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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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,
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

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

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’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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 😀

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

FYI – this worked for us too!

— comment by Mike on February 10th, 2013 at 5:44am JST (1 month, 6 days ago) — comment permalink

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

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

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 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

Hello Jeffrey.
I’m now selling my old computer, that happened to be with your plug-in installed and I need to know what should I do to re-install it on my new Mac. Should I pay agian?

Best Regards
André Bittencourt from Brazil.
I am already a registered user of your amazing Zenfolio Plug-in for Lightroom.

If you have the same Lr serial on you new system, just use the same registration code. Or create a new code (with a $.01 transaction if you like). —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I’ve been using your Facebook and Zenfolio plug-in’s for about a year now. Recently, my zenfolio EXPORTS are EXTREMELY slow (it took about 16 hours to export 100 photos). I tested my export to disk and it’s super fast. I tried to see if there were any reported issues with the zenfolio website.
Have you heard of anyone else having issues or any ideas?

Sounds like it might be a networking issue. Uploads to Zenfolio are not slow for me, so either we have different destination servers, or there’s some networking issue on your side (or between you and Zenfolio). Perhaps try the standard networking things (reboot your router, computer, etc.) and hope for the best? —Jeffrey

Thanks very much for any help. If I use LR5’s map module to geoencode my pictures and then publish them with jf Flickr, should they appear on my Flickr map? They don’t appear to be. I’ve made sure to uncheck “hide location” in the plug-in.

Thanks again.

It should all work when everything aligns properly, but you have to make sure your Flickr account is set up to allow geoencoded photos to show on the map, and that Lightroom and the plugin are set up to make sure the data gets to Flickr. Check your Flickr settings and the export settings carefully… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I’m new to Zenfolio as well as to your uploader… In LR4 I created an event and divided the event into different folders of the days events.
My question is.. Is there a way to have your uploader create a Group… with all of the individual Galleries …already separated, into Zenfolio automatically.
As it stands, it is uploading all 1200 photos to a gallery now…
It’d be nice to have it upload the events already separated

Thank you

You can probably do what you want via “automatic destinations”, as described on this post. —Jeffrey

Jefrey and others,
i am workingmon some wokflows with EyeFi Cards and Folder Watch.
My new Lightroom Gadget is a Surface Pro with a USB SSD aatached. My Wish is to get smart Previews automatically on every Import. Butninhave not found a way to do this with LR Presets. Do we have a way to do that with Folder Watch ?

Yes, if you upgrade to the new version of the plugin that I just pushed. 😉 —Jeffrey

Would you consider developing a plugin that would manage backing up files in a LR catalog to an Amazon Glacier account?

I’d consider it, but it’s not on the todo list as of now… not a lot of requests for it as of yet. —Jeffrey

i am still having trouble loading the most recent version of picasaweb as a plugin (having checked your FAQs). now the error message i get is: “the “nil” plug in is not installed or not functioning properly.”

i created a diagnostic file, which read: “An error occurred while attempting to load this plug-in.
The plug-in description script (Info.lua) is missing.”

any help would be appreciated.

Sounds like the plugin files were deleted or corrupted. Perhaps delete the whole thing and download/unzip from scratch… —Jeffrey

I have your Facebook and Zenfolio plug-ins. They are both great. I just purchased a new computer and have installed Lightroom but when I try to access your plug-ins it says” this plug-in is not installed or functioning properly. How do I tell it where the plug-in is located. I don’t want to lose all of my publised collections? Thanks

The plugin manager has a section that shows where it’s located. But don’t worry about your data… it’s in the catalog, so you can safely completely delete the plugin from disk, download and unzip a new copy. If you put it in a different spot from before, you’ll have to point the plugin manager at it again. —Jeffrey

Tried the new plugin (.326) and yep, now works great. Next thing is how do I pull in the images not recorded in the JF Published Photoset so the I can bring into equilibrium the 2 Photosets? Happy to do it on a set by set basis.

Thanks again

Steve

See these docs —Jeffrey

Hi, I just bought [registered] and downloaded the twitter plugin for Lightroom and although it appears in the plugin manager, I can actually add it as a usable plugin. What’s going on?

Barry

I’m not sure what you mean by “add it as a usable plugin”, but if you’re looking for it in the Publish area, it won’t be there… it’s Export only. Publish doesn’t really make sense for Twitter. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey. I am posting from Chicago, Illinois. Thanks so much for all the great work – it saves me so much time, each and every day. There is one thing I have been playing around with, and it occurred to me I might as well just ask you.

The issue is this. I use SmugVault on SmugMug for archiving my DNG files. This works really great, especially with the “entangle” feature on your plugin. Except for the situation where I start with a DNG file in Lightroom, then I open it in PS or some other app that results in a TIFF file being saved. Then I create the final JPEG from that TIFF – but I want all three files (the original DNG, the TIFF and the final JPEG) to be entangled on SmugMug so that the DNG and the TIFF go into the SmugVault, and the JPEG is visible. Right now the only way I know how to do this is to manually upload all three files. But it would be great if there were a way to automate this.

Any suggestions? Thanks so much in advance.

Cheers,

Jay

I don’t see an easy way to entangle all the versions, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, how are you, not tooo cold I hope. I am running into a problem with uploading to Flickr.
Here is what it says: attempt #1 error “timed out”, retrying now. on the top it says Network error contacting api Flickr.com and it also says this: Error during export, Unexpected reply from Flickr: Aborting export before any image was successfully uploaded.
Any idea what to do about this? The first problem was while trying to create a new album, the second one while trying to upload to a album. The funny thing is, even though it says its aborting, the pick is in my Photostream.

There’s a lot of back-and-forth interaction between the plugin and Flickr, and it sounds like network issues are causing errors for some of the later steps, which is why the photo ends up at Flickr even though the full sequence of steps couldn’t be completed. As to what’s causing the network problems, well, that’s notoriously difficult to figure out, but this FAQ has some ideas. —Jeffrey

Has anyone else reported issues with tags not getting applied to uploaded photos with the flickr plugin? I will have it apply tags to an entire set, but about 1/3 of the photos uploaded will be uploaded without tags.

Are you sure that the tags are marked in Lightroom for export? To check, visit the Keyword List in Library, and then “Edit Keyword Tag” in the context menu for an individual keyword. Make sure “include on export” is checked. —Jeffrey

Plano, Texas
How can I rename a Gallery in the LightRoom Plug-in-Manager when called from your “Export to SmugMug” Lightroom Plugin? Without deleting the current Gallery and recreating and uploading?
Also, you plugin defaults the Shopping Cart setting in SmugMug to “On”. Is there a way, when creating a Gallery, to set the Shopping cart option to Off? If not, would you consider offering that option in a future upgrade?
Thanks for your answers,
Lp

If you change the name of an album at SmugMug and then refresh the album list in the Publish Service, it’ll offer the option to rename the collections to match the new names at SmugMug. The plugin doesn’t do anything with any shopping-cart setting, so I’m sure that’s inherited from your account new-album defaults. —Jeffrey

Hi, Jeffrey
I live in Yokohama Japan and using “Export to Flickr” Plug-in .

