Jeffrey, thanks for all of your efforts over the last several months supporting us with your LR (Smugmug) export plugin. I was plesently surprised today when I upgraded LR to V2 and saw that you had a new plugin which is another step forward.

Also I was pretty proud when I read that you are Ohio born and still have family here. Have a good rest of your vacation here and enjoy this special time with your son. There is no rewind button time goes by fast.

I downloaded your 7/29 zip file, but there was no file in it that LightRoom recognized as a plugin. I looked for a file in the zip with lrplugin in it and there was none. Am I missing something?

-wick

The zip contains a folder that you point the Plugin Manager at. See my writeup on install instructions for details. —Jeffrey

I’ve just activated SmugVault on my account, but the SmugMug plugin still says SmugMug won’t accept CR2-files. Any plans for an update that will support SmugVault?

Fixed in .3 —Jeffrey

Hi!
I love the metadata field named Uploaded To SmugMug…

How can I add that field to my Metadata Field List .lrtemplate that I created w/ your Metadata Configuration Manager?

On Vista, * gives me the Section w/ just the Uploaded field.

Hi Jeffrey

Plugin works great with LR2 and after having fixed the keyword upgrade issues from LR1 (export disabled). Many thanks!

The only glitch now I found is when I do the following:
– update some keywords locally, e.g. add a few extra keywords. No other editing.
– upload the image again with “replace the most recent previously uploaded version” option enabled
= new keywords are NOT shown on smugmug 🙁

Any idea why that could be ?
Many thanks and best regards,
Markus

This is probably a “feature” that I need to try to look into. I’ve added it to my todo list. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, I use and love your SmugMug plugin – thanks. I am getting an error message when I attempt to use the “Automatic Destinations” feature.

I’m using a single token {Folder} and I anticipate the plugin will use that to create a new gallery using the Lightroom folder name (I guess in my SmugMug ‘root’ and I can’t specify a category), and then export the photos there. I’m getting error message “Unable to Export: A internal error has occurred: ?16981 attempt to concatenate field ‘?’ (a nil value)”.

The LR folder name is “2001-09-03 – 200sx – Deca with skyline club”

Any suggestions? A bug or finger trouble on my part?

All fixed in .10.

I also second the request made by PeterM above regarding “Quick Settings” these are essentially templates for the gallery customisation settings, allowing you to set things like the privacy and theme settings. You edit the QuickSetting template via the SmugMug web interface, and then use it when uploading photos.

Cheers, Patrick

I’ve got the Quick Settings stuff coded up, but I can’t get it to actually work. I’m waiting to hear back from the SmugMug guys on it… —Jeffrey

Love the plugin.

It would be awesome if there was an option to automatically upload the CR2 and XMP files to SmugVault when exporting an image, rather than having to export a second time.

Added to my todo list. —Jeffrey

Hi – Adobe have released a script which fixes the keyword export issue (by setting the export info on every keyword for you). Details at http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb405074&sliceId=2

wow, jeffrey i am forever grateful.
over the last few months i scanned several thousand negatives of my childhood, and without this plugin i would have spent endless hours figuring out a reliable upload process.

First a huge THANKS YOU Jeffrey for all your hard work!

I have looked at the known issues but I might have missed this: I tried cancelling an SM upload as ~I realised I was sending it to the wrong gallery and the ‘cancelling task’ jst hung – well it was still there 5 mins later

Just thought I’d let you know;D

I have over 100 galleries… Would it be possible to change the “Upload to your smugmug gallery” control from a menu style popup to a scrolling menu popup with a scrollbar? It takes some time to scroll to the bottom of the list…

Keep up the great work!

thanks
dan

Lightroom doesn’t offer me the ability to create a scrollable anything, so it does whatever it does. If SmugMug were to have a hierarchical gallery scheme, I could have the list be hierarchical as well (as I do with the Zenfolio plugin), but given the current limitations, I’m not sure what I can do. I suppose I could create a virtual hierarchy via first letter of the gallery name, or something like that…. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey – excellent work! This plugin is saving me so much time and effort. Looking for the donation option now…

I’ve tried to load 20080905.21 on my Vista machine. The machine gives me the message that it is an invalid file. I’ll be using it with Lightroom 2.0.

What would the fix be?

Perhaps try to re-download and re-unzip the plugin. I’ve heard no other problems using these on Vista. —Jeffrey

Hi, I just installed the latest version today, and got the following error when registering with lightroom:

Plug-in error log for plug-in at: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/smugmug-jfriedl.lrplugin

**** Error 1

An error occurred while attempting to load this plug-in.
The plug-in description script (Info.lua) is missing.

Could you please help?

Thanks,
Sean

Perhaps there was a problem when you unzipped the download? Do you see Info.lua inside the plugin folder? (In your example, do you see /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/smugmug-jfriedl.lrplugin/Info.lua?) If not, you might want to re-download and re-unzip. —Jeffrey

Jeff,

Not sure how, but you are correct. The “Image Resize” was set to 4 x 4 px on export. Having a “Doah!” moment right not. Thanks again!!!

Jeffrey,

I have a small bug with your most recent LR2 plug-in 20080918.28 (actually the bug may be in previous versions as well).

I noticed that my focal length metadata was way off in one of my smugmug galleries. For example, instead of reading 64mm, it reads 640000mm. I have confirmed that this only happens when uploading from a .tif file. I tried uploading the same image from the original .CR2, a converted .jpg and a .tif file. Only the uploaded tif file had the wrong focal length. Everything else looks OK.

Thanks for a great plug-in!

Brad

The SmugMug plugin for Lightroom 1 works perfectly, but after several attempts to use the newest plugin for Lightroom 2 it keeps giving me this error: An internal error has occured. Access to undefined global: file

What do I need to do? I’ve tried cleaning out everything in the folder the plugin resides, then reinstalling. Same result.

Great plug-in Jeffrey – here’s a feature request:
Export to multiple locations. I find I often want a copy saved to different locations, e.g two folders and one to smugmug (i.e. one a psd, one to print and one to my Smugmug site)

Very time consuming when doing it with more than one file so being able to save apreset that allowed for export to several locations would be cool

thanks

Simon

You can already save to local disk at the same time you upload (see the “Export Location” section of the export dialog), but it’s a different matter to export two different sizes/formats at the same time. I agree that would be killer – I’d use it myself for my own blog, where I always have to upload two sizes of each image – but it’s a fairly weighty feature to add, so it’ll likely be some time. More likely, some future version of LR will allow a preset to be made that encapsulates other presets. Until then, make an export preset for each common situation, then select the files and just invoke the two (or whatever) presets. It’s less convenient than it could be, but not too arduous. —Jeffrey

Just to mention also that it hung on one export last night. Uploaded to five galleries last night , including the culprit gallery, one image hung and was still hanging this morning.

I’ve never run into that myself, but it doesn’t surprise me a whole lot… I’ve spent more time on features than on quality error handling, which is understandable, I suppose, while there’s so much low-hanging fruit (feature wise) yet to be plucked…. —Jeffrey

Downloaded again this AM and it worked fine. But I ran into an issue when I uploaded some files to smugmug. I always rename my files in lightroom to something like this OCT1108-001.jpg. I had done this with a batch of files before uploading to smugmug. But on smugmug, the camera-assigned filenames appear, not the ones I changed them too! Any thoughts why this would happen?

Images created for export are named as per the template you chose in the “File Naming” section of the dialog. Are you sure it was set as you wanted (likely to “Filename”)? —Jeffrey

Hi jeffrey,

I am getting an “image too large” pop up. SmugMug has eliminated their 12mp limit. If you upload an image larger than 12mp they resize it. This is a new feature so maybe it is not yet incorporated into your plugin. I verified with SmugMug that they were not generating the flag.

Having SmugMug “clip” my uploads eliminates a resize step in my workflow.

Thanks,
Kurt Rodholm

Hey Jeff,

this plug-in is a God send!! Thanks so much. However, I dont know how to use the darn thing!! lol..

I managed to install the plug-in into my LR 2.0, but im lost from there on.

Please help me out!! I got loads to upload and hopefully if everything works out, I’m thinking i’ll go pro!!

Regards,
ali

P.S. do email me the steps (baby steps pls.! lol)

Hi Jeffrey,
got this error message again ( I think it’s the same as before)
“An internal error has occurred: ?:15940: attempt to compare string with number”

All I can tell you is that I was uploading to SM again – about 3 uploads in total and one location on disk

Simon

ps- thanks for your reply to my earlier feature request;)

I sent you a message not long ago. I realized that for whatever reason when I try to logon to smugmug from the plugin, it is not finding smugmug. I have the correct info entered. Then I clicked for your blog and it won’t appear either, and both list “application not found” My internet connection is working fine, so it isn’t that the internet is not working right. I’m using windows xp pro and the most current version of your plugin.
It seems like I’m just a tiny bit away from makingi it work. Doesn’t it almost working make you crazy?! Me too! Especially since it is working on my other computer.
My hair may all fall out before I figure this out!
Thanks so much in advance.
Mary

Ever since I downloaded the new Lightroom 2.1 and the new plugin version 20081027.37 on windows vista, i have been unable to export to smugmug. I recieve the following error:

+243.9: At =(tail call) line -1:
Return header ERROR
—————————————————–

errorCode = “badServerResponse”
name = “The requested header was not found”
nativeCode = 12150

I had it working perfectly before the new download. Please let me know what i can do.

