Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin
flickr-20080905.21.zip
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This Export-to-Flickr plugin has been completely rewritten for Lightroom 2.0 and later, and is not compatible with Lightroom 1.
Please see the known issues before reporting bugs. If this is your first look at my export plugins, please see the announcement post for an overview and some important information.
(See the old plugin page for a version compatible with Lightroom 1.x)
| 20080905.21 | Fixed an "undefined global: DestinationSynopsis" error that could happen when using a preset with a "select at export time" upload-destination setting |
| 20080904.20 | Added support for auto-generated destinations (see the "auto dests" button near the destination-photoset pulldown). Disable/ignore "replace" for non-pro accounts. No longer report "couldn't delete prior image" errors, since that's not really an error in the light of for our workflow. |
| 20080831.19 | Handle a race condition in the upgrade logic that sometimes results in a superfluous "You have version XYZ, but version XYZ is now available" message |
| 20080829.18 | Added a bunch of new items to the template language. |
| 20080829.17 | Oops, left some debugging cruft that results in an "empty" dialog if the logged-in-user has no galleries or the like. Fixed. |
| 20080828.16 | fix |
| 20080828.15 | Minor tweaks |
| 20080828.14 | A few more tweaks to report a failed upgrade attempt a bit more clearly |
| 20080828.13 | Whoo-hoo, finally figured out the "assert" problem that some people without photosets were having. When upgrading, ignore a status of “50” (which means “out of disk space”) from the unzip the plugin performs. It seems Windows often reports this status even when there's plenty of disk space left, so until I can understand it better, I'll just ignore that code. |
| 20080827.12 | Fixed the Caption {Filetype} token (was broken for DNGs). Layout tweeks in my preset dialogs. Made some Layout tweeks in my preset dialogs. |
| 20080817.11 | Lots of little tweaks as I cleaned things up. Added a bunch of stuff to the Plugin Manager, including a “What's New” button that shows up next to the “Upgrade Now” button when a new version is available. |
| 20080814.10 | Fixed infinite cycle of 'assert' messages one might get in odd situations |
| 20080812.9 | Fixes (I hope) a "bad argument #1 to '?' (table expected, got nil)" erorr |
| 20080811.8 | Moved and renamed the debugging logs to a temporary folder, and added log Show/Delete buttons to the plugin's custom section of the Plugin Manager. |
| 20080806.7 | Fixed {State} and {Rating} in preset templates. |
| 20080805.6 | Oops, the Windows versions had lost the ability to upgrade themselves. Once this version is installed manually, subsequent versions should be able to upgrade as discussed here. |
| 20080804.5 | Fixed "Access to undefined global: LrError" error that happens when trying to report a login-related problem. |
| 20080804.4 | Fixed a couple of internal errors related to the "choose destination at time of export" feature |
| 20080804.3 | Export Presets should now work. |
| 20080731.2 | Added the public/private/friends, etc., options that I forgot to include from the v1 plugin. |
| 20080729.1 | Initial public release |
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See the known issues before reporting bugs. Also, when reporting bugs, please include the OS, the version number of Lightroom, and the version number of the plugin.
Great job, the new plugin looks wonderful!
Quick bug reports on the bleeding edge–
Using “{Rating}” in the new title/caption editor says “Incomplete token {Rating” (note missing brace).
Template “Help” button goes to 404.
The “help” link was fixed right away, thanks. I’ve finally fixed the {Rating} issue in .7. —Jeffrey
Hey- thanks for continuing to offer an awesome flickr plugin for Lightroom, it really doesn’t get any better.
I just upgraded myself to Lightroom 2, and installed the latest plugin (20080729.1). I’m noticing an issue when I try to use an export preset (newly created with this version of the plugin), where it fails with an error that says, “This plug-in‚Äôs post-processing task did not finish successfully. Can’t log in to Flickr: missing credentials”
However, if I use the “Export…” dialog, and do it by hand, everything works fine.
Thanks again for your dedication to a great product.
Fixed in .3 —Jeffrey
Great plugin! Thanks for the effort.
A question: how can I set privacy level of uploads? I remember this was possible in version 1.
Thanks again.