When I tried to publish 159 lightroom pictures to flickr, it stopped and a dialogbox appeared.
In the dialogbox, written some html code. Eventually the message was “Server Connection Closed rw.api.flickr.com” .

I began to use your plug-in since I hit the simillar problem with Lightroom’s official plug-in.

I think this trouble is due to Flickr service, but if you can, please tell me how to avoid this error.

MacOSX Marvericks
Lightroom 5.4
JF Plug in version 201417.334
Flickr pro account

Thank you

Flickr is really flaky lately… I’ve not been able to upload reliably for months. I have 100 mbit fiber at home (I’m in Kyoto), but I get timeouts and dropped connections as well. —Jeffrey

Scott writing from Kabul, Afghanistan.
With the recent Heartbleed virus frenzy I had to change my Flickr password and now I have to re-authenticate with my new password. The option I can find is to delete those credentials. That makes me a bit nervous. Is it going to get rid of everything or just my password. Any help would be great.

Scott

The plugin doesn’t hold your password… just an authentication key. It’s not something that heartbleed would affect. If it works, fine, and if not, just re-authenticate. Logging out won’t delete any data in Lightroom. —Jeffrey

I’m on Lightroom 4 and for quite some time been using your Flickr uploader. Today I upgraded to version 20140617.343 and then uploaded three photos.

I noticed that the Lightroom Keyword Tags did not appear as Tags in Flickr. (I since entered them manually on Flickr.)

Is this a bug or should I have reviewed some settings after the upgrade? I don’t usually do that.

Thanks very much,
Andrew

It’s likely that the keywords in question are not marked “include on export” in Lightroom. Right click on the keyword in the Keyword List in Library, and choose “Edit Keyword Tag”. —Jeffrey

Being new to your plug-in for Lightroom I’m having a problem with the section marked ‘Google Drive: Folders in this Publish Service’.

I have no idea what to enter so that I can back up (and hopefully sync) my files between Lightroom and Google Drive.

Can yo offer any advice as it would be very welcome… 🙂

Thanks

It should list your current folders along with checkboxes for “normal” and “smart”, referring to collections in Lightroom that will be created for you. Photos then added to those collections and published will find their way to the related Google Drive folder. See these docs for the similar section in a different Publish plugin. —Jeffrey

Please could you advise on the correct export settings from lightroom plug in to my Zenfolio site. I have downloaded a few pics, and they all look pixulated and not sharp

I’d guess that you need to make sure you’re uploading at a large-enough pixel size, and a high-enough JPEG quality. Check the “File Settings” and “Image Sizing” sections of the Publish/Export dialog. —Jeffrey

Hello again,
I am setting up a folder structure on Zenfolio identical to my computer setup in alphabetical order, but the plug-in lists the groups first, and then the folders. I’m organizing my family photos by year, and in some years there were so few photos there was no reason to group them into subfolders by event, but some years have many events, so I have split them up into subfolders. Is there a way to have the plug-in list folders and groups together in alphabetical order? Thanks!

No, unfortunately, Lightroom does what it does in this area, and gives plugins no say in the matter. —Jeffrey

What’s the difference between a normal (dumb) collection and a “smart” collection?

This is a generic Lightroom thing. A normal collection has whatever photos you manually add to it. A smart collection is rule based… you write the rule (e.g. “All five-star photos with such-and-such a keyword”) and Lightroom keeps the collection filled with matching images. —Jeffrey

Fro some reason, today, no folders are showing up in the Google Drive publish service. When I go to the service and reauthenticate, no folders are displaying.
Did recent update to Google Drive have an affect on this?

I’ve finally figured this out, I think. Google updated the API without updating the docs… I think I figured out what I need to do, and have just pushed version 20141019.42 with the fix. —Jeffrey

Using LR5 and Picasa web albums. I want to add another Picasa account. How do I do this? Thanks

Log out from Picasaweb at the top of the Export dialog, then in your browser switch to whatever account you want to add, then launch the authentication from the top of the dialog. —Jeffrey

Hi, great FB plugin… one question, when I have set the album to ‘only me’ and upload to a FB page I run… the album can be found in the page/album section by admin, but the privacy still does say ‘public’.

I don’t think it is actually public as no one commented or likes the album, this did only happen when I shared to the timeline.

Can you confirm though as I want to upload albums to a client fb page, where they will then need to cull some images and add captions before making it public.

thanks

andy

The photo may be marked “public”, but the more-restrictive “only me” of the album overrides it. I guess. I don’t know why Facebook displays it that way, but I guess their idea might be that you can set the status for individual photos as you see fit, then remove the restriction from the album to make the individual photos as visible as each was indicated. I guess. —Jeffrey

I am running a MacBook Pro with Yosemite and Lightroom five. Today I just started getting an error message when uploading to send folio that wouldn’t allow me because of the server certificate not being recognized. I installed the update tried again and still no luck. Any thoughts on this.

Generally speaking, a server-certificate error is not one that should be ignored, especially if you’re using WiFi or public internet, because it’s what you’d see if someone were trying to hijack your connection. That being said, the last item of this FAQ used to apply when using Lightroom to contact SmugMug, so perhaps that’s what you’re seeing? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey!

Commenting from Laie, Hawaii.

Thanks for all the hard work you do on these. I will be donating in paypal for my first time.

I wanted to start using your SmugMug plugin, but I’m not sure it will solve my needs. I have been trying to republish only meta-data changes (not the actual pixel data), and saw that this was at one time possible with SmugMug’s own plugin as shown here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-k8trVmegw at 16:20. I can’t find that option anymore… i think it’s been removed from the plugin, sadly.

Then someone on a forum said your plugin can do it, but I see no option for it :*(

You can do it from the “File > Plugin Extras > SmugMug Extras” dialog. —Jeffrey

Hi, I’ve been using the picasaWeb plugin for several years now with LR 3. Two or three times in the past I’ve hit the “missing destination cookies” issues, but the instructions on this page have always fixed it. This time around I can’t seem to find a fix. I’ve updated to the latest version of the plugin. Removed the plugin from LR, exited LR, restarted LR, re-install the plugin, but still get the “missing destination cookies.” When I re-install it remembers I’ve paid, so not all metadata is being removed when I remove the plugin using LR’s plugin manager. The description of how to fix this in the FAQ above talks about possible catalog corruption. My catalog shows no other signs of corruption and LR’s integrity check before a backup doesn’t show any errors.

Any help on how to get over this would be appreciated.

In the Metadata of LR5.7, I want to see both “Location shown” and “Location taken”, similar to Photo Mechanic 5. Is this possible?
Greetings from Germany
Hans Knodel

I think so, if “Location Created” is the same as “Location Taken”. If so, check out my metadata-viewer preset builder. —Jeffrey

Where do you paste the Facebook authentication code? I’ve scrolled through the plugin settings several times and can’t find any kind of text box where the code goes.

