I’ve been having an issue with your Zenfolio plugin for a while now. I use LR4 to upload and manage all my images for my ZF site. However, when I try to add a gallery or a group within the plugin, it appears in my ZF site, but not immediately in LR. It does end up in LR eventually, only after messing around with some of the settings. To be honest, I thought it would just appear in LR, but I’m forced to try different things to get it there. Can you explain where I’m going wrong please. I’m sure it’s operator error, but who knows!

Cheers,
Dayve

When you create the gallery/group with the plugin (and enable the “automatically add…” option), it should indeed just show up once you press “Save” to dismiss the publish-service settings dialog. —Jeffrey

Is there a way through Lightroom to upload and maintain the galleries without having to sort later?
This would save me hours, more like days, of work.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.
Chris

Looks like what you want to do is described exactly in this post. —Jeffrey

If you’re suddenly having upload issues, it’s not likely to be an issue with the plugin… there are many steps between you and Zenfolio for problems to crop up and go away. As for the version, you can use the “check for updates” in the plugin manager to see whether you have the latest… if so, the updates are working. If not, give it a try, and if it doesn’t work, you’ll have to revert to a manual install, just like the first time. —Jeffrey

You are correct, unfortunately. The list of galleries from Zenfolio can be huge (many megabytes) for some users, so it’s not practical to fetch automatically. There were sufficient bugs in early versions of Lr3 that prohibited a simple “Create new gallery” item in the publish service context menu, but perhaps those have been fixed, so it’s on the todo list to look into that again. Until then, if you create the gallery inside the publish service (instead of at Zenfolio), it’ll get added automatically, at least. —Jeffrey

It’s best at this point to deal only with Zenfolio galleries with the plugin… sending a photo to two Zenfolio collections with the plugin creates two copies of the photo, which is not really appropriate. It’s sub-optimal, but Zenfolio collections should be handled at Zenfolio. —Jeffrey

How does your Zenfolio plugin work when using a travel laptop, and a main home computer? I often work on files on the road and upload to Z, then transfer and merge the catalog and photos into my home computer.

Thanks,
Fran
This is an area where Lightroom is severely lacking… Publish data does not transfer with catalog import. After an import you should, in theory, be able to recreate your publish service with the “claim” feature, but that can be fragile. There’s no really good answer at this point. —Jeffrey

There are no personal settings or whatnot in the plugin folder itself, so you can always just download the latest version from my server, unzip it, put the result wherever on disk you want to leave it, then point the plugin manager at it, and you’ll be fine. Other versions you find on disk can be deleted. —Jeffrey

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bad state:
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How do i fix it?

Thanks
Jeanita

That bug was fixed the other day… upgrade to the latest version and you’ll be fine. —Jeffrey

The plugin should be pointing you at instructions that explain everything. No need for a reinstall, but best to do a restart after putting in the new serial. —Jeffrey

A couple of questions Regarding your ZF plugin.

Is there a way to just replublish the metadata, rather than the whole image?

Many thanks,
Dayve

Yes, but Lightroom doesn’t allow it to be intuitive. Select the photos you want to do this with, then visit the “File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras” dialog and from there you can resend selected metadata, and then push the images back into “Published”. —Jeffrey