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

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 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

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

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?

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

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? :-).

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

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

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

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’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 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

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 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

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

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

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,

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?

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.

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-

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

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 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

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

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

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.

The auto-update functionality [download & install] does not create the destination folder with the correct name.

ok – so I did a manual overwrite of all the files – worked first time. LOVE THIS PLUGIN 🙂

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.

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.

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

For me the update on flickr/picasa/facebook is broken again – was fixed but seems stuck on 19 even though 21 appears to be available.

19 was a version with the bug, so the bug remains until you upgrade. Pressing on the “check for update” button might clear it, but if not, you’ll just have to upgrade manually this time. Sorry. —Jeffrey

You said a couple of times above that exporting lens model/id/aperture metadata is simple and can be done with the caption presets. I don’t see any tokens on your template help page that would do this. How do you get this plugin to add that information via the caption/title presets? Thanks.

Added a bunch of new tokens (including lens/exposure/aperture info) as of version .22 —Jeffrey

I am trying to configure this plugin for two accounts, but I cannot get it to recognize the second one. I logout, then do the “authenticate to flickr” thing, and login to flickr with the other account name, but the plugin is only remembering the first account. How do I purge the info?

First, thanks for doing this great job for us Lightroom and flickr users. It’s an really great help in my workflow!

I’m using 20080914.24 – and I’ve to report a strange behavior in your flickr export plugin. During export, an EXIF-value is changed:

“Scale Factor35efl” should be 1.6 but is changed to 3.1 resulting in a to high value for focal lenght.

This doesn’t show up in flickr, but I’m using this exported JPEG on ipernity.com and they trust on this value. I tried the general export of Lightroom and this produces the right value. If you need any more information or sample files please contact me!

When using the uploader for a while now and with different version I have been getting:
Unable to Export
An internal error has occured: ?:19949: attempt concatenate a field ‘?’ (a nil value)
Image still uploads fine but post processing does not occur (as in setting the Flickr flag to yes in Lightroom).
I have the flickr-log.txt if that helps you.

This is a really useful plugin, but I am having a couple of frustrating problems:

I’m having real problems with the ‘Location’ meta data item. The Country, State, and City meta data items are turning up as tags in Flickr as expected. But not the Location item. I’ve tried added the {Location} template token to the Extra tags field. But this is just taking the location tag for one photos and then applying it to every photos. So it works OK if I am just uploading 1 photos, but uploading photos one-by-one is going to take even longer than manually adding a tag for the location of each photo after the upload!

Another small problem I am having is with the description. I really don’t want the photos caption to be uploaded to Flickr as the description as some of my older photos have automatically generated Photoshop captions which don’t mean very much. I’ve selected ‘None’ as the preset description in the ‘Flickr Upload Management’ section , but I’m still getting that dratted Photoshop auto caption being uploaded in to the Flickr photo description.

If anyone can offer any help at all with these two problem, I’d be very grateful 🙂

I just might be able to help. The first is a silly mistake on my part, and the second seems to be a bug in the Flickr API. I’ve just pushed a version that fixes the first and gets around the second. —Jeffrey

Hello, I’ve just tried to install 20080921.30 and lightroom 2 on my xp sp3 box gives me an “error processing schema” and disables the plugin. I’ve tried this with the plugin folder in the lightroom home directory and several other places. I’ve also re-downloaded the zip and unzipped using a different program to make sure nothing was corrupt.

Help please.

When I try “Authenticate to Flickr” I recive
“Oops! Flickr can’t find a valid callback URL.”
(flickr-20080923.32.zip)

Hi Jeffrey. Thanks for the nice plugin, I enjoy using it very much.

I just wanted to ask when can we expect to have the metadata update fuction you mentioned in 20080923.32 update report? 🙂

Thanks in advance and keep up the excellent job!

Feature request to save File Setting, File Naming, Image Sizing alues between exports, at the moment they default to the last export settings used. For example, if you have just done a file export for 10×8 at 402 dpi then when you use your Flickr plugin it uses the setting from this export not those you last used with Flickr. Hope this makes sense.

Thanks for the great plugin.

No bugs to report, no feature requests…just wanted to say thanks! I use flickr a lot, and was using “1001” as my uploader. But the export from LR/upload to flickr routine was less than ideal. Now you’ve made it all seamless. Thanks so much!!!!

-Matt

P.S. Perhaps I’ll have some bugs/feature requests later… 🙂

Awesome plugin! Thanks so much!

Feature request: make the “At Flickr” plug-in field searchable. This way, we can just stick the flickr ID to get back to the photo.

Keep up the good work. =)

The update doesn’t work for me. I have to manually download the plugin and copy the files over the previous ones.
Do you have any idea why this is so.

Win XP, Service pack 3, Lightroom 2.

As the version history above shows, there were some issues with the automatic update. If you’re were having trouble updating from one where it was fixed, well, then that’s unexpected and I’d like more info, such as the logs from a failed upgrade attempt. —Jeffrey

Is there a way one can manually enter data into the Uploaded to Flickr and At Flickr metadata fields? I have a few photographs on my stream which I uploaded with your plugin but later deleted and a number of photographs on my stream which I’d uploaded with other tools and I’d like add the URL for those images into the At Flickr field so I can use Lightroom as a photographic hub.

If version information matters for this sort of thing, I’m using Lightroom 2.1 RC (Release Candidate) and version 20081007.37 of your plugin.

You can clear out the info for a photo in the library by selecting those images and invoking the tools in the “Plugin Extras” dialog (in the File and Library menus). There’s currently no way to tell LR about images uploaded through other means, sorry. It’s on the list. —Jeffrey

Jeffry,

Your plugin is amazing! I only have one request which I’ve seen in several other comments. I have a large number of sets. It would be great if the “don’t add to photoset”, “add to new photoset”, etc. options could be at the top of the list of sets. I am currently using 20081007.37.

Thanks for the effort that you put in to this plugin.

First of all, thanks for your work with this plugin and for your support. I’m very pleased with the “Group Polls” section but I’d like to know if it was possible to modify this section to allow the posting at more than one group at the same time.

Thank you very much again!

I’m using Lightroom 64 2.1Rc1 on Vista 64 and plug-in v20081015.38.

The issue I have is that after a few pictures (2-3) exported, the export is stalling. All the picture are exported in the temp folder but only 2-3 get exported to Flickr.