Hi Jeffrey,

Is there a way to have the plugin automatically update? When I click on the “update now” button, it does nothing, I have to manually download and unzip the new plugin, but a friend says he’s never, ever had to do anything and his continues to work.. we are both using LR2, XP Pro SP2, ?? Is there a setting in windows somewhere that I need to change to allow this auto feature to work?

btw, the new version 20081027.37 took care of the “assertion failed” issue.
thanks,

niteowlgary

You didn’t tell me what version you were unable to “upgrade now” with, but perhaps it was one of the older ones in which that functionality was broken. If it doesn’t work with a modern build the next time you try, please let me know (and please provide full details). —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Sorry about the missing info:
XP Pro SP2, Smugmug version 20081015.33, 20081027.37 – no previous version has ever automatically upgraded or worked with the Upgrade Now button. I’ve always had to manually download and install.

Metadata Wrangler v20081004.21 when clicking the Upgrade Now, this one works, at least it opens the dialoge for downloading and installing, haven’t done so yet as current plugin doesn’t expire till Nov 29, 2008.

Smugmug – 20081027.37 – Upgrade Now doesn’t work – press upgrade button: nothing happens.
Facebook – v20081015.30 – Upgrade Now doesn’t work(same as Smugmug)
Flickr – v20081015.38 – Upgrade Now doesn’t work(same as Smugmug)

just FYI, I am the IT tech at a small middle school and having to have these laptops brought in and updated is a bit time consuming… I’m hoping you can get this autoupdating fixed, it sure would save me a lot of time. 🙂

thanks,
niteowlgary

Lightroom maintains an error log for each plugin, and my plugins maintain their own running log. The former is referenced in the lower-right section of the Plugin Manager, while the latter is referenced in the upper-right section. Could you try invoking an upgrade on one of the ones that doesn’t work, and emailing the logs to me? Hopefully at least one of the logs will exist. jfriedl@yahoo.com —Jeffrey

Unfortunately I have to abandon my attempts to use the ‘Export to Smugmug’ Lightroom plugin. I’m using Lightroom 2.1, Windows XP and just can’t get beyond the following error:

+243.9: At =(tail call) line -1:
Return header ERROR
—————————————————–

errorCode = “badServerResponse”
name = “The requested header was not found”
nativeCode = 12150

I see I’m not the only one experiencing this and if anyone has some suggestions I’m all ears.

It sure seems like a slick tool.

Roger

Hi Jeffrey

Running LR 2.1 and your SmugMug plugin ver 20081103.39 on Leopard.

Over the last month never had an issue, but now I cannot log in. Your plugin states:
“Authenticating credentials at SmugMug …”, and then nothing happens. Network connection is fine and I can log in @ SmugMug via the website. Any idea what’s going on ? Anything to do with the new feature release of SmugMug ? Thx !

I have been using LR2 for about 2 months and have a Smugmug account as well. I installed your plug in for uploading and it worked great. I went to do an upload today and got a bunch of error messages stating my version was expired and I needed to install the latest one. I downloaded the file and the install was far from clean or easy, in fact I had to do a bunch of manual file moves. NOT FUN.

Now, when I go to Smugmug to any of my galleries, and attempt to get a link to share, Smugmug locks up. I have to use task manager to close the unresponsive program. You have an issue either with your latest update, or the install process to make it work.

When you say “go to SmugMug”, if you mean in your browser, then any troubles you have are unrelated to the plugin, and perhaps it’s just a matter of coincidentally bad timing. My plugin doesn’t do anything to your browser. What unresponsive program are you killing in the task manager?

As I have to share these galleries, I will have to look elseware for now to conduct business. Let me know if you have a fix or when you address this.

I’m sorry that you’ll have to look elsewhere to conduct your business. Please contact my well-staffed customer-service department for a full refund of the plugin purchase price.

Sigh —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

“Authenticating credentials at SmugMug …”, is sorted!
Seems like it was an issue on the side of SmugMug.

Regarding the problematic local export for hierarchical keywords I will indeed send you a file soon.
Thx for the help.

Markus

When I click the “Edit/Add” button beside the “Image Caption” dropdown box, I get a popup error message (LR v2.1 512205):

+442.5: At line 19086:
bad state:
+442.5: At line 19086
+442.5: At =[C] line -1

Fixed in .47, thanks. —Jeffrey

Any chance of a version that doesn’t expire?

It just seems a little silly having to download a new version every month or so even if it’s running fine. I’m perfectly capable of checking your site if I happen to be having problems, or if I want to check for any updates that are relevant to me (the majority of them aren’t).

It’s annoying enough that I’d be willing to pay for a version without it… in case you’ve had any thoughts in that direction. 🙂

If pressing the “update now” button once a month is too onerous a price to pay to use the plugin…. (sigh) —Jeffrey

After installing the new plug-in (20081208.52.zip) for LR2 on my Windows XP computer, I still cannot get it to upgrade. Since this is my first time of upgrading the Export-to-Smugmug plugin, is there a series of steps I can have emailed to me? Imust be overlooking something or there might be a new bug that needs to be eliminated.

Thank you in advance!

I’m currently using your Smugmug plugin and rely on it alot. Thank you for your great contribution to Lightroom. I’m currently running an upgraded version of LR 2.2 and using your Export to Smugmug plug-in version 2008.1208.52. No problems with this. However, I’m thinking about publishing more public entries on Smugmug with another [new] account (probably Pro) and wanted to get your comments about how to manage this. Whould I use two Lightroom catalogs (hope not), two Smugmug accounts (one plugin) etc. I can imagine how the plugin would have to have knowledge of two different accounts (a dropdown to pick from) at Smugmug in order for me to change destinations of exports. Senario: I want to export ALL tagged stuff (like I do today) to my private standard site on Smugmug then, I see that I want to share some pictures on my new Pro site on Smugmug with a subset of or other pictures. Choosing pictures isn’t the issue but having the plugin dual-aware of two accounts would be my biggest concern. Ideas?

Thanks, Jeffrey. I found and eliminated around 750MB of jpg files from four different sub-folders of that TemporaryItems folder. The time stamps on these sub-folders seem to line up with the times that lightroom crashed on me today while trying to upload through the smugmug plugin.

I’ve also gotten a couple instances of a “wrong format” error that terminates an upload attempt. I’ll try updating to lightroom 2.2 after I get this batch of files onto smugmug.

Jeffrey:
I have V20081208.52 and got the expiration warning notice. I clicked on the Upgrade Now button as I always do, and nothing happened. The new version didn’t download or install. I’m using WinXP Sp3 and LR2 current version. Thanks.

Does smugmug api support metadata updates? I have 1000’s of photos that I just need a keyword or GPS update…

Jeffrey,

First of all, I love your plugin. I can’t believe how sophisticated and flexible you’ve made this. Oh, and I remember reading your regex book over 10 years ago.

I’m just adding that I’m seeing the same behavior as JSK in terms of upgrading the plugin with the “Upgrade now” button. It doesn’t appear to do anything when clicked.

I’ve been having the same issues with memory lately when uploading 100’s of photos at a time… out of memory… I’m using a 50d with ~12Mb images now…

That worked… thanks….. YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!

Damn Jim… you don’t pay for this… and yet your complaining about having to update once a month… the uninstall reinstall takes me about 1-2 mins longer than to click the update button… if you can’t set aside 2 mins a month for something free… you need a vacation.

Jeffrey… Thanks for all you do.

I received the following message:

Error response from SmugMug:
wrong format (ByteCount given: 5128933, received: 5128933. MD5Sum given: f5b3873644d3f6d320d6a91d9f93d888, actual: f5b3873644d3f6d320d6a91d9f93d888.)

Aborting upload after 66 of 72 images.

Thanks for all the time you spend on this!

Be seeing you,
Denis

I love your plugin, thankyou.
I have a feature request: I would like the ability to export to multiple folders on disk in a very similar way to how I upload to multiple albums in Smugmug during a single export.

For example, I think it would be great if I could do each of these scenarios:
1. Select 100 photos to export, then specify that they get exported into subfolders on disk based on the “auto dests” feature of the Smugmug uploader.
2. Select 100 photos, specify that they are exported to /Users/Jamie/Pictures/Photos in subfolders based on a “Folder” metadata attribute that I add, and a subfolder of that folder based on a “SubFolder” metadata attribute. (This could be extended to allow multi-level hierarchies as well)

This could be a useful feature of the Smugmug plugin, as it would be useful to be able to do this while uploading to Smugmug, or as a totally separate plugin–as I would also like to be able to do this just for exporting to disk when not exporting to Smugmug.

Thanks for the great plugin. On my first try, I accidentally uploaded the wrong images. I deleted them in SmugMug, but how do I clear the SmugMug metadata for these images in Lightroom?