You shouldn’t need to paste in anything… it should all be handled automatically, but if for some reason it isn’t, the plugin should pop up a dialog a few seconds after you click on the “Authenticate at Facebook” button. —Jeffrey

Just wondering if there’s a way to handle re-edits to photos that already exist on Flickr? So, I have images on Flickr (uploaded via your plugin) from a few years ago, but now want to apply some different develop settings to those same images, but upload them as ‘new’ images to Flickr. Any changes I make currently (even to a virtual copy) just overwrite the older version on the site (obviously, as you’d expect).
Any way around this?
Thanks, Matt (UK)

If they’re currently in a Publish Service, then putting them in a separate Publish Service will see new copies (with the perhaps-different settings of the new Publish Service) sent to Flickr. Or, in any case, doing a normal Export (File > Export) and in the destination section be sure to not choose the “replace” and “delete” options. —Jeffrey

On the facebook publish plugin, since some albums go missing time time to time, is there a way to batch download the whole album and republish?

I don’t understand the question… what albums go missing from where? Download what from where to here? Republish what? (“Republish” is not a word normally used with Facebook, since that means making new copies. Facebook doesn’t allow images to be updated in place.) —Jeffrey

I am using Lightroom 5.7 and your Plug in version 20150414.276. All was working fine until two days ago, when, after creating a new gallery under an existing group, I was unable to upload to this new gallery, receiving message, “unable to export: you have not chosen a destination folder”.

I have logged out of Zenfolio, logged back in, deleted the gallery, created the gallery again using your plug-in, saw in it the list to select, selected the destination, and still get the same message. I tried to chose other galleries (within the same group) from my list, where I have had no problem uploading to until two days ago, and still receive the same message, so I can’t upload to those galleries any more using the plug-in. No idea what is going on. I restarted the computer, tried again, still no luck. Any ideas what is going on?

Writing from Rochester, NY
Thanks

The error “you have not chosen a destination folder” is Lightroom’s, from the “Export Location” section of the Export Dialog. It’s normally “temporary folder”, but I’m guessing that you somehow bumped it to “specific folder”. —Jeffrey

Hi – is there a way to reorder the way the published albums appear in Lightroom under “Publish Services”? All the imported albums have been alphabetically ordered but I’d like them chronologically ordered.

Thanks

Lightroom doesn’t allow the order to be set, so if you want them chronologically, you’ll have to lead with the date in a way that sorts alphabetically (e.g. YYYYMMDD). —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I’ve been unable to upload anything to flickr for the last week via the jf Flickr plugin, nor by publishing locally through jf Collection Publisher and uploading via flickr’s FlickrUploadr. I strongly suspect the problem is with flickr: have you heard of anybody else with the same problems?

I’m running Mac OS X 10.10.3, and using Chrome as my main browser.

‘lightroom.exe’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Sorry, I guess the instructions weren’t explicit enough… I’ve updated them to highlight that you need to reference the “lightroom.exe” in your Lightroom install folder. Please reload the FAQ page to get the updated instructions. —Jeffrey

hi,
I want to use the new Google photos. Should I use the Picasa Plugin or the Google drive plugin?
Difference? Advantages?

Thank you very much!

Nice greetings from Germany

I don’t know. I’m hoping that they’ll open up a Photos-specific API to make things clear, but until then I think it’s a matter of experimentation as to the pluses and minuses of each. I don’t actually use either plugin enough myself to have formed an opinion. —Jeffrey

Hi,

I am trying to post pictures directly to a business page. I have linked my Facebook account with the JF Facebook plug-in in Lightroom, but the only albums listed to post pictures to are personal albums. I cannot see my business page in the drop-down menu in the “Facebook Tools” section of the setup page, so how do I post directly to the business page without first having to post in a personal album? Help 🙂

Thank you in advance!

You should be able to do it if the permission-settings are appropriate, but see this FAQ for caveats. —Jeffrey

Jeff, thanks for your super helpful plugin! I have been using it for a couple of years but today ran into this issue and reading your answers to others did not help me much. I keep getting the same message after uploading 10 or so photos. Please help.
Unexpected HTTP reply from http://up.zenfolio.com/danisxxxx/p830614711/upload.ushx?replace=1121929309: 503

It’s an issue at Zenfolio. I’ve given them specific data to help them debug… hopefully something will come of that. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

I just wanted to confirm that I am seeing the same issue as Winston Mitchell. I have Win 8.1 and am using Lightroom 6.1.1

I followed the command prompt instructions several times. But I have not uninstalled-reinstalled Lightroom. I suppose I could try that, but it would require re-downloading all of my updates. So far this is just an inconvenience. But I wanted to let you know about another user with the issue.

Is there, perhaps, any information that I could provide to you that might help? I may also take up your advice and contact Adobe about it.

Thanks again!

-Paul

Jeff, why am I getting this message?????

Create new gallery at Zenfolio aborted: Unexpected HTTP reply from http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.6/zfapi.asmx: Deprecated API version – upgrade required to at least version 1.7

Probably because you’re apparently using an ancient version of the plugin. Please upgrade.—Jeffrey

I was exporting from LR to facebook and this came up:

Error reply from Facebook: (#17) User request limit reached

How do I make it go away so I can continue uploading?

Thanks for your hard work on the plugin

I’ve never seen this one, but it appears to be the per-user sliding-window limit. If you’re using Publish, perhaps the background fetching of comments is killing your access quota. Check out the “Importing Comments from Facebook” section and switch to “Manually”. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
Thanks for your quick reply and information. I will take a look at the link you supplied.
Lee

Hi!
I’m testing your Picasa/Google Photo plugin, and I have a question as it’s the main reason I installed it:
I need to upload pictures to Google Photos using their feature that compress by itself the pictures and doesn’t use my Google Drive allowed data.
How can I do that with your plugin? When I manually upload files, Google Photo asks me if I prefer high quality picture that don’t use my allowed data (and compresses by itself) or original file.
Thanks for your help, and congrats! I already use the Flickr plugin, it’s wonderful!

Sadly, Google does not let third-party tools like my plugin to access any of these modern features, so it’s simply not possible unless you use whatever tools Google itself provides. The plugin is using the latest API they’ve made available, one that dates back to before Google Plus was unveiled. Yes, in the 4+ years since Google+ was released, they’ve still not provided an upload API, so I wouldn’t hold your breath for a Google Photos API any time soon. )-: —Jeffrey

I use a home computer with my main catalogue and a laptop a lot for underway. Can I swap Zenfolio plugin settings/configurations/ publish services between two computers?

The catalogs are nearly identical between computers.

It’s possible with some plugins.

Thanks, awesome plugin, I love it.

Some of the configuration is in the catalog itself, and some is in your preferences file. If you copy the catalog itself back and forth, you’ll have a good chance of getting it to work, but of course that’s only if everything else works with the catalog-copy scheme (e.g. folder layout and contents are the same). But it’s fraught with danger, having two copies of the same catalog “live”… if you forgot to copy from one to the other before using on the other, you’ll end up losing data. Lightroom isn’t really set up for multiple-computer use. —Jeffrey

Nice Plugin Jeffrey…Very straightforward..
I am still very surprised Adobe does not provide a canned plugin for this, but kudos to you… you seized the moment..
Best,
jay

Hi Jeffrey,
is there a way to synchronize the photos in my existing Flickr galleries back into LR ?
I have synchronized the folders / gallery names, and I can publish to them from LR, but I would also like to bring back in LR the photos sent to Flickr from other ways (iPhone..).