I thought LRmogrify could be the cause, so I deleted it but I still have the issue. No other filter plug-in is installed.

Hello,

First of all I would like to tell that this plugin really rocks! I would like to make a suggesiton toward filtering on keywords.

I’m using a keyword hierarchy which is multilingual. The main language is English but for many English keywords I also include a Dutch and a French keyword as well.
The additional Dutch and French keywords (synonyms!) ends with the suffix _NL and _FR.

So I have something like:
dancing
{dansen_NL}
{dancer_FR}

Would it be possible to add extra functionality to filter on keyword?
If image keyworded [dropdown:contains, startsWith, endsWith] endsWith “_FR”, then [dropdown: remove suffix, do not include keyword or synonym]

You have already added functionality to filter by keyword. Maybe we can add the above as well?

Thank you
Fabian

File naming bug, Just downloaded the latest version and the “File naming” still doesn’t work, I’m choosing “Custom name (x of y), entering some text and below it says “my text 1 of 200) for example but when it upload there all just called custom name with no numbering.

Hello, I find your plugin useful but there’s one annoying thing that has been reported and you don’t have in the known issues list.

As Guillaume Lemoine said all exported information in EXIF that has accented characters is wrong in Flickr. Accented characters in keywords, title and captions disappear. This problem doesn’t seems to appear in Picasa export plugin. This is a problem because you can’t change metadata in Flickr and this information is always wrong.
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/flickr/#comment-19082

I’m using Lightroom in Win XP and Mac OS X and this problem is present in both platforms.

I’m sure there are lots of people that uses your plugin and needs support for accented characters.

Thanks.

Thank you for creating this plug-in. It’s exactly what I have been looking for. Excellent work and keep it up!

This is a fantastic set of plug-ins–great work!

I’m having trouble with the metadata wrangler combined with the Picasa plugin. Metadata plugin is v 20081031.23, lightroom 2.1, Windows XP SP3. I get the attached error for every photo exported.

Thanks for your effort on these plugins,
Robert

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Execution/debug log for Jeffrey’s metadatawrangler plugin for Lightroom, version 20081031.23
Log started November 7, 2008 12:42PM local
November 8, 2008 05:42AM JST
Plugin folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Robert\My Documents\Adobe\Lightroom 2.1\Plugins\metadatawrangler-jfriedl.lrplugin
Lightroom version 2.1.0 build 512205 for Windows (Locale: en).
———————————————————————————————-

Execute log:
————————————————–
> Undefined subroutine &Digest::MD5::md5 called at C:\Documents and Settings\Robert\My Documents\Adobe\Lightroom 2.1\Plugins\metadatawrangler-jfriedl.lrplugin\lib/Image/ExifTool/IPTC.pm line 946, chunk 3.
————————————————–

I didn’t think this could happen, but have just pushed a new version (.24) that perhaps addresses it. —Jeffrey

Hi,

thank you for the great plugin. One feature Request: Could you make it possible to change the metadata of previously uploaded pictures (Flickr=yes). So i would be able to tag my old uploads i did without your plugin…

(see my response at the end of the comment after this one —Jeffrey)

I understand that the plugin cannot update manually marked picutured wihout the uri. But you could make it simply ignore it if it has the attribute flickr = yes without the url. I’m using the mode “Upload only new”.

PS: Should it work to start two or more upload tasks parallel?

Yes, you should be able to run multiple uploads in parallel. Your bandwidth will remain constant, so LR will generate all the images up front (turning your computer into a space heater for a while), but the uploading itself will continue along until they all get sent out. —Jeffrey

Hey guy, really love the plugin. I use them to upload to Flickr. However, it would be nice if I can select multiple sets when I export.

cheers.

(ive posted this on the wrong page, sorry!)

Multiple sets? You want to send the same photo to multiple sets? I didn’t even know that was allowed…. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the reply Jeffrey.

I am quite sure this can me done. I do this all the time in my Flickr Uploadr.

I can even create multiple new sets and add them in. And group as well.

Thanks for looking into this, really appreciate it.

Hi Jeffrey,

Thank you for this wonderful plugin. I was happy to find a privacy control by tag when I switched to LR 2. But I usually tag “friend” for friends and “family” for family access. As they’re tags, I expected a photo which have both tags to be importd to flickr with both accesses but it is not the case. You put a field for “friends/family”, even filling it with “friends,family” does not work. Why ?

Thank you again for your super service.

Please please please add retry for timeout when adding an image to a photoset. Every time I set off an overnight batch it gets caught with a timeout adding to a photoset – it could happen after 100 images are uploaded or 500, completely unpredictable. Please add retry for this.

Plugin 20081123.52 “auto dests” now fails with a different error:
+132.7: At line 20537:
bad state:
+132.7: At line 20537
+132.7: At =[C] line -1

INTERNAL PLUGIN ERROR
?:17555: assertion failed!

One thing I forgot to mention that may be relevant – I have over 454 (and counting) photosets.

Thanks.

Jeffrey –
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the work you put into this export plugin! I’m a heavy user and a big fan, and your continual updates amaze and delight me. I can’t express enough how grateful I am. I left something in the tip jar. It’s not much, but I hope it encourages you to continue on.
Best Regards,
Andrew

I have plug-in 20080905.21 installed.
I try to upgrade to 20081125.54, but cannot. the update manager downloads and reloads the 20080905.21 version

Then install it by hand, like the notes in the version history (that you didn’t bother reading) says. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, first of all, thank you for your great job with the flickr export plugIn!

Is there an issue with the length oh the keyword-list?

Yes, it seems to be a bug in Flicker. I’ve told Flicker about it in several ways, but have never gotten a reply. They seem to not care. —Jeffrey

If I try to export an image with this keywords

airline, airport, airport zurich, aviation, fliegen, flight, Flug, Flughafen, Flughafen Zürich, flying, geotagged, jet, lszh, plane, planespotting, Schweiz, spotting, suisse, swiss, switzerland, unique, zrh, Zürich, Zürich Airport - Heliport, Zürich-Kloten Airport, Zurich, Zurich Airport

flickr doesn’t assign any keywords to the image. – If I shorten the keyword-list to about 1/2 and export a image, flickr assigns the keywords correctly.

As allready mentioned above, german characters are not correctly exported – the “ü” in “Zürich” ends up as “Zürich”.

