Glad to see that there is already a release for 2.0 but for some reason I cannot see the .lrplugin file that the Plugin Manager asks for. Just a bunch of lua, png and txt files.. Am I missing something?

You want to point the plugin manager at the .lrplugin folder that the bunch of lua/png/txt files are in. —Jeffrey

Thanks for making this plug in, you are tha man.

My photo work flow is now complete!

Does anyone know whether Adobe fixed the formatmessageW issue with the final release? The work-around is something I would rather avoid.

As far as we can tell, it’s been fixed. You can download the free version of 2.0 to try it… —Jeffrey

My photos in Lightroom 2.0 are dngs. Will your plug in allow conversion to jpeg or tiff format for uploading to Zenfolio? If not what is the recommended workflow?

Thanks, Winnie

Uh, I’m pretty sure that you have to convert when uploading, since Zenfolio doesn’t accept DNGs. You select JPG format (and set the JPG quality) in the “File Settings” section of the Export Dialog. —Jeffrey

I signed up for zenfolio and downloaded your plug in to my LR 2.0.
What is the workflow for uploading to my (brand new) zenfolio account?

THanks, WInnie

It’s the same as any other export… select the destination, log in, adjust other export parameters, and upload. If you don’t have any galleries, you’ll have to make one first, either at Zenfolio or in the Zenfolio Tools section of the Export Dialog. —Jeffrey

Thank you! I kept opening the folder & nothing was showing up as a supported file! I just highlighted the folder & clicked add! It worked! Thank you so very much for your help! You are AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it possible in a plugin to make a snapshot? I would find it very useful to have a snapshot created when exporting photos to zenfolio. Ideally, I’d like a snapshot name like “custom-date” where “custom” is whatever I want and “date” is the date the snapshot is made.

I’d also like to see a record somewhere of the export parameters used, probably in the exported image itself as some kind of metadata, as well as the date and time of the export.

One of the problems I have with exporting images from Lightroom is that there is no record of the time in the development history when the export was made, nor is there any record of what the export parameters were. Can you help with this?

Thanks.

I’ve asked for the ability to create a snapshot on export several times in the last two years, and I can only hope it’s on Adobe’s to-do list. It would certainly be nice to have. —Jeffrey

I use this plug-in with 2.1 RC and it seems to have a problem with the naming (not the naming on export provided by LR but the naming that the plug-in does on upload.
I use the Template “Filename” which has as contents the word Filename, NOT the token {Filename}. So I changed this and updated.
Next time I launch LR and use the plug-in, it’s back to the word Filename instead of the token.

Thanks for listening!
Thomas

thanks for the oppportunity to download and use your Lightroom plugin – it is much appreciated, Ross

The latest plugin does not seem to actually have a plugin! There is no file with “.lrplugin” !?
So whatsup?

Sigh. I don’t know how I can write it in the instructions more clearly that the zip contains a folder that is the plugin. —Jeffrey

Correction to post earlier this evenng:

The 20081021.30 plug-in is on my system after I go through the plug-in update process. It just is not used by LR 2.

Thank you,
Stephan G. Kravitz

Thank you, 20081022.31 loaded today,

Stephan G. Kravitz

Hey Jeff –

I have Version 20081103.34 and I’m exporting from DNG to JPG for Zenfolio. I’m getting a time to export approx. 150 photos of 7-8 hours. Is that normal? If not could you tell me what’s wrong or if it’s something I can change?

I’m running OS 10.5.5, Lightroom 2.1

Ryan

It all depends on your upload speed. I have 100mbit fiber to my house in Kyoto, so I can upload pretty darn fast, but if you’re using DSL, it’ll take a lot longer… —Jeffrey

Vista 64 bit, Lightroom 2.1 64 bit 512205 Camera Raw 4.6, Plugin 20081113.
I have been unable to get the plugin to work. When I go to the plugin and choose to login to Zenfolio, I get the error: “cannot find host”. When I cancel, after 20+ retries, I get the following in an Info window: +1216.7: At = “cannot find host” name = “The server name or address could not be resolved” nativeCode = 12007. Then, when I press OK, an new window opens with the report “INTERNAL PLUGIN ERROR Zenfolio Login Aborted”. When I press OK for that window, a new window opens with “An internal error has occurred: ?:22039: attempt to index a nil value”. I have disabled my Kaspersky firewall before attempting to make sure IT didn’t interfere with the process. I’m open to suggestions! Thanks!