Also : no way to see my Flickr favorites in LR ?

Thanks !

Please see my answer at this comment about synchronization. You can see the Favorite counts for photos in a Publish Service (see the “Comments” section at the lower right of Library that appears when in a Publish Collection). —Jeffrey

After your answer http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/faq#comment-55238 I get that I have to add the folder in Google Drive and only after that I have to refresh the list. Is that correct? Can I add the new folder directly from inside the plugin or not? In the settings I really didn’t find anything to do it.

Sorry if I misunderstand something

Best

You are correct; currently, folders can’t be created from within the plugin, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hello,

I cannot use proximity search full catalog…. i have message :

“invalid font size attribute: tiny”

I use loghtroom 6

Merci beacoup

I’m really surprised that Lightroom is showing that error… it is (or was) indeed an error in the plugin, but one that Lightroom normally silently ignores. In any case, I’ve fixed it…. thanks for the report. —Jeffrey

I registered and went through the FAQ’s and can’t save my settings in the JF Facebook plugin. It tells me to “Make a selection in the “Facebook: Albums in this Publish Service” section. It seems like I need to login and customize every time. I don’t know exactly what this means.

Second question, is it possible to update/upload the date from the photo metadata to FB?

In order to create a Publish Service, Lightroom requires at least one collection in it. The plugin is telling you to pick at least one of your albums (in the “Facebook: Albums in this Publish Service” section of the dialog) to be represented in the Publish Service as a collection. About metadata, Facebook ignores all image metadata. It’s pretty ridiculous. —Jeffrey

Would it be possible to make the name “Data Explorer” of the created collection set (containing the isolated collections sets and collections) free customizable? ie “_Data Explorer”

I do have a lot of collection and it needs some scrolling or filtering to find “Data Explorer”

Thx
regards
Bernd

Sounds like a good idea. In the latest release, look for the “options” link in the upper-right of the results dialog. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeff, since you already have a SSL certificate, can you please allow the plugin archives to be downloaded over HTTPS? I checked by nothing is served by https://regex.info/, i.e. paths present under the non-secured site are not available on the secure one.

Bonus points if the “auto-update” from Lightroom also uses https.

Thanks!
Iustin

Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

I use the Export to Zenfolio plugin with LR 3.0.1 for quite some time, and depend on it for pushing out photos to my Zenfolio account. I normally use smart collections after making the galleries manually on Zenfolio due to the way I like to structure the groups by client, then a group for each shoot, and two galleries within that, one for edited and one for unedited images for a given client.

Every now and then a clerical error can occur and something needs to be renamed on the Zenfolio account’s galleries. This doesn’t break the ability to push up from Lightroom properly, but then the name of the smart collection in Lightroom may be different than the name on the Zenfolio side. For instance, a renaming due to a marriage or divorce. I do the rename on Zenfolio manually, but then I am at a loss to know how, or if, there is a way to force the associated smart collection(s) to rename on the LightRoom 3.0.1 side of things. I was hoping you could help enlighten me on this.

Thank you very much in advance and keep up the great work! I am a loyal fan.

In the “Zenfolio: Galleries in this Publish Service” section of the Publishing Manager, refresh the gallery list via the “refresh list” button under the list, then turn on the “forcefully rename…” option, then [Save] the settings. That should do it. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

Thansk for all theses puglins. Im testing one for Google drive ans have a small issue;
i would like to use it to publish a dynamic collection. How can I do that?

I’m new with publishing services so I dont know if I do thinsg correctly but I could spot that with with Flickr for example (which is already integrated in LR), there is an option to publish collections.

is there any workaround for google drive to have something similar?

Cheers,
Liam

If you mean a “Smart Collection”, then sure, just click the “Smart” box instead of (or in addition to) the “Normal” box in the list of “Folders in this Publish Service” in the Publishing Manager. —Jeffrey

After reinstalling all plugins, no matter what export plugin I use, I get the ‘LR needs to configure your system…..for the jf Facebook plugin’ referred to above.

I tried this “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7.1\lightroom.exe” -register with no luck.

Any ideas short of uninstalling LR which will mean a bunch of time to get it back teh way I want it.

TIA,

Lew

This bug is an Adobe thing… your best bet is to contact them, but I suspect that they won’t be interested in supporting such an old version. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the response. I found the solution to the issue. I hope this will be useful for those who will run with the same problem. I had run with the same problem before, but I remember LR had given me a different message. I think the message was “no temporary folder” or similar to that effect. What I did then was I created a folder with a LR Temp folder.

However, I thought it would be similar issue but different message. So i looked at the LR Temp folder, it was there but there were folders and photos there. So what I did was I deleted the LR Temp folder and then I created a new one. It worked.

Thanks again and your plug-in is really useful to me. I could not upload photos on FB without it.

Thanks again,

Joey

Hi Jeffrey,

I’ve had the “Lightroom needs to configure your system” error for some time, and I’d tried running the lightroom register command without any luck. I then tried running from an admin prompt and that worked, so that may well be worth mentioning in the FAQ.

Excellent plugin by the way!
Paul – London

Hi Jeffrey,

First of all thank you for doing this. The folder watch plug-in has been of great help.

Here is my question to you:
Is there a way to have a lock on taking the images out of Lightroom for any unauthorized or I should say, low-level user?
The ideal situation for my workflow is for many to use the library to capture and organize, but only someone with a code can export, email or even show the photo in the finder folder.

I don’t know if it’s possible or if you are aware of something that already exists.
Keep up the good work
Thank you!

Albert
California, USA

This is not possible with Lightroom. To do this securely, you’d have to have an app that holds all the data about the image, including its pixels, in its own encrypted storage. It wouldn’t surprise me if such apps exist, but I don’t know of any. —Jeffrey

It would basically be a UI to specify the grouping (eg by folder, by aperture range “buckets”)
and to average/sum/count some other field (eg aperture, green labels) within that group. Ideally be able to choose multiple fields to ave/sum/count.

Hey Jeffrey, I’m having a hard time re-assotiating already published images in the LR catalog. Everything I do causes the image to appear one more time in the album.

This is what I want: There are albums on my FB fan page. Images already have likes and comments, so I want to keep everything. For some reason (I really have no idea), the publish collections in LR are empty.

Situation: The images show a link to the correct image in the FB album. The help text says something about marking it for re-publish. But that does not work if the image is not in the publish service. Do you know a way to publish in a dry run? To get them into the publish service without uploading them?

Please tell me if I should have posted this somewhere else.