I use version 20081127.56 with Lightroom 2.1 (german language) on Windows Vista.

I could be very great if you could correct this issues. If you need help for testing don’t hesitate to ask me.

Thank you, Jeffrey!!
– Oliver

I’ve installed the Flickr plug-in and it works however it looks as though there are break points still in the code perhpas for debugging purposes. What happens is when I click export the process start but an info box appears and I have to hit OK to continue. This happens about a dozen or so times before it stops and the picture is exported.

Is this a quiz… am I supposed to guess what’s in the info boxes? —Jeffrey

Export to Flickr – 20081129.57

I’d be happy to send some screen shots if needed.

Thanks again – great plug ins

Could you possibly provide a link to this Google Earth plugin Jeffrey? Thanks.

See the link in the first comment on the page for my Geoencoding plugin. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Great work with the plugins. I don’t know how I survived without your Flickr Exporting plugin. A few days ago I updated and since uploads to flickr have gotten insanely slow (I just gave up after waiting 1 hour for two 5mb images to be uploaded).

I have run all the necessary tests at my end, and the problem does appear to be inside Lightroom. Have you changed anything in the past week or so which may impact upload speeds to Flickr?

Thanks again for the continued effort!

Regards, Will Boyce

Hello Jeffrey,
I’m using LR 2.1 with flickr plugin 20081209.60 on Windows XP.
I’m encountering a bug – creating custom templates is not persistent across LR sessions. If I alter a basic template or create a new one, the changes are not reflected after restarting lightroom. Where do these persistent things live in filesystem land? I don’t think it’s any permissions problem, etc…

Thanks for your excellent work!

Hi.
This plugin is a godsend.
I am new to Lightroom and to the plugin.
Just a question, does the plugin track images that have already been uploaded to Flickr and will warn me if I try to upload the same image again?

Regards
Christopher

I have been using the Flickr uploader for the last few months using a version I downloaded earlier this year and totally love it. The performance to upload to Flick was fine for me until this past week when I installed the latest ‘Export to Flickr’. After installing the latest version, the performance is 1/10th the speed of transfer to Flickr from what it was before my upgrade a week ago.

I know that you’re aware of this since you posted it in your blog though you made reference that it was possibly due to Flickr being slower. Since I only experienced the slower upload to Flickr after the installation of the more recent Export to Flickr, this would leave me to the conclusion that it is some element of the plugin that is causing the slow issue and not necessarily Flickr being slower than usual.

I’m open to ideas on what to try, but I get the same slow uploads when I use a version of the plugin dating back to August. I think Flickr is just slow, but I haven’t yet ruled out it being a Lightroom 2.0 vs. 2.1 issue. I no longer have a copy of Lightroom 2.0, so I haven’t been able to test that yet. —Jeffrey

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to switch between my 2 Flickr accounts with this, short of always logging out of one and revalidating with the other. Anyone have a simple step by step explanation of how this works?

Finally worked after a lot of different attempts. May have had something to do with the latest update from MS???
Thanks, H

Hi,
I really love this plugin and so far its working amazingly well for me.

As Flickr are now making a push on Machine tags, do you think it would be possible to add this option to the plugin.
Allowing machine takes to be taken from the exif data lightroom already has?
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/12/15/machine-tag-hierarchies/

Thanks for your hard work on the plugin

Hi Jeffrey

I’ve noticed the Flickr Extras dialog has recently stopped appearing: the option is still there under “File, Plug-in Extras…” but nothing happens when I select it. I just checked and it’s exactly the same with the Facebook and PicasaWeb plugins. It may have happened since upgrading to LR2.2, I’m not sure, but they certainly used to work quite recently (under LR2.1).

Details as follows:
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
Lightroom 2.2 523352, Camera Raw 5.2
Flickr plugin v. 20081223.61
Facebook plugin v. 20081223.51
PicasaWeb plugin v. 20081223.51

As you can see I’ve updated all plugins to the latest version. In the case of the Flickr plugin I’ve also tried deleting it altogether from the Modules directory and unzipping a fresh copy.

Big thanks for all the work you do on these amazing products, btw. I do not expect priority tech support for a free product on Christmas Eve! 🙂

All the best,
Mark

Sorry ’bout that…. fixed in new versions I just pushed. Thanks for the report. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Been using your Flickr plugin for about a year now and absolutely love it. However one thing has always bothered me and that is the loss of a lot of metadata, especially Lens Info. I always assumed this was a Flickr issue but tonight I tried an experiment and downloaded Flickr Uploadr from the Flickr site. The photo I uploaded using this contained a lot more EXIF data (including lens info) on Flickr than the one I uploaded with your plugin.

Is there any way to fix this? Is it being worked on?

Thanks,
Tony

When you upload an out-of-camera image directly, it has a bunch of camera-specific “MakerNotes” data that Flickr tries to decode, including lens data. When Lightroom processes it, it normalizes the data to a maker-neutral format (XMP) that, unfortunately, Flickr ignores. Bummer. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey and thanks for all, I list a bug and functionnality yhat I dream for your plugin in Flickr

– BUG : when you choose a templated destination for your images and the set allready exisits, it create a new set with the same name instead of adding the content in the allready created set
– FEATURE : it would be nice to have the capabilitie to use the Collection token in the “templated destination” : so we could have a mirror of our Lightroom’s collection in flick’r set : the only difference with others token, is that one pic could be in more than one collection in lightroom
– FEATURE : capability to suggest groups where to post the photos after uploading : the plugin could search groups related to your keyworks.

Best reegards,

A droplet is an exported action from Photoshop. You export the Photoshop action into an .exe file which can then be used from Lightroom.

In the Export dialog in Lightroom (using ‘files on disk’), at the far bottom, there is a post processing tab where you can select the droplet/exported Photoshop action.

Have a look here for a more detailed explanation.

Best regards,
Fred

Version: 20081228.63

I figured out that one can enter a hard newline in the Description Preset token dialog by sending ctrl-j (rather than ctrl-enter, etc.). This adds an actual ascii newline character. Unfortunately the code, either Lightroom or the plugin seems to be stripping this out when Lightroom is restarted. Additionally the dialog allows one to update the text section, but it’s not acting as if anything was successfully parsed after hitting “update” (if one then closes the dialog it still uses the changes, however).

Would it be possible to modify the parsing to allow this special character, and/or just add a “newline” token? Thanks.