This seems to be a Lightroom 2.1 bug (or a Lightroom/Vista “issue”). Anyone on Vista getting these networking errors should report it to Adobe…. the more reports they get, the more they will pay attention to the issue. I don’t run Vista, so have never had these problems myself… —Jeffrey

Been having problems for last 2 days, but now it’s working. Maybe a problem with Zenfolio? Thanks for the great work.

-Apollo

I normally use a mac, and have found that your excellent zenfolio plugin works like a charm. However I’m being forced to use our Windows (Vista) laptop at the moment, and the latest version of your plugin seems to be operating very erratically over the past few days–lots of failed attempts to upload. One symptom is that it loses the login to zenfolio and can’t re-establish without quitting and restarting LR. Perhaps it’s a zenoflio web site issue or a Lightroom/Vista problem. Can’t wait to get back to my mac!

wow. that’s quite the detailed explanation. Guess I should have searched a little more.

This is looks awesome. Looks like I’ll be switching over to your plugin, and keeping everything inside lightroom.

One more quickie, the “update” feature. Is that based off a scan of files currently on zenfolio or off a database created by the plugin? I ask because I already have a sizable amount on my account and I’d like to have the entire catalog avail to just click UPDATE and be done. If I do that now, your plugin may want to replicate everything in my catalog since it’s never been used.

Thank you

Hi, I was wondering if you would consider making a plugin for Adobe’s Photoshop Express on photoshop.com?
The site doesn’t work very well for me just now but it’s free & it may get better.
With LR & PS Express both being Adobe’s it could be a nice combo.

Thanks for the Zenfolio plugin, works fine & makes uploading to share much quicker.
Another for Adorama, PhotoWorks, Clarks Lab, Winkflash ect would also be great 🙂

First of all, thanks much for creating the LR (2.2) plug-in for Zenfolio, which many folks use ,and I anticipate using (?).

Problem is, I’m not sure what your plug-in does, how to use it, or what its benefits are. Is there a “user page” where I can find out. Perhaps you can provide a brief answer to the above, for a novice, soon-to-be user of Zenfolio.

Thanks much.

Lightroom 2.2
Plugin 20090126.55
Windows Vista 32

Hi Jeff

I know this problem has been raised before, but I am still totally unable to export from Lightroom to Zenfolio, I get the error below after 2 or 3 minutes. Is anyone else experiencing this problem, and have you had any more thoughts on it. Happy to send a debug log if that helps at all?

+263.9: [09F8DF10] =(tail call) line -1:
Return Header ERROR
———————————————————————–

errorCode = “unkown”
name = “The connection with the server was terminated abnormally”

nativeCode = 12030

Thanks

Kevin

Hi Jeffrey, I just downloaded the update zenfolio-20090129.56(2)& got( error 32- Broken pipe)
Unable to unarchive Zenfolio-200090129.56(2) into the “desktop” I downloaded it several times with the same results. Any sugestions?
I have Mac OSX 10.4.11 & Lightroom 2.2
Thanks,
Jenny.

Hi, I repaired my disk with disk utility & can now unzip you plugin OK thanks.
Jenny.

I loaded the plgin for Zenfolio as stated in your instructions. It is in Lightroom when I go to export I get an an error message. Something about “private gallery”. I don’t understand. Your Yahoo plugin works great.
Running – Windows Vista 64 bit. LR 2.3,

could it be the LR 2.3 RC?
Thanks Jeffrey

It should all work find on any LR2.x version. “private gallery” sounds like something from Zenfolio…. could you send the log to me? (There’s a button for sending the log in the Plugin Manager). —Jeffrey

New Plug-in Issue Installation Problem with the – zenfolio-20090305.61.zip – Version update. I am on a PC – OS Windows XP, Lightroom V2.0. I did the unzipping and did the windows folder install .exe file and did not work, then I reboot the computer open up the catalog again and still NO success.

What am I doing wrong? Please Help!

