This page covers the answer to common questions that I (Jeffrey Friedl, an American software guy and hobby photographer in Kyoto) get about my plugins for Adobe Lightroom. Most days, it seems, I spend more time answering emails than I do developing new features or fixing bugs, so this page is an attempt to become a bit more efficient all around.
Installing
- The Geoencoding-Support plugin gives an “attempt to call field 'getProgressScope' (a nil value)” error when I upgraded to Lr4.2
- I can't install the plugin... I get various errors when I try to install it in the Plugin Manager
- I had the plugin installed before, but suddenly it's missing... where did it go?
- The “remove” button in the Plugin manager is grayed out, and I get an error when I try to upgrade.
- I get an error when upgrading the plugin via the built-in “upgrade” button.
General
- Why didn't you respond to my note about (insert something unrelated to my plugins, tangential, or something already answered on my site)?????
- What's the difference between your upload-to-xxxxxxx plugin and the one of the same name that comes with Lightroom?
- Do you have a plugin for uploading to (insert name here)?
- I'm running into troubles with the plugin... is there a log or something I can send that might help you diagnose the problem?
- About your LR/Mogrify plugin, could you please...
- I can't find my downloaded plugins in OSX Lion
- Do you have a plugin for G+ (Google Plus)?
- Why does the plugin sometimes fail with “The handle is in the wrong state for the requested operation”?
Network
- I keep getting “Security Error” when trying to upload.
- I keep running into networking errors (“Unexpected reply...”, “no reply...”, “timeout...”, etc.)
Registration
- I generated a transaction at PayPal (see, here's my PayPal receipt as proof)... when will you send me the registration code?
- When I try to register from within the plugin, I get a “Can't contact Jeffrey's server” error.
- The plugin says “Plugin registration button appears after Lightroom is registered with Adobe.”, but Lightroom doesn't give me a place to enter my Lightroom serial number.
- My plugin registration code worked in Lightroom 3, but doesn't work anymore in Lightroom 4...
- I registered the plugin before, but now it's not registered... what happened?
- My registration code doesn't work.... it keeps saying “Code has expired for new registrations.” What's going on?
Uploading
- Can I upload pictures to my Facebook Fan/Business/Group page?
- I get “(#10) Application does not have permission for this action” when I try to upload.
- Why are some of my Facebook albums missing in the plugin?
- Why is “Wall Photos” not listed among my albums in the plugin?
- Why do I keep getting “Error reply from Facebook: (#240) Requires a valid user is specified (either via the session or via the API parameter for specifying the user.” when I upload to Facebook?
PicasaWeb
Installing
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The Geoencoding-Support plugin gives an “attempt to call field 'getProgressScope' (a nil value)” error when I upgraded to Lr4.2
There's a bug in Lr4.2... the latest version of the plugin works around it, so upgrade the plugin and you'll be fine.
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I can't install the plugin... I get various errors when I try to install it in the Plugin Manager
Did you follow bad advice and actually remove some modules from your Lightroom app? Don't do that. Reinstall Lightroom and try again.
Next, check the upper-right section of the plugin manager.... are there any messages there that give a hint?
If not, then look in the lower-right section of the plugin manager... are there any diagnostics? If so, save them to a file and look at the first one (Lightroom shows the last one in the dialog, but only the first one has any meaning). If the message is about the inability to load a file of some type, you likely have a corrupt download or corrupt unzip. Simply clicking on the download link on the plugin home page works fine for the vast majority of people, but some small percentage of people get a corrupt download. (I've heard of issues with Google Chrome not always downloading properly, and of issues on 64-bit Windows 7, though most users in either case have no troubles.) Try a different browser to do the download, or a different utility to unzip the zip file.
If none of this helps, drop me a note with details, such as what the first message of the lower-right diagnostics are, that you indeed checked the upper-right section and found nothing, the versions involved (plugin and Lightroom), etc...
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I had the plugin installed before, but suddenly it's missing... where did it go?
You probably deleted it from disk. Just download and reinstall again, and try not to delete it this time
.Part of the problem is that “installing” a plugin in Lightroom is really just letting Lightroom know where on disk the plugin resides, and Lightroom expects to find it there from then on; Lightroom doesn't make a copy for itself, or anything like that. (This applies to all Lightroom plugins, by the way, not just mine.)
So, after downloading and unzipping the plugin, but before “installing” it into Lightroom's plugin manager, make move the *.lrplugin plugin folder to where you'd like to keep it on disk. Most anywhere is fine as far as Lightroom is concerned, but it's best if it's a place that Lightroom can write to (that is, don't pick a place that requires administrator privileges to install to if you're not going to be running Lightroom as an administrator), because then the plugin can't update itself, leading to this problem.
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The “remove” button in the Plugin manager is grayed out, and I get an error when I try to upgrade.
Lightroom provides for two ways to install/manage plugins.
The original way to manage plugins in Lightroom 1 was to place plugins into Lightroom's system plugin folder (mentioned on this now-obsolete page). You can still do that with modern versions of Lightroom, but plugin management — adding, removing, upgrading — must be done manually, via the file system (e.g. via Explorer or Finder). The only way to remove such a plugin is to remove it from the special plugin folder.
Since Lightroom 2, the normal way to install a Lightroom plugin is to place the plugin somewhere on your drive where you don't mind leaving it (perhaps in a “Lightroom Plugins” folder you create in your home folder), then point Lightroom at it via the plugin manager's “Add” button. Users with multiple machines often keep their plugins on a shared Dropbox folder.
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I get an error when upgrading the plugin via the built-in “upgrade” button.
Yeah, it happens sometimes, sorry. I developed the built-in upgrade system myself, so it's not as widely tested or robust as if Adobe had done it, and I'm sure I have not foreseen all possible machines setups out there. If it doesn't work for you, please just do a normal manual install, as described on my Lightroom plugin install page.
General
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Why didn't you respond to my note about (insert something unrelated to my plugins, tangential, or something already answered on my site)?????
Sorry, but due to some arm pain that limits my time on the computer, I've had to make a change in my priorities, and responding to emails and comments is now lower down on the list. Sorry.
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What's the difference between your upload-to-xxxxxxx plugin and the one of the same name that comes with Lightroom?
The plugins that come with Lightroom are very bare bones; my plugins are more complex, but have a lot more options, and also support normal (non-Publish) export as well. If your needs are very simple, the built-in plugins may be perfect for your needs. Give them a try.
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Do you have a plugin for uploading to (insert name here)?
If it's not listed on my Lightroom goodies page, then I haven't developed it, but that doesn't mean that someone else hasn't. Check out Adobe's Lightroom Exchange for lots of plugins and such.
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I'm running into troubles with the plugin... is there a log or something I can send that might help you diagnose the problem?
You can send the plugin log via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the upper-right section of the plugin manager.
Three important points to help me help you:
Do not email logs; use the submission feature. I can work with them better that way.
If you're reporting about a problem that you can reproduce, please first clear the log (via the button next to the “Send to Jeffrey” button, or by restarting Lightroom), and then do the minimum needed to reproduce the problem... the fewest actions with the fewest photos. The less activity in the log, the more likely I'll be able to zero in on the cause of the problem.
Also consider enabling “Enhanced debug logging” for the duration of the test.
Very Important: The send-log dialog offers a place to add a note to me. Please use it to describe why you're sending the log, even if you've already told me via email or a blog comment. I get a lot of logs, and I have a very hard time keeping things straight, so giving me the information I need to debug things along with the log greatly increases the chances that I will not let it slip through the cracks.
Where appropriate, full and exact names of specific files, urls, etc., help a lot.
There's also a separate, unrelated log kept by Lightroom, referenced in the lower-right section of the plugin manager. If it reports more than one diagnosis message, only the first is relevant: to access it, you have to save the messages to a file, then open the file to view. If I ask for these, please cut-n-paste them to an email or to the note box of the ”Send to Jeffrey“ dialog described above.
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About your LR/Mogrify plugin, could you please...
That's not my plugin... Lr/Mogrify was written by Tim Armes.
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I can't find my downloaded plugins in OSX Lion
If you had put them somewhere in your ~/Library folder tree, you'll find that OSX Lion now hides that folder. See this post for how to unhide that folder tree.
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Do you have a plugin for G+ (Google Plus)?
Google has no specific API for uploading to G+ yet, so the best we can do at this point is to upload to Google's PicasaWeb (sometimes referred to by Google as “Google Photos”). David Marx at TheLightroomLab.com made a series of videos detailing how to do this with my PicasaWeb plugin
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Why does the plugin sometimes fail with “The handle is in the wrong state for the requested operation”?
This is a Windows-only Lightroom bug that affects Lr4.0, Lr4.1, and Lr4.2.
I'm told that it has been fixed in Lr4.3, so please upgrade (see “Help > Check For Updates” in Lightroom).
Network
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I keep getting “Security Error” when trying to upload.
Nothing in Lightroom would generate this error natively... it's a problem outside of Lightroom and the plugin. I know of three possible reasons...