Via File > Plugin Extras > SmugMug Extras. I really need to make some docs for these things so that people have one place to go to for a complete overview…. —Jeffrey

Love your work!! I’m using plugin 20090120.63 with LR2 to help set up my new SM account. Plugin worked fine the first few uploads but now the copyright data entered on my photos has shrunk dramatically in font size. Not sure how that happened. First uploads copyright data is plainly visible ons creen in SM. Now it is so small in size it can’t be read. I haven’t changed any settings at all. Any advice please would be greatly appreciated.

The plugin doesn’t have any control over the watermarking, which is really poor. The font size is fixed, so the text appears smaller as the image size gets larger, and vice-versa. Tim Armes’s LR2/Mogrify plugin gives you complete control over watermarking, so you may wish to check it out. —Jeffrey

First – Thank you very very very much for this plugin. It has been a lifesaver! I’ve been using it for quite a while with no issues – until tonight. All of a sudden, no galleries populate the ‘Upload to your SmugMug Gallery’ section. I updated to 200901129.66 and the issue is still there. I am on LR version 2.2 523352. I checked on my xp64 box and my xp media box and I’m having the same issue on both. I logged into my smugmug account and everything there looks fine.

Thanks again for the plugin and the help!!

Thank you!!

I keep getting this error message: bad server resonse when attempting to upload from lightroom to smugmug.

version 2.2 of lightroom
version smugmug-20090130.67.zip of plugin

SmugMug has been having all kinds of hiccups lately, so I assume it’s more of that, but I’ll check it when I get a chance later. In the mean time, send a plugin log if you get a chance and haven’t done it already (I don’t have access to my email at the moment) —Jeffrey

Hi thanks for all your work here. I get the following error on the export to smugmug plugin, (Picaca Web Albums export works fine for what its worth). Sometimes the first line starts with +0.5: or +0.3: and the hex address changes each time.

+1.0: [58CB490] =(tail call) line -1:
Return header ERROR
——————————————————

errorCode = “unknown”
name = “An error occurred in the secure channel support
”
native Code = 12157

Plugin version smugmug-20090130.67.zip
Lightroom Version 2.2 523352
Windows XP Service Pack 3

Everything shows up but the upload destination. I can’t see any of my smugmug folders or create news ones. Thanks for any help you might offer……..Dave

SmugMug (or my plugin, or Lightroom, or something ) has been having network issues of late. SmugMug is actively looking into it. But this one smells more like a firewall / security issue with your computer, but that’s just a hunch. I’ve never seen that error message. PicasaWeb and SmugMug use different kinds of uploads, so it’s possible (although not too likely) that your security settings allows one but disallows the other. I’m not an expert on this stuff, so the best I can do at this point is to ask you to look into your security settings carefully, or try disabling antivirus stuff, or whatnot, and see whether that helps. —Jeffrey

Same as Dan Pancamo above, just with LR2.3

I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work – the Smugmug plug in saves me lots of time, has helped me post pictures much more rapidly. Thanks for fixing the update bug, I was just able to update by clicking the update button – first time that has worked. No other issues, I am enjoying using your plug in!

I have exactly the same error as Dan from above. I’d LOVE to have this plugin working again as it promotes my inherent laziness. I’ve tried uploading with and without my virus scanner and firewall turned off with the same result. Is there anything that I’m just doing wrong?

smugmug-20090130.67
I’ve been getting the following for more than a week now uploading to smugmub… Am I the only one?

LR2.2/Vista

Error uploading pictures:

+283.5:[5D1BDF8] +(tail call) line -1
Return header ERROR
————————————————————
errorCode = “badServerRespons”
name = “the requested header was not found”
nativeCode = 12150

Thanks! Now with the last update (20090215.70) it works again!
What a wonderful plug-in!

20090215.70
So far so good – thanks!

Smugmug plugin – 20090215.70

ooops gettign the error messages again

Just downloaded the newest plug-in…and LOVE the new folder selection! My wife uses my Smugmug pro account for her online business and has almost 400 galleries just for that. Finding my more recreational galleries was always a chore with the old popup list and the arrows. This is so much better. Thanks as always.

Where are the auto-destinations stored? I’m trying to move my upload exports to smugmug to another PC, and have everything working except the ones that use auto-destinations.

In the Lightroom preferences file. —Jeffrey

Hi!
I wonder what the plugin does to the Lightroom catalog.. I just want to be sure that it does something simple that is unlikely to corrupt the database in the future.. Corruptions could possibly be hard to revert as the catalog grows and backups from the times before using the plugin becomes more and more obsolete..
Thanks for all your efforts! it seems to be a great plugin.
Cheers,
Marcus

The plugin doesn’t do anything directly to the catalog… the plugin works only through the approved Adobe API when accessing or writing the catalog. —Jeffrey

SM does have size limits but they’re pretty generous :
http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photos

I have Lightroom 2.2 64bit and camera raw 5.2. I am attempting to upload to smug mug. I installed according to instructions

Plugin shows correctly installed and working, however I can not find it in the export menu. My Lr2 is upto date and I have tried several ways to install this to include restarting after importing the plugin, and closing light room starting it back up etc.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks

Adobe hid it pretty well. See < a href='http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/plugin-installation#using'>this image in the instructions. —Jeffrey

Checking this out, I’m from Los Angeles California

Jeffrey
I meant that I could use the generated filename in place of the of the caption, title headline. You could set the priority. So I could create a custom name sequence in the Filenaming option and put that in the smugmug caption.

This is an excellent plug-in I have been using (in New Zealand) for many months now. However, just recently you have changed the destination gallery selection tool from a horizontal to a vertical slider. This has been a retrograde step for me, as I can no longer select a particular gallery of interest as the window is too small and the tool jumps past this gallery. Can you please revert to the horizontal slider which worked well. The new one is too fiddly!

Have you tried configuring the display size to be longer (say, 15-20 lines)? If you have a lot of galleries, you’d want to do that…. —Jeffrey

Okay, just pushed version .84 that adds arrows at the top/bottom of the scrollbar that scroll when clicked. That should help a lot, I’d think…. —Jeffrey

Been using the latest plugin smugmug-20090331.84.zip recently but noticed that now when ever I load up Lightroom 2 I get the following:

An error occurred while reading the schema for the plugin “SmugMug”. The plug-in will be disabled.

Some of the messages that come from it are couldn’t read the metadata spec for this plugin
access to undefined global: _cm
access to undefined global: _pi

Jeffrey – Still receiving the same error messages with the new .85 update there’s a total of 15 errors. Not sure if the plugin as of 2.3 gets copied into a folder that Lightroom can reference each time.

I’m not sure if this requires a reinstall of Lightroom or if I’m possibly looking in the wrong spot for the corrupted plugin that Lightroom is using?

Also not sure if it matters that the plugin is downloaded to the desktop vs a special folder on the hard drive.

Thank you for all your help and a wonderful set of plugins!!!

When you install a plugin in Lightroom, you’re not copying anything… just telling Lightroom “hey, use this folder as a plugin”, so you should put the unzipped folder where you want it to stay before installing it into Lightroom. Perhaps “llink” or “register” would have been better words for Adobe to choose. You can see the path to a registered plugin in the 2nd-from-the-bottom section on the right side of the plugin manager. It should reference a folder whose name ends with “.lrplugin”, and inside should be a bunch of .lua files, some images, and some sub folders…. —Jeffrey

Hi there, I’m using plugin v 20090403.85 and LR2.3. I noticed on an older version that it was possible to select a smugmug Quick Setting – e.g. smugmug default, or something we’d created ourselves in smugmug

This no longer exists and it drives me nuts as I everytime have to set the order the photos are sorted in and also to turn shopping cart off.

Is there a way to bring this feature back please?

Thanks, Jason

The “Quick Setting” applies when creating galleries, which you can do fro the SmugMug Tools section of the export dialog. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, actually i just solved it right now 🙂 i went into File Plugin Extras and in the SmugMug export settings I cleared out the v1.x uploader settings or prefs

Now it’s back 🙂 If anyone else comes up with this problem you’ll know where to point them too now – maybe they had v1.x before too….

Thanks, Jason

I’m glad it’s fixed, but that’s very odd that it was fixed that way…. there’s no relation between the two plugins as far as Lightroom is concerned, and as such, I have to go through some hoops to enable that “clear out” command. I can’t imagine how it could have mattered, but like I said, I’m glad it’s fixed. 🙂 —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

thanks for your reply to check that the tag I have is set to be included on export – it was.

I then played around with moving the tag around, checking what other tags did etc. I now am lost.

I have one tag – labelled “me” – that refuses to export to smugmug. It’s set to export, but it doesn’t. It was in a hierarchy under “people”. I moved it to be a top level tag – doesn’t export. I moved it into another hierarchy – doesn’t export. I removed it from the photos, quit, added again – doesn’t export.

I tried adding other tags from the “people” hierarchy to the same photos – they do export without a problem. I tried other tags in other hierarchies – again not a problem.

So it seems I just have a problem with this one tag – “me”!

Do you know if SM has an issue with a tag labelled “me”? (or lightroom???)

Is there any log files that your plugin or LR produce that I could look at to try and see what’s going on?