Daniel

The only way to get already-published images in there is via the “populate..” checkbox seen here. Take extreme care, though, because Facebook does not allow images to be updated, so any re-publish is actually a “delete and send again” operation, destroying all likes and comments. If you want to keep track of all your FB images, perhaps it’s better to use a regular (not Publish) Smart Collection with “Uploaded to Facebook” as the rule. —Jeffrey

Hello, the issue with the header: “Every time I start Lightroom, I get a message long the lines of “Lightroom needs to configure your system for the $$$/xxx=……. plug-in.”. “, should mention that it’s (sometimes?) necessary to run this as an Administrator, or it won’t have any effect.

Thanks for the plugins!
-Geir

Hi Jeffery from Tennessee in the USA. I have on occasion used your lightroom plugin for export to Flickr but find it to be more trouble than manual uploads, especially when trying to pick groups in the very small print they are displayed in the export window, sorry just my opinion. What I am wondering about is do you offer any type plugin for same that would during the upload also put the photo into different Flickr groups like barns, abandoned, city skyscapes, lighthouses, etc., picked automatically by keywording in the photo. I have a friend who did this by using some sort of spreadsheet he made to use along with your plugin. Unfortunately, he just told me about it and did not offer to help me do it with my photos. If you have such would you please direct me to it, because I want it and I’m sure others would too?

You can make a smart collection within the publish service that, for example, fills itself with images that have such-and-such a keyword, and also have “Uploaded to Flickr” of “yes”, and have the target of the smart collection be the group or groups appropriate for that keyword. Thus, after setting these up for the various groups you’re interested in, you need merely bring a photo to the Publish Service’s “photostream” collection and publish it, and the image will find itself in all the appropriate per-group collections as well that you can then publish. Or, to do it all in one step, instead of the “Uploaded to Flickr” thing, have the smart collections key off an additional keywords that you use to indicate “send this to Flickr”. Once you add that keywords, hitting Publish on the various Flickr collections (or invoking this) will take care of it in one step. —Jeffrey

Writing from UK.
I am trying to download the EXIF viewer plugin – so useful – but winzip will not unzip any files with .lua extension and labels them as corrupt. What can I do, as I am stuck at step 1?

The “*lua” files are among those inside the ZIP file, so I’m guessing that your browser has unzipped the download for you. The folder that the *.lua files are in is the plugin. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey! This plugin is awesome, the built in FB one alway seems to get an authentication error when exporting. Just a quick question, is there a way to designate the temp folder where the exports are created before the upload? If not, where is this folder by default? I’m just concerned with storage space since my photos are on a different drive (HSS) than where my lightroom executes from (SSD).

You can have Lightroom write the files to whatever folder you want (it’s part of the dialog when you first set up a Publish Service), but in such a case the files will accumulate and remain there after the upload. That’s a feature if that’s what you desire. If not, use the “temporary folder” setting, in which case Lightroom will put the files into a folder it creates within your system temporary folder, wherever that happens to be, and will delete them the moment the plugin has finished uploading.　—Jeffrey

I am modifying picture within Lightroom and I want to export the modified picture to Zenfolio using the plugin. (ie: cropped picture)
What configuration setting needs to be changed to allow for this?

Thanks very much.

Greg

By default the latest changes are sent out when you Publish, perhaps you changed the option. See this FAQ. —Jeffrey

j’ai installé JF geododing support mais pour le module JF Facebook j’ai le message en bas de la fenêtre de réglage : “Impossible d’enregistrer les modifications : le module externe JF Geocoding Support n’est pas installé ou ne fonctionne pas correctement” comment faire ? le module est pourtant installé . merci.

Please see this FAQ. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey, first off I wanted to thank you for all your hard work and effort. I am trying to upload images out of my iMac with the OS Sierra from lightroom CC to our photo library on Zenfolio. I keep getting this error message.
Unexpected reply from Zenfolio: their system returned this error that the jf Zenfolio plugin doesn’t know how to handle: “50003: There is no such user.”
Target url: http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.8/zfapi.asmx
Unix timestamp of call start: 1506719189.6266
Unix timestamp of call end: 1506719190.1189
HTTP Reply Date Field: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:06:26 GMT
HTTP Origin Field: ST10-B

This is an intermittent error at Zenfolio. Please report it to them. I’m hoping that if enough of their users report it, they’ll fix it —Jeffrey

Hello if I “View Location At Google Maps” select only a single marker appears. What I make wrong?

This command (“View Location at Google Maps”), like most, works with one image at a time. For multiple images, choose “View selected locations as KML in Google Earth”. —Jeffrey

Hi, I just upgraded Lightroom to latest Classic CC version and also installed the 20171019.293 plugin version. Everithing works within the plugin but I’m facinge this issue: I’ve an old collection where I have a picture to be utpdate and a brand new one to be added. I right-clicked and marked as update the existing photo because I know that update is no supported, so now I just have to upload the new photo, however when publishing I got the well known “Unexpected HTTP status from Google: 400 Update is no longer supported” error. Might it be that the plugin is trying to update the old photo even if marked as updated and no longer listed in the list of photo to be updated? Is there any workaround for that?

Thanks in advance for any reply.

Google abandoned PicasaWeb. Things are broken with it and will only get worse, until one day it’ll just go dark. It’s best to move on to a different photo site. (Google offers no API to allow third parties like Lightroom to upload to Google Photos, so they’re not really interested in hosting stuff for real photographers, it seems.) ‐Jeffrey

Is there a way for the plugins to convert Lightroom keywords to hashtags in the body of the post? Similar to the Lightroom Instagram plugin?

I’m not sure what you mean by “the post”… I suppose you’re asking the question in the context of a specific plugin, but it’s difficult to guess which. With my plugins, where you can use my template tokens you can use something like “{LUA=T=TBL() for k in pairs(KWE) do table.insert(T,"#"..k) end return table.concat(T,' ')}“ though if you have keywords with spaces you may want something more. —Jeffrey

I have been using your LR to Facebook plugin with great success until today when it suddenly broke. I downloaded the update, deleted the older version, installed the latest version and I get the same error with the new version as I got with the old version. The error is “Can’t save changes the nil plugin is not installed or not functioning correctly.”
Any ideas how I can fix this?
Thanks for a great plugin! Please hurry and provide me a solution as I miss it a great deal.
It sounds as if you’ve deleted the plugin files out from under Lightroom. “Installing” a plugin in Lightroom is really just telling Lightroom where the plugin lives on your system… the plugin files must continue to be there for it to continue to work. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey,

Thanks so much for your plugins. I’ve used Smugmug & Zenfolio plugins for YEARS and they’re great.
I have a question about Zenfolio’s plugin recently. As I publish different collections a dialog box comes up with “Task Completed” and a progress bar underneath that shows complete but nothing happens and I have to force quit Lightroom every time to get rid of it which is getting very tedious…. Please help! I have updated to the most recent plugin and version of lightroom.

Thank you so much for any help!

I’m wondering whether there are Lightroom dialogs that are hidden behind other windows. Lightroom does this sometimes, inexplicably putting the dialog with focus behind the main window. Next time you run into this, hunt around/behind for another dialog. On a Mac, minimizing Lightroom then bringing it back is usually sufficient to get all the dialogs in front of the main window. —Jeffrey

I keep getting “Facebook login aborted: Assert @Debug:883” when I try to reauthenticate.

