Hi Jeffrey

I too was having problems with flickr (new LR catalogue, connecting to a flickr account for the first time). I was running 20180906.401. I’ve now updated to 20180917.402 and I can now log in successfully. Thanks for your efforts!

Paul – London, UK

Hi Jeffery,

i have a problem with LR 7 (7.50, german) and the metadatawrangler plugin. I think up to LR version 6.x it works fine. Now it’s stealing the focus from the preset if it’s part of the preset.
I checked es more than once. If i activate a preset with this plugin included then after a short moment the preset lost the focus. It doesn’t matter if the plugin is enabled or not.

At least the last three version include 20181004.167 doesn’t work.

Thanks
joerg

I don’t think it’s something specific to this plugin…. I did some tests and found that Lightroom randomly took focus away from the preset name, regardless of what preset I tested and what plugins the preset did or did not have. I could find no pattern. I never noticed this issue before and now that I do it doesn’t really bother me, but YMMV. In any case, it’s a Lightroom thing. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey- I’ve been using the Zenfolio plugin for years and am generally happy with it. I’m noticing that I get frequent time-outs in the middle of uploads and that when it happens, Lightroom is frozen until the time-out is resolved. I have a good internet connection. A) is there something I can do to cut down on the connection errors? B) is there a way to prevent the plugin from completely taking over Lightroom during these events so that I can at least keep working while the connection is restoring?

This sounds like a problem deep within Lightroom and/or your OS. I’ve gotten a lot of reports over the years that plugin uploads to Zenfolio are super slow compared to uploading via their browser interface, and that, too, may be something deep inside Lightroom, but since I can’t reproduce the problem, I can only vaguely speculate. I suppose some WireShark logs might help shed some light on it, but networking is not a strong area for me. In any case, the way that the plugin interfaces with Lightroom for the upload is the same code used in my other plugins, none of which garner such consistent “slow upload” complaints, so part of me has to wonder whether the problem isn’t somehow at Zenfolio. I’m just at a loss here. )-: —Jeffrey

It appears that the Flickr plugin is still broken.

I’m getting the error that says “Warning. Can’t update this collection. Corrupt reply from Flickr, can’t continue.” I also get “Unexpected HTML reply from Flickr” along with a few lines of HTML that don’t seem to shed any light on the problem.

I’m using Lightroom Classic 8 on a Windows 10 PC with the latest version of your Flickr plugin (20181020.407).

Is there any chance that this will be resolved anytime soon? If not, I may have to resort to Lightroom’s built-in Flickr publish service.

Others have reported this and sent logs, and it’s truly a problem on Flickr’s side, so I can’t speculate on when they’ll fix it. It seems to be intermittent, in that others have reported that if they keep trying, it eventually succeeds. It’s not impossible that you’re running into something slightly different, so feel free to send a plugin log and I’ll take a look. —Jeffrey

Hi, Jeffrey. I’m in Washington state, USA. I was wondering if the Flickr recent change to the Amazon Web Server platform will cause issues with the Lightroom jfFlickr plug-in. The Flickr site is back up this evening (May 23, 2019) after an outage to move the web site to Amazon beginning May 22, 2019. Presently, when I publish photos in Lightroom using jfFlickr, the action times out showing “Error during export Flickr’s server returned a web page instead of valid data, so they’re likely having temporary technical difficulty. Aborting export before any image was successfully uploaded.” I guess this is kind of a heads up for you if there is something that needs to be done on your end with the plugin. It may be that Flickr is wonky at the moment after the site move.

As best as I can tell, they seem to still have intermittent issues. —Jeffrey

I’ve been having lots of hiccups uploading recently, most of which I suspect are related to Flickr’s Yahoo-SmugMug/AWS migration. No troubles this morning, but one thing that’s been a problem for me for some time is that I can’t seem to *not* download comments. I have the plugin set to “manually” which as I understand it should bypass comment download. But when I publish, I get “Downloading comments” for a long time. (I just refreshed my Flickr album list, which may or may not have helped.)

I’m writing from the San Francisco Bay Area. Thank you for all your work on this plugin, which I find indispensable.

Lightroom doesn’t actually allow for comment-downloading to be disabled, so the disable feature of the plugin fakes out Lightroom by not actually contacting Flickr….. but Lightroom still goes through all the housekeeping efforts, because Lightroom doesn’t know about the fake out. It does this for every photo with every publish. That can be a lot of housekeeping efforts that Lightroom is wasting, but there’s no getting around it, as things stand now. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey!
I was one of the old LR 6 holdouts until just the other day, and have been happily using your Zenfolio plugin (mostly) without issue for years. Thank You for an excellent product that has integrated so well for so long and made my workflow so much easier.