There is no “.exe” file associated with the plugin. Just the zip file that creates a folder. The folder itself is the plugin, and in the Plugin Manager, you select the folder when adding a new plugin. Once it’s added and enabled in the Plugin Manager, you can switch to it in the Export Dialog, as shown on my Plugin Install page. —Jeffrey

Chris

Regarding your upload problem to Zenfolio, I experienced similar problems (albeit on Vista) and it took ages to resolve. My belief is that the problem was a combination of Zenfolio network issues and also some reasonably well documented Vista networking querks! I think Znefolio made some changes, but I still needed to make some networking tweaks to make it work.

I am not sure if the links below will solve problems for XP, but I have found that it has cured all of my Vista/Zenfolio upload issues.

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
http://www.speedguide.net/analyzer.php
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=2574

The specific tweak which fixes my Vista issue is the disabling of “Windows auto tuning” (3rd link above), however I am pretty sure this is the workaround for Vista only and does nothing in XP. Take a look at the TCP Optimizer in the 1st link, it may offer some soloution.

Good luck

Kevin

Just downloaded your latest LR/Zenfolio plug-in. Looks pretty useful … have a question before I install it though …

Can the plug-in export JPEG images to Zenfolio with all LR adjustments that were made to **RAW format** files?

Or does one need to export JPEG’s via LR … synchronize LR to find these JPEG’s … THEN use your plug-in for the final upload to Zenfolio?

Thanks.

It exports copies generated after your changes have been applied. It wouldn’t be very useful otherwise(!) —Jeffrey

I love the twitter announcement. Have you thought about doing something similar with a facebook announcement? Either creating a link or a note.

Love the plugin, thanks for all your work!

Hi Jeffrey
Been using your plugin for awhile, and after seeing how much work you put in these I finally registered a few.

I use the image sizing section for both my portrait and landscape photo’s and find the current selections a little difficult to use. Easy enough to switch between the long end and short end selection, but in either case it always defaults to the short end pixel size and you have to remember the width pixel size and re-type that in when selecting between the two.
Any chance of including a P & L selection that just switches the dimensions for the width & height.

— Ken— CT, USA

Hi Jeffrey,

I’m not sure if this is a plugin issue, but since upgrading to the Nikon D300S camera, my files will upload BUT any cropping or mods I applied to the image are not applied to the images in my Zenfolio account. If I convert to JPG prior to upload, the changes come over, but the EXIF info is limited so I’d love to be able to upload the original file if possible (as it did before). Like I said, might be a LR issue, not yours. I can email you an original JPG from my cam if you need it.

Thanks,
Keoni

It sounds like your originals are going, as if you have “original” selected as the format, rather than “jpeg”, in the “Image Format” section of the export dialog. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, I am writing from Pasco, WA.

My comment has nothing to do with VERION Plugins; bugs; OS; LR version number or other such things.

I am labeled as an ” geezer” at this point in my trek on planet earth and have a “kerning” (line spacing) problem with you printed pages in your blog. Couple line spacing with light typeface and a dark background and you get something hard on the eyes to read.

Type tends to run together and gets blury to the point of being out of focus. Is there another option you could use? I realize what you currently use is dramatic, but if you get an opinion from an eye doctor I’m thinking they would agree with me.

I am a relative “newby” to LR and making the conversion from wet to dry lab practices, but find I have to take your blogs in short spurts. If I don’t do that I tend to get headaches. Taking frequent breaks while reading is a must, but it slows down my work progress .

Yes, I know, I don’t have to read everything, but I’m afraid I may miss a comment or suggestion that will make life easier using LR, so I do tend to read everything.

Anyway, just a suggestion.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

My blog look-n-feel is not meant to be “dramatic”… it’s meant to be easy and smooth to view. If you’re seeing stuff run together, then either my CSS or your browser has a bug. What version of what browser on what version of what OS are you using? Could you email a screenshot? Thanks. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Yesterday I decided to give LR3Beta a try. I installed Your updated Zenfolio plugin (20091022.89) but was not able to upload a single photo. Always got an error message, which said: “Can’t update this collection. Unexpected HTTP reply from http://www.zenfolio.com/zf/api/zfapi.asmx: 500″. Can You tell me why I keep getting this error? (I am using Windows 7 64-bit version, LR3 Beta, Zenfolio plugin version 20091022.89).

