can edit the album settings to be more widely viewable. Hope that helps!

For some reason, even if your plugin upload at 2048 pixels, when the pictures is displayed, it is still displayed small as it was a week ago, but if I upload the same 2048 pixels image with FB regular uploader, then the picture is displayed much bigger once clicked. Facebook changed this a few days ago. Is there a way for the plugin to do this? Or is something on their side to fix?

Thanks!

Facebook says that they store the photo at up to 2048 pixels on the long edge, but in no case do they display at larger than 960 pixels on the long edge. Whether they do display at 960 is unknown, and likely depends on the photo and the viewer’s browser, but I don’t know. It’s completely out of my (and your) hands. —Jeffrey

I’m pretty much sure is a Facebook glitch, I have my personal page, and the photography page, and when I upload manually to my personal page, pictures display as 960px wide, when I upload the same picture manually logged as the Photography page pictures are displayed as 720px wide, so I’m pretty much sure it is not Jeffrey’s fault. FB with hundreds o millions of users, I’m sure it takes some time to update all that code.

That option has being there forever, it is to upload in 2K as the plugin does too. I tell you is not related because one of my accounts I upload high res and they are displayed 720 anyway, but when download the pic is 2K. It is sort of random right now. The same with the theater viewer, one account the interface is the new white interface and the other is the old gray. Certainly checking the high res in two of my accounts makes no difference.

Hi Victor,

The rollout for 960p photo uploading was first done for users and then for pages, which is the reason why you noticed the glitch.

Now, there should no difference in behaviour b/w user uploads and page uploads. HTH.

Thanks!

I caption my pictures in the ‘Title’ field and the caption appears when I upload using the Picasa or Facebook export. If no title is present, the filename is displayed. Is there a way of uploading the caption if one is present but leaving it blank if no caption is present rather than display the filename?

Thanks for a great plug-in.

Paul

Facebook doesn’t allow it (they require some caption and will unilaterally use the filename if there’s no caption), but earlier this year I put something that sends an invisible character to spoof Facebook into not putting the filename. I just tested it and it works for me, so make sure your caption preset isn’t putting the filename in itself. —Jeffrey

latest version…

How do I ‘rename’ a Facebook collection within your plugin? Not on Facebook, but the name showing up in Lightroom. I made a typo. Easy to go into Facebook and edit it — all done. But in lightroom the name is still wrong, even after repopulating and clicking everything imaginable.

I tried double clicking the name in the publish service, and it appeared that was what I was supposed to do, but found that the name is ‘grayed out’ so that it was not editable.

Thanks in advance!

Renaming wasn’t possible due to a plethora of bugs in Lightroom when Lr3 first came out, though I should perhaps revisit it to see whether Lr3.5 is any better. Until then, you can just delete the collection then add it right back (with the “populate” option), and you should be fine. But again, with Facebook disallowing image replacement, I don’t see much usefulness to populating a collection… —Jeffrey

Hi,
I’m using 20111030.186, and Lightroom 3.5. The Facebook plugin asks me to re-authorize with Facebook every time i Click Publish. How can I make the pugin/Facebok remember the authorization? Thanks. /Andreas

Your Lightroom preferences file has likely become corrupt…. try rebuilding it (but keep a backup, just in case). —Jeffrey

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

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.

@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.

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

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.

Jeffrey
i can’t seem to find the Lightroom Facebook updoad plugin that works w/ Lightroom Version 3.0. the latest one will not work with Lightroom 3.0 it says I must upgrade to a later FREE version, which I do not want to do. You had a version of your plugin that worked fine with LR 3.0, where can I download it? i’ve used it before and it worked fine in LR 3.0

Sorry, 3.0 has way too many bugs compared to modern versions, so I haven’t supported it for a long time. —Jeffrey

OS: Win 7 Pro x64
LR v.3.6
jf Facebook plugin for Lightroom: 20120229.198
&
jf KODAK Gallery plugin v.20120301.26

When compared to “Export to: Harddrive” the setting “Color Space” under the grouping “File Settings” is missing as a setting in your plugin. I shoot in AdobeRGB color space and need to convert to sRGB when I export to Facebook or my colors look all washed out. The same goes with your jf KODAK Gallery plugin v.20120301.26 . Any chance you maybe able to add that setting to your plugins, it would make the plugins more useful for me and I am sure some other folks who shoot in AdobeRGB color space.

Thanks again for such a great plugin and all the dedication you put into it.

Ed Walsh

The color space you shoot in is not relevant in this case (unless you have the export format set to “ORIGINAL”, which just dumps the master original without Lightroom changes) because Lightroom users something similar to ProPhotoRGB internally, so all input is converted to that, and all output converted from that. The Facebook plugin forces sRGB on the copies prepared for upload, which is why I don’t offer it as an option… nothing but sRGB makes sense for Facebook. They actually preserve the profile in what they present (at least the larger versions), so if they seem washed out, perhaps your broswer is not color managed. —Jeffrey

Great plugin! Just upgraded to most recent release and now when I publish a photo it doesn’t appear on my news feed. Any reason why the new release would change that? It was working perfectly before (upload to a set album, but the photo just uploaded would still appear in my news feed).