The date on your computer is off. Secure networking doesn't work unless you have a reasonably accurate clock. Check carefully... I've had people complain to me that their clock was correct, when in fact it turned out to be exactly one day off, one month off, or one year off. I kid you not.
You have some kind of security app prohibiting Lightroom from using the network (in general, or to the specific site the plugin is trying to upload to). Common examples are Little Snitch and Zone Defense. You might try disabling them temporarily to check, but going forward you should be able to add a Lightroom-specific exception.
Please check carefully...I can't tell you how many times people have told me “I've disabled everything and I'm still getting the error!”, only to come back a day or a week later and say “aaah, I had forgotten about....”.
[SmugMug only] You need to install a particular SSL cert to work with SmugMug's API servers: Download the “Starfield Class 2 Certification Authority Root Certificate” from here, double-click to install, and restart Lightroom.
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I keep running into networking errors (“Unexpected reply...”, “no reply...”, “timeout...”, etc.)
It's almost certainly not specifically related to the plugin or even Lightroom, so there's not much I can do but to suggest the standard things:
- Make sure you don't have some kind of security app interfering with Lightroom's networking. You may need to add exceptions with each major version of Lightroom.
- Reboot your router / computer.
- Make sure your system clock is set accurately.
- It could be your ISP or the upload destination is having “issues”, so perhaps you just need to give it time. (Many upload services have different upload endpoints between their own web-based uploads and the 3rd-party API that plugins use, so it's possible their API could be having issues while their web-based tools continue to work, and vice-versa.)
That being said, do make sure you're using the latest version of Lightroom. In particular, Lightroom 4.3 has some networking fixes over Lightroom 4.2 on Windows.
Registration
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I generated a transaction at PayPal (see, here's my PayPal receipt as proof)... when will you send me the registration code?
The registration code is in the PayPal receipt (the Unique Transaction ID or the Receipt Number, as illustrated here.
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When I try to register from within the plugin, I get a “Can't contact Jeffrey's server” error.
If you're reading this on my site, my machine is up and working. If you can see the “you can connect” message on my secure server, then it's up and the problem is almost certainly some security/firewall setting on your machine (Zone Defense? Little Snitch? Norton?) blocking Lightroom from connecting to my machine. Please check your settings, and perhaps add an exception to allow Lightroom to freely use the network.
If you try to connect to my secure server with your browser and get a security-warning error, check your system clock. It must be reasonably accurate for any https/ssl to work. You would be shocked at the number of people who complain to me about things not working when it turns out that their system clock is one month or one year off.
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The plugin says “Plugin registration button appears after Lightroom is registered with Adobe.”, but Lightroom doesn't give me a place to enter my Lightroom serial number.
I bet you're an “RC” (“Release Candidate”) version of Lightroom. For some reason, they don't let you enter your Lightroom serial number.
It's a hassle, but the best I can think of is to downgrade temporarily to the non-RC version (e.g. if you're running Lr4.1RC, reinstall Lr4.0 from Adobe's main Lightroom site) and enter your serial number into that one. Then when you reinstall the latest RC, the serial will already be there, and you can then register plugins.
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My plugin registration code worked in Lightroom 3, but doesn't work anymore in Lightroom 4...
Yeah, sorry about that. A side effect of the registration system I built is that major upgrades like Lr3 → Lr4 (but not minor upgrades like 4.0 → 4.1) cause plugins to become unregistered. As described on the registration page, you can just generate new codes with 1-cent transactions if you like. It's a hassle, I know. sorry.
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I registered the plugin before, but now it's not registered... what happened?
Most reports I get of this are because of three things: a Lightroom major-version upgrade (see the previous question), confusion about which plugin was registered, and a corrupt Lightroom-preferences file.
In case of the second one, pay careful attention to messages to see which plugin is and isn't registered. My plugins tell you clearly in the Plugin Manager.
If a plugin becomes unregistered due to Lightroom preferences becoming corrupt, you can try to reregister it (use the “forgot your code?” button in the registration dialog to automatically bring up your code for the current plugin and the current Lightroom serial number), and hope it “sticks” across the next Lightroom restart, but if it doesn't, you'll have to wipe your Lightroom preferences file and so that Lightroom can rebuild it when it next launches.
For info about where to find the preferences file, see “Replacing the Lightroom Preference File” at Lightroomers.com.
After you then start Lightroom and it creates a new preferences file for you, all your photo-related data remains unchanged, but many little personal settings (such as the default catalog to work with, the widths of the panels, etc.) will have reverted to their defaults. Depending on how much you've customized things, it can be a hassle to set things back up the way you like. )-:
You'll also have to re-tell Lightroom about the plugins you had installed. Visit the plugin manager and point the “Add” button at each plugin you had installed, and if they had been registered, re-enter the registration code as described above.
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My registration code doesn't work.... it keeps saying “Code has expired for new registrations.” What's going on?
As per the registration information page, registration codes used for Lr2 plugins may be used to register a plugin copy for up to six months after they're first used. If you need to re-register after that (say, due to reinstalling your whole OS), you can just generate a new code with a 1-cent transaction at PayPal, as with the initial registration: see the registration page.
Thankfully, these silly gymnastics are not needed for my plugins in Lr3 and later (though see the next question for a related issue).
Uploading
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I get a “missing destination cookies” error when trying to publish.
This rare error is caused, as best as I can tell, by an error in Lightroom that causes it to lose/forget important plugin data. I've never been able to track it down, but the end effect is that all the data the plugin saved about a particular Publish Collection has been ripped out from under the plugin, leaving it with no way to continue.
The only way to recover is to delete the Publish Collection, then recreate it. The “Populate” feature of my Publish plugins can allow you to recreate it quickly and easily, though it's somewhat of a fragile processes.
It's unknown what causes Lightroom to suddenly lose this catalog data, but it's possible that it's simply one manifestation of wider catalog corruption, so it's prudent to perform a backup and integrity check on the catalog. To do this, visit “Lightroom > Catalog Settings...” and at the bottom of the General tab, set “Back up catalog” to “When Lightroom next exits”, then exit Lightroom. That will cause the backup dialog to appear. Be sure to enable the “Test integrity before backing up” option. It doesn't hurt (and likely helps general Lightroom responsiveness) to also enable “Optimize catalog after backing up”).
The automatic backup selection that you put to “When Lightroom next exits” will revert back to whatever it was before. If it had been “Never”, perhaps take this opportunity to set it to make occasional backups. It's also prudent to back up all the myriad of Lightroom's ancillary configuration and preset files, so consider Matt Dawson's LR Backup plugin.
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Can I upload pictures to my Facebook Fan/Business/Group page?
Maybe. Facebook generally allows it for most people, but for some reason, they may not grant permission to the plugin to upload to some albums for some people. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason.
The albums that are listed when you log into the plugin are the ones Facebook allows, and if your Fan or other page's albums are not there, perhaps check the following FAQs.
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I get “(#10) Application does not have permission for this action” when I try to upload.
You're trying to upload to an album that has wider visibility than you've given the plugin permission for. (E.g. you've said that the plugin can upload only friends-visible stuff, but you're trying to upload now to a publicly-visible album.)
To fix, you can downgrade the visibility of the album, or upgrade the permission of the app. To do the latter:
- Visit your FB privacy settings by clicking on this link (or manually by clicking on the down-triangle in the upper-right of your home Facebook page, and select “Privacy Settings” from the dropdown menu).
- On the “Apps and Websites” row, click “Edit Settings”
- On the “Apps you use” row, click “Edit Settings”
- On the “Adobe Lightroom Export Plugin” row, click “Edit”
Scroll down to “Posts on my behalf: Who can see posts this app makes for me on Facebook?” and choose “Public” or something that at least encompasses the uploads you'd like to do.
Note: if you choose something more restrictive than “Public”, albums that are “Public” or otherwise less restrictive than what you set will not be available for uploading and will not appear in Lightroom.
- Click “Close” at the bottom of the app-settings box.
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Why are some of my Facebook albums missing in the plugin?
See item #5 in the previous FAQ, about app permissions. Facebook does not allow you to upload to albums whose visibility is less restrictive than this plugin app's permissions. You can include an excluded album by increasing the app permissions, or restricting the album permissions.
If you set the app permissions to “Public”, you'll be able to upload to all your albums (with the caveat noted in the next FAQ about “Wall Photos”).
Note: any changes you make in app or album privacy settings are reflected in the plugin the next time you “refresh list” next to the list of albums.
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Why is “Wall Photos” not listed among my albums in the plugin?
For some reason that I have not been able to figure out, Facebook allows some people to upload to their “Wall Photos” album, and not others. Check your privacy settings as per the previous FAQ about missing albums, but otherwise, I have no idea why “Wall Photos” is listed for some but not others. FWIW, it's not listed for me.
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Why do I keep getting “Error reply from Facebook: (#240) Requires a valid user is specified (either via the session or via the API parameter for specifying the user.” when I upload to Facebook?