I’d forgotten it. Added in version .2. —Jeffrey
Just noticed the missing privacy levels too - could you add this to facebook and picasaweb as well if it’s not in them
Thanks. These version 2 plugins are awesome frankly
Added in .2 —Jeffrey
Thanks for this — really like the new feature of deciding on photoset at export time. Unfortunately, choosing this option (select at export time) results in a dialog with the content ‘At line 13616′ and then another dialog with the content ‘Unable to export: An internal error has occurred: bad argument #3 (boolean expected, got string)”.
Otherwise seems to work well.
Both fixed in .4 —Jeffrey
Thanks for the great plugin! Besides the minor bugs mentioned aboved, everyting works like a charm.
One feature I really miss, however, is exporting lens model metadata to Flickr tag. ( similar to FlickrExport plugin for Aperture ).
Is this possible ‘coz I can’t seem to find a way to do it?
Thanks again!
It’s there… look at the captioning templates in the dialog. —Jeffrey
Great plugin! Thanks again for making these available. Such a huge help.
I’m wondering about the “export to folder” option in the Flickr export plugin. Is that new? I don’t remember it from the last one. What purpose does it serve?
That’s part of the standard Lightroom 2 export dialog. I always leave it set to “temporary folder”, but some people like to keep copies of the files they upload, so this allows them to do that. The only difference is that with “temporary folder”, Lightroom picks the location (a temporary one), and deletes the images at the end of the export. —Jeffrey
It’s really nice of you to quickly release the new plugin for the latest Lightroom. I really appreciate for what you have done for the flickr users! One minor question i’d like to ask is that in previous version we can customize the privacy setting. That is, we can set who is allowed to see the uploaded picture.
It’s a very nice and decent feature so that we don’t have to readjust the setting one by one in the flickr after uploading them. Have you had any plan of integrating this into the next version. (Or do I miss something in your setting panel?)
Thank you so much!
Geez, 10 comments saying the same thing. Added in .2 —Jeffrey
How do I edit the “Uploaded to Flickr” metadata?
I need to do this for all my files that were uploaded with the older plugin.
This was covered in the announcement post, in the section on migration.
Also I would love to see another metadata field to check images that I want to upload but have not been uploaded yet? I am trying to figure out how to do this with the sdk but I am having to learn lua from scratch.
You can easily do this with keywords, or just create a “to be uploaded” collection. I suppose I could add a custom metadata field that would allow you to mark an image for upload, but that seems a tad overkill…. —Jeffrey
Nice plugin!!!
Hi, I installed the flickr export plugin, but can’t get it to work at all. The error generated is:
This plug-in’s post-processing task did not finish successfully.
?:13814: assertion failed!
I did follow the installation instructions and I tried installing on a second pc the lightroom trial available on adobe’s site. Nothing changed though and that’s what I expected to happen, since this is the same version of the application (2.0 481478). Is this a beta and is this why I get the error?
I have a problem with the LR/Mogrify piglet. I have donated and have version 3.90 (unrestricted Version) however when i try to upload to Flickr it only allows me 10 pictures. Is there a fix for this or have i got the wrong piglet installed?
Thanks in advance.
You should talk to the LR/Mogrify author about LR/Mogrify, but FYI, “piglets” are not supported by this new version of my Flickr plugin. —Jeffrey
Hi, great plugin!!
I used the Lightroom 1 version six month ago and I’m very pleased with it. However in this version I’ve a problem with it. When I export a photo it doesn’t send all the keywords to flickr. It’s this a bug or something so?
Thanks and regards !!!
This is a Lightroom bug, now covered on the known issues page (which was added after you left your comment). —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey
Thanks for this plugin ! I tried to install it on my LR 2.0 beta but it says :
These new plugins do not work the the 2.0 beta, only the real 2.0. —Jeffrey
Plugin error log for plugin at: G:\Photos\Outils\Lightroom\Plugins\flickr-jfriedl.lrplugin
**** Error 1
An error occurred while attempting to load this plugin.
The plugin’s description resource (“Info.lua”) did not finish properly. (“?:3: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)”)
(Of course, I re-downloaded the zip file, etc)
Could you help me ?
Thanks very much for including upload privacy options! That was really quick (and now I’m gonna go and upload 80 pictures of cousins — see what you did?