Upon upgrading to LightRoom Classic 8.4.0 and installing the latest plugin (20190810.321) , I am noticing two things: 1) slower upload speeds than with the previous version, and 2) the EXPORT dialogue window takes about 23 seconds to appear after pressing the EXPORT button when jf zenfolio is the active dropdown selected. When hard drive or email is selected, the export window appears immediately. This is on a Win 10 machine . Thanks for looking into this.

About upload speeds, the plugin has no influence on that… it shoves the data to Lightroom as fast as possible, and after that many things can influence how quickly it gets to the destination (Lightroom, your OS, your router, your ISP, ISPs between, Zenfolio, phase of moon, etc.). About the long delay for the export window, that’s unexpected. Could you open the export window, then close it as soon as it finally shows up, then send a plugin log, and I’ll see what I can figure out. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Been happily using your “Export to Google Drive” with LR6 with no problems. However, upon exporting now, I am getting duplicate files of each photo in Google Drive. Wondering if this is a bug or, more likely, am I configuring the export incorrectly? Thanks for any help.

When you say “Export”, do you really mean “Publish”? With Publish, prior copies should be replaced. With export (“File > Export”), new copies are pushed out without regard to whatever might have happened in the past. If you’re using Publish and it doesn’t seem to be working, please send a plugin log after encountering the problem, being sure to report the full filename of the prior copy and the new copy. —Jeffrey

Hi – thank you for developing this plug in to enable export from Lightroom to Zenfolio. I just updated to LR 9.0 and the latest plug in is not compatible. Is there an updated version of the plugin to work with LR 9.0?

Kind regards,
Megan

Dallas, TX USA

The most recent version did work with Lr9, but juuuuust in case I pushed out another version with all current updates. Still, perhaps delete the copies of the plugin you have on your system so that you’re sure to be using the new one that you then download….—Jeffrey

I am running Adobe LIghtroom 9.1 and tried to re-install you lightroom export plugin. It will not load gives me an error saying an error reading the schema. I did as you suggested uninstalled, restarted but no go. The log file has this below. I get the exact same error on my macbook (this is an iMac). What am I doing wrong? I have used it for several years ….

Kevin

Plug-in error log for plug-in at: /Users/kevin/Desktop/zenfolio-jfriedl.lrplugin

**** Error 1

An error occurred while attempting to run one of the plug-in’s scripts.
bad argument #1 to ‘?’ (table expected, got nil)

Please see this FAQ —Jeffrey

Lately when the Flickr plugin tells me there some images have been updated and need to be replaced, it uploads duplicate copies rather than replacing the originals.

This is a new behavior I haven’t seen before, and may be a feature of LR 9.2.

I didn’t notice it at first. I found duplicates and thought I had inadvertently uploaded them twice. But today it uploaded duplicates intermingled with the new images. I caught it in the act.

Like I said, this may be related to a recent update to Lightroom, because I haven’t seen this before in the 8 or so years I’ve been using the plugin.

Next time you catch it in the act, please send a plugin log, being sure to note the full URL of the original image, and of the duplicate. Thanks! —Jeffrey

I am using LR 9.2 on a mid 2014 MacBookPro with OS 10.14.3. Unlike the lame Adobe Flickr plug-in, Yours has worked great, until now. I had to delete from Flickr an album, including about 90 pictures and 10 brief MOV videos, which I had previously published. But when I try to re-publish it, the following dialog pops up:
“Can’t continue: a previously-uploaded video is included in the Publish operation, but Flickr does not allow videos to be replaced. You might delete it from the publish service, then re-add and republish, or just bypass the operation by right-clicking on its thumbnail and “Mark as Up-to-Date”

I tried deleting all movies of that date from Flicker, including the photo stream. But it still gives the same dialog. When I right click on one of the movies in LR, it does not give the option of “Mark as Up-to-Date” PLEASE HELP.

BTW: The images in Lightroom are still connected with their counterparts on Flickr. When I select ‘Visit Photo at Flickr’ it opens the image at Flickr as it always has.

Hello Jeffrey, thanks again for your great work on these plugins!

I found a potential bug in the Google Photos export plugin. When a video is exported, the creation date of the video is modified to the current date. This happens when I choose Video Format “H.264” and when I choose “Original, unedited file”.

Hard for me to know if this is an issue with the plugin or with Google Photos. Please let me know.

Thanks,
David

It’s an issue with Google Photos; they provide no way for the date to be transmitted, so they just read it (or in this case, ignore it) from the video file. —Jeffrey

New problem! Plugin has worked fine in the past but today I get message:

“System returned “securityError” when Lightroom attempted to use the Internet: The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “api.zenfolio.com” which could put your confidential information at risk.”

I cannot create new gallery, nor can I refresh. Just updated to latest version, same problem.

Ideas?

Thanks!

Howard

That’s the message one would get if Zenfolio’s SSH certificate had expired, but it doesn’t expire until 2021, so I can only guess some kind of glitch on your system? Just grasping at straws here…. perhaps try a reboot? —Jeffrey