This is an intermittent bug at Facebook, experienced by users of different apps, so there's nothing specific about Lightroom or the plugin.
UPDATE: See this comment by Oliver Winter for a reported fix.
PicasaWeb
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I'm seeing “GUMBY status” and/or “RPC status” errors when I try to upload to PicasaWeb
This error started popping up toward the end of May, 2012. I have no idea what it is or why, but I've asked Google about it. Until I hear something from them, it remains a mystery.
How do I install the Smugmug plugin? Where does it go?
Thanks.
Steve.
Install instructions are on each plugin’s page, at a link labeled ‘Install Instructions” in the immediate vicinity of the download link. —Jeffrey
I’m a big fan of your plugins! Thanks for your contributions.
My feedback on the LR3/Flickr plugin is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to ignore when you have exceeded your Group limit like in the previous version (LR2) of the plugin. In fact, the LR3 plugin will reverse the publication of the photo if the Flickr group’s limit has been exceeded, which is a bit annoying.
I appreciate how hard this new implementation is with publish services – keep up the good work!
Regards,
Another Steve
This has been brought up before, and while I’ll be happy to revisit it once Lr3 issues settle down, my impression at the moment is that if you want the publish collection to continue even in the face of group failure, you’re using Publish wrong. If you don’t care whether a photo actually gets into a group, Publish is not what you should be using. —Jeffrey
I have the Plugh in for LR2 – picasa e flickr, as you noted they don’t work anymore after my upgrade to LR3,.
“You can generate a new code with a 1-cent transaction at PayPal” – where can I generate the new code? Do I need to send the LR2 codes?
Thanks in advance, and yes than Voigtlander 125 Macro is really something…. different.
Miguel
A code is generated with a PayPal transaction to me, as you did to generate the Lr2 code. It’s all described on the registration page. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey,
Just wanted to say have loaded your smugmug plugin and it has really re-invigorated my need to get on and sort my catalog and my website! THe integration between the two – especially with the recent changes in smugmug – is brilliant!
Many thanks
AJS
Jeffrey,
thanks for your plugins. Just a quick question, on the Flickr one is there a way you can publish each collection as a different photoset (with the same name that the collection)?
Best,
You can manually set them up that way, but it’s not automated yet. It’s on the todo list. —Jeffrey
I am (was) a user of the Smugmug plugin for Lightroom 2. I downloaded the zip file for Lightroom3 but cannot unzip it as it is reported as empty by Windows Vista 64 bit. ??
Perhaps try another browser to download. —Jeffrey
Thanks Jeffrey. All my fault, now working OK. John
Hi,
I’ve been using your “Export to Flickr” plugin for a while now, unregistered, to get the hang of it and whilst learning Lightroom.
I’m not a professional photographer, and what I do with Lightroom would barely reach ‘amateur’ status, but I’ve grown to love both the program and the plugin. Certainly, to do what I want (keep track of my photos, and have some of them on Flickr, with the minimum of fuss) both LR and EtF are proving invaluable.
I’ve just purchased LR3, so with it comes my donation/registration to your work., and my thanks.
There are things I could suggest ‘going forward’, but you seem to have most of the list prepared already! My only hope is one day ‘things’ (LR, Flickr, etc) settle down to the point that the initial setup/learning curve is not as steep! And it may also be nice (somehow) to see the ways in which other people are implementing all this to work for them.
Best of luck, and thanks
David
Jeffrey;
For your Smugmug Plugin, regarding the “wrong format()” error, I think I may have stumbled on an instance where this is re-creatable, so maybe there is a workaround? I am noticing that it comes up when the plugin is trying to RE-upload a video file, at least in my usage within the Publish Services.
So if I set up a Publish Service to send up stuff from a folder, with 4+ stars, and I let it do its initial upload, and then I tag a photo for re-publish, it works fine. If I tag a video for re-publish, it fails, and I need to delete/re-publish it (or more correctly ‘set video to < 4 Stars, Publish, re-set video to 4 stars, Publish') in order to get it up there successfully.
Does this jive with your testing?
Thanks and keep up the great products!!
–David
SmugMug tells me that they don’t support replacements for video. I’ll see whether I can add something to the plugin to avoid republishing videos. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
I tried out today and pretty impressed. This makes geotagging in LR quite simple.
Unfortunately I ran into a little issue for the second date I try to sync with my photo.
I got following error message:
“File at 3:40PM (Mon, Jul 26, 2010): _0010217.DNG
Tracklog has datapoints 47 minutes (2.802 seconds) earlier, at: 52.403188, 13.060522
and 4 hours (15.302 seconds) later, at: 52.403202, 13.062937
The two points are separated by 165 meters (180 yards).”
I am pretty sure I know the issue in general, but still this error message confuses.
The track is a bike tour, which is, despite a loop, nearly driving the same back. All photos on unique peaces of the track got their data attached properly. For all the rest it is clear you would have 2 points for each photo nearby, one for direction forward, one for back. BUT the timestamp should be easily identify the right point. Camera time is fine, all photos that got data succesfully attached are exactly at place from where I took the picture.
Would be great if you could give me some hint. (Mail would be fine)
Thx in advance
Andreas
The plugin interpolates between tracklog points on either side of a photo time, but only if the distance from the photo time to the trackpoint time is within the “fuzziness” factor you select in the plugin. In your case, the tracklog has no points near the time you took the photo (the closest being 47 minutes away), so for all it knows you were riding in a subway and are 50km away, so it aborts. If you really want to allow that much fuzziness, set the fuzziness factor to an hour (3600 seconds). —Jeffrey
Every time I publish a picture to facebook, it adds my faceplate name down in the left hand corner of the picture. I am not able to find a way to turn it off, so now it appears on every picture. Any ideas?
Thanks you for publishing such a great Lightroom addin.
Johnny
Sounds as if you have watermarking turned on, or perhaps are using the Lr/Mogrify plugin (though neither has anything specifically do to with my plugin). —Jeffrey
Get plug ins Jeffry! I use them for FB and Smugmug so far on LR2
Question: I see metatag that indicates which photos have been uploaded to Smugmug.
Is it possible to filter with LR to display which photos have NOT been uploaded?
Thanks
Andy
Sure, by using the grid filter and selecting “Uploaded to SmugMug” then selecting “no” —Jeffrey
Thanks!
For anyone else, I’ll give a tad more detail. Go to library view,
Turn on filter, click Metadata at the top of your screen, you will probably see Camera, Lens, Date, etc.
Add another column or change one of the existing ones to (hover or click on column headings) :
“Uploaded to SmugMug” Bingo! You can see which photos have been uploaded or not.
Very helpful. Also note there is another field called “Smugmug upload date”
Andy
Hi there,
I’m in the Santa Cruz mountains. When lightroom’s export to facebook plugin broke for me, a friend suggested I try yours (I already had tree exporter and mogrify). It seems to work and that’s way nifty.
Is there a way to automatically back tag photos off lightroom? Go back and get the tags that other people put on the photos, and then add those to the photos lightroom catalogue?
No, sorry, that’s not part of the plugin. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
got an error message when trying to update picasaWeb plugin. But it was easy to get around this. I simply deactivated the plugin, did the update (which then succeeded) and finally reloaded and activated the plugin again.
One of my SmugMug collections shows a group of photos identified as “Modified Photos to Re-Publish”. I get no errors when I re-publish them; they just don’t move to the “Published Photos” group. I have tried removing a photo from the collection and then adding it again, but it ends up right back in the “Modified” group.
Thanks for any help.
This seems to be a Lightroom bug… I’ve got reports of it happening with Adobe’s plugins as well. It’s a mystery. )-: —Jeffrey
The JF Facebook plug-in say’s it is missing, as if it is not installed or functioning properly… The JF Facebook icon under Publish Services also has a ? on top of the folder. I haven’t moved to location of the plug-in, but recently, on the phone with tech support, I believe we merged catalogs to solve a “missing file” problem. After we solved that, this happened. What can I do?
Thanks, Bill Kennedy
Brooklyn, NY
To the best of my knowledge, Adobe has not yet built publish-support into catalog import/export, so that doesn’t sound promising on that front, but the “missing” error is not related to a specific catalog, but the Lr install. I’m guessing you did move/delete the plugin folder by accident… just download again, and re-point Lr at it in the plugin manager. —Jeffrey
it seems like jf PicasaWeb and jf Snapshot on Export don’t combine. I get a lot of errors. After removing jf Snapshot on Export from the export service all goes well. A know error and is this going too be fixed?
Can you be a bit more descriptive than “don’t combine”? —Jeffrey
Can someone point me to the directions for using the ‘Geoencode using Google Earth’ feature. It kind of works but I have not been able to zoom in on a location, building, viewpoint etc iin Google Earth and tell the plug-in to use this exact location for the Metadata.
Is there a trick here to scroll in GE and then designate that spot as the one whose Lat/Long ends up in the Metadata?