I’m not sure how this new publishing thing works in LR3, but I was hoping I could continue using Your plugin the same way you described in this post of your blog (http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-06/956). Will that be possible?

Thanks in advance,

Ramūnas.

I haven’t tested Publish stuff well, and I know there’s stuff about the API that I don’t understand yet, so there’s plenty of room for improvement. I hold great hope for coolness. —Jeffrey

ver 20091023.30 . London
Jeffrey, you’re dead right. Sorry to have bothered you about this. Thanks very much for responding anyway.
Regards

Marc

please make a lightroom export plugin for PANORAMIO if possible.

http://www.panoramio.com/

I would, if they had a public API. They don’t seem to be interested in Lightroom’s demographics… they apparently prefer low-quality snapshot photographs uploaded by people who have the ample free time to do them one by one. —Jeffrey

I’ve been using the previous zenfolio plugins for months with good results. Then yesterday I started exploring the LR 3b, and I installed your recent plugin update (20091023.90). The new plugin version seemed to work OK with LR 3b–at least for the one image I uploaded to zenfolio. However when I went back to using LR 2.3, it appears that this same plugin (20091023.90) will not upload more than one image at a time. Possibly the issue pertains to both LR 2 and 3b, but I can only attest to seeing the problem when using it with LR 2.3.

Regards,
Phil

Lightroom zenfolio plugin: 20091023.90

Jeff

I am just playing with what I realise is the early days version of the plugin to work with the LR3 Beta, and trying to understand what the new Publish Services functionality will do. I have used your methodology for a long time to auto backup to Zenfolio using the auto destination feature in your zenfolio plugin. I was wondering whether the Publish Services feature would also support auto mapping of pictures into Zenfolio folders to mirror their source in Lightroom, but after trying I seem to have an error creating the auto destination. Could you check if you also have this issue, I am not sure if its me, LR3 Beta or what. The auto destination still seems to work in LR2 with the same plugin.

Thanks as always.

Kevin

I have not even looked into this aspect of Publish yet. I know that there is some kind of hierarchy support in Publish, but I have not figured it out yet. —Jeffrey

Upgraded to version 20091118.92 on Windows XP w/ LR 2.5 and the send tweets to Twitter is not working. It use to. Is there something that was changed?

I just tested it and it worked for me. Could you try again, and if it doesn’t work, please send me the plugin log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the plugin manager). Thanks. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the quick reply, Jeffrey.

Is there a way for me to change that flagged status in our Lightroom catalog? (File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras)

Well, you can change the status, but that doesn’t teach LR which photo at Zenfolio is which photo in LR. I have a re-match-up feature in my Flickr plugin, but in all the years I’ve had a Zenfolio on, you’re the first to ask for it. I’ll bump it up a bit on the todo-list priority. —Jeffrey

Thank you for taking the time to develop the LR / Zenfolio plugin. I can’t imagine the time and devotion it takes to keep up with things. I sincerely hope that anyone and everyone who takes the time to register and donate. Does so with the though in mind that your doing this basically for free. I also hope that anyone who donates less than a dollar stops and thinks about you the next time they purchase a cup of coffee for themselves. I think your being very gracious and considerate in only asking for such a small amount. Your offering a great deal and deserve to at least have some sort of income from your efforts. Thanks again. We need more people in this world with your outlook.

Happy Holidays and thank you for your great software. I enjoy your blog as well and read it every day!

Michael in Palm Harbor, FL

I noticed your reply to Patrick on July 20th, 2009 about exporting using Collection information, and that Lr2 does not expose Collection information in the SDK.

Is this still the case for the beta of Lr3 please – if not it seems like a great time to pressure for its inclusion since I can’t believe such important information is not even useable in the GUI for smart collections, filtering, even transfering as metadata items etc. – so many uses. I also use iMatch and this is one of its most useful features.

It’s not that Adobe doesn’t think it’s a good idea, but just that there have been many more good ideas than their resources permit them to implement. In the small world of the plugins I maintain and envision, I’m faced with the exact same problem. If I only had more time, I’d do so much more. I don’t know exactly what will and won’t make the cut for LR3, but I’ve certainly given them enough feature requests to last to LR8. We’ll see what LR3 brings! —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

Many thanks for the plugin. I am transitioning from a PS+Bridge to Lightroom–>Zenfolio work flow. I’m trying to figure out a good way to keep the LR keywords in sync with Zenfolio. I do not intend to edit them at Zenfolio; always one-way from Lightroom to Zenfolio.