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thank you for a fantastic tool….my most used tool for my photos. and I love following your photography and your son….thank you for letting us into your life.
Now, about a problem about accented characters (probably similar to the comment on your site reported by Peter Davis on 18th July).
It occurs with the plugin for v1.x and the newer for v2.x
I’m french, so I have keywords & locations data with accented characters (éèà…)
What I get into flickr page after the export:
- For metadatas entered in the Keyword area of lightroom, if I set one with accents (eg “écran”) on flickr I get both tags “écran” and “cran” (the good tag plus a version where the accented character(s) have been removed)
- For medatata in the Exif part (location/city/country) I get only the version where accented chars have been removed (for instance if I set “Grèce” in lightrrom, I get only “Grce” on flickr side).
Very best regards and congratulations for this great plugin
Uploading isn’t working for me (LR 2.0, Mac 10.5.4). I’m select 12 images, doing a Flickr Export, and then getting two dialogs:
At line 13631Unable to Export: An internal error has occurred: bad argument #3 (boolean expected, got string)Bummer.
Fixed in .4 —Jeffrey
Love the plugin, makes it very easy to upload! Thank you!
Is there a way to take the camera/lens data and propagate them to the caption easily through the plugin?
Yes —Jeffrey
Thanks a lot for this great piece of software!!!
Great plugin… it’s working well for me. I have just started exploring geotagging, and it appears the plugin is not exporting/uploading the GPS data which is shown in Lightroom. Is this by design, or a bug, or am I just doing it wrong?
I’m using MS Pro Photo tools to add GPS data, which is shown in Lightroom. When I export with the plugin, the location data doesn’t seem to appear on Flickr.
If it shows up in Lightroom, it’ll show up on Flickr unless you have stripped them. Make sure that the Minimize Embedded Metadata option in the Metadata section of the export dialog is not checked. —Jeffrey
Plugin will stop after first file
An internal error has occurred: ?:17404: attempt to concatenate field ‘?’ (a nil value)
the version is saying that the plug in will stop working after aug 30 2008
I have the version 20080731.2
The plugins expire to encourage (force) people to upgrade from older versions. I know that there will be a lot of bugs fixed early on, so I don’t want old buggy versions hanging around out there. This was mentioned on the announcement post —Jeffrey
Just moved to LR2 and upgraded to your 20080731.2 version of the plugin. I am getting an error I don’t see listed above:
Unable to Export:
An internal error has occurred: ?:13829: assertion failed!
I can still get the 20080714.47 version to run in LR2, so will continue with that for now.
Thanks for this great tool!
Fixed in version .15 —Jeffrey
I might be missing something, but I think I found a discrepancy that turns out to be a huge inconvenience for me between the plugins for 1.0 and 2.0. We have multiple flickr accounts, one for me, and one for my wife. Before I could export to either account and it wouldn’t matter which I was logged into with my browser (Lightroom lives on my computer, so I’m usually logged in with my flickr account). With the new plugin for 2.0 your plugin only remembers one flickr login at a time. Is there a way that you can make it work like the previous version did? It’s a hassle to go to flickr, log out, log back in, then go into Lightroom and export.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re referring to… the plugin doesn’t care what you’re logged in to in your browser. However, there was a bug that might have been related, and that’s fixed as of version .4. The currently-logged-in-user is now encapsulated into an Export Preset, as it was with the older plugin, so you can create “His” and “Hers” presets that you can select from within the Export Dialog to change the destination user. —Jeffrey
I’m finding that the current version in Lightroom 2.0 is not applying tags to the uploaded images. None of the options in the Metadata section of the plugin are checked… although I’ve just spotted that in the extra tags section the radio button for space separated is selected (although there are no extra tags set there, so I presume it should be ignored…. I’ll try switching to comma-separated and see what happens)
Otherwise, it’s as great as it always has been!
There’s a Lightroom bug related to keyword export, now mentioned on the known issues page, along with a fix. —Jeffrey
I like the plugin very much and have learned to use it properly. Sometimes the upload is finalized by the statement
Ein interner Fehler ist aufgetreten: ?:17389: attempt to index a nil value
(translates as “an internal error has occurred: …”
The picture is being uploaded, but LR says “Uploaded to Flickr: No”
Any idea why this happens? I use the latest version of the plugin.
