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Jeffrey’s “Export to PicasaWeb” Lightroom Plugin

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This Export-to-Picasaweb plugin has been completely rewritten for Lightroom 2.0 and later, and is not compatible with Lightroom 1.

(See the old plugin page for a version compatible with Lightroom 1.x)

Please see the known issues before reporting bugs. If this is your first look at my export plugins, please see the announcement post for an overview and some important information.

Version History

20080817.9	Lots of little tweaks as I cleaned things up. Added a bunch of stuff to the Plugin Manager, including a “What's New” button that shows up next to the “Upgrade Now” button when a new version is available. Removed the auto-destination stuff because I'm getting error-code 500 responses from Google with them. Will investigate.
20080814.8	Fixed infinite cycle of 'assert' messages one might get in odd situations
20080812.7	Fixes (I hope) a "bad argument #1 to '?' (table expected, got nil)" erorr
20080811.6	Moved and renamed the debugging logs to a temporary folder, and added log Show/Delete buttons to the plugin's custom section of the Plugin Manager.
20080806.5	Fixed {State} and {Rating} in preset templates.
20080805.4	Oops, the Windows versions had lost the ability to upgrade themselves. Once this version is installed manually, subsequent versions should be able to upgrade as discussed here.
20080804.3	Fixed "Access to undefined global: LrError" error that happens when trying to report a login-related problem.
20080804.2	Fixed a couple of internal errors related to the "choose destination at time of export" feature
20080729.1	Initial public release

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Comments so far....

picasawev-20080729.1 does not work on my Lihtroom 2. I get information that there is something wrong in reading the schema. So the plug in is disabled. OS Windows XP.

Regards,
Erkki

— comment by Erkki M on July 30th, 2008 at 3:43am JST (3 weeks ago) — comment permalink

I get an error using this version on XP: selecting the file-export- a dialogue box pops up titled “info” with the text of “At line 13435″
clicking ok continues to the usual album dialogue and works ok from then.

Fixed in .2 —Jeffrey

— comment by Daniel on July 30th, 2008 at 5:42am JST (3 weeks ago) — comment permalink

LR2 “Update Catalog for Plug-in” message on first opening of catalog after copying files to the Modules folder. Win XP. Why is a catalog update needed?? I’ll update but am apprehensive…

Ah, I should have mentioned this somewhere. LR2 allows plugins to add per-image data such that it can be used in searches, smart collections, and filters, but to do so it has to update the catalog with the “schema” (information about what kind of data will be stored, and how it can be accessed by the filters, smart collections, and searches).

My “Export to….” plugins support all that, so the catalog is upgraded. Frankly, I don’t know why it’s something to bother the user about, but it does. You’ll get the same message if I add (or change) the list of possible per-image items the plugins saves.

I’ll go add something to the plugin-install page that mentions this. —Jeffrey

— comment by Morey on July 31st, 2008 at 9:57am JST (2 weeks ago) — comment permalink

Ah ha, Yes I see the “Uploaded to Picasa Web” in the metadata and in the new filter tool bar. Very Cool! I love this plug-in and use it ALL of the time. Thanks!

— comment by Morey on July 31st, 2008 at 1:48pm JST (2 weeks ago) — comment permalink

Also found a second dialog “Access to undefined global: LrError”

I have a picture of it. Send me an email and I can send it to you.

Fixed in .3 —Jeffrey

— comment by Brett Michaels on August 3rd, 2008 at 4:24pm JST (2 weeks ago) — comment permalink

For me it runs smoothly. No problem so far.
Thank you, Jeffrey!

— comment by Pacorramos on August 4th, 2008 at 1:17am JST (2 weeks ago) — comment permalink

Thanks Jeffrey! Works like a charm on WinXP SP3 + LR 2.0

— comment by Denis on August 5th, 2008 at 4:38am JST (2 weeks ago) — comment permalink

A little question: Would it be possible to change the logfile folder to other than “My Documents” (for instance, the same as the LR default plugins location)?

Moved to a temporary folder, as of .6 —Jeffrey

— comment by Pacorramos on August 10th, 2008 at 12:48am JST (1 week, 4 days ago) — comment permalink

Works like a charm! Thanks

— comment by Gordo on August 12th, 2008 at 9:52am JST (1 week, 1 day ago) — comment permalink

Hi,

I’ve found your plugin really useful and I appreciate it a lot!

I have’nt found any bugs, I just have a small feature request.

When I upload photos to Picasa (or Flickr or Facebook) I start by creating a collection in Lightroom. And then I reorder the photos to get a better “story”. But it is not possible to select “user-order” when I upload. Would it be possible to add this feature?

Regards

Nils

PS I’ve used this workaround: 1) Export with custom name and three digit sequence number. 2) Reimport. 3) Upload in alphabetical order.

— comment by Nils Ohman on August 21st, 2008 at 5:36am JST (43 minutes ago) — comment permalink