After doing an export, you can check the log file referenced in the upper-right of the Plugin Manager, although it’s not necessarily easy to understand. There’s a “send to Jeffrey” button you can use to send it to me. Is your LR catalog perhaps brought over from LR1. There was a bug in LR2.0 that caused issues with exportability for keywords brought over as part of a conversion from a LR1 catalog. I don’t have a link handy at the moment, but you should be able to find it at Adobe… —Jeffrey

Jeffrey thanks for the working and maintaining this plugin. It really helps me with my workflow.
I have a question however – how do I make a search query for state of “Uploaded to Smugmug” metadata field generated by your plugin? Often I need to re-export to different source the same set of photos I uploaded to smugmug. Any hints how to achieve that (aside from tagging them manually on every export) would be appreciated!

In the Library Filter (which toggles on and off in Grid mode with “/”), simply pick “Uploaded to SmugMug” in the Metadata dropdown, and choose “Yes”. You can also make a Smart Collection that does the same. —Jeffrey

Same question as Greg Aug 2008 but it wasn’t answered. It appears in plug in managerbut not export windows. I’m on a mac with Lightroom 2. Perhaps I’m not enabling it in the Plug-In Manager correctly, when I click on it it says fully functional so I just clicked done thats all. What do I need to do to make it show up above the medatata section as you showed in the export folder or on the lower left under plug-in exchange? I haven’t donated yet but will donate at least $10 if I can get this program to work. Thanks so so much,
Pam

hooray you fixed the scroll for galleries – thanks Jeffrey!:D

When I create a gallery via the plugin, the gallery doesn’t show up in the list unless I close and re-open the plugin 2-3 times. Am I doing something wrong? I’m sorry if this is a known issue, but didn’t see it on the ‘known issues’ list.

Thanks!

Ross

Thanks for that new update, one of my clients name is with an ‘umlaut’ and now it’s showing up correctly in the plug-in. 🙂

Sorry but there are no quick settings in my plug-in under gallery creation option

Giulio
Ah, sorry, I forgot…. SmugMug limits quick settings to “Pro” or “Power” users. Does that apply to you? —Jeffrey

When uploading any images to a Smugmug account I get this error when it tries to send to their server- takes about 10 seconds to get this up after Lightroom starts sending, usually the time to upload one of my files.
“Error response from Smugmug:
system error (invalid album/image id)
Aborting after 1 of xx

Appreciate your help, only happened since I paid for the donateware version, ironic. Thanks for a great tool otherwise.
Spike

SmugMug seems to be having issues…. I’ve reported it, and they’re checking on it. —Jeffrey

Mr. Friedl,

I am a happy and paid user of the great SmugMug app. One SUGGESTION, or perhaps I’m just not seeing the option:

When uploading files to a new gallery, is there any way to ensure they get uploaded in the order they exist in Lightroom? Whenever I upload them, I always need to go into the gallery and reorder them. Just a suggestion for improvement. No urgency at all.

Keep up the great work – I’m sure you’re getting tired of maintaining it day after day, but it’s a great plugin.

Duff

The plugin uploads them in the order you have them displayed in Grid mode (or in the filmstrip in any mode). Do they get scrambled after arrival at SmugMug? —Jeffrey

Version .97 Problem

Hi Jeffrey, when I highlight a bunch of photos and click upload, some of these photos are not uploaded. I have no idea why. When I take an hour and find these unuploaded photo and upload them manually, they upload perfectly. And whats more strange is that the export dialogue says that 0 new photos are available to be updated…it seems that Lightroom doesn’t even detect these missing photos…

Is there a remedy to this? I got a few thousand photos and its a pain to look for those little buggers…

Do you perhaps have something other than “All” selected in the lower half of the “SmugMug: Upload Destination” section of the Export Dialog? —Jeffrey

Also Jeffrey, would it be possible to create a “Do this for all following instances” checkbox when you receive a “Image too large for export” or in the export dialogue box? It really would make the uploading process more automated. It’s not the first time I wake up in the morning to see my photos a quarter uploaded and uploading idle due to the popup.

Have you seen the new smugmug uploader applet they have on their site? Is waaaay fast. I can get 1.5Mb/sec upload speed with that, almost my full bandwidth.

The reason I point it out is that maybe you could leverage some of his work, and speed up the upload throughput? I do several hundred, sometime over a thousand photos a week…

Here is a thread from the new uploader’s author: http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=126990

One would think that uploading on picture would saturate your outbound bandwidth, and so that’s the best you could do. If their uploader is doing that, it doesn’t surprise me, but if LR is not doing that, well, then I’m surprised and I wonder whether the bottleneck is at SmugMug and their new uploader uses a different endpoint? What kind of throughput do you see from LR? The plugin has no control over how the bits are sent… it just tells LR to make the connection. LR, in turn, just uses your OS networking, so if there’s a fundamental difference between what the new uploader can do and what LR does, I’m not sure where to look to address the discrepancy. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
Is there anyway to add a function to the smugmug exporter to automatically skip images if the size is too large for export? Smugmug’s basic and power levels have limits on file size that I occasionally hit with my 50D. I just tried an overnight export of 150 photos but woke this morning to see it had gotten stuck at #29 because it was too large.
An even better option would be to enable size or quality adjustments only if the file size is too large – based on Smugmug’s criteria which you can make easier to remember by just asking the user if they are a basic, power or pro user.

The problem is that the size under limitation here is the generated image file size, which can be determined only after the image has been exported. It’s within the realm of possibility for the plugin to re-render the image to reduce the size, but there are a lot of problems that make the approach non-obvious. For example, the only way the plugin can guarantee the same look for the image (the same crop, same develop adjustments, the same export filters) is to resample down the too-big image to a smaller one (rather than re-generating from the original master, which the plugin can’t do). This means that quality will be lost, and we haven’t even started to reduce the quality in purpose in trying to make the resulting image file smaller. Should the plugin reduce the compression quality? The image pixel width/height? What if it’s first guess is not sufficient, or too aggressive? If you’re exporting your images at sizes near the limit in the first place, I’m guessing you’ll not like whatever compromises the plugin would make to try to get it right. So for the moment, I punt.

Also, a more complicated request would be to allow for multiple exports using the plugin. For example, I have separate galleries for my son and daughter but have to upload to one then the other or to an empty gallery and then move images within Smugmug. It would be great to set two processes to run (sequentially) and have the images (even the same ones if both are in it) posted to the correct gallery.

I don’t quite understand the request. You can select some images and export to one destination, then immediately select the others and invoke a second export. They’ll run in parallel, each to their own destination. Export Presets make it even easier. Is that what you’re asking about? —Jeffrey

Thanks for a great plugin,
E

Using LR2 with plugin version 20090602.99 on a Macbook

Hello Jeffrey,
I am currently using Star Explorer to upload images to my Smugmug account. I recently acquired LR2 and I am currently reviewing all of the plug-ins. Some of you folks, yourself included have done a fantastic job! Kudos to you. My question, How does your plug-in compare to Star Explorer for uploading, and can they work in conjunction. I also use Mogrify.
Thank you in advance,
Sean in Maryland

I don’t know what Star Explorer is, so I can’t comment about it, but I’m sure they can work in conjunction. I wouldn’t think you’d want to, but I don’t see why you couldn’t. If you’re using Lightroom, I’d think that you’d want to export post-develop versions of the images. —Jeffrey

Jeff –

It appears thatthe only time I got the wrong directory is when i do a different type of export and then go to do a smugmug export. The gallery list is alphabetical and defaults to the middle of the alphabet. I switch it to most recent first and usually choose one of the top 2 galleries (usually just created them). The 3 times I have tried this in the last week it defaults to the gallery that was highlighted when I first switched to smugmug export. This may be why you are having so much trouble tracking it down. It only happens the first time.

It has happened with 20090605.101 and 20090521.

Let me know if I can be of help.

Love the plugin here in NJ.

I’ve tested every way I can think of and can’t replicate the error, nor have I ever been sent a log that illustrates the error. If you have the latest version of the plugin and experience this bug, please immediately visit the Plugin Manager and send a log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button), noting what gallery you selected, and where the photos actually ended up. Also, please note the state of the “reload plugin on each export” checkbox in the lower-right of the Plugin Manager. (It should generally be unchecked). The log is wiped each time the plugin loads, so if it gets reloaded before you send the log, I’ll get nothing about the failed export… —Jeffrey

Jeffrey – Thanks as always for developing these plug-ins. It is my principal interface with Smugmug. It is a great tool.

I just updated to the smugmug-jfriedl 2.lrplugin 20090611.103 version and I am running Lightroom 2 on Max OSX 10.5.7.

When I bring up the plug-in, it has added a number of extra hidden characters in my password and obviously will not allow me to log into Smugmug. When I deleted that default profile and started from scratch with the right user name and password, the error “The Login attempt failed…Unexpected response from SmugMug (HTTP Status 0)”

Thanks and let me know if this is an easy fix and I’ll check back periodically.

Steve

The plugin always shows the same number of dots in the hidden password, so as not to provide any clues to the real password. The failed login could have been a temporary glitch with SmugMug or your internet connection. If it persists, please send a log (with the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the upper-right of the Plugin Manager). &mdash:Jeffrey

As a follow-up to my previous question on “Proof and Retouch” with the LR plugin: based on an experiment I did by placing an order myself and trying to replace the ordered photo with a retouched photo, it looks like the plugin does indeed handle this! You can retouch whatever photos your customer ordered, then use the “Replace the most-recent previously-uploaded copy” in the plugin, and the customer’s prints will use the new copy.

