Plug-in reads the directory structure but will not populate with the photos I have already uploaded. After initializing some type of smugmug extras I now have a folder labelled “Associated from Smugmug” which has Some of my photos. Is this a limitation or am i doing something wrong?

Thx

Sounds like you’re not checking the “Populate newly-added collections” option mentioned here. —Jeffrey

Is there any way to upgrade from LR3 to LR4 and keep the published collections? Under LR3 I’ve populated a few collections which aren’t available in LR4. Assuming not, is there a way to sync what has been published back to my LR4 image collection?

Collections (and everything else about the catalog) is maintained during an upgrade. It should be very smooth. —Jeffrey

thank you for all the effort you put inside your Lightroom goodies. I want to give you a short feedback and say Thank you!
I started to use the jfSmugMug for the video upload (the Adobe version in LR3.4 just ignores videos – and I have sometimes a video to include to my gallery) and as well I started to like several other options you have inside the plugin. What I do not like and for me it is totally not user friendly is the new gallery creation procedure (I hope you can do it the same or better way than Adobe).
Thank you Jeffrey!

Boris

“I want my original dng files to be uploaded to the smugvault for archiving. I also want the modifications that I have made in lightroom to show up on my images uploaded to smugmug. From the explanation provided earlier by your helpdesk, the only way to achieve this is to publish the gallery with the properties set to ‘original’ or ‘dng’ for the image upload, then to upload again with the setting on ‘jpg’. I tested this and can verify the dng is put in the vault and the jpg shows up and is married to the dng by the file name prefix. However, this workflow is not ideal, particularly when dealing with 1000s of images. Is there a way to upload the dng and the jpg render with the lightroom modifications together?”

I’m not sure what you’re asking, but if you want to archive the master image file along with a developed JPG, my plugin can do that, but if you want the archived master image to reflect changes in Lightroom, that’s not going to happen on its own… SmugMug doesn’t know what changes have been made in Lightroom, and even if they did, they couldn’t apply Adobe’s proprietary render. Essentially, they’d have to embed Adobe Camera Raw into their online service, which not even Adobe does. —Jeffrey

Also can you comment on having photos in more than one Smugmug gallery? Will your plugin handle the case of a photo being ‘de-published’ from one gallery but remains in another gallery? Any tips on managing this sort of scenario?

The refreshing urls thing should indeed clear out urls of images that no longer exist at SmugMug, but it’s been a long time since I looked at it, so it wouldn’t hurt to do a test to make sure it works as you expect. As for the multiple-galleries things, that’s a huge can of worms. If you have two separate publish services (or two galleries in one publish service), theyr’e independent and you can and/remove as you like without affecting the other gallery, but if you later need to an “associate” step, it’ll only be associated with the most recent gallery exported to, which may or may not be the one you want. Hopefully you’d never need to do an associate step for images initially exported with the plugin, but if you do and you have had the same image in multiple places, it’ll get confusing. —Jeffrey

Thanks so much for these great plugins. Can I ask two questions? First, if I need to manually associate some images, the plugin asks for a URL. I assume that is the “Owner Save” URL both for photos and videos?

Second, have you had any luck with the SmugMug folks on uploading videos? When I’ve tried it I’ve only had luck with VERY short videos. When I try anything with any length your plugin never seems to get an upload completed confirmation from SmugMug, so it tries to send the file over and over. I let it go when I was out of the house the other day and ended up with 15 copies of the same video on SmugMug. I contacted SmugMug. They tried to blame it on my connection until we tested it and my connection was fine. Finally they said, “Lightroom is most suited for photo uploads. For videos use our browser uploader.”

Ethan

I’m not sure what the “Owner Save” url is, but the plugin looks at the url to derive the SmugMug internal codes, so likely pretty much any image-specific URL will work. If you run into one that doesn’t, let me know. As for the video-upload problems, I would guess it’s Lightroom and not SmugMug. The plugin architecture wasn’t built with video in mind, so it starts to fail quickly as the size gets larger. I’m not sure there’s much we can do but wait for a fix from Adobe, though faster bandwidth would always help. —Jeffrey

I have been a user of your flickr plugin, but now I am planning to move to SmugMug. I would like to use SM for both backup (i.e., set export format to Original) and for display (use export format to JPG). How can I do both?

I also have more than 100K pictures in dozens of LR3 folders. Is there a way to publish (or export) the entire folder structure to SM?

Ravi

You can automate album names during upload with my “auto destination” feature, as seen in this post, but SmugMug doesn’t allow arbitrary depths to their folder structure (just category and album), so you’ll have to make due somehow if you need more depth than that. —Jeffrey

I’ve been using the SmugMug publish plugin quite a bit. Today I suddenly started getting an error while publishing to a gallery that I had uploaded earlier in the day. I have 68 photos in the gallery. After 2 photos, I got an error box saying: “Error during export. Error reply from SmugMug: system error. Aborting export after 2 of 68 iages successfully uploaded.” The upload is then cancelled.

When I try to publish again, the same error box comes up but now it errors after 0 of 66 images. Nothing from this collection is getting uploaded anymore. I’ve quit and restarted Lightroom. I have not rebooted the computer.

Using SMugMug plugin version 20110712.174 on a Mac, 10.6.8.

Hmm, on a hunch I reloaded the plugin. Now it works. But it didn’t work after restarting Lightroom previously. Weird. Now of course I will not be able to duplicate the problem.

It was probably just a temporary glitch at SmugMug that they happened to fix while you reloaded the plugin. It happens from time to time. —Jeffrey

You can’t just convert a normal collection to a smart one, because smart collections are rule-based, so they have exactly as many photos as the rules you pick filter in. But at this point, even if you get the rules correct, there’s no way to migrate the “publishness” of the photos to them, so you’d have to republish them all. )-: —Jeffrey

Is it possible to have that same view in the Lightroom listing in the right column? Or is that totally controlled by LR?

Also, it would really be great (probably dreaming here) to add a gallery by right clicking and adding one, as you can do in collections….maybe a “requirement” for the guys at Adobe…???

John
The ordering is indeed controlled by Lightroom. There are right-click add-gallery hooks, but I disabled them because there were just too many bugs associated with it in Lr3.0. I’m not sure how worthwhile it is to investigate now whether they’ve been fixed, but I’ll keep it in mind… —Jeffrey