Thanks! Thomas
I can confirm the issue that others have been reporting with exported photos to flickr not getting tagged with the keywords applied in lightroom.
There is a Lightroom-wide bug related to keywords that may be the culprit here. I am still crushed with so much work that I can’t investigate this on my side yet, but perhaps that link will give someone here a clue.
I also noticed that the functionality to ‘replace’ an already-uploaded photo no longer appears to work for me either.
Was the previous image uploaded with the previous plugin? If so, you need to migrate your LR1-plugin data to the new LR2-plugin data. —Jeffrey
Thanks Jeffrey, it looks like it must be that Lightroom 2 bug you pointed to… I set the “export keywords as Lightroom hierarchy” option in the export dialog and now the tags are getting through with the Flickr upload. Adobe are working on a proper fix, it seems.
Hi Jef,
Most of the problems are solved with the latest version flickr-20080805.6.zip
I found out that there will be almost every time an error when you create a new set.
and doing uploads directly.
Is it possible to display more set names at the same time.
I have lot of set’s it’s difficult to scroll trough the sets
Thanks
Hi Jef,
I’m having problems installing the flickr plugin. This is the dialog:
At line 13871:Assertion failed(!)
I’m working on Windows XP 64bits.
Thanks!!!!
Fixed in version .15 —Jeffrey
Hi Jef,
I was wondering if it’s possible to only update the keywords from Lightroom to Flickr.
Hmmm, it should be possible. Added to the to-do list. —Jeffrey
At the time of the upload Lightroom crashed..i had to kill Lightroom and restart the upload.
With the upload to flicker filter it was easy to select the not uploaded photo’s
After the total upload:
One photo was double uploaded and the photo was not in a set.
I have seen this problem in many upload application’s.
Is it possible to build in some kind of verification in the the future releases?
Hopefully, crashes (and hence, this issue) are few and far between. The problem is that the crash apparently happened between a successful upload and the notation of it being successfully written to the database. There are perhaps ways to guard against this, but it doesn’t seem worthwhile to spend the energy on that kind of edge case… —Jeffrey
Jeff,
Cannot tell from the comments so far if the “Upload Management” “All/Update/New” function is working or not, mine is not. I can export a few then go back and export them again and all I have for counts with the “Update” or “New” is “(?)”. Seems I am keeping no history of uploaded files. Current Lightroom 2.0 and Current Plugin.
I will second the suggestion that Enver put in about the tags, that would be really great.
Wonderful application you have here, many thanks!!
John
I would also love the ability to update only the tags since I don’t want the “expense” of waiting for my photos to upload a 2nd time.
Jeff,
I have been a fan of this plug-in for a while, and first of all want to thank you for your work.
I recently upgraded to Vista 64, and have installed LR 2.0 64bit. I installed ver 6.7 of the plug-in, and when I try to export to FLICKR I get the following error: At Line 13871: Assertion Failed(!). I tried going down one version (5.x) and had the same error. This was using the default settings.
NOTE: I as able to get this to work by configuring the following settings:
- Sharpening: OFF (Note: I turned this back on and can still upload)
- Upload to your flickr photoset: …Don’t add to photoset… (Note: this was blank, so I just chose something)
I don’t have any photosets on Flickr, and wonder if its related to this setting.
This is now fixed in version .15. The problem was that the default destination wasn’t being set properly when the user had no sets. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey,
I have another request about tags,
Is it possible to have the option of sending folder names as tag/set to Flickr?
ps. the latest version is working stable.
Hi Jeffrey and thanks for that plugin!
I would just suggest you a feature, I would be very happy to use : to use the lightroom collection system to automaticaly create albums on flickr.
I would be very happy to use special keywords to automaticaly set access rights on flickr.
Thanks again for your work, it was just suggestions I think about using your plugin.
Best regards,
And Again! Thanks Dude!!!
I got the followning error while exporting to Flickr using the latest plugin as of today:
This plug-in’s post-processing task did not finish successfully.
?:15996: bad argument #1 to ‘?’ (table expected, got nil)
Hmmm, I’d be interested to hear (via email) the kind of export you were doing. I’m not really sure how it would have happened, but I just pushed .8 that should fix it. —Jeffrey
Any ideas?