Thanks!

I can’t think of anything that changed on my side. The plugin just uploads the photo… putting it into a news feed, or not, is something Facebook would do. —Jeffrey

I am pretty sure people on my Facebook business Page could tag photos of themselves when I uploaded photos with this plug in….but for some reason, people can no longer do that.

If I go to photos that I uploaded directly to Facebook without the plugin, I see a tag option.

I can tag photos myself…but if people are not an admin…they can not. Even if they have liked my page…no luck. Thanks for any help!

I’ve heard this once before (last week) and can’t think of a reason for it other than a bug at Facebook. They recently changed how they do app permissions, so maybe that has some effect? Try revoking permission for the plugin (in your account privacy area on FB), then re-authenticating with the plugin (be sure to be using the most recent version), then try the tagging. It shouldn’t matter, but who knows….(?) —Jeffrey

windows 7
lightroom version 4.0
plugin version 20120316.200

Echoing Patrick’s comments from yesterday, fans of our Facebook page (racemenu) can not tag photos which have been uploaded via this plugin, despite selecting “People can add tags to photos by racemenu.” under page settings. Only page admins can tag those photos. If you upload an image directly via Facebook’s uploader, it can be tagged by anyone.

Thanks and bravo for the plugin!

As far as I know, the plugin has no access/insight whatsoever into the permissions of who can and can’t tag, so I’m at a loss as to what to suggest except to complain to Facebook. They’re always changing thing on their backend (making plugin development an “exciting” moving target) and recently changed how they let you authorize the plugin to upload photos on your behalf, so this is perhaps related. Maybe try revoking the plugin’s authorization (in your FB privacy area) then re-granting it in the plugin, to see whether that has any impact… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
When doing a manual upload to fb there is a tick box for “high resolution”.
Do you know if your plugin uploads as is, or will fb apply a compression ? Or, is there no choice ?

It’s my experience that FB will always compress the heck out of the image to within an inch of its life, and strip metadata. —Jeffrey

It looks like Facebook has changed their photo app again. Now we can upload higher res photos compared to previous 720pixel.

I wonder, is this already in API?

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-improving-facebook-photos/10150630639853920

That high-res changed happened a long time ago… the plugin has supported it since version 20101001.140. Nice to see that color profiles are being used now, though. —Jeffrey

Quick update on the tagging problem identified earlier this week. We just found this thread which confirms the problem is not isolated to Jeffrey’s plugin; it’s also happening with Lightroom’s Facebook plugin. Even more noteworthy and frustrating, pictures/albums which uploaded in the past and were taggable by Facebook users no longer have a tag option. We are going to update to the new Timeline view and see if that fixes anything.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4281480

The good news is that uploads now produce pictures on fb that are hi-res and display well.

I too have been having a problem with the tagging problem facebook caused. I have had to stop using this plugin (which really slows down my workflow) because people are unable to tag themselves/others on my “business” page. I agree as some have said that FB has broken something new, I just hope they/someone can find a work around eventually. LR4 and plugin 20120411.205 has been happening now for over a month I want to say.

Running facebook-20120421.206 on MacOS with LR3.6.

This may not be news to you, but a possible key to the mystery about why the Facebook wall doesn’t show up in the list of albums for upload with your plugin is as follows:

If, within Facebook, I go into Albums, most of the albums have a little gear icon with a pull-down menu. Mousing over the icon brings up a tooltip that describes the visibility of that album (e.g., “Your friends of friends”).

However, the Mobile Uploads and Wall Photos albums are different: There is no pull-down menu for these albums – they’re apparently special. However, there is a gear icon, and mousing over the gear brings up a tooltip stating “You can change the audience for each photo in this album”.

Now, the odd data point. I uploaded an image from my Lightroom collection to my Facebook Wall Photos earlier this evening. After I uploaded it, I decided to rebuild the list of Facebook folders – and lo and behold, the “Wall Photos” item in the list disappeared. I realize that this is known behavior that you mention in a FAQ on the Facebook plugin.

This is pure conjecture on my part, but, given that I was just able to upload an image to the “Wall Photos” album, I wonder if the problem with that album being absent is simply because it’s special-cased by Facebook and that if I could only see it again, I might have permission to upload to it.

Naturally, it’s a shame that any of us have to dance around due to Facebook’s inconsistencies, flakiness, and tendency to break things willy-nilly. But it is what it is, I guess. I hope the data point mentioned above is of some use.

May 2nd update on the tagging problem identified back in March. Images uploaded to a Facebook Page can now be tagged by anyone, not just page admins. We noticed this yesterday and have confirmed that the fix is retroactive to previously uploaded albums as well. Phew!

I feel utterly stupid. Can’t find the presets. Any hint ? Could they be in the ctlg ?