Thanks!

Hi Jeffrey,
is there any way to make destination list of galleries bigger/taller and may be with bigger font ? The export destination is single most used control for me (I set up the rest and hardly ever change them) but it fairly small and really hard to use. Search field there would be also great but may be too hard to do…

pretty please 🙂

I can look into the bigger font thing, but you can change the height with the configuration link directly below the list. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the tip about configuration link under the table! But unfortunately it doesn’t remember new height between runs of LR – it only works for current session and next time I run LR I have to go adjust it again :/

Sounds like your LR preferences are corrupt. Perhaps rename them away (while LR is not running) then try the setting again after LR rebuilds them. If that doesn’t work, put the original settings back (again, while LR is not running) and drop me an email. —Jeffrey

I have the same problem here. Posted comment Aland on July 8th, 2009 at 4:17pm.

Thank You

Well, my same comments as posted there apply here 😀   Send email if they don’t resolve the issue for you. —Jeffrey

Sorry, my bad. It really WAS user error on my part. For some reason, the last keyword of the hierarchy (the last child keyword) didn’t have “Include on Export” or the “Export Containing Keywords” checked. That’s why that particular hierarchy of keywords weren’t exported into SmugMug.

Anyway, everything works now. Oh, I feel so bad and so stupid. Sorry about the confusion. Please forgive me?

Thank you for keeping this plugin up to date and always improving. I would like to see Friend Feed support more then Twitter especially if Twitter becomes a hassle for you.
Thanks from the middle of Iowa Corey Brown

Newest release doesn’t let me create new galleries within subcatergories any longer – only the first level shows up. I loved how I used to be able to create them from your plugin – now I have to go to Smug and create then come back and upload with your plugin.

Sorry about that… just pushed a fix (version .113) —Jeffrey

Hi there, using smugmug-20090722.113.zip. I want to take advantage of SmugMug’s SmugVault feature to store DNGs, since the DNG files themselves store the Lightroom transforms so I can clean them (the ones I’m not super concerned about never losing) from my disk. I tried exporting with your plugin as DNG, but while it shows up as a SmugVault file, the image that shows up is a conversion of the original, unmodified image before applying Lightroom transforms. I tried then uploading the same file exported as a JPEG, hoping it would keep the SmugVault DNG and overwrite the SmugMug-rendered JPEG, but it didn’t seem to do that, instead adding it as a second picture. Is there any way for me to do this with your plugin — export a DNG so that it goes into SmugVault, but with a JPEG version that people see on SmugMug that matches the final image from my DNG file?

Thanks so much for the plugin, and I hope for a reply.

I actually don’t know. I’ve never used SmugValut. Check with SmugMug, and let me know if there’s something I’d have to do during the upload to indicate the connection between the two…. —Jeffrey

Version 20090723.114
Writing from Upstate New York

Jeffrey,

I am enjoying the Smugmug plugin, however, the images uploaded do not contain changes made in the develop section of lightroom. For example, i did some red eye removal in lightroom on some images, but when uploaded to smugmug, the red eye was still there.

When uploading I used the Original File setting, because the original images are in Jpeg so I did not want to re-compress them which is what i assume happens if you set the file setting to jpeg and set a quality percent.

what am i doing wrong?

“Original” means to send the original unchanged master files. If you make changes to the pixels, you must of course regenerate the jpg. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the awesome plugins.

I’ve been using the Flickr plugin without a problem, but am having a problem with the SmugMug plugin that I’m hoping you can help me troubleshoot.

I’m consistently getting the “Upload did not complete… is your Internet connection having issues?” error if I try to upload more than one image. Basically, the first image uploads fine, the second starts, and then I get the error.

As far as I’ve been able to tell, this kind of thing represents a flaky Internet connection, on your side, or SmugMugs, or somewhere in between. It’s almost impossible to debug. )-: —Jeffrey

Per the posts on this page, I’ve verified that Lightroom has full rights in my firewall and I’ve checked the “Upload Anyway” option, but still get the same results.

Is there a log file or something I can check that may shed some light on what’s causing the issue?

Thanks for your help and hard work 🙂

Fielding

“Export to SmugMug” Lightroom Plugin version 20090723.114
Lightroom version 2.4

I tried it again just now, and it downloaded correctly.

Very strange!

Thanks,

Russ

Great plugin! Just wondering if there’s a limit on the # of categories it will display from smugmug? Because there are so many default ones that smugmug provides i seem to have hit a limit and can’t display any of my relevant specific ones. Ther’es a down arrow to scroll down but it’s greyed out.

They should all be shown…. if you’re not seeing them, please send a log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the upper-right of the Plugin Manager) with a note listing a few that you notice are missing. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

This is probably a smugmug problem becaus plugin worked last night. 1) This morning I noticed LR2 shut down while uploading last night. 2) Later on today I noticed that the scrollbar for Currently Selected gallery does not appear preventing access to existing galleries.

Vista 64 LR2 Plugin version 20090723.114

Ken

That could also be a bug in the plugin… if you don’t mind, please send a plugin log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the upper-right of the Plugin Manager), but I’m really busy with family things for the next week or two, so I might not get to it right away. Sorry…. —Jeffrey

Whenever I load using your plugin to smugmug from lightroom the largest file I can download off the smugmug site is 1.8 mb. The original file is raw and if I do it direct to smugmug when saving off smugmug site users can get the original 6mb or so size. I’ve always had the file settings as JPEG 100% and I’ve tried not checking image sizing and checking it for long edge 12 in at 250 dpi which should be bigger then 1.8mb. I really want users to be able to download original sized files is it possible with this plugin? Thanks a ton, love this program other then this issue. Latest version of plugin as I just paid and downloaded it last month with Lightroom 2.4

The sections of the export dealing with the image size and quality are all part of the standard Lightroom export… my plugin takes over only after Lightroom has generated the file. You can practice with the settings and their results by using the “Files on Disk” export, or in the SmugMug export, setting the destination to a specific folder (rather than “temporary”). —Jeffrey

I downloaded the plugin for lightroom 2 on a computer that has since been replaced. I did make a donation. I now have a new computer that is running windows vista 64 bit. Will the old download work or do I have to do something else. I hope it works with 64 bit, great program.

Thanks for all your help.

Bud

My plugins should all work on all systems that Lightroom runs on… —Jeffrey

Jeff, this is a great plugin, makes my workflow much easier. I do have one issue though with slow exports that I’ll try to describe with an example:

1. Export 100 photos to smugmug

2. Lightroom uses 100% cpu while uploading the first few photos, with the following timing:
30 seconds to upload a photo, 45 seconds of processing, upload for 30 seconds, etc…

3. After the first few photos, lightroom CPU usage is 0%, but same thing happens:
uploading for 30 seconds, do nothing for 45 seconds, upload for 30 seconds, etc…

Nothing seems to be happening for those 45 seconds between uploads. If this pause didn’t happen, my exports would be done in less than half the time.

Any idea what’s going on and how to speed this up?

Vista SP1, Lightroom 2.4, Plug-in version 20090902.115

Thanks,
Alex

The CPU at the start is Lightroom rendering all the images. (It’d be nice if Lightroom would only render one or two images ahead of the upload, thereby balancing out the CPU over the whole thing, but that’s now what LR allows.) The 30-seconds-of-nothing looks like the SmugMug error we’ve been dealing with on and off for a couple of months. )-: —Jeffrey

ok, just changed the caption on one picture in Lightroom and selected it for export via the Update with “Replace the most recent…” box checked. Export sent it out, but on the site the caption did NOT get updated.

Indeed, it seems that the Replace option updates only image pixels. The next push of the plugin will note this, and also mention that you can resend metadata only via the File > Plugin Extras > SmugMug Extras dialog. —Jeffrey

Man that sucks big time – wonder if smugmug are aware of it? the people there really seem interested in making their stuff work – so maybe a little feedback on the issues to them and they might try to help out – i could support it on their forums as i’m sure there are quite a lot of us using it – well you’d know the numbers 😉
Cheers, Jason

They’re aware of the issues, and I work closely with their engineers. They’re trying to keep on top of things, but they have a lot of servers and it’s not always easy to repeat the problem, much less pin it down and fix it. I don’t mean to cast blame… it’s just that the plugin is the bearer of bad news, not the cause of it. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
Given the problems with Smugmug over the past 24 hours, I wonder if it would be feasible to add a small text box that feeds in the current status messages from http://smugmug.wordpress.com/
This way, the user could see that the site was undergoing maintenance or was down directly from the plugin. Just a thought.
E

Hi Jeff, and thanks for the great plugin!

Version 20090912.118 on 64-bit Vista, Lightroom 2.4. Is it possible for the Export to SmugMug plugin’s data to be written to Lightroom’s XMP files, so that if my catalog gets corrupted, I don’t lose the links to all of the files I’ve uploaded to SmugMug, from the catalog? I use the “resend metadata” feature frequently, and I’d hate to lose it, should anything happen to my catalog.