I’m building a custom meta panel template and I wonder if you would share your identifier for the flickr and facebook plugin with us?
We want to show if a pic is uploaded or not in this custom template so what I would need is i.e.
com.adobe.filename just for your both plugins.
Would be great if you would share it with us.
Thanks

Hey, thanks for the great plugin! I have a question that’s probably in the same vein of what Fred is asking for. I use some Automator actions to add borders around my photos when I export them for upload to Flickr. That works fine if I include the Flickr Uploadr in my Automator action, but your plugin is much better than the Uploadr, and I’d love to use it instead. It would be most welcome to see post-processing support in your plugin. Thanks again!

I have accumulated a relatively large number of sets on Flickr. This can make it very cumbersome to choose which set I want to export to, because the list is long and extends off the top and bottom of my monitor. The only way to move up and down the list is the small triangles at the top and bottom of the list.

I was thinking that it might be easier if you could add a scroll bar to the side of the list to make it easier to quickly move up and down the list.

I love this plugin!

Version: 20090110.64

Feature request: Upload images in reverse order of selection.

This is to counteract Flickr’s insistence on reverse chronological sorting. However, the feature’s intent is not really to facilitate an entire stream of this nature but more so for uploading a small set of photos (say 5-10) and having the Flickr order actually come out to the same order as you see them in one’s Lightroom catalog.

For example I usually upload documentary photography in small batches of 3-5, with the uploaded images being contextually related to each other. It doesn’t really make sense to have the images presented in reverse – so I end up having to manually reverse their order in the Lightroom catalog before uploading them with the export plugin so that afterwards they’ll be in the correct order.

Just having a small option “reverse upload order” that would have the plugin process the end of the selected list first would be very useful.

The plugin doesn’t have any control over the ordering of the images, but it could hold off on uploading them until Lightroom renders them all. Hmmm…. —Jeffrey

I figured out a suitable work around for the reverse order thing which I kick myself for because I should have done it from the start: the a-z icon in grid view determines the sort order. Clicking it, even when set to User Order will reverse the sort direction – allowing the same outcome as uploading in reverse.

Lightoom 2.2
Mac OSX 10.5.6
Friedl Flickr Plug-in 20090119.68

Hi Jeffrey–I’m using the Lightroom plug-in (20090119.68) and Lightroom seems to hang when I use the plug-in. The “operation” status bar (upper left hand corner of Lightroom) shows the message “Uploading one image to Flickr” for an extended period of time, 20 minutes. In checking my Flickr Photostream, I do not see the images (thinking that perhaps the export and upload occurred, but didn’t pass “completed” data back to the plug-in/LR).

Doug Cranmer
(PS: I sent you a donation through PayPal earlier today. Thanks for all of your work on this project)

Hi!

i love your plugin, so i sent 10 bucks to you via paypal!! great job!

but here are two more things to think about?

– wouldn´t it be useful to have the option that the plugin should delete the temp jpegs in the defined folder after the upload? i would like it, becauce now i´m deleting manually every time (i don´t like things on my hdd i don´t need)

The plugin does delete after upload if you export to a temporary folder. If you export to a specific folder, it’s assumed that you’re doing that because you want to keep them. If you don’t care, just pick the “temporary folder” option and you’ll not have to think about it again.

– if I check the option for visiting the photoset after upload the plugins starts firefox to visit flickr. i have installed all browsers on my pc (ie, ff, chrome, opera, safari) and chrome is my default browser. why the plugin is using ff? especally for flickr i like to use chrome, cause it´s really fast. on the other hand i don´t have the piclens addon today, but i like chrome 😉

I would have thought that your default browse would be used…. I have 4 browsers, and it always starts the one registered as my default. In any case, it’s not something that the plugin has control over: the plugin API offers an “open url in browser” call that I use. Is it possible that when you installed FF, it set itself to be the default unbeknown to you? —Jeffrey

ok, not really a big thing, but in my case helpful. however, great and stable plugin!

bye, mike

Version 20090119.69 but irrelevant for my message. I just wanted to say that the problem I reported earlier with broken transfer was actually related to my router. I pluged in my computer directly into the cable modem and no more problems, I could transfer 172 pictures (14.6MP – 3Mb per file) in one batch when I could barely transfer 3 or 4 at once before. The router was a Netgear WGT624 wireless in case someone else has this issue.
This plug-in is great and a huge time saver. Time to send my Paypal contribution! Cheers.

20090129.71 The GPS data doesn’t seem to be exported, I have had this issue with the earlier versions too. I use the GPS plugin to geoencode but when exported to Flickr I have to manually add it to the map (I have enabled the incoming EXIF data in Flickr)
Cheers

Not only do you have to manually tell Flickr to allow geoencoding, but you have to explicitly tell it to import the GPS data from the image. It seems fairly moronic to me, since they display the GPS information either way, so it’s not like the requirement for you to jump through a hoop helps privacy or the like. Anyway, be sure you’ve done that… see the bottom of the Metadata Management section. Also, be sure that you haven’t minimized metadata (see the Metadata section), or stripped it with the Metadata Wrangler…. —Jeffrey

Your plugin is great. Thanks so much for taking the time to develop and actively support it.

1) Is it possible to add a tag in lightroom during the export process? For example I would love to be able to tag all my photo’s that I have uploaded to flickr.

2) Also would it be possible to upload just the metadata and/or replace the photo with the metadata. When on vacation we often quickly upload photo’s with out the titles or descriptions. I would love to be able to re-upload the photo once we have filled in the description. I tried uploading with the delete option selected, but then I loose all the view stats. Maybe there is another way that I’m missing.

Again. Thanks for all your work

Thanks for working on that newline thing, Jeffrey. I had tried every hack workaround I could think of and was only able to get it to work per Lightroom session (the ctrl-J trick). I figured it was some kind of LR limitation that was stripping newlines and it looks like you’ve discovered that as well.

I’ve had no problem entering new lines in the text boxes using Ctrl+Enter. I’m not sure why you’d do it in most of the text boxes (eg. the title), but I use it all the time in the Caption box. Alt+Enter doesn’t work for me.

I’m currently using Vista Ultimate 64-bit and LR 2.3, but this has also worked for me on XP and at least since LR 1.3.

By the way, my auto-update issues are now fixed, so thanks for that!

