Just another follow up on a couple other questions I had on uploading to Google Photos (Picassa Web Albums). Are you saying that once Google phases out Picassa that your Plugin will no longer work for Google Photos? Because now, it seems like whatever shows in Picassa also shows in Google Photos.

You suggest using a different photos depository/service like Smugmug, etc. but I would still prefer to use Google Photos since I have thousands of photos there in albums already. Is there a different plugin or procedure you could suggest to still use this service in the future when Picassa is deactivated? I can’t believe that Google Photos is also going to disappear, and it still has relatively good functionality and features which I can only assume will get better over time considering the number of users it has.

Thanks.

I’m not particularly familiar with Google Photos, seeing how serious photographers are clearly not in their target demographic, so I’m not the best person to ask about this, but I’ve heard of some folks using Google Drive to get photos to Google Photos. Like I said, I haven’t paid much attention to it, so I’m not sure. FWIW, I do have a Google Drive plugin. —Jeffrey

Regarding Metadata Wrangler and keywords:

I have read where you have determined how to handle the lightroom heirarchy. I noticed where you asked for some ideas. The plugin in works great for stripping keywords and prefixes, which would be EXTREMELY useful for some upload sites (agencies, etc.). I have noticed however:

At least with Flickr, you must have “Explicit export Lr keywords” unchecked in order for Metadata Wrangler plugin to have an effect. I’m guessing this has to do with the order in which they are processed but I’m not sure. That works okay of course (to leave it unchecked) but it does present potential issues with future keyword changes.

More importantly, the heirarchy:

The behavior is such that even if you strip a specific keyword, and that keyword has synonyms, or children below it, it does not affect the export of those words. That becomes the stumbling block in using the plugin for that purpose since more often than not you need to be able to strip those items as well.

Based upon some reading I’ve done on your blog, it at least appears that you have access to the parent, children, an synonyms of a keyword. The coding my be a bit of a pain, but as far as I can tell that would enable this to be a complete solution to problems I read photographers (myself included) frequently have with the way Lightroom exports keywords. Even the alphabetical order is a hindrance but I’m not sure there is much you can do with that part.

Would it be worth having a stand-alone plugin to deal with keywords? I think you would find it extremely popular and I for one would be more than happy to compensate for it.

Thanks

About the “Explicitly send Lr keywords” thing, the Flickr plugin doesn’t know that you’ve included the Metadata Wrangler plugin as part of the export, and has no idea that the latter is doing anything to keywords. For the most part, one sends the image file with whatever keywords you want (as perhaps modified by Metadata Wrangler) and Flickr extracts them from the image, but if you want to strip the image metadata, but still want Flickr to know about the keywords, you’d use the “Explicitly send…” option. As for better keyword control, I don’t doubt that there’s room for a plugin to give much more control, but unfortunately at this point my todo list is too long to write such a plugin myself. —Jeffrey

Regarding:

“Intermittent error encountered in Flickr’s back-end servers (Filetype was not recognised). Unfortunately, there’s nothing you can do but try again later and hope for better luck.”

I tried Library | Plug-in Extras | Flickr Extras | Refresh All Remote Urls

And the recalcitrant images all started behaving nicely again. So I think there is something you can do after all. 🙂

John Samuel, from just outside Kew Royal Botanic Gardens

I think the timing is just coincidence. The URLs being refreshed are not part of what’s sent to Flickr during an upload. It’s like you tried to call a friend but got a “lines down” signal, then contacted the operator to check whether you had the correct number in the first place, then retrying the friend and getting through: asking the operator about the number didn’t fix whatever problem the line had been having when you tried the first time. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffry, I am using your Zenfolio plugin to export my images from LR5 to my webpages. When exporting, only the Title and Headline gets exported to display on the webpage – the file name doesn’t. I am unable to edit the template as Create New and Update options are greyed out. My workflow is that I use Photomechanic 5 to set the metadata through the IPTC Stationary Pad, Import selected file to Light room, Edit (not the metadata) and then export to my Zenfolio web page . Only the Title and Headline are shown.

Please can you advise how I can edit the template to get the information I need.

I am also looking to expert these to two places at once, my Zenfolio Webpage and a Hard Drive for Archiving.

Other than this is appears to work great.

It’s hard to guess why the options are grayed out without more info… perhaps send a plugin log after experiencing the issue, or maybe send some screenshots? About the “two places at once”, that’s easier: in Publish, see the third section of the settings dialog (“Export Override Location”). In Export, see “Export Location”. —Jeffrey

zenfolio-20170621.299
Unable to Export error
Error calculating automatic destination for “filename.dng” unbalanced ‘{‘ in “[Path:After=ImageLibrary\}”
Image Library\ is a folder name in the path to the filemane.dng. In fact the full path is “G:\ImageLibrary\Shared\2017\05-22_OR_Coast”
I’ll rollback to the prior release and see if this continues.

Oops, a case of unintended consequences for a different change. I’ve just pushed a fix. Sorry for the hassles. —Jeffrey

I just registered metadata wrangler and hoped it would solve a problem that I am having with scanned .tiff files edited in lightroom cc develop module then added GPS data from the map module all metadata saved to original files, then exported as .jpg files. All the metadata seems to get picked up during the export except the GPS data. I have checked all the settings in the export dialogue and in metadata wrangler and still the GPS data does not copy. I have scanned several thousand 35mm slides and negatives and only some groups of files display this behavior.
Please any suggestions what I should try.

Thanks for the great plugin, it did not fix my particular problem but it sure covers the ground.