Please send a plugin log the next time you encounter this. Thanks. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I have been experiencing some problems with Google Photos almost one week. Your Google Drive plug-in works great and having no problem in publishing Google Drive. I can see files both online and copies of the uploaded files in my local Google Drive folder. However, I cannot see the in Google Photos. Not much help from Google Drive and Google Photos guys online help. What’s wrong, any idea?

Firuz Soyuer

I have no insight into Google Photos, sorry. Google finally released an API a few days ago, so that I can build a plugin for Google Photos, but so far the API has bugs that doesn’t allow me to proceed. But, it’s likely that we’ll be able to have a plugin for Google Photos soon enough, finally, after perhaps a dozen years since it was released…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff, writing from Japan.

I’m uploading pictures to a Facebook album and having to approve them each time. I get a message in Facebook that says “The photos below were uploaded from another application, you’ll need to approve them.”

The album has Public permissions but your app doesn’t seem to have that broad of permissions. I followed your directions on the FAQ to change the app permissions but it would appear Facebook’s privacy settings may have changed and I can’t find the required settings anywhere. I actually can’t seem to find anything related to your plugin in Facebook. Any ideas?

I can no longer find it, too, nor info about any apps that I know I’ve got connected. Weird. Will investigate further… —Jeffrey

Hi, Jeffrey! I live in Arlington, Texas and have been using your LR to Smugmug plugin for years and love it. I just recently updated my Lightroom 5 to version 5.7.1 on both my laptop and desktop computers. Having the same kind of problem on both. I have downloaded and installed your latest verion of your Smugmug exporter, unzipped it, and installed it with the Lightroom Plug-in mamager which shows it is installed and running. When I go to export photos, your exporter asks me to login. I place my Smugmug nickname in the nickname box and put by password in the password box. I click LOGIN and I get a huge window of text and the heading is that I got an unexpected HTML response from Smugmug. After I close this window, I get ERROR and that the login is aborted. I hope I have given you enough info. I have never had anything like this happen with your plugin before. BTW, the problem doesn’t hurt my Windows 10 tablet when the login crashes, but on my Windows 7 desktop it crashes the whole computer so badly that I have to shut it down with the master restart button on the front of the computer. Ouch! Ideas? Thanks! (Please pardon me if I have submitted this to the wrong place)

Yikes, I see now that they announced something a month ago that just took effect, disabling plugin access. I’ll dig in and try to get a new version out soon. —Jeffrey

In WA state. All of a sudden getting “Unexpected HTML reply from SmugMug” with long list of code that I must stop, when using plugin to update photos in Lightroom to Smugmug. Using latest version (Version 20180512.320), but previous version also threw error. Was all working good until trying today.

Yes, please see here —Jeffrey

I’ve used this plugin for years, and for the past few days it won’t upload, giving me an error “service is unavailable”. I have Lightroom and the plugin updated and a few images uploaded before it starts doing this. I have contacted Zenfolio twice, but have not received an answer. The following is additional info that pops up which I shared with Zenfolio.

Target url: http://up.zenfolio.com/gretchenwakeman/p425456852/upload2.ushx
Unix timestamp of call start: 1529881941.4695
Unix timestamp of call end: 1529881941.9334
HTTP Reply Date Field: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 23:12:21 GMT

Any ideas on how to resolve this new issue?

They will probably reply to say “It’s not our problem; contact Jeffrey”, but I can assure you it is absolutely, unequivocally their problem. Their API endpoint is returning an HTML page meant for a web browser, not an API data reply, something that it should never do, under any circumstances, so by definition this is their problem, even if the plugin were sending junk (which of course it’s not). It has been their pattern for years for Support to blame the plugin and shoo people my way, even long after their engineers have confirmed the problem is theirs. It’s getting old, and I wish they would stop. In this case, I’ve sent them enough that they should be convinced that the problem is not mine, but I’ve gotten no reply. They just shoo you away to me, and consider “case closed”. Sigh. I don’t know what more I can do. I am as frustrated with Zenfolio as you are. —Jeffrey

Hi – I downloaded the Google Photos add-on (appreciating the limitations) as a quick solution to a problem (i.e. I quickly needed to get some pictures “published” to my Google library and the new Google Sync (piece of sh*t that it is) has been stuck on 917 of 58,345 photos for the past week. Anyway, when trying to authenticate the add-on to my Google account, it cannot login and get my details. It says loading albums list and then fails with cannot get login details from Google. I’ve tried lots of things like restarting, logging in and out of Google, manually pasting the code. No luck. The screen sequence is slightly different from what you’ve published when going through the authentication but I think it should still work the same.

Any ideas…?

Much appreciated,

Greg

It’s a new enough plugin that I wouldn’t put the blame past me. Could you send a plugin log after you try but fail to authenticate? Thanks. —Jeffrey

Jeffery, is there a way to keep the custom order of the LR gallery when uploading to Zenfolio? If so, how?

Sorry, no 🙁 —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

As others have said, thanks for the Flickr publishing (and other) plugins. My apologies if I have missed a simple setting or this question has been answered previously.

I know that the plugin identifies metadata changes, and shows images selected to be republished. Is there any way to have these images republished automatically without further interaction. I know that some people, including me, may not want this to happen all the time so I can see that the default would be to require intervention. But given that I am adding keywords and titles to many images, an automatic republish facility would be welcome.

Many thanks

Mike
Southampton UK

The best I can suggest at the moment is the “Publish At” feature of my Bag-o-Goodies plugin. You can schedule it to publish at the end of the day, in case you forget to do it yourself before you go home. It’s not really a satisfying answer to your query, I know, sorry. —Jeffrey

I’m from Hawaii! I’ve been attempting to authenticate the newest plugin for smugmug, and am unable to do so. It does register it with smugmug, but lightroom is not recognizing it so the plugin authentication dialog never goes away. Uninstalled lightroom classic cc twice, tried this line in terminal C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic CC\Lightroom.exe” -register Tried to revoke authentication withing smugmug a couple a times, and can see it registered again after running authentication dialog. But Lightroom is not closing the authentication warning. Using macbook pro and high sierra

Reinstalling Lightroom should fix it, hopefully. The problem you described indicates that Lightroom’s URL handler wasn’t registered with the system, something it should do during install. Hopefully. —Jeffrey

Hello I’m from Alexandria VA and just started using your geoencoding plug-in. So far it’s just what I’ve been looking for! I’m still figuring out all the features. Minor thing… I can’t figure out where to set the speed field to show MPH instead of KPH. Thanks!

Sorry, the field is defined as KPH. Few people use MPH anymore anyway, as the kilometer has been the international standard for well over 100 years. 😉 —Jeffrey

The plugin for Zenfolio loaded into Lightroom but now in the Lightroom Publishing Manager dialogue box and it won’t save changes because at the bottom of the box it says I’m “not logged in”. Logged into what? Thanks.
Jim

To Zenfolio. You authenticate to your Zenfolio account in the 2nd-from-top section of the dialog. —Jeffrey

Hi – thanks for your useful plugins which I’ve been using for a while now. Thought I’d ask you as you may have more insight than most, but do you have any idea why (and how) Google have managed to balls up their Backup and Sync for Photos so badly that I had to install it?