Also, just to provide some feedback, I find your scrollable list workaround to be pretty kludgy, and I’m not sure I would continue to work on it in this form if I were you. Maybe it’s better than the crappy drop boxes provided by Adobe, but I’m not sure. Having said that, if you are going to continue to develop this then it also needs to be applied to the popup for the Groups to Upload to.

I really do appreciate all the effort you’ve put into this plugin. It really is awesome!

Hi,

I get this error trying to upload a photoset using the Auto : Title as destination.

Plug-in error log for plug-in at: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2\Modules\flickr-jfriedl.lrplugin

**** Error 1

This plug-in’s post-processing task did not finish successfully.
?:19355: assertion failed!

Hi,

First up let me say that I love the plugin. It is brilliant and makes my flickr life much easier. I have spotted a rather annoying bug in that not all my tags are transfered to flickr. Some are and some aren’t. I can provide example screenshots if required.

I’m using version 20090131.73 of the plugin with LR 2.2

Andy

Flickr has all kinds of bugs related to tags. I’ve never been able to get a reply from them about it. One particular bug is that if you have “too many” tags, none are transferred. I’ve seen other bugs related to non-ASCII tags. If you can send a plugin log (see the upper-right section of the Plugin Manager) along with the result on Flickr, I can take a look to see whether it’s something new. —Jeffrey

The one thing we didn’t think of: When I wiped my disk and had to reinstall Lightroom, I neglected to update it. I was operating version 1.1. I received a message that updates were available, but when I clicked the link, all I got was the Adobe page for 2.2. Today, the link (reluctantly?) took me to the update page, and I’m now running 1.4. Your plugin works brilliantly! Thanks for the time you took, offering me suggestions.

John

Great plugin but I think you missed something when creating the newest version: If I set the upload-to-set to “Create new set” when uploaded, and then put in {Folder} as the name I want the set to be, it doesn’t grab the folder name, just names the set {Folder}.

Maybe I just overlooked something but it doesn’t seem to be working for me.

Using version 20090131.72 on Vista Ultimate, 64 bit.

Jeffrey,
thanks for all the great plugins. I use Flickr + GPS which both work fine. But today I found one strange thing. After exporting to flickr the GPSDate Time string is different from what is shown in Lightroom. Here’s an example image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daspaddy/3275389872/
When exporting to jpg and viewing with an EXIF-Viewer it is ok. Any idea? Is that a setting I have to change?

Thank you
Patrick

Jeffrey – wonderful job you are doing with this plugin. I’m using Flickr Export 20090131.73 with LR 2.2 on the Mac. I have observed that the plugin does not observe LR’s “Include on Export” setting for keywords, i.e. it saves all keywords as tags on Flickr, even those that have Include on Export unchecked. If I immediately afterwards do a “Resend Metadata” it works fine, the keywords to be ignored are deleted from Flickr. This is reproducible and happens on every export for me. I do not believe it is related to the keyword bug that was in LR 2.0 since I applied Adobe’s fix and it also happens with new keywords added in LR 2.

I retested everything, and keywords that had “Include on Export” unchecked did not find their way to Flickr. If you’re really seeing something wrong (with the latest version of the plugin, of course), export the offending image into its own catalog and mail it to me, and I’ll check it out. —Jeffrey

Btw. – how far is the “Donation Ware” setup grown – already any dates in sight.
Will the new version have the “expiry” removed for “donors” ? If yes – you can count already on my donation.
Thank You – Lutz

Yes, the expiry goes away. Should be releasing the Flickr one within the week. —Jeffrey

I really like your Flickr plug-in. Really thnax for the great effort to further improve it. However there is something very annoying in it. I only export to Flickr every month or so. It turns out that there is always a new version of you plug-in avaible, wich makes the old one unworkable. When just wanting to have that one picture online it is pretty annoying. Some time to get the upgrade hen I have the time, would be seriously helpfull; I really consider this as a bug that eventually could bring me to one of your competitors! Hope this h not the case for other customers, you wouldn’t deserve it.

I’m not a business. I have no customers. I have no competitors. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, perfect – after restarting and enabling from plugin manager, my plugin is back in action. Donation Code accepted. Perfect.
Thank You so much ! Not being able to use it fora few days was painful :))

Thanks for a really helpful plugin, I just started using it and the way it outdo flickrs own upload tool is amazing.

Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but I’d like a possibility to upload a picture to several sets. Is this possible, or is it maybe a future possibility? 🙂

But hey, this tool easily gets a 10 anyways. Thanks again!

I hope to get back into “adding features” mode again soon, and that’ll be near the top of the list. —Jeffrey

V20090223.75 Lightroom 2.2 Mac OSX 10.5

“Image visibility at FlickR” doesn’t work for hierarchical tags for me. I have setup a hierarchy like this:

FlickR
– Family
– Friends
– Public

that I want to use to tag my images’ visibility for the export to FlickR with.

I’ve tried various setups like “FlickR>Friends” or “Friends>FlickR” or just “Friends”, but that all doesn’t work. It only works with top-level tags.

It would be great, if you could give me a hint on how to use this, or enhance your plugin to make it possible. 😉 I also would love to see the “Friends and Family” option to be used when the tags for both of them are tied to a photo, not needing an extra tag for it.

It should all just work (using “Friends”… a plugin has no insight into keyword hierarchy). There was a bug in LR2 that caused some keywords to disappear on export if those keywords existed when the catalog was converted from LR1.x –any chance you could be running into that? If so, you have to run some fixup script Adobe published. If not, I’m at a loss to explain it, so perhaps you could send me the log from an export of one image that didn’t get marked the way you expected (along with a description of what you expected). There’s a button in the upper-right section of the Plugin Manager for sending the log. —Jeffrey

And if you can make that work with other plugin metadata (eg. Timothy Armes LR2/blog) that would be even sweeter!

Soon 😉 —Jeffrey

Hi… I really like this plugin but I have a little question .) I’m relativly new to LR so it might be my fault :9

I set up my Keywords in a tree and use the function that all parent keywords are also exported to flickr, and this works fine. (I don’t know the correct option since I use a german LR, but I hope you know what I mean).

I setup the Plugin that it should set all images to “no one else” if the image has the keyword “private” and this works when I actually add the keyword to the image.
Unfortunately it don’t work if the “private” keyword is added when I add a child keyword of it. The “private” keyword still shows up but the image is also visible to everybody.