Thanks,
Paul
You pinpoint the location in Google Earth (panning and zooming as you like), then invoke “Geoencode using Google Earth” and the location in the center of the Earth viewpoint is imported as the location of the current image. The crosshairs mentioned in the dialog make pinpointing much easier, BTW. —Jeffrey
Is it at way of having your plugin to ignore the “waiting for republish” stuff?
Sometimes if i just change a keyword (and if i have made changes in flickr) everything that i have made on flickr gets reset’ed. An ignore-function like the delete-thing would have been great.
You can un-republish something via the Plugin-Extras dialog. —Jeffrey
Hi
I accidently deleted my facebook plug in, reinstalled it, but am unable to export images to facebook. I see it in the plug in manager of lr but not on the little “Export to” submenu as one of the publisher choice when I want to export. I hope you understand me message. What else do I need to do to enable it?
It sounds like you’ve got the built-in Adobe FB plugin active, and not my Facebook plugin. The Adobe one is Publish only. Reinstall mine, and you should be good to go. —Jeffrey
Guildford, UK.
I have LR3.4 and MWrangler 20110419.71. Having trouble setting the export filters. They used to export fields exactly as I wanted but now they won’t. The problem arose possibly when I did the update before the current one(?) Could that be?
I don’t want clients to see the Creation Date. Leaving it blank or putting today’s date would be fine. I do want them to see the location fields. But, having tried every combination of Remove/Preserve, I can get only one or the other, not both (as I want them) at the same time. The only way I can get both is when the Creation date shows the real date when it was taken (which I don’t want). All the other fields I want export fine. Is there a way of doing it, please?
Thanks, John
The create date seems to be stuffed in all kinds of places under various names. You’ve got to be sure to remove the entire IPTC block, the XMP “photoshop” block, and for good measure, the whole “Times and Dates” Exif section (and be sure to enable the “remove with prejudice” option at the top of the Exif sections). If you want to get rid of the image-export date as well, remove the XMP “xmp” section. I never really understand half this stuff anyway, so I go by trial and error, and this seems to do it. —Jeffrey
Update: I just pushed version 20110518.72, which now handles the “CreateDate” removal-with-prejudice specially, also removing “DateCreated” and similarly-named items. —Jeffrey
Hi
I accidently erased the jf zenfolio plug in in LR3. The LR publishing manager shows the icon with a folder and a question mark. It says this plug in is not installed or functioning properly. I tried to reinstall the zip but am unable to. When I click on the zip it takes me to lr importing page. Please advise
Unzip the zip to create the “zenfolio-jfriedl.lrplugin” folder, then point to it via the “Add” button in the Plugin Manager. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffery
I used to have this plug in for lightroom 1.4 and I thought it was awesome, I know have lightroom 3.4 do you supply a plug in that is compatible with this version? I cant see anything on this site saying so the only one I have found is for version 2.0
Thanks
Lou
I have a hard time guessing where you’re looking… all my plugins for Lr1 are available for Lr2 and Lr3 on my Lightroom Goodies page —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
Love the LR Zenfolio upload plug in. Works very well so far.
One small issue is that I get your error message in the export dialogue that the quality level is too high @100. 92 seems OK. Zenfolio says highest possible. Photos seem fine. Is this a problem? If so how do I solve it?
Writing this in Palm Springs, CA (desert country).
Thanks for coming up with a great timesaver. I’ll definitely register
.
Jim
The message about the high quality setting should also be referring you where in the dialog to go to find out more info, and to disable the check so you can upload as you like. It’s a one-time roadblock to bring the info on this page to your attention. —Jeffrey
I have trouble to delete pics from facebook with your and the original LR plug-inn.
When I try to delete i get this Message “couldn’t delete image: (#3) Application does not have the capability to make this API call.” After i close this message the next one is “deletePhotosFromPublishedCollection: did not call deletedCallback function”
The upload is normal. LR ( 3.4.1 ) runs on a Mac OS X 10.6.8
Can you help me?
Facebook yanked the ability for plugins to delete photos. Modern versions of my plugin don’t even try anymore. —Jeffrey
I have LR3.4.1 installed. I’ve been trying for the last couple of hours to get my FB Groups to be visible (of which I am the admin). None of my groups show up. The FB Page shows up, but not the groups. I’ve re-authorized and checked my setting in Facebook also. Under application settings, there is a “Manage My Pages” link, under which the pages I have can be added/removed. There isn’t anything about groups. Is this feature no longer available?
It sounds like you did everything right, so it seems you’re being bit by the mysteries of Facebook. Their engineering docs often don’t match reality, and this seems to be one of those cases. You can try submitting a bug report to Facebook, but I wouldn’t hold your breath. —Jeffrey
I have used and loved your jf picasaWeb plug-in. Just upgraded so that I could publish more than 10 nex pix to new folder. However, I keep getting an error message, need to re-authenticate to picassaweb.
Your instructions tell me that I can do so at the top of the export box. but for the life of me I cannot find the export box to which you refer. If it is in the plug in registration/setup dialogue, there is no place for me to re-give my google password, which is what I assume I need to give. can you help straighten me out??
The export dialog is the one that pops up when you hit the “Export” button in the lower left of Library, or invoke “File > Export”. The new authentication does not involve you giving your Google credentials to the plugin (you log in via the browser), which is a nice benefit. —Jeffrey
I’m having trouble using the facebook plugin to post to my group/fan pages. I have uninstalled, reloaded, reauthorized, unauthorized, deleted saved authorizations, etc. and I still can’t get those albums to show up on the export page. Has this functionality been pulled from facebook, or am I missing something?
It simply doesn’t work for some people. It’s a FB thing. No idea why. I’ve asked FB, and they don’t respond. Not much more I can do. )-: —Jeffrey
Hello! You’ve made the great work for your plugin export to flickr, thank you!
I have one question.
I need to export one foto many times without replacing in Flickr for demonstrating of various editing. How can i do it?
there is one similar comment:
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/faq#comment-42151
but i didnt understand what i should do to cancel republishing as global option forever
(there there is second reason to cancel republishing – flick generates new link to photo and all photos posted earlier in blogs becames “unavailible” after republishing).
You can create virtual copies in Lightroom, and include each virtual copy in your publish service, or if you want a one-off approach, just export via the normal (non-Publish) export, make whatever develop changes you want, then export again, being sure to turn off the delete/replace options. —Jeffrey
I like the twitter plugin but is it posable the the plugin ask for some twee text before sending the picture to twitter?
Uh, there’s an entire section of the export dialog for entering the tweet. —Jeffrey
I know but I want to enter different text for every photo I tweet. Now I have to open the export settings for every picture I tweed. I think it’s easier if the plug-in ask for the text before him sends the picture, whiteout having to change the plugin settings.
It’s not “plugin settings”, it’s the export dialog. It opens up to where it was last time, so you enter the text and press “Export”. Generally, once you set other things as you like (your login, the photo size, etc.), you’ll just enter the tweet text. —Jeffrey
I have been using your plug-in to upload pics from LR3 to Smugmug. Your plugin is a godsend – thank you for your hard work. The last half dozen times I have used it (the last 6 months or so), I keep getting error messages on my MacBook Pro that there is a Network Error of “timing out”. I am using a wireless connection when I try to upload, and eventually the attempts run out and the upload aborts When I first started using your plug-in, I did not encounter this issue. Any words of wisdom as to why this is happening? It does not seem to matter how few (as little as 10 images) I have selected, I still get this error message. It then seems to screw up the internet connection and I have to reboot to get internet service again. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I’m not sure what to say… Lightroom is just a client of your networking, and if it’s flaky (for whatever unknown reason) Lightroom will have a tough time. It could also be SmugMug having issues, or your ISP, or anyone in between…. —Jeffrey
Hi. Have been using your uploader to Zenfoilo without problem until tonight. Went through the usual steps in your export dialog (after I had logged on to my zenfolio site), and when I clicked on “refresh list” button I got “cannot log onto zenfolio; invalid credentials”. I have changed my email address to the address listed above since my last upload, and suspect that’s the problem. At any rate, how do we fix the invalid credentials?
In the top section of the export dialog, log out of Zenfolio and then re-log back in. (Being logged in within the browser is not relevant) —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey! こんいちは！ I am trying out your plugin for picasa web album uploading. My question is, is it possible for it to handle two picasa accounts? I want to upload professional photos to my account and family photos to my wife’s picasa account. So I was hoping I can have options on which account to upload.
Yes, if you’ve authenticated to two or more accounts, you’ll have a dropdown in the login area where you can just choose the account. Export presets also include the account, so you can make account-specific presets and invoke them directly from the File menu. —Jeffrey
I was just trying to publish some photos to my Zenfolio page and got the error
“Got an unexpected HTML reply from Zenfolio to my JSON request”
What do I do now?
After getting such an error, please send a log. —Jeffrey
I have both the Export to Kodak and Export to Facebook plugins. I absolutely love the plugins, thank you.