It used to be silent and efficient in copying everything as soon as I imported it via Lightroom – it was on Google – and now it simply is not fit for purpose and never actually completes a scan, prepare, process and sync operation. Can take a full week.

Do you know anything about this debacle?

Thanks again…

Greg

I don’t, sorry. I’m not familiar with that product. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffery, Mike from Portland, Oregon, here.

Yesterday I upgraded your Geoencoding Plugin for Lightroom 8, after a year of inactivity on my part. Tried to use ‘Fill Elevation’ in the ‘Etc…’ tab, but got an error message that I’ve exceeded my daily access quota at Google’s elevation-API servers. First request in a year for 47 points. So this morning I requested a ‘Fill’ for a single point, but got the same message. Any thoughts on what’s going on?

Thanks,
Mike

Oops, I forgot to update that one after Google started charging for things. If it becomes too expensive, I’ll have to disable it, but for now I’ve released a version that should work. —Jeffrey

I am from Sunnyvale Texas near Dallas.

I am having problems uploading to Zenfolio. I have re authenticated and refreshed the user data. I have the latest version of Lightroom and the latest version of the plug-in.

I get the following error:

Target url: http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.8/zfapi.asmx
Unix timestamp of call start: 1546576035.6556
Unix timestamp of call end: 1546576036.0745
HTTP Reply Date Field: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 04:27:19 GMT
HTTP Origin Field: ST10-A

Please advise.

The message also suggested that you include that info when contacting Zenfolio support, no? That’s what’d I’d advise you to do. —Jeffrey

Jeff.
I have tried to ask at least 2 times and have screwed up the query.

I use lightroom cc 8.1. I have jf collection publisher and jf photo safe.

I wish to delete a number of photos from 2 separate folders but I am unable to do this.

I am long time user but just coming back after a years illness and can’t figure out what is wrong. A “workflow delete options” folders is shown with a ? mark. Can’t find it, don’t know what it does. Please help.

It’s difficult to suggest anything, given so little information, but first of all, “Workflow Delete Options” is this plugin. If the photo you want to delete is included anywhere within the PhotoSafe plugin, you won’t be able to delete it…. that’s the whole point of that plugin. So first remove the photo from that plugin. Install Workflow Delete Options, and if it’s stopping the delete, it’ll present a dialog telling you why. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, greetings from a snowy little village near London.

First, thanks for all your work on the plugins. I’ve used your Picasa one since 2013 until Google Photos, and a little after that. It made life so much easier. I also have the Flickr one but not a big user there. After a couple of years playing around trying to decide where to publish my pictures I think I’ve finally settled on SmugMug and naturally you’re my first port of call when looking for the best way to upload.

Most of what I publish is high volume, quick turn over stuff for local sports clubs and charity events. The focus is more to make sure there is at least a picture or 2 of each kid, rather than publishing just the best pictures. As you can imagine Lightroom & a good plugin makes the workflow much quicker. Thing is, I can’t justify their portfolio subscription price (already paying for domain, Adobe and Smugmug Power subscription & I do the pics for free) so I need to put on the watermarks (sadly necessary) before uploading. This brings me to my actual question…

I’d like to double watermark my pictures. Is that a feature you would consider adding? If so, would you have any idea how long until that could be implemented?

The end result I’m after is an opaque, out the way, small logo as I used to do with your Picasa plugin, but then add a large central translucent watermark that can’t be cropped out and would spoil a print, but doesn’t ruin viewing the image.

The reason I’m asking about time is because I’d like to build my new site soon and keeping the same watermark settings would help with consistency. I realise this is your hobby & it’s a bit cheeky for me to even ask, but if this feature could appear in a few weeks, I’d wait. If not I’d get started right away with my alternate plan. I’m thinking the next easiest way would be to export to HDD adding one watermark, then export from that folder adding the second.

Once again, thanks for all your work & the time you’ve saved me. Hope you and the family are enjoying 2019 so far & continue to do so.

Cheers.

My plugins have never had any particular support for watermarks. Lightroom has some basic watermarking features, and my plugins don’t get in the way of that, but the Picasa plugin didn’t have anything extra. Perhaps you used Lr/Mogrify to add watermarks? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey. I am testing your “folder publisher” plugin, but have one problem. Publishing (export) is also making some crazy copy on my system drive (AppData/Local/Temp/253AD67E-2E69-4013-8394-09DC3A9C6CA5 etc). I cannot publish everything as my system drive gets full. Am I missing something or why this is happening? Thx so much in advance.

-dusan-

Without more info, I don’t know what those files might be, so I can’t speculate about them. What kind of files? What’s in them? Lightroom certainly uses temporary files, but should clean up after itself. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey
I use 2 plugins, Collections Publisher, and Snapshot on Export with very good result, thank you
But i want to change the location of the plugin folder.
How to do this ?
Thank you

Just move it on disk to where you want, and re-add it in the Plugin Manager, deleting the old one pointing to the old location. None of your data is stored in the plugin folder itself, so no worries about data loss. —Jeffrey

RE: I get a “missing destination cookies” error when trying to publish.
My catalog is now unmanageable and I decided to split it, so now I try to manage flickr from 2 catalogs via jflickr. I created a new catalog and a new jflickr publish service and attached the flickr images via the discovery feature—all fine. (You also have to export and import keywords to the new catalog.) Now I try to recreate the existing smart collection (albums). The plugin discovers all the albums on flickr and links them just fine but not the rules. If I rather export the smart collection from the old catalog and import it in the new I get a smart collection with the pics but it is not linked to the album on flickr, I have to edit each collection and manually link it to the album, or I get the “missing cookies” error. What would be nice is: create smart collection with links from flickr, with button in dialog to import rules from an lsrmcol file.

Hi, I really loved the Geoencoding Support Plugin you created. I only got a small problem with this. Currently the reverse geocoding is using openstreet map, and when I try to use it on photos in Japan. The prefecture part is reflected as region, for example. Photo took in Hiroshima Prefecture, the metadata field ‘State Province’ is filled by ‘Chyugoku Region ‘. But is there a way to configure it to show Prefectures instead of Regions. Thank you very much.

Yes, I’ve run into this myself…. it’s very strange. I think it’s some kind of unintentional data mistake. I’ve reached out to the OSM Japan mailing list to ask. —Jeffrey

Hi, Jeffrey!

I’m looking for a way to copy some basic metadata for a selected photo to the clipboard (LRClassic CC on OSX). I’d like to copy Camera Brand and Modell, Lens, focal length, aperture, shutter and ISO.
I have been looking around thoroughly and haven’t found anything like that. But may be I’m missing the forrest for the trees or I’m to stupid to see how to automate any of the metadata-tools around.