I used 20090302.77

This was reported by someone else as well, but I could not reproduce the problem on my side. After doing an upload of one image that is not processed correctly, please send the plugin log via the button in the upper-right of the Plugin Manager, and perhaps I’ll be able to figure it out from that. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, quick note, I think you need to escape the html tags under the 20090228.76 change history.

Doh! Thanks, fixed. —Jeffrey

I seem to have solved the problem by first logging in with my browser from outside your plugin. Thank you.

Hi there! The latest plugin version ***.84 is excellent! Especially more so because I can select multiple group pools to post my photos!! Thank you thank you.

-Joseph
flickr.com/photos/sumsinnow
sumsinnow.deviantart.com

Hi there.

Did a quick text search of this page trying to figure out my issue and didn’t get any results. I’m wondering how I go about exporting to flickr if I have multiple snapshots of an image that I’ve created from the RAW (usually b&w/color). Will your plugin do this automatically (I’m about to try, but assuming it won’t). If it won’t how do I go about getting both the versions up there? Is this a case where I have to export to disk and manually upload to flickr (fine if I do, just simpler if I don’t).

I’ve used the plugin a few times already and love it, this is the first issue I’ve had. Thanks for your hard work with it! – Alex in Shanghai

Assuming you have each version of the image in its own virtual copy, it’s treated as a unique photo for upload purposes, so you can have as many as you like. —Jeffrey

… this means, as Flickr shows most recent upload on top, I have to reverse my grid order prior to exporting to… reflect the original grid. right?

thank you very much, Jeffrey 🙂

Yup, you have to reverse the order in the grid (click on the “a/z” icon by the sort-order indicator). I’ve been looking into how I might upload in reverse order, so that the order in the stream is the same as in Lightroom, but the only way I can figure out how to do it is to let Lightroom render all the images, then start uploading them in reverse. That has a lot of drawbacks (uploading doesn’t begin until LR renders all the images, for example), but I wonder whether it would be useful anyway… —Jeffrey

I am using version 20090319.87 For some reason I am losing my EXIF data that used to be imbeded in my pictures…I upload to flickr and the EXIF shows at Flicker but when I use my EXIF viewer it shows “no exif information in the image” not sure if or what has changed but the EXIF data used to show up in Flickr as well as if I would view it with my external EXIF viewer(OPANDA) and it didnt matter if I viewed it at Flickr or at a forum where I would post pictures.

Thanks
Steve

The plugin uploads some of the metadata to Flickr directly (that is, in addition to whatever metadata might actually be within the image file). If you have the Lightroom-standard “Minimize embedded metadata” option checked, you might see what you’re seeing…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff, I’m having the same problem as Elton:

Error response from Flickr: Filetype was not recognised
Aborting export after X of XX images successfully uploaded

I’m currently using version 20090319.87

I’m getting several reports of this. It just suddenly started, so I’m guessing that it’s a problem with Flickr, but I haven’t had a chance to dig deeply. If I can reproduce it on my end, I’ll investigate with Wireshark… &mdash:Jeffrey

Jeffrey, I want to thank you again for all the work you put into this. I hope you’re getting a lot of donations, because we all owe you a lot. One of these days I’ll throw a little more cash into the hat.
Best regards,
Andrew

I love your plugin, but am writing because of one thing I find difficult.
In the groups and set sections, the ‘do not add to a group/set’ option should be separate. I always have to scroll down, because for some reason the option turns itself on…

I also find the tags that I put on my picture seem to disappear. Maybe there are just too many options. I was thinking that hiding most of them and just presenting to the user the bottom line – i.e. what will be done to the picture – would be better.
So you see only

– resize to 1200×1000
– tags: harbor, ocean, water
– set: adding to ‘beach lovers’
– Title: “the harbor from the beach”

i.e. the important changes made. Maybe a button next to the change that allows setting it up or making it a default.

I know it’s difficult. Just my 2c.
M

Lightroom UI limitations make this a challenge, but you’re right that it would make more sense to have an overall “don’t add to a set” checkbox. Apparently, you can add a photo to more than one set, so when I move the set stuff over to multiple selection, I’ll add the checkbox. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

To improve the management of Flickr groups in the plugin I have several proposals that I hope interesting 😉 :

1 / Attribute criteria or rules to each group based on the keywords and other metadata (eg GPS data, city …)
eg Flickr group called “geolocated landscape with sea, sand and nobody”
=> Send only the photos with the keyword “landscape AND sea AND sand” and with GPS data and do not have the keywords ‘person OR portrait “.

2/ Save a selection of groups (with the possibility to apply the 1/) and select several previously saved selection of groups when exporting.
eg : a selection called “D200″ with some groups about the Nikon D200”
an another selection “50mm 1.4” with some groups about the 50mm
…

3/ Do not stop the export picture by picture when adding in a group does not work (“limite reached” for eg) but provide a log file at the end of the global export

4 / add a search box to find a group by title

Kind Regards

Update to the token alternates. The current {Token|”ALT”} setup allows an OR situation. Any chance we can get an AND modifier, e.g.: {Caption&””} ?

Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for your good work with these plugins, they are great.

Between plugins updates and lightroom updates, since some version the exported metadata includes a lot (if not all) of the PP settings from lightroom (like exposure, contrast, etc). Is there any way we can choose, or limit what is exported? Before the metadata that was exported it was only the data from camera settings, lens, etc not the PP settings.
I’m not sure why the difference (or even some setting in lightroom I’m not findding…).

Thanks
Paulo Campos

(Flickr plugin ver. 20090403.89)

The change you’re seeing is at Flickr…. recently, they started to show much more data. Previously, the data was in the image file, but not highlighted by Flickr. If you want to remove almost all the metadata, you can check the “minimize embedded metadata” box in the ‘Metadata’ section of the plugin manager. For more fine-grained control, you’ll want my Metadata Wrangler export filter, which allows you to pick and choose what to include on export. —Jeffrey

flickr plugin 20090403.89 with LR 2.3 on Vista 64 SP1: OS freezes when using the export starts – This has happened twice in about three days of using the plugin. As soon as the progress bar for the export appears the machine freezes – no keyboard or mouse movement possible and I have to cold reboot.