I got my previous file renaming issue fixed a different way.

Thanks
Aaron

Sadly, no, there’s no way for plugins to include anything in the XMP. There’s quite a bit of stuff stored in the LR database that’s not in the XMP, so the XMP makes a very poor backup…. you must back up your LR database well if you want any semblance of backups. Unless you use the XMP files to coordinate with other applications, there’s really no value to maintaining them. Just back up your LR database religiously, and you can dispense with the thousands of XMP files. —Jeffrey

Thanks….just realized that I didn’t scroll down far enough to see this. It’s all good now.
Kurt

Hi Jeffrey, first, thank you for this excellent plug-in!

I am using the newest version 20090921.121 of your plugin with LR2.5 and I have an issue when I try to upload the same picture in different galleries: It will upload well in the first gallery the first time, but the picture will not be displayed if I upload it another time in any other galleries.
I tried to change the filename in the different exports and also to export in galleries which are in different categories but it did not help.
My workaround currently is to use the default smugmug export from windows explorer for any additonal upload but it is not as convenient as your plugin.
It would be great if you could have a look at this issue!
kind regards,
Francois

I’m wondering whether you’ve got the “replace” checkbox selected (it sounds like you don’t want it selected if you want multiple versions to exist on SmugMug). Could you carefully check all settings in the upload-destination section of the export dialog, and if it’s still not working right, send a plugin log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the plugin manager)…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
indeed I had the “replace” checkbox selected… I unchecked it and now it works fine! Thank you for your prompt feedback!

I wonder if there isn´t a small bug here though… 1: should the replace feature be activated in the case that another gallery than the original export gallery has been selected? 2: in the case of the replace, is it normal that it stops exporting to the new gallery? I think it should then replace the previous picture AND add the new picture the new gallery…

Anyway thank you for this great tool !
Greetings to Japan from Germany,
Francois

“Replace” in SmugMug’s world means that only the image pixels are updated… you’d use it after making a change in the develop module and you wanted to see that change reflected at SmugMug. Now that you mention it, I should disable the destination selection when the replace option is selected…. —Jeffrey

Version 20090921.121 – Can’t upload today or yesterday.

I’ve used this tool with great success, but last night, I started seeing HTTP Status 502 errors from SmugMug. When that happens, the upload stops. It has been happening after about 0-5 images upload.

This appears to be related to a proxy, but I have not changed my proxy configuration, and the uploader used to work beautifully.

Any idea what may be going on?

It seems like SmugMug is having issues again today…. I’ve been getting a bunch of reports like this. Hopefully, they’ll clear it up soon… —Jeffrey

Would it be possible to add a “Skip All” option to the “Image too large” dialog box instead of just a “Skip this image”? I usually upload JPEGs at 100% quality, and about 95% of my images fit within the Smugmug size limit that way. I usually go back and re-upload the ones that didn’t fit (the plugin makes this easy to do since it keeps track of which ones were successfully uploaded). The annoying part is that the “Image too large” box stops the upload process; so I can’t walk away overnight and let a whole album upload, it will be stopped a few files in waiting for me to click skip. Ideally I could pre-set the “skip all” choice so that I could run a whole upload without interruption. I’d then go back and manually change the settings (usually to JPEG 90%) to successfully upload the remaining images. I understand that the plugin can’t automatically figure out the resize parameters because they vary, I’m fine with manually setting them for the second/third rounds.

If this option is already there and I’m missing it somehow, please let me know. Another person (Eriq) asked about this above, but there wasn’t an answer.

It’s been on the to-do list for ages… finally got around to addressing it, I hope, and just pushed version .122 that should handle it. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the reply. I found on the SmugMug Support Form that the fix was released on their site on 10/16/2009. I uploaded my photos 10/17/2009 still seeing the incorrect categories.

My Fix was to: Log out of SmugMug with the plug-in and the log back in.

All is well now.

Thanks again for some great plug-ins.

-Stephen

Howdy Jeffrey, using smugmgu-20091022.124 here… the “journal” option in the gallery create tool goes to the lame olde journal style, can you update the plugin to support the new gallery styles?

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/API/show+1.2.2?method=smugmug.albums.create lists them (TemplateID is the parameter)

Thanks!

I think I’ve added support for this in .135 but I’m not sure whether I did it right. (I actually didn’t intend to push it until I heard back from SmugMug on my queries, but forgot about it and pushed it when I made an unrelated change). So, please let me know whether it’s working as one might expect. —Jeffrey

I’ve been having trouble uploading to Smugmug for the past two days. When attempting to export a collection to Smugmug, sending either the New or Updated images (I haven’t tried sending all of them but there’s only about 11 ones that need to go up there, out of about 120 in the collection) I get the error:

“Error Response from Smugmug
Unexpected Response from Smugmug (HTTP Status 500)

Aborting export after 0 of xx images successfully uploaded”

I’ve tried:
– Re-loading the plugin
– Logging in and logging out from the LR Export dialog
– Quitting and restarting LR
– Updating LR to 2.5 (605155)
– Using both the Export dialog and Export With Previous
– Creating a new gallery and trying to upload to that
– Changing the gallery selected, then changing back, then uploading
– Waiting overnight
None of these have made a difference

This sounds like Smugmug’s problem from the error message but I haven’t seen other complaints on their forums or updates on their blogs, and you especially tend to get complaints on the forum when something’s down.

Any ideas?

Thanks! Great plug-ins!

I’m using version 20091032.125. I upgraded to that version in the hopes that it would clear up my trouble; it didn’t. The previous version I was using had the same problem. I’m not positive which version it was but I think it was 20090921.121 since I’ve been using SmugVault but did not update during October.

You probably need to report this to SmugMug. “500” is the code for “Internal Error” at the remote server. —Jeffrey

Hi…

Ok I managed to get the plugin installed in lighroom but do not see how to export to Smugmug or lightroom. Could give step by step instructions please?

Thsnks

Try the “Installation Instructions” link in the upper-right of this page. It illustrates how to invoke the plugin during an export. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

Love your uploader, it has saved me lots of time.
I just installed LR3 Beta and tried to upload to my smugmug acct. I tried uploading 4 galleries, the first 3 are uploading fine, but the 4th one gives me this error;
An internal error has occurred: LrPhoto:setPropertyForPlugin: must be called from within a withWriteAccessDo or withPrivateWriteAccessDo block

I am using your latest plugin, smugmug-20091111.126.zip

Is this a limitation of the beta version? a bug in the uploader or both?

I really do appreciate any and all you have done, and hope you keep improving your great plugin.

Regards,

Paul North.

Oops, my previous reply here was too hasty. This one is likely the plugin. If you get it again, please send the plugin log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the Plugin Manager) —Jeffrey

OS: Mac OS X 10.6.2
LR: 2.5 605155
Plug-in: 20091111.126

I am receiving the following error when attempting to update metadata using Plug-in Extras -> SmugMug Extras… -> Resend Metadata…

“?:11737: attempt to call field ‘i’ (a nil value)”

Arigato! 😀

Thanks for the report… this has now been fixed in the most recent version. —Jeffrey

In version 20091111.126, I noticed the SmugVault feature and enabled it. I canceled the SmugVault service, but it is still saying it is SmugVaulting for all my exports. I hope it isn’t trying to upload every time and failing. The option to disable this feature is now hidden, since it isn’t enabled in my account… Is there a plain text file I can edit in the mean time that can deselect this?

Unless there’s a bug in the plugin (which may well be), it’s just reporting the status as provided by SmugMug each time you open the export dialog. After opening the dialog and seeing “+ SmugVault” in the top section, visit the plugin manager and send me the plugin log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button), and I’ll check it out. —Jeffrey

Hello, Jeffrey. I have loved using the SmugMug and Facebook export plugins, but they are not working for me ever since I upgraded to Lightroom 2.5. I now get an error message that says:

“Lightroom can’t access the internet. Please check your firewall and security settings and add an exception to allow Lightroom to connect to SmugMug….”

My firewall (Norton) has always been and still is set to allow Lightroom to access the internet. Do you have any idea what is going on and what I can do to fix it. I’d love to continue to be able to use the plugins.

Thanks,

Shane

Check the name of the application registered with Norton… Lightroom’s 2.5 exe file may be in a different location (or with a different name) than what you upgrade from. —Jeffrey

Try to re-register the plugin (new computer) and made a donation, but the plugin keeps telling me that it’s unable to access your server. Win 7/64; LR 2.5 64

Any ideas?

