Comments on: FAQ for Jeffrey’s Plugins for Adobe Lightroom

By: Valentijn van Duijvendijk

Valentijn van Duijvendijk — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:38:42 +0000

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

By: Dmytro

Dmytro — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:02:44 +0000

Jeffrey, thank you very much for your regex book!
It is brilliant!!

By: CLC PhotoGraphics

CLC PhotoGraphics — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:58:23 +0000

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

By: Berndt

Berndt — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:25:07 +0000

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

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:01:40 +0000

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

By: Kory

Kory — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:40:47 +0000

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

By: Elizabeth Lee Cantrell

Elizabeth Lee Cantrell — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:00:36 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:01:31 +0000

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

By: Nik Sargent

Nik Sargent — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:27:33 +0000

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…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:50:02 +0000

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