Without commenting on the merits of the method itself, I’ll note that you can isolate the preset file by right clicking on the name, and selecting “View in Finder” (or “… in Explorer”). —Jeffrey

St. Louis here.. just wondering. Are the names that are tagged in photos accessible via the Facebook API and if so, could you make the plugin grab them as part of the “comments download” function? It would be really helpful to be able to find people later when they ask for photos. It looked like it might be available in the API but wasn’t sure if this was something you had considered and decided not to do, or hadn’t considered yet, or it didn’t work, or??

It looks to be possible; I hadn’t considered it, but I’ll take a look. —Jeffrey

If I download and install your Facebook plug-in will all my albums and images (and their associated comments) disappear from Facebook and then be re-published?

Thanks,

Mac OS X 10.7.4, Lightroom 4.1

Not unless you go to the trouble to add into a Publish Collection all the images you’ve already uploaded, then republish. If you just use the plugin for new images, you’ll be fine. (But I’ll reiterate what I’ve often said, I recommend an Export Preset over Publish because with Publish you can delete/reupload images, and that indeed causes all comments/likes/links to be lost. FB and Publish just don’t play together well.) —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey, I’m from California, using LR4 4.1 with the latest version of your FB plug-in. I had to move photos to a new album on FB due to privacy issues, so I created a new album in the plug-in, then moved the photos in LR from one album to other. Now it’s considered all of my photos at New AKA unpublished. How can I consider them “up-to-date” or published without having to re-publish them all and go back into FB to delete all the duplicates?

I’m not sure what happens when you move a photo at FB, but it may be that you can populate the new publish collection when you add it to the publish service, as described here. This is uncharted territory, and FB is horrible for photos and just doesn’t mesh well with Lightroom’s Publish, so there’s no telling what might happen… )-: —Jeffrey

Is there a way to include the Publish Services albums in a catalog import? I did a shoot and configured the photos to go to my facebook page, but then when I imported the small catalog into my much bigger default catalog the configuration wasn’t transferred.

Thanks for your help!

No, Lightroom doesn’t allow publish-service stuff to be imported or exported. You can recreate things, but it’s a pain. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey…Not sure what has happened but am now seeing this when trying to upload to Facebook:

Debug:1169: Error reply from Facebook: (#240) Requires a valid user is specified (either via the session or via the API parameter for specifying the user.

Using LR3.6 and your plugin version is 20120614.210.

I have tried disabling as well as logging out and back in via the plugin manager.

Any suggestions?

– Jeff

See this FAQ —Jeffrey

Release: 20120614.210

When I upload many photos at once Facebook is showing each individual as it uploads. This is basically overloading all of my followers (professional page) timelines with posts. Is this a facebook issue or is there perhaps a setting that I am missing? Thanks.

FB doesn’t expose many photo-controls to third-party apps. (Photos don’t make money like FarmVille.) They have a single “upload a photo with a description to such-and-such an album” endpoint, and what they actually *do* with the photo, and how they present it to those who can see it, is out of my hands. Their own browser-based uploader may well have more features that they reserve for themselves. —Jeffrey

Great thanks, this fills up the missing link between Lr and Facebook Pages which I use for small business like many others. Looks fabulous and works great out of the box, up and running just in seconds. Also like the twitter integration.

We are running Lightroom 4.1 on Windows 7 with plug in version 20120821.211 and we can not authenticate to Facebook. This is the link that is generated from the plugin to get the token:
lightroom://info.regex.lightroom.export.facebook2/#access_token=….
We get a webpage cannot be displayed error

Can you help

Sounds like a symptom of Lightroom’s URL handler not being properly registered with your system. A re-install usually fixes that. —Jeffrey

doesn’t surprise me that fb is causing trouble 😀 though unfortunately I have tried for about 3 weeks now, and every time the same problem 🙁 I have registered and re-registered the app on facebook several times and re-authenticated at facebook from within the LR plugin, and it still has the same issue. I can post from other apps on my laptop, and from zenfolio (my online portfolio provider).

I have recently turned on the login approvals on fb, and can’t recall successfully uploading after that – not sure if that would affect this at all.

I’m not familiar with “login approvals”, but whatever it is, perhaps try disabling it temporarily and testing that way… —Jeffrey

version # 20120821.211
Error while attempting to load plugin. Version lightroom LR2.5 is too old..says to check for updates. I installed updates, but still won’t plugin. I don’t know what to do…trial ran out and sent $5.00 last night, entered confirmation code, and worked last night, but not today. From Hoquiam, WA USA

Are you sure you installed (and are now running) the update? Lr2.7 was released many years ago. (An upgrade to Lr4 is only $80…. highly recommended.) —Jeffrey

Export to Facebook Plugin for Lightroom 4.1

Photos sometimes upload back to front. So end of album is uploading first. Which is annoying to have to fix up in facebook. If it could be fixed…fantastic!?

They’re uploaded in the order they appear in the library grid, so set the order as you like before launching the upload. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey.
I frequently encounter the error: Debug 1186: Unrecoverable server error at facebook.com (it returned a normal web page instead of proper API reply. Please advise.

Not much we can do if FB is having “issues”, but I can double check that the plugin isn’t doing something wrong if you send a log after encountering the error. —Jeffrey