I shoot in Adobe RGB color space, and Lightroom’s Export to Hard Drive you can set the color space to sRGB when exporting so that the colors look proper. Any chance of adding the Color Space setting in your plugins? The photos look off when it gets exported as AdobeRGB to either Facebook and Kodak, I usually have to export to Hard Drive and then upload the JPG files, which defeats the benefit of having a plugin that will do that for me.
Again thank you for a great bunch of LR plug-ins.
The plugins force conversion to sRGB, which is why it doesn’t present the option to change it. You can see for yourself by choosing a non-temporary folder in the “Export Location” section, then inspect the files that are left behind after the export. They’ll all have sRGB profiles attached. —Jeffrey
Is the plugin supposed to delete photos from Zenfolio that I have deleted from my Catalog? For example, I uploaded ~250 photos via the Auto Archive @ Zenfolio preset I created, and then I deleted about half of them. I was hoping that if I re-ran Auto Archive @ Zenfolio that it would delete these 125 photos for me, but it didn’t. Am I doing something wrong?
If the deletion was part of a Zenfolio publish service, whether the deletion is reflected at Zenfolio is a subject of the publish-service settings, but otherwise, outside of a publish service, deletion in Lightroom is not reflected at Zenfolio at all. —Jeffrey
Thanks for the quick reply. I will look at Publish services instead of the Auto Archive.
I’m using the Smugmug Plugin and loving it. Quick question, what is the best way to control the order that my photos display in? If it’s a new album that I’m uploading, will it always follow the order shown in lightroom, and if I re-arrange the lightroom order and republish will it change smugmug?
Thanks!
Kevin
Sort within an album is generally controlled at SmugMug, on a per-album basis with the gallery settings. The display sort in Lightroom is not reflected at SmugMug. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
to serve a big agency, I have to superscribe IPTC field #121 (local caption).
In Lightroom itself I can’t find it.
So I checked your “Metadata Preset Builder” – also unsuccessfully.
Have you any idea to make it visible?
Regards,
Volker
Sorry, I don’t think Lightroom handles that field at all. You can probably use my metadata viewer to see it on a one-by-one basis, but I know of no way to write it. Sorry. —Jeffrey
Hi,
I’m just about to upgrade LT to v4. I understand the bit about needing to re-register the LR plugin, but what will happen with my Zenfolio published settings that were set up in LR3 (also do you know what will happen to any other Publish settings)?
Many thanks,
Dayve
Lightroom’s catalog upgrade process should leave your publish settings alone, so everything should continue to work without interruption. —Jeffrey
I’ve uploaded some images to Zenfolio using the Export to Zenfolio method (rather the Publish). The image metadata indicates it was uploaded to Zenfolio.
When I delete the image from Zenfolio, how to I erase the metadata in jf Zenfolio section of the images metadata?
thanks,
Rob
After selecting the image(s), choose “clear” in the “File > Plugin Extras > Zenoflio Extras” dialog. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey, great plugin…thanks for creating this!
Is there anyway to get the Lightroom (4) star ratings across to iPhoto as part of the export. I know other LR to iPhoto plugin can sync the rating also, but wasn’t sure if it was included in the metadata handled by your plugin?
Keep up the great work.
I’m not sure what plugin you’re referring to… I don’t know anything about iPhoto. —Jeffrey
I cant seem to locate a way to get camera actuations from my 5d mark I, Everything is for a pc and i am on a mac. Some are good for other model cameras but not mine. Do you have a way to do that? I did use your exif viewer and i didn’t see how many shutter activations i had anywhere.
By the way thanks for the metadata viewer for LR4, it took 2 days to get it all but now i could see what were my most used focal lengths.
Your camera may not encode the shutter actuations in the metadata. If you view a straight-out-of-camera JPG in the exif viewer and it doesn’t show up, it’s not there. —Jeffrey
thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
your facebook permissions FAQ solved my problem with the adobe (and your) facebook plugin being unable to upload…. at least the error message from yours led me to the problem – the adobe one is useless!!! been tearing my hair out for almost a week, since it just seemed to start failing over night…
I am trying to authorize my facebook account and it keeps saying “can’t save changes: select at least one album” at the bottom, but will not allow me to do anything. How can I get this working?
You’ve got to authorize first, then select an album. If you have no albums, make one. Then you can select it and save. —Jeffrey
I’m searching where I can make the donation for the new plugin for lr4. Where can I do this?
There’s a link on the registration page, thanks! —Jeffrey
I’ve looked at the options, but am fairly certain there is no way to configure multiple accounts to send pics to. Is there a way to install a 2nd copy of the plugin that can be used to post to a different facebook account? I tried creating a separate lrplugin directory but when I active one, the other one is automatically disabled.
The one plugin can send to any number of accounts. For a normal Export, just log out and reauthenticate at the top of the dialog. For Publish, create one publish service per account. The key to choosing a different account when authenticating is to be sure you’re already logged in to Facebook to the target account in your default browser. —Jeffrey
When I publish new photos to facebook, they post on my wall but are not posting in the news feed. Why is this happening? It used to work until last week. Then I upgraded to LR4 & updated the plug in & today when I posted photos it did not work again.
It may be related to the maximum permission you’ve given the plugin or the album… check your app/album privacy settings. —Jeffrey
Your Lightroom Picasa Web Exporter Plugin is really great! What i would like to do is to “Backup” all my images via the Exporter but also keep some Publish Folders for the best photos. But it seems that the information where the photo is uploaded to in the Metadata is only kept once – so that after using either one this information is overwritten. Am i correct? Couldn`t there be 2 tags one for export and one for publish?
The info in the metadata display is the most recent upload; the same image can be uploaded via multiple Publish Services to multiple accounts, so “Export vs. Publish” is just one subset of the multiple-destinations problem. You can always right-click the thumbnail in a Publish Service to access its url at PicacaWeb, so maybe make two publish services, one for all photos as a backup, and another (with perhaps different output settings) for the best photos. —Jeffrey
I’m attempting for export images using the Jeffrey’s Export-to-Zenfolio
Plug-In within Adobe Lightroom 3. I encountered an error message
stating:”Unexpected HTTP reply from
http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.6/zfapi.asmx: The value of Caption is
incorrect.”
I selected 52 images and only two images upload until I received the error
message and the export terminated.
Please advise.
That’s almost certainly a bug in the plugin. Make sure you’re using the most recent version, then when you next get it (likely you’ll get it with the same photo that caused it the first time), please send a log. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey, thank you very much for your regex book!
It is brilliant!!
Hi Yeffrey,
I’m using the LR plugin to publish photo albums to my Facebook Fanpage. I noticed that photos appear one by one in Facebook Timeline on iPhone and iPad (instead of the entire album). When viewing Facebook Timeline on PC and Mac I get the Album in Timeline (like it should be).
Do you have any idea how to solve this?
Here is an example: https://www.facebook.com/DutchYouthRegatta
Regards,
Valentijn
I don’t know how to solve that, no. As far as I know, FB does not expose that kind of control to a plugin, so it’s probably something they do themselves based on upload time, or perhaps target gallery? —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
Love your work. One question: Is it a conscious design decision that changes made directly to titles, descriptions, and keywords on my Flickr page aren’t copied back to my local Lightroom library the way reader comments are? I’d love the ability to sync changes made in Lightroom and on Flickr and vice versa, if that makes sense. As it stands I have to enter all my text edits in Lightroom or they get overwritten.
Best,
Gene
I suppose it’s a conscious design decision, but you’d have to ask Adobe. The idea, I believe, is that Lightroom is the master source for your image data… comments are brought in because they are the one thing you do not author yourself. —Jeffrey
Great plugin’s Jeffrey, thanks.
I am enjoying LR4′s Geomap feature but note that the location info does not transfer to flickr. Is this possible via the plugin’s (jfFlickr & Metadatawrangler)? Maybe I am missing something.
Regards,
Phil
There are lots of settings in your Flickr account, Lightroom, and the plugin that all must align correctly for things to work, so make note of any messages or options in all three places… —Jeffrey
Thanks Jeffery,
Sometimes it is too easy to ask some-one else. I had flickr set up to load location data and had set the individual exif items in the Metadatawrangler but had missed the flickr; Geoencoding & Location tab
All good now.
I noticed that some of my photos posted with your Lightroom 4 facebook plugin need approval before they appear in the album. Has someone figured out why that is? It does not happen in all albums. I guess it is another privacy feature, but I can’t figure out how to enable automatic add to album.
That should happen, as far as I know, only with the default album for the app, which is the album named for the app. If you upload to albums you create yourself, I’d think they would appear directly. Facebook can at times be mysterious in its ways, so YMMV… —Jeffrey
When I try to reauthenticate it’s having trouble finding the facebook page. It shows a page not found in Internet Explorer. It attempts this numerous times opening a new browser window each time. This is the address in the URL that keeps popping up.
lightroom://info.regex.lightroom.export.facebook2/#access_token=AAAAA8RGpFvXh0Lu8csAAZAzr5CyuZCdzELG0WCTeUmCqmF4Bn8ngZD&expires_in=0
That URL should never appear in a browser… the system should be passing it to Lightroom. So, it looks as if Lightroom’s URL handler didn’t register correctly… try re-installing Lightroom, and hopefully it should work. —Jeffrey
Thanks for making the Lightroom facebook export plugin. I like Export better than Publish because it’s easy to manage the presets and Export does not do automatic things Publish likes to do.