Any hint would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards
Markus

I don’t know of anything….. except the “Copy to Clipboard” feature that I just added to my Bag-o-Goodies plugin. —Jeffrey

Hi – From Michigan on the shore of Lake Michigan. I am using your Zenfolio plugin for LR. I am noticing the photos that get updated in LR do not get replaced in Zenfolio when republished. They just get added again. So I have to go back through my galleries in Zenfolio and delete the duplicates. I have the same problem with deletes. I flag a photo for removal in LR and say “yes” to remove from the Zenfolio publish service but it doesn’t get removed from Zenolfio. So again, I have to go back through my galleries and delete the photo in Zenfolio. Please help! Thank you.

It sounds as if somehow the version of the photo at Zenfolio is not at Zenfolio where the plugin thinks it is. You can test this by visiting a thumbnail of a published photo and choosing “View at Zenfolio” from the context menu. If it brings you to an actual photo at Zenfolio, but then a delete or a republish don’t work correctly, I’d appreciate to see the plugin log at the end. —Jeffrey

Hi,
I’ve bought your flickr plugin since few weeks. I’ve got an current error when i publish a picture “?:0 attempt to index field ‘SmartCollectionInThe Air’ (a nil value)” .
I don’t magian to find the reason and after this error my LR catalog is unsynchronized. The picture is online but still to publish in flickr publishing service.
I’ve returned back to my last backup but i’ve loose my pictures on the others publishing services.
I’m using LR 8.4 and your last plugin version.
Best regards,
Jean-François

I’ve received a few reports about this error. I think it’s a problem in Lightroom, but I just don’t know enough yet to be sure. I’d appreciate a plugin log just after encountering the error…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, from time to time I got “@basic_utils line 460: no NewMediaItemResults:” error during big exports (300-800) photo. I am ready to provide more details, but do no know how to gather debug info in this case, have only screenshots.

Germany.

The next time you encounter this, please send a plugin log and I’ll take a look. —Jeffrey

Target url: http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.8/zfapi.asmx
Unix timestamp of call start: 1580426449.6918
Unix timestamp of call end: 1580426449.9269
HTTP Reply Date Field: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 23:20:51 GMT
HTTP Origin Field: ST04-B

Unexpected reply from Zenfolio: their system returned this error that the jf Zenfolio plugin doesn’t know how to handle: “The value of Keywords is incorrect”

It might be an issue with Zenfolio, or perhaps with this plugin.

Additional information to pass along to Zenfolio support in case you contact them:

Any ideas?

This smells like a plugin error. Please send a plugin log just after encountering the error, and I’ll take a look, thanks. —Jeffrey

Hi, I have problems with Folder Publisher Lightroom Plugin. I use Lightroom classic 9.
How can I reset the plugin? Remove the plugin doesn’t work.

It’s difficult to suggest anything without knowing more than “problems”. The plugin stores most of its data in the catalog, and some things in Lightroom’s preferences. —Jeffrey

Hi, Just stated using the Flickr uploader again after a long gap, photos uploaded okay but no GPS location. the info is all there on Lightroom??? Whats up???

Various settings control whether location info is sent. See the “Metadata” section, and “Flickr: Location Privacy” section. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey.

After a troublesome 2 days un and re installing Lightroom I need to reinstall all my plugins.
However, I’ve reinstalled your google photos LRplugin and registered with the Paypal donation. The transaction code given doesn’t work.

Please advise.

Regards

John

If you’ve not done a Lightroom major-version upgrade, you can use your prior registration codes. Otherwise, please see this warning about how PayPal is sometimes giving a bogus code on the confirmation screen (and so you should see the confirmation email for the proper code). —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey
I love and use your plugins in Lightroom for years. I just have a quick question.
I’m using since a couple of weeks a Apple Mac Mini M1 with the Apple Silicon Chip.
Your plugins seems for work well, while Lightroom uses Rosetta 2. Will your Plugins also work, after Adobe releases the native Apple Silicon Chip version of Lightroom?

Thanks and keep up your awesome work.

Cheers

Michael

I imagine so, because the plugins don’t use any binary command files on MacOS, though I don’t have an M1 Mac with which to test to be sure. —Jeffrey

Hi sir! The past three days, I am unable to upload anything to Zenfolio from LR using your plugin. Different machines, different networks, different states, doesn’t matter. I have a desktop and a laptop, both with no software changes or software installs. Neither will work. Was on a commercial fiber link, a home in Orlando, and now in Naples, all no good. Any thoughts? Thank you!
Zenfolio is in the midst of changing their backend service provider, and so perhaps there are some bumps in the road. I’ve just released a new version of the plugin that may be more robust with their new system, so please give it a try. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffry,
I’m writing from the SW of Germany. By the way a nice region for cycling, I follow you on strava.
I use Collection Publisher as well as Folder Publisher since years, great functionality.
I have on issue with Folder Publisher: It starts to publish all selected folders/collection at once. My PC does not like more the 2 or 3 at once, otherwise the output is instable. It would be great to have an option to publish all selected folders one by one :-). Currently I do this manually 🙁
In German we say “chain (to the) right (side) and go” s.th. similar in English?
Folke

That’s the way Lightroom works… it publishes all you select at once. So yeah, if you want to do one by one, you have to do it manually. As for the cycling phrase, if there’s something similar in English, I don’t know it. Maybe the closest thing is “Just do it” 🙂 —Jeffrey

I’m trying to find away to use my phones location data (Google Location Data) to inject GPS data into my photo’s.. I have around 10 years of location data of which I’ve used the Google takeout feature to download but it’s in their own Google JSON format… converting to GPX format using the https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ website did not work (Lightroom can’t read the file for some reason)… I found your plugin and hoping it can simply plug into Google Location data automatically if I grant access and allow me to easily add location data to my files? Is this something your plugin can do?

The plugin doesn’t handle Google’s format, but it should handle the GPX file, assuming the GPX file has timestamps with each data point. —Jeffrey

From Lennox Head (east coast Australia).

Have just installed jf Flickr plugin.
Is there a way to sync photos already on my Flickr photostream with LrC via your publishing plugin?
Then I could easily see what is already posted to avoid duplication.

In theory it’s possible, and discussed in the plugin documentation, but in practice it’s very fragile and spotty, so take care. —Jeffrey

I have been using the Export to Google Drive Plugin with Lightroom 6.14 for some time.
Recently, attempts to upload files have resulted in the following error:
“Unexpected HTTP Status from Google. 500 Unknown Error. Unable to Export”
The first photo is uploaded to Google Drive, but no others. Even exporting just one file produces the error message although the single file is uploaded.

It’s almost certain that Google is simply having “issues” at the moment, and it will go away on its own. If it doesn’t go away, and seems to be limited to failing with just certain photos, sending the plugin log would be the best way for me to investigate. —Jeffrey

Thank you so much for creating the Zenfolio Plug-in. I love it and use it everyday. However, I have a question. I can’t seem to figure out how to create Zenfolio “Groups” which are like folders. I have no trouble creating Galleries. I would appreciate you pointing me in the right direction.

Thank you!
Beth

In the same place you create galleries, change the “gallery” dropdown to “group”. —Jeffrey