That’s seriously unfun, sorry. After rebooting, could you check the log file to see whether it has anything? The log is named “flickr-log.txt” in the OS temp folder. It’s generally flushed whenever the plugin is loaded, so you’ll want to check before running Lightroom. If it doesn’t happen with other plugins, then my first guess would be that it’s something to do with the networking. I’ve had reports of other networking problems on Vista 64, but never system freezes. The other problems were related to IPv6, and disabling that in Vista fixed it. —Jeffrey

Any way to make changes to the meta data (keywording) offline and then syncing the changes, without generating and uploading new images?

I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but you can resend tags for images previously uploaded via the “File > Flickr Extras” dialog. —Jeffrey

Some versions ago the tags encoding bug showed surprisingly again, now in a weird form. Now I’m on 20090417.90, LR 2.3 for OS X, and the tags with special characters (German Umlauts, Polish ones) are duplicated: they’re send once correctly, and once changed with question marks instead of the character. An example: a LR keyword “Poznań” is send as as two tags, “Poznań” and “Pozna?”, “Mühlgasse” as “Mühlgasse” and duplicated as “M?hlgasse”.

Hi Jeffrey, used the plugin for the first time yesterday and works great however I’m not seeing the full metadata import into Flickr as i use a Jobo GPS logger and software to add location info into metadata but once in Flickr can’t see this info. Not sure if this is a lightroom, Lightroom Plugin or Flickr problem – any help much appreciated

This is a Flickr thing. By default, they do not show GPS-related stuff. To get them to show it, you have to enable two different options in your Flickr account. They should be referenced in the Flickr-specific sections of the export dialog, if you can’t find them on your account-options page. —Jeffrey

Hi. I want to report a bug, and also (for me at least) a solution. I recently was unable to export anything from LR: Both the flickr exporter, and the vanilla “export to disk” exporter would fail after running, with the message “Access to undefined global: prefs”. Very frustrating, as it had worked before.

I realised that I had recently installed LR/Transporter, and turned on its “Keyword Exporter” option in the export dialog. I turned that off, and problems went away. I haven’t really used LRT yet, so it wasn’t a big deal.

flickr exporter 20090429.94, LR/Transporter 3.71
both not (yet) registered, but not yet crippled
Frankfurt, Deutschland 🙂

The Lr/Transporter plugin is by Tim Armes, so this has nothing to do with me or my plugins. I’ve passed along your comment to Tim, but it’d be better if you contacted him directly so that he can respond if he needs to. —Jeffrey

Any plans for Proxy support? Would be helpful for us people who want to upload something while at the office. Ideally it would just take the settings from IE or Firefox. Also ideally it would support authenticated Proxy.

I understand if it isn’t worth the effort, but I thought it worth asking.

Thanks for such great products.

It’s my understanding that the network stuff that Lightroom does on the Plugin’s behalf uses the system proxy stuff, so if you set a proxy in IE (even if that’s not your normal browser), it’ll use it. I think. I’ve had reports of uploads failing because people had their IE proxy set wrong. It’s worth a try. —Jeffrey

I found a minor cosmetic issue in the Flickr Extras: Resend Metadata dialog. Near the top of the dialog it says “… associated with the images at ^2”. I’m assuming the “^2” is a token that should be replace with Flickr in this case.

Your plugins are great.

Oops, thanks. Just pushed a fix as version .97 —Jeffrey

An error while updating the GPS Metadata (works for most photos):

+4196.5: [x219101f8] line 12486:
couldn’t send
—————————————————————-

“geo-removeLocation failed”

_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____

Sorry about that…. it’s an easy fix, but I can’t push it for a day or three. I’ll do so as soon as I can. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, I think I found a bug with the HTML description code. When using things like “&” it issues a warning about not being able to use that description and instead insists on using an empty description. I’ve narrowed it down specifically to ampersands.

Version: 20090510.97

Ah, I see the problem. It doesn’t like & because it’s not XML, and that’s what I’m using to check it. I’ll figure out some fix or other, but won’t be able to push anything for a day or three, as the code is in the midst of a huge upheaval at the moment…. —Jeffrey

… I do understand what Ludovis is saying: since a month/a month and a half I have the very same problem. going to “Export” and choosing a preset is a pain

I usually keep Flickr Export as the active preset (is the one I use more often 😉 but everytime it takes… 1 minute + to login into my flickr account. When I need a different export preset… it also takes a long time, with apparently nothing happening, before the selected preset highlights in the list and it’s options appear

I’m on a MacBookPro 2.5 with 4GB of Ram and plenty of free space on my internal hd, where my entire picture collection is.
It’s not even a connection issue as… I’m on a fiber-optic 10MB connection 🙂

something is really wrong, on flickr side, with mac safari beta, but this issue is a whole different matter

I think this all started after the LR 2.3 update. not sure though.

First of all, thanks for this great plugin.
Lightroom would be a lot less useful without it.

I love the fact that it maintains flickr metadata for pictures that have been uploaded.
It’s pretty common for me to scan my Lightroom catalog to look for specific images that I want to send to somebody. In most cases, I see that the photo has already been uploaded to flickr, and there’s already a link to that photo page on flickr which I can copy and paste in an e-mail.
The only hassle is that I can’t just copy that flickr photo URL. I have to click on it and have the photo open up in the browser, and then I can copy the link from the browser.
It would be great if that metadata field was enabled (but still read-only of course). That way I could just select the URL and copy it right there.
Just a thought.

Thanks again for the plugin.

Yeah, that’d be cool, or a context menu with “copy”, but LR doesn’t allow that yet. )-: —Jeffrey

With version 20090518.99 of the Flickr export plugin, any Lightroom preset that uses the plugin disappears from the export preset list. The is true for both pre-existing presets and newly-created ones.

OS X 10.5.7
Lightroom 2.3
Export to Flickr 20090518.99

Do you perhaps have the plugin disabled in the Plugin Manager? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, thanks for the great work on your plugin. I noticed a couple of enhancements which would simplify use of the plugin with Lightroom and Flickr.
1. A warning message for oversized images of 20m about to be exported to Flickr that will fail.
2. A metadata update only, example – I want to get pics up fast to Flickr, and thereafter finish metadata, tagging, captions and descriptions later – but don’t want to re-upload images?
I know metadata is embedded inside the images, but it would save allot of time in uploading / synching the metadata into flickr.
Alan Vink

I’m pretty sure both are there already. If the oversized-image check fails, please immediately send a log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the upper-right of the plugin manager). See File > Plugin Extras > Flickr Extras dialog for resending metadata. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey!