1) I am disappointed that the Wall Photos do not appear. Adobe Bridge and the default Lightroom 4 plugins manage to publish to the wall.
Perhaps this can help you overcome this. I found this in the facebook help pages. This may explain why wall photos do not appear in the export:
“Unlike other photo albums you create, you can choose an audience for individual photos in your Wall Photos and Mobile Uploads albums. Each time you post a new photo, you pick who sees that photo using the audience selector.”
https://www.facebook.com/help/search/?q=%22wall+photos%22+privacy
2) This probably should go in a feature request part of your website but here it is:
Could you have a setting whereby IPTC Title, (Comment,) and Copyright all go into the facebook description. Facebook itself takes the Title and the Copyright, both. (If loaded without Lightroom 4.)
Thanks again for making the facebook export/publish better.
Facebook provides a much smaller interface to third-party apps like the plugin, so it offers no way for the plugin to specify permissions on a per-image basis. (You can set permissions on a per-album basis at FB, though.) As for the description, that’s configured in the Metadata Management section of the plugin, and you have full control. —Jeffrey
I just purchased lightroom 4 and installed this plug in. (as well as the Picasaweb exporter)
I continue to get an error that keeps popping up.
Error Processing “D:\………………………………JPG
canReadFile: Error when lightroom attempts to precess a catalog master image file ” dng_error_bad_format” (the master iamge file is likely corrupt)
I did not have this error when i imported all my files manually.
I am using lightroom 4.1 , Windows 7 Home premium
Any help would be appreciated.
Writing from NY, USA
I don’t know what “this” plugin is meant o refer to, but if Lightroom can’t read the file, it can’t read the file. If it works when you try to import later, maybe something is holding the file open, or maybe it’s not yet been written completely? —Jeffrey
Jeffrey – trivial question for a man of your Ninja-calibre photo (and software) skills – but difficult to ascertain from Canada — where does my Japanese visitor (he’s around Nagoya) get machine prints from a CD? In North America the answer is “practically anywhere” – from department stores to Pharmacies – but for Japan? Doko ni desu ka? What the ubiquitous “go to” place?
Arigatou gozaimasu!
Any local photo shop should be able to handle it, but also camera stores probably have kiosks (and would certainly know where to go if they didn’t). I don’t know anything about Nagoya, but perhaps Bic Camera has a kiosk. —Jeffrey
New England, USA. Trying to upload 28 recent pictures to my Picassa page and each time I get this: Debug:1181: INTERNAL ERROR: corrupt collection settings. I remade the collection downloaded the lastest update and it still will not upload.
Thanks
7/26/2012
Yikes, you’ll probably have to delete and recreate the collection. I’ve never figured out why this data goes corrupt… the best I can guess is some obscure bug in Lightroom, but I really have no idea. It’s very rare. )-: —Jeffrey
Jeffsan Konbanwa.
I’m an early user of your LR plugins and am very happy with them.
I checked your Metadata wrangler plugin for LR3 today because I hate that LR loses the nikon lens data (I like to check this particular metadata in ACDsee when sorting my pics) and Nikon ViewNX seems to be able to keep the lens data when developing NEF2JPG but somehow LR deletes it everytime, even with your metadata wrangler plugin. Any clue to resolve this? I read on the web that Nikon lens metadata is hidden in a proprietary data field but ACDsee can read and show it (both with NEF and JPG). I need this to sort pics taken with , say a 70-200VR vs 70-200VRII, or a 24-70 vs 35 1.4, etc. Thanks anyway for your effort and I love Kyoto (I went several times and it’s one of my best places in the world). I particularly love your nightscenes (Gion, parks, temples, streetscapes, riverside, …) Keep up the good work! btw I’m a japanese living in Belgium
Hello again Jeffsan
Actually I realised the EXIF data about the lens isn’t lost but ACDsee can’t show it once LR has developed the JPG file. With the EXIFtool, I can see at least four occurences of the lens data:
Lens model, Lens, Lens info, Lens ID, and twice in Lens Profile Setup, Lens profile Name if the matching lens profile has been selected in LR for correction.
So it seems the real issue is with ACDsee pro4, wich cannot show the EXIF data corresponding to the lens data. What a pity.
Thanks a lot for the zenfolio tool. Will really help to expedite my process when working there.
Also are you on G+?
Yes, here. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey, I emailed you before checking this blog first. Forgive me: I understand your time is limited. I’m getting a “Debug:1181: timedOut” error message when updating my Flickr stream and from checking this blog it seems that my problem may be a corrupt Lightroom catalog. Yikes indeed! I’ll try to recreate the catalog but as there are 800+ photos linked to this publish service (and 15 ‘smart’ collections) I’ve got some work ahead of me. Love the plugin!
I don’t think that a networking error would come from a corrupted catalog (though it never hurts to check, via the “integrity check” option in the catalog-backup dialog). I’d think the networking error would come from a problem with your network (or Flickr’s, or somewhere in between). If it’s at your location, you might try the standard things like rebooting your router, but it could be something that you just let time clear up. Can’t guess from here, but timeouts are unlikely to be specifically related to Lightroom or the plugin. —Jeffrey
hello jeffrey,
im using your GPS injector-plugin and im verry happy with it. i just ran across one thing witch I dont know if its my fault or a bug (or a feature).
When I create an HDR with photomatix, i got back an 16Bit-TIFF file into lightroom. this file is quite huge (128MB) so i want to convert it into an DNG witch will be just 60MB. But during the export and then reimport of the TIFF file, all the jf Geocoding Support fields are not brought over into the DNG file. I checked Shadow GPS Injector, but this wont help.
Is there any workaround for this issue? I already tryed to Sync the Metadata after the reimport, but i only can sync the “speed” and “bearing” fields, not the actual position. thank you for your great work with the plugins!
I’m not familiar with how Lightroom does DNG conversions, but I’m going to guess that they treat it as “create a new DNG photo, then delete the old TIFF photo”, which means that as far as the plugin is concerned, they’re unrelated photos. The easiest way to solve this is to upgrade to Lr4 where location data is always native to Lightroom
, but otherwise, you can always try re-applying your tracklog to the converted file, or selecting both the DNG and one of the geoencoded source files for the HDR, then in the plugin dialog import the location from the HDR file then geoencode (which ends up adding the location to the DNG). —Jeffrey
I know this is long, but I think you will find my questions worth your time.
I have more than 10k photos on Flickr and I want to load your plugin version flickr-20120728.281. I am worried that there will be sync issues with my on-line photos with your plugin. I used an earlier version of your Flickr plugin before (version of LR3) and I ended up disabling it. My vague memory is that it was something like either it was going to re-upload the photos, and/or I was going to lose all my data on views, and/or there was problem with multiple catalogs. I am sorry I don’t remember exactly why, but I was in a crunch so I switch to LR’s Flickr upload plugin. I am now using LR4 on Windows 7 (x64).
I would like to see your plugin description explain how your plugin handles photos that are already published. Are there are any ramifications for the image data on-line, will it try to re-upload the images or will it be able to compare the data with the images on-line and in my Catalogs without re-uploading? Any idea how long it will take if I have 10K images on-line (from several catalogs)?
As I write this I am thinking the problem I had before was related to my photos on Flickr upload came from several different catalogs. How does it deal with Flickr photos in my account that are not in the catalog I am working with? Will it try to delete them on Flickr so they are synchronized? Will it “tell” the current LR catalog that it is missing photos that are actually from other catalogs?
I use multiple catalogs to minimize the cpu load and keep the number of folders manageable when I am working in LR (e.g. photos of my son’s soccer games has thousands, and I have my work related images in different catalogs for each project. I just astounded myself by adding up the # of photos I have in all my catalogs (60,000). How do your Flickr (& Facebook) plugins integrate, work across multiple catalogs?
I would also like to know if I can prevent re-uploading images that were slightly modified on my computer, like changing a keyword globally. LR’s up-loader aggravates me when I want to upload new photos, but there are hundreds of “modified” photos in the upload queue before them that I really don’t need to change on Flickr. I also want to prevent photos from being deleted on Flickr if I do delete them on my computer (old soccer photos I don’t need anymore, but I want the players to still have access to the ones I put out there for them).
Thanks!
I’d like to know what metric you think this question is worth my time!
The plugin will never delete a photo at Flickr that it hasn’t previously had in the current catalog, so it’s safe for you to go ahead and do some testing in some out-of-the-way nook of your account. There is no cross-catalog integration at all. See the publish docs for info about “association” and “claiming”… it’s all quite fragile and may work perfectly or horribly, depending on many things including the phase of the moon. You can tell my plugin what kinds of changes should cause a republish, but this too is a kludgy area, and my plugin won’t actually republish metadata changes without a develop change, which can be its own kind of annoying. (You can manually push some metadata changes via the “File > Plugin Extras > Flickr Extras” dialog).
