Comments on: Jeffrey’s “Export to Zenfolio” Lightroom Plugin

By: David

David — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:03:32 +0000

I think I may have mistakingly tried publishing two galleries at once towards the beginning. Dont know if that may be a cause.

By: David

David — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:01:56 +0000

Thank you for the quick response. No this is the original publish for a 231 photo gallery. 129 photos in it has done it 3 times. I get a lightroom error, followed by a windows, then lightroom error again. All basically say the same thing. Saying ok to those and restarting publish works for a bit. This last effort is running longer.

By: David

David — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:21:20 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Using your plug in w LR4 for the first time. Running the latest 20120508.190 for the export to zenfolio plugin. I am getting an error after about 40 pics published “Cant update this collection Networking error when attempting …://up.zenfolio.com/david—-/p——–/upload.us… The handle is in the wrong state for the requested operation.”

Thank you for your time,

David Dann

That’s a Windows (and/or Lightroom) bug that I don’t quite have a fix on yet. Are you perhaps reimporting the exported copies back into Lightroom? I’ve heard that might be one of the triggers. —Jeffrey

By: Robb Williams

Robb Williams — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:02:54 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,
I’ve just started using your Zenfolio lightroom plugin and it’s a great little tool. However.. I’ve noticed that when I’ve created a passworded gallery via the export plugin, it changes some of the default options I’ve created in ZenFolio.
Potentially the most embarrassing change was the Photo Protection download option. I have this set in my default options to “Do Not Allow”, but the new gallery created via the plugin was set to “Allow” . This was only spotted when I did a test login as a visitor and saw a Download option next to the Buy Print option. As we charge for downloads, there was a potential for lost revenue if it hadn’t been spotted.
I know it’s easily rectified in the individual “access control/photo protection” permissions in ZenFolio’s gallery admin section, but is there any way this default over ride can be resolved in the export plugin itself? I spotted the anomaly in good time but I wonder how many people have been inadvertently allowing free downloads?

As far as I can tell, a plugin has no visibility to those kind of album options, so I’ll have to consult with Zenfolio to see whether anything can be done, and perhaps add a warning to the plugin if not. Thanks for the report. —Jeffrey

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:58:53 +0000

I’ve been using your Zenfolio and Flickr export plugins for quire some time now. They are awesome. I recently upgraded to LR 4 and a new iMac running OS X Lion. I’m not able to upload files to any site with Safari or Firefox using the latest versions of your plugins. Would you happen to have any insights into this problem? I didn’t see anything on your “Known Issues” page and have been hard pressed to find anything relevant elsewhere on the web. Thanks for all your hard work.

It general it smells like some kind of system-security thing… are you running some third-party app like Zone Defense or the like? If so, you’ll need to add an exception to allow Lightroom to use the network. —Jeffrey

By: Kathy (TCP)

Kathy (TCP) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:52:42 +0000

I have LR 3.2 with Windows 7, so this latest version (version: zenfolio-20120330.184 ) of this plugin does not work for me. Is there an older version that I can use for LR 3.2? Can you tell me how to find it, if there is, please? Thank you.

There are lots of bugs in Lr3.2 that have been fixed in the latest Lr3.x release… it’s a free update from Adobe, so please avail yourself of it. —Jeffrey

By: tewkbury

tewkbury — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:08:03 +0000

This plugin has an ongoing issue in my library.
It constantly thinks that I’ve “modified” my images. Even though I have every single checkbox unchecked within my preferences (Meta data that triggers republish).

All I have to do is look at an image and suddenly in the eyes of this plugin.. it’s been modified.

It is essentially making the plugin useless to me because nearly daily I’m forced to re-upload dozens if not hundreds of images.

Can this be fixed?

I’d like to know the underlying issue causing them to be marked for republish, but in the mean time you can quietly tell Lightroom to shove them back to “Published” via the right-click context menu in Lr4. (In Lr3 you can use something similar in the File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras dialog) —Jeffrey

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:01:10 +0000

I’m on the latest version of the LR Zenfolio plugin (zenfolio-20120327.183.zip). When I try to run upload multiple uploads to different galleries, I sometimes get your error:
“Networking error when attempting http:… The handle is in the wrong state for the requested operation.
It normally happens after the uploads have already correctly uploaded some number of images to each of the galleries. I check Adobe’s site but didn’t see any know errors like this.

I’ve seen this reported a few times but have no idea what’s causing it, other than “Windows”. I’d love to hear about any ideas for investigating it…. —Jeffrey

By: Paul Bussi

Paul Bussi — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:59:02 +0000

I use the Zenfolio plug-in for Lightroom version 3 64bit. My Zenfolio galleries become deeply nested and I can’t tell the difference between tow galleries with long names because the end of the name doesn’t show. Is there a way for me to work around this?

Unfortunately, not easily… Lightroom doesn’t allow a plugin to make the dialog wider, nor scroll sideways. —Jeffrey

By: Elsa Hagen

Elsa Hagen — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:02:35 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,

After I bought Lightroom 4, I opened an account with Zenfolio. I tried your orange colored winzip link. However, it didn’t work since I don’t have winzip on my computer ; Is there another way to get the plugin?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Elsa Hagen
AURADOU – France

It’s not a “winzip” link, it a zip file… any OS that Lightroom can run on should be able to handle it natively. Save the file to disk, then just click on it in Explorer/Finder, and it should unpack. —Jeffrey