If the plugin can’t access my server, check to ensure your security stuff (firewalls, little snitch, zone defense, etc.) are set to allow Lightroom to do HTTP/HTTPS (ports 80 and 443) to my server (regex.info). —Jeffrey

I HAVE LR 2.3
I HAVE REGISTERED & UPDATED TO 20091205.132
WHEN i TRY TO EXPORT TO sMUG MUG, I GET THE MESSAGE
COULDN’T RENDER IMAGE -FILE DOES NOT EXIST

SUGGESTIONS ?
ED

My first suggestion is to learn discretion with the caps-lock key. And, as a general comment, to update to the latest version of LR (2.5, or the 2.5RC). But about your specific error, I suspect you’d get it if you did a vanilla export to disk, so I’d guess that either your image file is offline (on a removable disk?) or wildly corrupt…. in either case, it’s not a plugin-specific issue. —Jeffrey

The best I could do would be to have a pause between images… the plugin has no control over each upload (Lightroom handles each as an atomic unit). Would that be helpful? —Jeffrey

Not sure, It would upload an image at about the best possible speed of the Lightroom export engine, then pause, then process another image? I did put a question into the LR3 beta forum about this, the two replies so far imply that users are more upset about the export speed being too slow.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2476368#2476368

I am guessing for now, my best bet is to put in a cap in bandwidth allowed for the smugmug.com site on my router.

figured it out, didn’t see the scroll bar to go lower in the dialog box. It would be nice to have some sort of “how to” page, even if just the basics.

If I try to upload – and replace – a picture with the same file name as an existing picture in the same gallery I get this error message:
“Error response from Smugmug Wrong format ( )”

This also happens even if I am uploading a large batch – and only a single or few pictures have the same file name.

Overwriting used to work well before. But now I have this issue with the current and previous release.

Maiaibing/Tokyo

I have attempted using smugmug-20091230.139 in a Lightroom 2.6 and Windows 7 environment. This appears to be a great plugin, but I find that it will only upload photos into one SmugMug gallery (The first gallery I set up in SmugMug). I have tried opening SmugMug and opening a gallery for download before activating the plugin but it still uploads to my 1st installed gallery. I have unloaded the plugin software and reloaded it but get the same result. Is this how the software works or am I or my computer doing something incorrect?
Yor help would be greatly appreciated.

The weather in So. Calif. has just changed from sunny, mid 70’s to rain and 61. We really need the rain.

Thank you

See the “SmugMug: Upload Destination” section of the dialog. What you may or may not have showing in a browser has no impact on the plugin. —Jeffrey

Hi

Thanks for this plugin, I’ve been testing it for a couple of days and I think is very well thought off and implemented. I noticed though 2 issues (I’m testing on Lightroom 3 beta and the plugin is 20091230.139, so the issues could be LR3 related)

1. I like to upload keywords and I found that this only works if I check the “Do not explicitly send keyword…” and then it includes in the keywords the file name. As my img name include dates I get several keywords like 20091292 09, etc..
2. It seems that special characters are not supported in either caption and keywords. For example I have pictures from the city of Córdoba and the accented o doesn’t show properly. Perhaps a UTF8 encoding issue?

I’d be happy to help testing or even coding (I’m a experienced programmer)

Regards
Carlos

I’ve tested with accented characters and it’s supposed to work, as is the don’t-explicitly-send option. Keyword processing did change in version .142…. if things are still broken in that version, please send a log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the plugin manager), along with a note about what seems to be not working…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Clock is correct. Can’t find a firewall or security setting that’s blocking things. Is it odd that your Flickr plugin is working perfectly?

Thanks, Nathan

Not odd… Flickr’s authentication stuff does not require SSL (HTTPS, port 443), while SmugMug’s does, and that’s where you’re running into troubles. Something on your system is deciding it doesn’t want to let Lightroom use SSL to SmugMug… it could be because it doesn’t like the results of trying (because your clocks are out of sync, or their security cert is old), or because you have some kind of app (Little Snitch, Zone Defense, etc.) that blocks it. Those are the reasons I’ve seen so far. —Jeffrey

How does one unsubscribe? I checked the box to be notified when a question I posted was answered, but I don’t want to get the whole blog e-mailed to me. thanks.

The next time something comes in, check the bottom of the message for a link on how to manage/unsubscribe. —Jeffrey

LR2.2 and smugmug-20100127.141 plugin.

Subcategories are no longer being shown when creating galleries. This is a very recent problem for me (w/in last couple of weeks), so I upgraded to v141 and am still having the problem. This is all I see when creating a gallery:

In category [category picklist] create [public or private picklist] gallery: [text field]

I believe the picklist used to show category > subcategory, but no longer. Definitely need this back. Thanks.

Sorry, my bad. Fixed in v142 that I just pushed. —Jeffrey

I love your plugin and use it constantly. Will it work with LR3 beta?

What works in LR2 generally works in the LR3 beta, but the extra “Publish” stuff new in LR3b won’t be done until LR3 comes out. (The LR3b plugin support is too minimal to get it to work well in LR3b.) —Jeffrey

my apologies .. I completely overlooked that “create” button in the tools area. Thanks so much.

LR: 2.6
Plugin: 20100211.147
Smugmug Pro Account
Windows Vista

I’ve used two methods now for gallery settings: quick setting or default then customize. Both are from the ” Smugmug: Tools ” dialog.

1. Quick Setting: For some reason, all the settings are applied except the sorting method. I have to go into each gallery’s settings to manually change the sort method. The other problem is that I cannot set a gallery password without again going into the settings manually for each gallery. Why is that part of the dialog box closed when I select a quick setting?

2. Default then customize: I like that I can set the gallery password and hint when I use this method. The problem is that not all of the gallery settings are available to customize. Specifically the right click protect which I need. Is there any way to add a few more options to this method?

Thank you for putting out such a great plugin for LR. You have really helped us to be more productive in the office with our back end work.

Dan

Sorry for the long delay on this one… I finally just pushed v150 which fixes the collection-creation thing. I’ll look into adding more options, but at the moment am pretty steeped in behind-the-scenes stuff with Adobe working on LR3… —Jeffrey

No luck, but that did seem to fix my Nik Software external editor listing, they all show up on their own now.

I went as far as removing the presets themselves (nothing too complicated I couldn’t remake) and it still happens.

It seems if I switch between presets that use a plug in, it does fine. but once I switch to another preset, be it one of yours or the built in ones, it freaks out and loses what seems to be the extra plug in fields.

I think I’ll just hope LR3 comes out soon and I’ll hope to start fresh from there.

Yikes, turns out that this was a bug on my part…. sorry. Should be fixed in v149. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,
I need some assistance with sorting/filtering images that I have uploaded to smugmug using your plugin. I am failrly familiar with the filtering options but am not able to fiure out a way to filter based on “uploaded to smugmug” status. any help is appreciated

Details:

OS – Windows 7
Lightroom 2.6
Plugin version: 2010210.146

Thanks in advance.

Actually, you can use “Uploaded to Smugmug” in the real Library Grid filter, or even in a Smart Collection. There are some bugs in LR2 such that changes don’t always show up right away (in the worst case it may require restarting LR), but the concept is there. —Jeffrey

“Actually, you can use “Uploaded to Smugmug” in the real Library Grid filter, or even in a Smart Collection. There are some bugs in LR2 such that changes don’t always show up right away (in the worst case it may require restarting LR), but the concept is there. —Jeffrey”

Hi Jeff,
I tried going to the library grid view On a collection that I definitely uploaded to smugmug using your plugin and filtered based on text >> search all fields for “uploaded to smugmug” but no pics showed up. Does the flag get added as a keyword? It seems like I’m doing something really stupid. Please help if you see me doing anything wrong. Thx.

OS – Windows 7
Lightroom 2.6
Plugin version: 2010210.146

Check the “metadata” part of the filter… it’s in there. —Jeffrey

OS: Windows 7, Lightroom: 3 beta, Plug-in: 20100219.149

Three versions back 20100210.146 everything was function correctly. With the previous version 20100211.147 and the current, I’m receiving the following error whenever I try to remove a photo from Smugmug via the plug-in:

Can’t update this collection.

An internal error has occurred: deletePhotosFromRemoteCollection: did not call deletedCallback function.

Any thoughts,
Art

Could you try again in the latest version… I’m not seeing this error now, but it might have slipped out in a previous version. —Jeffrey

Still experiencing the same error. The only other change around that time was I downgraded from a Pro to a Power account.

Art

Sorry about that… just pushed a fix. But please note that Publish collections will almost certainly change in the future, and it’s unlikely that current collections will work when they do. LR3b is a beta, and the plugin support is very different than what will be in LR3. —Jeffrey

Hey! Nice piling snow shots… all melting here in Chicago…

Ain’t LR3B a bear? or is it a wolf chewing up others Good Works….

Noticed the new watermark function does not seem to be working when Uploading with with v.150 …. (XP) – is that an ‘inconvenience’ of 3B?

I’ve not yet tried to run Mogrify which work just fine with you plugin…

Keep up the Good Works!
dan k

I don’t really use LR3b so I don’t know much about its watermarking, but anything that works during a normal export should also work with my plugin… whether you watermark is unrelated to anything the plugin does (LR has generated the image with or without watermark before passing it to my plugin), so I can’t imagine the plugin has any effect one way or the other. But it’s a beta, so who knows? /-: —Jeffrey

I suddenly started getting the “lightroom can’t access the internet” message. I checked my firewalls (just as I thought, they are still fully turned off) and my anti-virus (doesn’t block anything for reaching out to the web) and now I don’t know where to go. I went and donated to register, thinking that was the problem, but it won’t connect to let me put those codes in.