I bow to the true awesomeness of this plugin! True genius! I thought it was a simple export plugin till I happened to stumble upon the power of tags and templates! I have been trying to use flickr sync to get my entire picture collection on to flickr for backup but have never been successful due to the size of my library and the selective natur of my uploads in the past.

With this, I uploaded all 6000 pictures just the way I wanted them (by date and then folder name of old pictures) and also threw in a few nice to haves during the upload like date of picture, camera settings etc., during the upload. Really awesome!

As far as your question about Collections goes, it would definitely be appreciated and right now I am doing what you described manually so it would be nice to have an automated way of doing that to already uploaded pictures (somehow I feel that is easier said than done due to the fact that Set Names are not stored in the library)

Also, I have two computer and I manage 2 copies of my library on 2 different external drives, I remember you mentioning a text file which stores the upload status of each picture, is it possible for you to point me to it, if its not already in the Catalog? I would like to make sure that both drives are in sync between sessions on the 2 computers that I have.

The “uploaded to…” flag is, indeed, stored in the catalog. —Jeffrey

If I hard-code it, will it automatically pass through the URL-shortening mechanism? (I’ll try it, but my first test just now didn’t end up tweeting anything…)

It won’t be shortened by the plugin, but Twitter will shorten it automatically. I was going to do url detection so I could shorten them, but in testing, Twitter let me send tweets 300+ characters long, so I didn’t bother. “140” seems to be a big myth 🙂 —Jeffrey

Awesome Twitter support, thanks Jeffrey!
Is there a way to grab the uploaded image’s small/med/large .jprg url (directly to the file) and tweat that instead of the image’s page url? Not in keeping with the social aspect of Twitter/Flickr but I mostly keep the photo page private and just link/embed the actual .jpg image.

Perhaps it’s a step too far or pointless for anyone else 🙂

I don’t think that the raw photo url is available to the plugin, but I’ll take a look… —Jeffrey

I typically only upload one photo at a time, so I hadn’t really considered that. I suppose you could tweet them all. Or just use the caption for the first photo. Or set the default for multiple photos differently than for single photos. I guess you’ll have almost as many opinions on this as you have users…

Those may be Flickr’s guidelines – but whatever we choose to do with our own URLs provided by an external utility is our own business. I don’t think it’s the plugin’s job to enforce policies – it’s to actually use computers for what they were designed for: making our lives easier.

Uh, no. Flickr says you can use their service under such-and-such conditions, and whether you like them or not, those are the conditions you agreed to, so you are bound by them. That doesn’t physically stop you from doing things against the terms, but if you choose to do so, you shouldn’t be surprised if they choose to terminate your account. (My blog is not the place to debate Flickr’s TOS, so further comments on this subject not related directly to the plugin will likely not make it through.) —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, regarding your request for comments about Flickr’s collections (nested sets, sort of): AFAIK the Flickr API does not support collections at all, so don’t bother. Keep up the great work!

Jeffrey,

I have a problem with version 20090604.107, trying uploading to Flickr. I get the following message: Whoa, the exported copy, …, does not exist immediately after WaitForRender. This seems to be a Lightroom bug, tickled when using this plugin along with “post-processing actions” (e.g. LR/Mogrify).

I do use the LR2/Mogrify post-processing, but with the previous version this wasn’t a problem.

Joop

No one has been able to figure out what’s causing this. I hate to say it, but at this point it remains a mystery and I can’t offer more than the suggestion to try it again later and hope it goes away. Sorry! —Jeffrey

Hello i have a bug report.
I would like to clear the uploaded to flickr tag from the metadata. I select the images, go to library>plugin extras>flickr extras and click clear. Then get the following error message.

Acces to undefined global: LastUploadAt

Great plugin by the way.

Oops, sorry ’bout that. Just pushed .108 that fixes it. —Jeffrey

Just an FYI to anyone interested in adding machine tags. Simply go to the section where you can add your own tags to photos and add something like:

EXIF:Aperture={Aperture}, Camera:Make={CameraMake}, Camera:Model={CameraModel}, EXIF:DateTaken={YYYY}{MM}{DD}{HH}{MIN}{SS}, EXIF:Height={OriginalHeight}, EXIF:Width={OriginalWidth}, geo:lat={Latitude}, geo:lon={Longitude}, EXIF:FocalLength={FocalLength}, photo:rating={Rating}

Voila, Machine tags for everything! And you can go back and re-update everything you’ve uploaded via the “Resend metadata” in Flickr Extras

Hi, it’s me again 🙂

Another feature request:
Please add a x from y number and the current filename in the progress bar from “Resend Metadata”. The progress dialog would be a lot nicer this way.

Sorry ’bout that… just added it and pushed a new version. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the great plugin. I love it. I noticed in the recent version that you have Twitter support (Specifically, it is version 20090607.109 running on Lightroom 2.3)

When I try to setup Twitter, it passes off fine to Twitter but when it comes back, I click the Yes button on the dialog that says “Have you finished authorizing the plugin via the Twitter page in your browser?” and another window pops up and says: “?:15315: attempt to index a nil value” and the only option is “OK”.

Any way to get this working?
Sorry about that… I’ve got a fix that I’ll push soon, which will change the cryptic message to the less cryptic (but still frustrating) “couldn’t contact Twitter… Internet connection down?”. (update: Just pushed it, version .110) —Jeffrey

… not sure at all it’s related, but… http://www.twitpocalypse.com =:-/

The build from today, 20090614.111 seems to do the trick for fixing the Twitter issue. Thank you so much for your prompt response!

Are you looking at some kind of a short URL option (eg. TinyURL, or even Flickr’s own flic.kr URL shortening service) for links sent to Twitter??

You mean besides the built-in bit.ly support? No. Why do you ask? —Jeffrey

OK cool. I didn’t realize that was there. I should have known that you’d have thought of everything!!! Thanks!

Love this plugin… Saves me loads of time. Only thing I would like to see added is support for shortening URLs when posting to Twitter. Seems minor, but it would really be the icing on the cake!

Urls are shortened automatically if needed, not if not. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey-
I just updated my flickr plugin and now it consistently fails when uploading to my Flickr Pro account. The error message is: Unable to Export: An internal error has occurred: ?:7888: attempt to get length of a nil value.

I’m running Windows XP and your flickr plugin v20090702.116.

I did not find a mention of this error elsewhere.