The plugin wouldn’t add data that’s not already there (except for what you might manually add toward the bottom of the dialog), so it’d be good to figure out what Lightroom is doing. Try vanilla “Hard Drive” exports and check whether the location data is in the resulting JPGs on your system (perhaps via my metadata viewer). Lightroom has an option in one of the export-dialog sections to strip location info (including “City”, etc.), so look into that. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the plugin! I do know that google had changed things a few months ago and the plugin basically no longer works for exporting directly to google photos. so my question , then how come update it ? anyway, i do thank you again and do hope one day the plugin would work again…

More of a habit, since parts of it still seem to work for some. I’m not working on it directly, but if I update some of the libraries that make it up, I just go ahead and push out the update with those changes. —Jeffrey

Hi,

I’m experiencing that page posts between a period (a few months) disappear from the Facebook page. I can see them in the list of performing posts, but they are nowhere to be seen on the page.

I’m not totally sure if this “bug” is because of your plugin or not, but this has happened twice, and both times it has happened shortly after using the plugin to upload 4-5000 images in multiple albums created via the plugin.

Running on Lightroom 2015.12 on macOS 10.12.6

I have contacted Facebook about the issue again, but last time they just closed the ticket and said “they are continually working to improve facebook jadajada…”.

Have you seen this issue before?

I have not seen it, no. Since you mention uploading a large number of photos, I wonder whether you’re bumping up against some kind of limit? —Jeffrey

I keep getting this message when I try to export to zen.

Unexpected reply from Zenfolio: their system returned this error that the jf Zenfolio plugin doesn’t know how to handle: “50005: User is not an owner of an object.”

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

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

Target url: http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.8/zfapi.asmx
Unix timestamp of call start: 1505432832.2852
Unix timestamp of call end: 1505432833.4348
HTTP Reply Date Field: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:47:26 GMT
HTTP Origin Field: WS001

Thanks for any help…

I’m pretty sure that’s an error at Zenfolio. It’ll likely go away on its own; if not, perhaps send them a note (including the information you copied here). —Jeffrey

Yesterday I noticed 5 or 6 photos on Flickr viewed with ‘camera roll’ were unavailable. I have tried a few times to republish them yesterday and today but I am getting the same message others here have “Flickr is currently down (error returned by Flickr: Photo is temporarily unmodifiable)”

Just now as I tested again to get he exact error message. They were all present and republishing worked so this is an intermittent problem it seems

Yes, it seems to come and go. It’s a problem with Flickr, in their backend systems, I’d guess. —Jeffrey

Hi, I’m from the UK near London.

I started using your plugin when I wanted to upload to a business page, but the standard plugin wouldn’t allow. It works fine but, doesn’t seem to allow me to publish file names with each image? When I am uploading 100s of images and someone wants to buy one, the Facebook plugin when publishing to my personal page would name each image (as their original file name that came from the camera. With your plugin however, each image is blank, no file name attributed to the image? Obviously, with a file name, the images were easy to identify…
Any ideas?

See the “Facebook: Metadata Management” section of the Export/Publish dialog. There, you have considerable control over what you send to Facebook to use as the caption. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeff. I just updated to Lightroom Classic and your Smugmug plugin stopped working. When I click on what remains of the publishing service it tries to open the following URL, but fails http://www.adobe.com/go/lightroom-smugmug

I don’t want to try reinstalling it before I let you know. Im hoping it can be recovered.

Thanks!

It sounds like you were using a very old version of Lightroom’s SmugMug plugin, which they passed on to SmugMug itself many years ago. My plugin precedes (and is unrelated to) both. —Jeffrey

I am trying to upload pictures from Lightroom to Zenfolio and I keep getting System returned “securityerror” when Lightroom attempted to use the internet:are you sure that your system date and time are correct? My system time is correct I have checked it multiple times. I also don’t have any firewalls or anything. I have spent hours on this today. Does anyone know how to resolve this?? I can log on to Zenfolio just fine on the website.

I am getting the same error other users have mentioned, I get this message, “System returned “Security Error” when Lightroom attempted to use the Internet” Are you sure that your system date and time are correct?”

I checked time and date and it was all fine, I even reset it. I tried to switch to the Safari browser rather that MOZILLA firefox Nothing helped. I was trying to upload photos to my Zenfolio account from Lightroom 4. I had done a successful upload just two days ago. Please HELP!

Jolene Grabill
Kansas

It turns out that this is an issue with your old version of OSX. Unfortunately, at this point the only recourse is to update the operating system, sorry. Please see this FAQ. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffery.
I managed to stumble upon you LR > Facebook plugin as I could not get the Native LR one to work. I’m experiencing a small issue which I hope you can help with…

I have my personal Facebook page (Geoff Moore) and then I have a 2nd page for my photography (Geoff Moore Landscape Photography)

Within the settings for your Plugin > Lightroom Publishing Manager > Facebook Tools I have selected (Geoff Moore Landscape Photography)

Within > Facebook: Albums In this Publish Service > I have selected Time Line Photos

The problem I’m encountering is that the image gets publish to the timeline on my personal Facebook page (Geoff Moore) and NOT (Geoff Moore Landscape Photography) and I cant figure out why. Can you assist?

Regards
Geoff

What albums you can and can’t publish too has seemed to be a buggy area for a long time (see this FAQ). Your photo page is accessed via your personal-page credentials, so they’re all mixed as part of one Facebook account, and Facebook should be telling the plugin all the albums you can post to (personal and professional). The “Timeline Photos” album must be from your personal account, but apparently there’s none from your pro page? This is all usually a mystery to me (bugs that I have no control over tend to be that way), but you can try sending the plugin log after, and I’ll take a look. —Jeffrey