About the Flickr error, that’s just Flickr being Flickr. About the need to republish, you shouldn’t have to, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Lr4.0 considered everything in need of republish, though you can just select all the images and use the “Re-Mark as Published” context menu item to square them away. —Jeffrey

I’d like to sync title and caption (Titel and Beschreibung in german) like the comments, views and so on from flickr to LR, because they will overwriten, if the plugin republishes one or more pictures from LR by filename and nothing.

I will set these fields in future in LR (it is much more easy in the organizr of the flickr website (https://secure.flickr.com/photos/organize/) for me – looking at a bunch of picturs in flickr) – but is it possible to sync these flickr fields into LR?

Cheers,
Aleks

No, sorry, it’s one way except for comments. —Jeffrey

During initial setup with my Flickr account I’ve created several Publish Collections, which I’ve populated with photos that are already uploaded to Flickr, and have claimed ok for the main photostream. In the main photostream the photos are marked as “published” correctly, but in each Publish Collection they are marked as “new photos to publish”. The Flickr Extras panel mentions a “Mark as Up-To-Date” option, but this doesn’t exist when dealing with Publish Collections. Is there any way around this, or do I have to re-publish all collections to have them accurately represent what’s already uploaded?

Ah, it’s perhaps not obvious, but if you publish in this state it shouldn’t resend the photos… it’ll resend the photo only if it’s been changed since it was placed in the top-level “Photostream” collection, or if it’s not there yet. If it’s already there and hasn’t changed since, publishing in other collections will merely confirm its inclusion in whatever sets/groups the collection represents. All this is the awkward intersection of three things: Flicker’s paradigm, what Lightroom allows, and my attempt to tie them together. —Jeffrey

Thx for an answer.

Regards,

Ad

There’s a whole section of the export/publish dialog for setting permissions. —Jeffrey

There’s currently no way to sync keywords back from Flickr. The idea of Publish is that Lightroom is the master source of information. I can look into adding a keyword import, but it’s a huge can of worms. —Jeffrey

No, but any photo added to a collection in the publish service gets added to the photostream automatically, so create a smart collection that adds to a dummy set, and it’ll do what you want. —Jeffrey

thanks,
Gabriel.

Check the context menu… you can add collections to the publish service that map to any combination of sets and groups that you like. —Jeffrey

A memory leak wouldn’t surprise me, but there’s likely nothing I can do about it. It’s unfortunate, but not that big a deal unless it’s resident memory. I’ve exported thousands at a time without trouble, so what you’re running in to surprises me. —Jeffrey

(1) is there a way to manually sync the photos that the deep scan or adobe plug-in import could not find?

(2) is there a way to make the watermark in a template form? What I’m trying to achieve is have my copyright watermark automatically include the correct year i.e. “Copyright {YYYY} Atul”?

Cheers

For #1, yes, see the “File > Plugin Extras > Flickr Extras” dialog. I don’t watermark so I don’t know much about it, but if Lightroom doesn’t provide it natively, the Gold Standard of watermarking in Lightroom is Tim Armes’ Lr/Mogrify plugin. —Jeffrey