Is it possible that the plugin takes the keywords of each picture which I have entered in Lightroom 2.0 instead of the keywords which I have to enter using the plugin when I want to export pictures to Flickr?
It would be useful especially if I want to upload many pictures.
Thanks for a excellent plugin.
Would it be possible to get more Exif data available to use in the Title preset template. I’m missing Exposure, ISO Speed Rating, Model, Lens.
Very nice plugin !!!
I want to convert EXIF Camera and Lens to Flickr tag, but I didn’t get it
Same think with contact information.
Any idea ?
Jef,
I got the same error this was when i was in the plugin setting for the second upload..(parallel upload)
I did some single uploads without any problem
An internal error has occurred: ?:17689: attempt to concatenate field ‘?’ (a nil value)
Jeffrey,
Just started using the plugin. A small request — would it be possible to move the “add to new photoset” functionality and its related ilk to the top of the menu, rather than at the bottom? I have lots of photosets, and whenever I export to a new one I have to scroll all the way down to access the functionality I want.
Thanks
Jeffrey-
First off, hi from an old co-worker at Yahoo! I really love what you’ve been doing with the plugin. It has dramatically sped up my Lightroom to Flickr processing time. Thank you for all the work that you have put into this.
Second, I know a number of people have mentioned issues with keyword uploading problems and I just wanted to mention mine. When I add new keywords to an existing photo and re-upload the photo to Flickr, those new keywords don’t seem to appear as tags upon upload.
This isn’t a Lightroom 1 to 2 issue as I was updating a photo that I had just uploaded this morning. I tested with another image and I had the same problem. I’m using the latest version of your plugin, so I’ve ruled that out as well. This issue is somewhat minor, but it does appear to be a bug.
Thanks again for your hard work on such a handy plugin.
BTW, I second the motion for just updating keywords rather than the entire image. This would be super useful.
Cheers,
Randy Stewart
Hy Jeffrey,
this is excellent work! Especially the integration of flickr into the workflow process and saving the flickr-number in the database is more than I ever imagined.
If I may add a wish however, it would be that you give us the chance to save the flickr-image-numbers to the pictures already uploaded before the plugin was available. Not sure if I was clear enough with this statement. What I meant is, that I can enter the flickr-address of the picture into the metadata-section (what the plugin does automatically for each picture on upload) by hand. I have about 2500 photos on flickr, where the link in lightroom is missing (because I uploaded them before your plugin was available).
This functionality would make the best plugin even better.
So thanks once more for a wonderful tool and please keep on the great work.
Best regards
Reini
a big improvement for me will be a more easy selection for “add to a new Photoset”.
I make 1 photoset for 1 photo serie. so I have many photoset and it’s boring to go each time to the bottom of the long list to select “add to a new photoset”.
I hope you understand what I mean
thanks for your help ! this LR 2.0 plugin is great and far better than the LR 1.3 version ! great !
david
Love the plugin. But with 2.0 I’ve intermittently received an error message “no response from flickr” which stops uploads from completing (and for my large uploads creates a pain as I have to figure out where I left off). any idea what causes this?
Love this plug-in and just started incorporating it into my upload to Flickr workflow. Ran into a bit of a snag with the Title/Description Presets … I tried to adjust the window that the dialog pops-up in while performing an Edit/Add. In doing so, LR completely froze up. After closing down and reloading, LR now continually locks up every time I even click on either Edit/Add button for these presets. Tried removing the plug-in files and reloading them, and even tried a fresh install of LR … the same problem still continues. Where is the data for these presets being written to? Maybe it will fix the problem if I can specifically eradicate those files, but I cannot find them. Using Windows XP with Service Pack 2. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
They’re saved in your preferences. If you don’t mind, could you zip up a copy of your preferences file and mail it to me? (It’s a text file, so you can scan the copy prior to zipping, to ensure that there’s no sensitive data that you’d rather not share). If I can replicate the problem, I’ll then pass it along to Adobe. —Jeffrey
Hello Jeffrey
I started using your plungin in Lr 1.x on Windows XP, but now I have migrated to Lr 2.0 and Widdows Vista 32. I updated the plugin but now I can not use it. When I try to authentication with Flickr, I get:
INTERNAL PLUGIN ERROR
Flickr login aborted
and later
An internal error has occurred
17430:attempt to index a nil value
Is something wrong on my side or is it a bug?