When it comes down to it, the plugin does what it does, so I suggest testing to decide whether it’s appropriate for you.—Jeffrey
thanks mate much appreciate your effort. i feel for you. i was thinking of making a plugin for my d3100 to tether to lightroom. its annoying how i cant get lightroom to see the d3100 for tethering. clearly making a plugin would have to be a drop and run affair or i could end up like you clearly feel.
hope everything sorts out for you and congrats and knowing the solution is not always in the scaling up of a service.
take care of you and your family first man you only get one go around at this life.
Jeffery thanks so much for your wonderful work. I just downloaded my first plugin from you, Picassa Web for Lightroom. I learned of your work through David Marx. In 1970 I was stationed in Iwakuni with the First Marine Air Wing. We would often leave Iwakuni on Friday night and arrived in Kyoto in the morning. We usually stayed at a small inn called Racutoso ( spelling?) We even had our own drawer at a couple of local establishments for refreshments. We loved Kyoto. It is one of my favorite cities in the world. It is so beautiful and peaceful. Thanks again. Bob Kinkle
Hello Jeffrey,
do you plan/have some idea to introduce Amazon Glacier as Lightroom Plugin? 1GB for $0.01 is really cheap. Currently my workflow is to store offsite master files from camera on Amazon S3 (currently moving to Glacier using FastGlacier software). Then I have another set of photos – DNG from Lightroom which are already processed and I want to put them on a safe place (currently few hard drives in different locations).
Thank you Jeffrey!
Boris
Glacier doesn’t sound appealing to me for photo backup. It’s cheaper and faster to use something like CrashPlan to back up your whole machine, images and catalogs included. Unlimited storage is a flat rate $6/month if you pay in four year chunks, and you don’t have to wait five hours to recover a file. Other similar cloud-based backup services are popular as well. I use it as part of my multi-computer backup plan (along with 8TB of local RAID-6 storage via a Synology NAS). It’s on my todo list to write up a post about all this. Anyway, Glacier’s general-access API would make more sense when you need to send stuff to the same dataset from multiple places around the globe simultaneously, and perhaps to restore files to multiple places as well…. benefits that make a difference to the enterprise business, but seem irrelevant to the average Lightroom user. —Jeffrey
Hello,
Do you plan to develop a plugin to export to minus.com ?
Thanks,
Kind regards.
No, sorry, never heard of them. —Jeffrey
Hello Jeffrey,
I happily used your Geoencode plugin in LR3. Now I’ve switched to a new PC, with LR4. I imported my pictures and my old LR3 catalog into LR4, and everything seems fine – I can see my pictures, and all LR metadata. But somewhere along the road, the geoencode info generated by the plugin seems have got lost. I installed the latest version of the plugin (gps-20120821.187) in LR4, but it doesn’t find any geoencode data. When I select a picture that I had encoded in LR3 with the plugin (gps-20110719.154) , and select “view location in Google Maps” from the plugin menu, it says ” is not geoencoded”.
Did I do something wrong in the upgrade / migration process ? I thought that the plugin geoencode data was stored in the LR catalog, so moving this catalog to the new PC would give me ALL metadata on the new PC, including the GPS (shadow) information ?
Do you have any suggestions about how to recuperate the geoencode info on my new PC ? I’v got more than 1000 encoded pictures, so re-encoding them all would be quite a job (even if I would remember where all the pictures have been taken …).
Thanks in advance,
Peter
Ghent – Belgium
What you describe should have worked, and the Lr3 photos geoencoded via the plugin should have appeared natively geoencoded in Lr4 after first enabling the plugin in Lr4. Can you re-visit your Lr3 catalog in Lr3 to confirm the shadow data? —Jeffrey
From Australia
LR4: create a new gallery in a group in my Zenfolio a/c. through the LR plugin uploader.
Refresh list, nothing shows up.
Open Zenfolio, gallery is there.
Close LR, restart, still no new gallery showing.
Are you sure you created a new gallery and not a new group? That’s usually the problem when I get this kind of report.
—Jeffrey
I’m unable to fully install the Picassa export plugin. The Plugin shows as installed but disabled because of the error it gets when the script tries to run. The log is below.
**** Error 1
An error occurred while attempting to run one of the plug-in’s scripts.
Could not find namespace: LrPhotoPictureView (and when I look, I can’t see a file with this name)
I’ve seen this a few times, and am not sure whether it’s Lightroom needing a restart, or a bad download. Check this FAQ. BTW, there should be plenty of files in the plugin folder, but nothing named “LrPhotoPictureView”……. that’s an internal Lightroom API endpoint. —Jeffrey
Hello Jeffrey,
thanks for your great plugin! I’ve donated yesterday.
One question. If I republish 14 images with 1024px width, flickr doesn’t generate the “Medium 800″ size for some of them. For example:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diwiesign/6447338027/
Next one, in the same publish process too, flickr generate the “Medium 800″ size:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diwiesign/8062562069/ !?!?
Hopefully, do you have any hint for me. Thanks in advance!
Cheers
Dirk
That’s quite odd. Maybe they look at the file size? In any case, the plugin has no insight into how they process it after the fact. That first shot is breathtaking, by the way. —Jeffrey
The LR4 plugin for export to Zenfolio is not showing in the plugin manager though it does show in the plugin extras. Not sure what to do.
The name in the plugin manger is “jf Zenfolio”, so make sure you’re looking in the Js, not the Zs. —Jeffrey
The plug in always uploads the most recent upload to the very last image in the album. Is there a way somewhere to change that? I want it to make the latest upload be the very first image, but I also want to be able to move that image later if I need to, in order to group something in the album.
Thanks
I don’t know what plugin you’re talking about, but uploads are always in the order you have the images in the library… you can set whatever order you like. Display at a photo-hosting site, on the other hand, is often dictated by their own rules (album sort settings, capture time, etc.); it changes quite a bit from site to site. —Jeffrey
Is there a way to force the list in Flickr group pools to refresh? I’m not sure when it creates the list, but it doesn’t check to update it very often. If I go on Flickr today and drop thirty groups from my list, they will all still show up in the list in the plugin, and if I add any new groups they do not show up in the list.
thanks
The “refresh” button next to the list of sets also refreshes the group-pool list. —Jeffrey
Jeffery,
You write great LR plugins, thanks! I’ve been a fan and customer for many years.
My questions is this: I noticed that when I upload images to Facebook, the first one in my collection appears last and the last one appears first. I do use “User Order” to put them in the order I want to see them in LR and I would like them to appear in FB the same way as I see them in LR.
I don’t know of a way to reverse the order in LR when they are already in “user order”.
Is there something you could add to the plugin to reverse the upload order on an initial upload? (I often upload a couple of hundred to FB albums)
Thanks,
Jim
The plugin has no control over the order, something that also bothers Flickr uploads. It’s my understanding that the plugin is given them in the same order as shown in the Grid, and that Facebook keeps them in the order they arrive, so I’d think it should all be working as you like… (?) —Jeffrey
I want to make a new gallery in Zenfolio. I opened Lightroom and opened
published collections, but couldn’t figure out how to add new gallery here.
Then I opened Zenfolio, created a new gallery and uploaded one photo to it.
now I go to Lightroom and I still do not see this new gallery collection in
Lightroom Publish Collections. What am I doing wrong?
How do I add a new gallery to jfZenfolio where I already have published collections (galleries)?
Thanks,
Matthew Kraus
You can create a new gallery via the “Create Gallery” menu item in the publish-service context menu, and in the “Zenfolio Tools” section of the Publish/Export dialogs. And if you created it at Zenfolio, then click the “refresh” button next to the list of galleries and it’ll show up. —Jeffrey
I have just registered and made a donation for the
lightroom plug in. I downloaded the zip file as but when i
open the file it opens the import page to Lightroom and I cannot find any file
to import to Lightroom. The plug is not listed in the Plug in manager. Can you
help please.
Thanks
It’d be nice if Lightroom let you install by clicking on the plugin, but that’s not how it works; install instructions are here. —Jeffrey
for some reason, the plugin no longer shows enabled. I click enable, yet when i go to export it is not giving me the smugmug option for export. I’m running LR3. This is driving me crazy. I’ve tried to delete and reinstall but to no avail.
I’m guessing that you’re mixing up Adobe’s plugin and mine… theirs is Publish only, while mine does both Publish and Export. —Jeffrey
Jeffry,
I’m afraid I’m unable to get past the dreaded “missing destination cookies” error when trying to upload to my PicasaWeb. I followed your suggestions on backing and optimizing the catalog. I also tried creating another Picasa publish service as well as deleting all Picasa services and re-creating a new service. Do you have any other suggestions? Could it be I’m running LR3?