To make it more interesting, I’ve tried the wireless network here at the hotel, as well as using my own Verizon aircard. I’ve seen where one ISP might block a site, but both of them? And it lets me on here perfectly fine, so they don’t have regex.info blocked.

Help please!

It’s probably that something on your system is blocking Lightroom (Little Snitch, Zone Defense, etc.), or that your connection requires a proxy and Lightroom isn’t using it. Also, make sure that you can access https sites… if your system clock is not set properly (if you’re traveling, check the timezone) https won’t work. —Jeffrey

LR3b2 is out, and it support video. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this SmugMug export plugin supports video in LR3b2. Do you expect to have that soon? I hope that it’s a fairly easy enhancement.

Thanks for a great plugin!

David

Hello,

I’m sorry for being such a novice.

I am using lightroom 2.6. I downloaded the zip file at the top, which I then unzipped once it was downloaded.

Whart do I do next to get it working with Lightroom? I tried to find it within Lightroom but am unsure of how to proceed.
(I had a look through all the responses above but I couldn’t find an appropriate comment, sorry)

Thank you

Check out the “Installation Instructions” link at the top of the page. —Jeffrey

LR: 2.6
Plugin: 20100323.153
Smugmug Pro Account
Windows Vista

I’m getting a new error all of a sudden:

Error response from Smugmug
system error (invalid album id)

Aborting export after 0 of 500 images successfully uploaded

I’ve never had this error before. Any idea what might be wrong?

Thank you,
Dan

Same problem as the comment above yours…. SmugMug seems to be having issues. They’re still looking into it. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I am a new photographer and I am trying to figure my way around software. I have seen a couple of your plug-in’s from LR2 and am hoping to figure out how to use them all. Thank you in advance for all your help with these things- for those of us that are computer “unsavy” you are a hero!

I am testing out smugmug for a karate tournament I recently shot- and cannot for the life of me get it properly into smugmug. I am exporting from LR2 and it is taking it into Smugmug, but it is saying the size is too small to sell or print (even at 4×6 size). I have a 5D Mark 11 so I know pixels should be plenty big enough. I’ve left my quality at 100% and put it up to 300 dpi- with smug mugs right click protection and watermarking.

I’ve done this like 4 times already and with a gallery that has 806 pictures, you can imagine how time consuming and ultimately how frustrating this is only to find it still isn’t working. I’ve gone and done a basic uploader with 1 picture uploaded to desktop and then into smugmug and it works fine- so it must be something else I’m doing. Any ideas???

Thank you so much!

After you open the export dialog and choose SmugMug as the destination, then check the file-size and file-quality sections. If you want maximum flexibility in printing from SM, don’t resize at all, and use a JPEG quality setting of about 80 or 85. (Anything much larger starts to get pointless… the file size increases rapidly without any perceptible increase in quality.) Then try an upload of just a few photos to make sure it works, then build an Export Preset to bake in all your settings into a convenient menu choice. —Jeffrey

In the middle of an export, I’m suddenly having trouble authenicating – it’s stuck at “authenticating credentials at Smugmug.” I’ve tried downloading the Starfield Class 2 Certification linked above and installing (and restarting computer / LR) – didn’t seem to make any difference. When I turn off the firewall (which was working fine while exporting the first batch of photos), I don’t get the authentication issue, it just gets stuck logging in. Any other ideas?

Thank you!

Sounds like a temporary glitch with your router, ISP, or SmugMug. The “getting stuck” thing is not related to the SSL cert. Perhaps reboot your router or give it a bit and try again. —Jeffrey

I was looking at your repopulate url option in the metadata extras, but it doesn’t appear to do what I want. I have a lot of photos already on Smugmug that are in my Lightroom gallery but were not uploaded with versions of your export plug-in that set the metadata tags. So, they don’t show up in Lightroom as being at Smugmug. Can your tool read the list of photos at Smugmug and set the corresponding metadata in Lightroom to show that they have been uploaded? I really want to keep these in sync so I can see what images I have at Smugmug via Lightroom.

I have a Smugmug pro account and have registered your plug-in.

Thanks!
I’ve been working on getting this added, and will be able to release it once Lr3 is out, along with real Publish support. It’s been a long road, but it will come.—Jeffrey

’m running LR 2.6 on Windows XP.

Latest version of your smugmug plugin

authentication to smugmug is failing, with

’system returned “security error” when lightroom attempted to use the internet’
‘Internal Plugin error’

I am able to log into my pro site form firefox and IE, and I have used this plug in successfully since beta2 of LR3 came out.. now this..? any other reports?

I checked security, disabled all firewall/antivirus, checked the time clock since you mentioned that..

Its when I click on log-into account.

I am able to use facebook plug in..

any ideas?
thanks,
-Rob

Regarding SmugMug Export Plugin for Lightroom, Version 20100323, 153.
I have the LR3 beta. I have tried to export pictures from LR3 to SmugMug with your plugin, and it only works some of the time. Most of the time, I get this message:

Error response from SmugMug
Upload did not complete… is SmugMug or your Internet connection having issues?
Aborting export after ___ of ___ images successfully uploaded.

I have made sure I have the most current version downloaded. But I don’t know why I keep getting this error message. Can you help?

I thought I did help, by suggesting that you look into your Internet connection or SmugMug. It’s not Lightroom’s fault that uploads don’t complete. —Jeffrey

@Gabi I got that same error today while setting up the plugin on my laptop. Entering my e-mail address in the “nickname” field instead of the actual nickname appeared to fix it (I was then successfully logged in.)

Hi Jeffrey

I am using a new IMac i7 with Intel processor and SNow Leopard. I have Lightroom 3 beta2. When I attempt to install the SmugMug upload plug in, as soon as I click it (right or left), it opens the Lightroom import window. Apparently the file never unzips. Then I downloaded”Stuffit” to attempt to unzip; when I try to do so, I get a message which states that: “an error occurred to expand: then it specifies the path to your zipped file. The message continues “A folder was specified when a file was required (Error #17530).

I worked with the SmugMug tecchs all morning and they could not explain; suggested I email you.

Thanks,
John Laurito
fstop@comcast.net

Sounds as if it was unzipped for you at download (unzipping is built in to OSX… no need to download anything) and you were left with the “smugmug-jfriedl.lrplugin” item itself. It’s a folder, but on OSX’s finder it appears as a one-unit “package”. Don’t click on it in finder, but, rather, navigate to it from the Add-plugin button in Lr’s plugin manager. I’m really surprised that the SmugMug hero didn’t tell you this right off the bat; perhaps point them at this for their reference. —Jeffrey

I keep getting the “wrong format” error when trying to use the “upload anyway” option for pictures that are too large. I try it with the option to upload, and “ask” and then select “upload anyway”.

Is there any way around this?

Contact SmugMug…. this has been an ongoing problem. —Jeffrey

I upgraded to version 20100323.153 and send a contribution and registered. Now I get an error message from Smugmug Incomplete file

SmugMug has been having intermittent issues with their servers. —Jeffrey

Currently using Lightroom 2.6 with export to Smugmug plugin. Was using it on a Vista-64 machine with no problems. Upgraded same machine to Windows 7-64 and now have nothing but troubles uploading. Smugmug has stated this is not on their end. Firewall is not the issue as it was working fine before PLUS I even took the firewall down to try. Kept getting message about:

Error response from SmugMug
Upload did not complete… is SmugMug or your Internet connection having issues?
Aborting export after ___ of ___ images successfully uploaded.

Saw a reply in an earlier post about disabling IPv6. Now I get a message from smugmug stating wrong bytes received. All other venues of uploading to smugmug works fine from the same computer.

Using pluging version 20100323.153

Any help would GREATLY be appreciated since I’ve become dependant on this plugin. 😉

I wish I had more to suggest beyond what’s in the FAQ, but sadly, it remains a mystery )-: —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

Using Vista 64-bit
LR Plugin for Smugmug Version Number is smugmug-20100323.153.zip

I am from the U.S. Thank you very much for the plug-in, I plan to donate if it works correctly.
I am having problems uploading to Smugmug from LR. Please help! See below:

Here is the error:

Error response from Smugmug:
Incomplete file(ByteCount given: 4572554,received :667760, Md5Sum given: a59…..etc.

Aborting export after 0 of 172 images successfully uploaded.

please post and/or email, thank you very much.
Alik

Yeah, they seem to often have issues… dunno why. It’s a well known issue. )-: —Jeffrey

Just wanted to report the plugin is working wonderfully with the GM of LR3. I’m using .153 spin of it. Some minor issues that might need later cleanup, like they managed to get the export color space back in, but otherwise… solid as a rock. Thanks Jeffrey!

But don’t use the Publish stuff…. I’ll have a new version with real publish support soon. You can peek at the Flickr version if you want a heads up, though the SmugMug version is much more straightforward (because SM is more straightforward than Flickr). —Jeffrey

I’ve just upgraded to LR3 . On launch, LR disabled the SmugMug plug-in. When I go to the LR Plug-In Manager to enable it a dialog says that I need to update the catalog. Is this the correct behavior? What exactly am I updating?

I’m running SmugMug 20100323.153.

Thanks!

Yes, sorry, I couldn’t get the Lr3 version out in time. Working furiously on it; status is here. —Jeffrey