Thanks for your great job!!!
Antonio
Madrid-Spain
jeff-
When i authentication flickr i get
INTERNAL PLUGIN ERROR
Flickr login aborted
then
An internal error has occurred 17430:attempt to index a nil value
How do i fix that
im runnig wins xp
and
flickr-20080827.12
Thank you so much for writing and maintaining this. That’s it! I love it, no problems to speak of.
The latest release solves my problem, yes, thanks!
Now all I want is the ability to re-order the photos so that I can control the order they appear (If I’m uploading five, I want the best photo uploaded last, so that it appears first in my photostream).
You can order the images as you like, in the Library’s Grid Mode, then upload. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeff,
I want to make public my CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yes, the Flickr Plugin worked PERFECTLY, I just tried it!!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!
No more assert problems, it’s a great gift for all of us who enjoy photography.
Thank you very much, you are a Genius.
Cheers.
Have the same problem as Ryan, above - authenticating causes a plugin error. I had to export manually and upload to Flickr - can you image the pain and suffering? Woe, woe is me…
OSX 10.5, Lightroom 2, 20080828.15.
I downloaded 829.18 tonight, and find my previous problem is gone. Uploaded to Flickr smoothly without a hitch. I’ll explore the options now that I can actually start using it.
Ed
The auto-update functionality [download & install] does not create the destination folder with the correct name.
Yep download and install, which seemed to work perfectly for me for one verison (for flickr, picasaweb and facebook) now doesn’t work. 0829.18 say’s it has been installed and needs reloading but still reports 0330.19 is available for dl and installation.
XP LR 2
ok - so I did a manual overwrite of all the files - worked first time. LOVE THIS PLUGIN
Hi Jeffrey, thanks for your nice plug-in.
I had some problems installing the 20080831.19 upgrade. I finally did it manually. Apparently my plug-ins are in the Modules subfolder, I couldn’t find a Plug-ins subfolder. I’m not sure if this was the problem.
Secondly, I ‘m facing the same problem as Joe on August 3rd, 2008 . I have two Flickr accounts. I created two presets, but once I autheticate one of the two, the other preset is also updated. So I always end up with the same Flickr account in the two presets. You know of any work around?
Thanks!
Uploads are pretty reliable now, sorting in LR works well.
The upload seems a little slower than it would be if I did the steps manually, but … it’s more convenient, so that may not be a big deal. I should measure sometime to compare.
I get the following when trying to export to flickr
Whoa, “/var/folders/ug/ugfI-WNtEleQzXw57ztZok+++TI/-Tmp-/FDAFFA05-C748-4E7C-8D62-41E3D11C2879/082908_0272.jpg” does not exist immediately after waitForRender. Please let Jeffrey know.
Then
Couldn’t open 082908_0272.jpg: /var/folders/ug/ugfI-WNtEleQzXw57ztZok+++TI/-Tmp-/FDAFFA05-C748-4E7C-8D62-41E3D11C2879/082908_0272.jpg: No such file or directory
whether I used the temporary folder or assign one.
OS X 10.5.4, lightroom 2.0, plugin 20080831.19 and LR2/Morgrify. Works fine (with lr2/morgrify) if I export to disk instead of flickr.
The above error
Whoa, “/var/folders/ug/ugfI-WNtEleQzXw57ztZok+++TI/-Tmp-/FDAFFA05-C748-4E7C-8D62-41E3D11C2879/082908_0272.jpg” does not exist immediately after waitForRender. Please let Jeffrey know.
happens when I select more than one image to export to flickr. Selecting a single image works fine.
Hi Jeff,
Great job. Your pluggin works fine in LR 2.0. Thanks so much for all of your efforts!
Jan Armor
The newest release works fine in Lightroom 2, great work! The only thing I find irritating is, that the photo which is first on the library grid is the last on flickr display. I think this should be reversed so that that the upmost photo in Lightroom is the upmost photo on flickr.
You can order the images as you like, in the Library’s Grid Mode, then upload. —Jeffrey