Dennis
As the FAQ says, I still don’t know what causes this, so the best I can suggest is to delete and rebuild the collection. )-:—Jeffrey
My upload to Flickr has stopped working I am constantly getting ” The handle is in the wrong state for the requested operation”?” message on ALL my attempted uploads. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Please upgrade to Lr4.3, as mentioned in this FAQ. —Jeffrey
Hi,
Just to add, I get the occasional ‘wrong handle’ error when uploading from LR 4.2. This usually happens when uploading many images, so I thought it might be an overload somewhere. It is not constant, though, like the previous poster, but does still occur.
Adobe tells me that they’ve fixed this bug in Lr4.3, so please give that a try… —Jeffrey
I loaded Lightroom 4.3 and am now getting a bad server response consistatly when I try ot upload. Any ideas?
That’s unfortunate. After hitting the error, please send a log. Also unfortunately, I have a cold at the moment, so it’ll be a few days before I can dig into it. —Jeffrey
Enjoy the plug-ins especially export to Flickr. Not sure if I missed an option or not but would it be possible to have the ability to tweet a lower resolution photo when exporting? Typically I upload high resolution photos to Flickr which exceed the file size restrictions of Twitter. It would be nice to have an option to resize the photo for twitter alone so the image could be included in my tweet.
Thanks!
It’s a common request, but unfortunately not easy to do with a plugin. )-: —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey, I have a lot of your plugins, they’re great. Quick question. When I mark pictures to be republished in Lightroom they actually are replaced on SmugMug (which is ok and the expected behavior in my opinion), however in Facebook they are actually added generating duplicates. Why is that ? Am I missing something ? Thanks ! Celso.
As the Publish docs for Facebook clearly say, FB doesn’t allow image replacement. I recommend using Export instead of Publish for FB. —Jeffrey
trying to upload many pictures and videos to zenfolio, using your plugin (current version from 15.01.2013) within lightroom 4.3 but get failure “Unexpected HTTP reply from http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.6/zfapi.asmx: The value of Title is incorrect!
any ideas/help?
thanks in advance!
I’m probably not encoding something correctly, or warning you if the title is too long, or the like. If you could send a log immediately after encountering the error, I’d appreciate it. —Jeffrey
zenfolio-log.txt is empty:-( but last message i saw was “title is too long”. i have titles with max of 192 chars plus the path.
Please send the log (via the button) after getting the error so that I can try to reproduce the error on my side. —Jeffrey
Is there a way that the source code can be viewed for this plug in? When I open any of the lua files, I see a lot of garbled text. I’m using Mac OS X 10.8.2 with Lightroom 3 and I have just began to develop in Lightroom.
My (very old) Lr1 plugins have visible source (see links toward bottom of list here). The SDK from Adobe has modern examples. And 500px has open sourced their plugin, though I don’t know the quality. —Jeffrey
Mike from UK: I have the same issue as Dennis., i.e “missing destination cookies.” But this only happens with any new collections I create. In fact the only album I can upload to is the one I first generated using the “create album at PicasaWeb” option in the Publishing Manager. I can’t even add a new album this way now because I get the “Internal Error: corrupt collection settings” message when attempting to save the settings. I use LR 3.6.
By the way Jeffry, I love the “Bummer” button when things go wrong. Helps keep things in perspective.
Mike
Jeffry, I found a workaround to the missing destination cookies problem that works for me:
1) Only ever create Albums using the tool “Create album at Picasaweb” (in publishing manager.)
2) Never use the “Create Album…” context menu option.
I use LR 3.6 and Windows 7 SP1.
By the way, in your response above, when you say “delete and rebuild the collection” I take it you mean ‘albums’ created within this PicasaWeb publishing service. That is, by ‘collection’, do you mean ‘album’, or am I missing something?
Mike (UK)
How do you set up to publish photos to a Facebook group page.
I do 12 day natural history trips (whale watching +). I have set up a group page.
Searcher Natural History – Photo Sharing.
I would like to publish direct from Lightroom. It dose not seen to let me set up a service that is not under my account.
I’m pretty sure they let you upload only to accounts you control, but sometimes not even that. See this FAQ. —Jeffrey
I didn’t find a place on your site to suggest a new plugin that will be helpful before it comes out in LR5 or can extend that feature in that Adobe has not confirmed in over 1yr that they will have these new features.
Please email me if you are interested in creating a new plugin for LR4 relating to editing tools in the develop module. I have a host of features they are ignoring to reply to whether they are going to do them or not.
I think it’s Adobe’s policy to not comment on future plans, beyond a vague “we see value in the idea” kind of statement. I can’t say I blame them. Unfortunately, a plugin has no access to the image pipeline, so it can’t do anything to extend the develop tools. —Jeffrey
I see the Zenfolio plug-in in my downloads. I click on it and it wisks itself somewhere, but for the life of me I don’t know where it is!! How do I get it from my downloads to the Lightroom Plug-in Manager on my MAC. Or how do I get to it wherever it is supposed to be. I sent my $20 donation and have my registration number and am anxious to get my images onto my Zenfolio website.
Please help!!
Thank you.
Pat
There are install instructions linked from every plugin page (linking here). Thanks for your kind gift(!) —Jeffrey
FYI – this worked for us too!
— comment by Mike on February 10th, 2013 at 5:44am JST (1 month, 6 days ago) — comment permalink
Trying to authenticate to facebook with LR4 and the latest, registered plugin. I get the following error all the time and can no longer upload to facebook:
The website encountered an error while retrieving https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=3b18d8dab56….. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.
Looks like Facebook is having issues, or something on your system is diddling the web traffic between Lightroom and Facebook. —Jeffrey
Perhaps, but it started with LR4 and the update to the plugin. Any suggestions on how to get around it?
Some of the networking in the Windows version of Lightroom 4.0 had “issues”, and they should have been resolved in subsequent updates.
Make sure you’re using 4.3 (or the 4.4 RC). Other than that, I’m at a loss. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey,
I have been using your plugin for years and have never had any problems. I have made a gallery for the pictures to go into the Smugmug:Upload Destination. However, today, I don’t understand why when I try to export from Lightroom into my smugmug website, it pops me into a window that wants me to pick a” folder ” I have already designated that I want the export location to be in the FOLDER/Users/cyndibemel3/pictures/smugmug. Do I need to put something more into the Export Location info. (first box down ) ?
Please advise me ASAP!
Thanks so much,
Cyndi
I don’t know why it would have suddenly changed, but did that target folder perhaps disappear? —Jeffrey
Does your Zenfolio plug-in work for LR4.4 run by Windows 8. I am having problems installing it but maybe it is just me.
It should work fine anywhere Lr4 can run. See this FAQ on install issues. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey
I use the LR to Zenfolio uploader everyday and couldn’t live without it. However, it has an annoying habit of not sending the first 1-4 images in a batch. I have to go back and manually upload the missing images. This doesn’t happen every time – maybe 50% of the time.
Using LR3. Any ideas on a fix?
I’ve never heard of that… that would be quite annoying. Next time it happens, send a log along with a note that details what photos didn’t show up. —Jeffrey
I’m trying to use jf Run Any Command in conjunction with jf Flickr. The command I want to run is an OS X application, which is a .app file, which is actually a directory. If I specify the .app file, it fails because the plugin is prepending the ‘sh’ command. It complains, correctly, that it can’t execute a directory. What I want the plugin to do is simply run the .app file. The command line would not start with ‘sh’.
I tried the OS X ‘open’ command. It correctly runs the .app file, but it does so asynchronously. That means that Lightroom continues and exports the original JPEG. The post-process works, but it doesn’t complete until after the export.
Is there a way to cause the ‘sh’ command not to be prepended or to run .app synchronously? Thanks.
It might not be possible, depending on the app. You can run the app synchronously by drilling down directly to the executable (e.g. for Lightroom, it might be “/Applications/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5“), but whether the executable will accept image filenames on the command line is up to the app, as is whether it will exit immediately after processing. —Jeffrey
I have a question that is not answered above…..
How does this uploader track virtual copies? e.g. I have the original and 3 virtual copies all uploaded to Zenfolio. If I change one of the virtual copies, what maintains the realtionship between the virtual copy and the image on zenfolio so that the right image is updated?
Thank you…..
Ed
Virtual copies are all considered different photos as far as the plugin is concerned, with the caveat that the act of creating a virtual copy also replicates the “uploaded to…” data. I consider this a bug in Lightroom. If you create a virtual copy of a photo you’ve already uploaded, you should clear the upload data of the copy via “File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras”. —Jeffrey
I have a question i cant seem to find the answer to. I have tried to trouble shoot this for hours over the last 2 days and still a no go. I am getting a “Couldn’t render image: AgNegative:renderToFile: dng_error_write_file” error on 2 photos for a gallery on smug mug using the latest version of lightroom 4. I have uploaded these photos via the plugin to other galleries and they have worked fine but it wont let me add them to one particular gallery for no apparent reason. Could you help me here?
Thanks!
That’s an internal Lightroom error… looks like the destination folder where the copy is being written lacks permission, or your disk is full, or other problem that results in the file not being written. —Jeffrey