Suppose I’ve initially uploaded the files to Zenfolio with a preliminary set of keyword tags. Later, I update/edit those same image keywords in Lightroom. I assume if I use the plugin to re-export those same images the keywords will be updated at Zenfolio, correct? Is there a way to do this that minimizes the bandwidth hit; i.e., exports only the keywords and not the entire image?

Sure, see File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras —Jeffrey

Love this plug-in!! You are a genius!!

Thanks for the suggestion! I was hoping there would be a magical way to avoid the second upload since I already have the images at zf that I am “collecting”. Indeed, the Holy Grail would simply have LR and zf be in synch at all times. Asynchronous, managed, automatic, in-the-background, bi-directional, natch LOL

I’ve read your LR3 blog entries. Publish sounds promising but I’ve had so many Adobe features fall far short in their realization that I’m a fifth-generation Missourian when it comes to all things Adobe. I really do wonder sometimes if they ever test their products in real-world environments where deadlines mean something.

I don’t understand the “Missourian” reference, and I can understand anyone’s frustration when a purchased product doesn’t live up to their expectations (the frustration is the same regardless of whether the expectation is appropriate), but having worked with the Lightroom team closely on and off for the last couple of years, I can assure you that if you were privy to a true understanding of the situation, you would be nothing but amazed and astounded to realize how much they’ve done with so few resources. And the LR team does spend a lot of time on testing — too much, I think (you can look at how often I push out new versions of my plugins to see what I think about proper testing 🙂 ) — but they can do only a finite amount of testing of the infinite variety of systems and situations out there. Even if they had 100× the resources, they could never implement all the features people ask for. Even if they limited themselves to the important features (that is, features that I personally want), they could still never do it. So everything… everything they choose to do or not do is part of a compromise. This is true for any software product team. I only wish corporate would give them more resources, but frankly, since I don’t know the details of the business side of things, I really am not in a place to criticize. —Jeffrey

I was wondering if there was any way with your plugin to point it at a zenfolio gallery and have it update the metadata in my catalog for photos uploaded to zenfolio. I have a ton of stuff that I sent to zenfolio with this plugin, and I use the metadata to track these images. However, when playing around with LR3, all of my metadata was wiped out. I redid the keywords, but I am unsure how to get the zenfolio metadata in sync short of re-uploading hundreds of image.

Thanks.

Mark

Adding support to re-sync is near the top of my to-do list… now that LR3b2 is out, maybe I’ll have a chance to take a breath, and get that done. —Jeffrey

I’ve had to reinstall Windows (and Lightroom) several times since I donated for the Zenfolio plugin in May 2009. Today, when reinstalling and setting up the plugin, I get the following error:

Registration failed. Registration code already been used 5 times.

I’m on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, and the plugin is version 20100323.106.

Do I really have to donate again?

Thanks Jeffrey.

First to clarify a nit, you didn’t have to donate the first time (but you did, so thanks)… you can generate a new code any time with a 1-cent paypal transaction. (Well, PayPal calls that transaction a “donation”, so I guess technically even that purchase is a “donation”). Anyway, it’s all explained on the registration page, as is “drop me a note if you have special needs”. I’ve gone ahead and extended your code manually; thankfully, these hassles will be gone in LR3, where the plugin gets tied directly to your LR serial number. —Jeffrey

I get an error message when I try to use this…..I have successfully registered, and in the plug in manager is says it is “installed and running” when I try to use it, it says there is an error while attempting to load.

All of your plugins are such a time saver! My one suggestion would be an addition to the Twitter panel. A token so that you can post the Album name, instead of the full “Group -> Group -> Album” hierarchy for instance. Thanks for your hard work!

I don’t understand the question… could you be more specific? —Jeffrey

Thank you for this plugin

i can’t get the zenfolio plu in in to register with lr3
i must be doin something wrong….where do i go to enter the new code or enable it…hellppp!!!!! lol

Sorry, I still haven’t put out the version for Lr3… am working night and day on it. Status is here. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, your work makes Lightroom better and more useful. I’m more than happy to $upport your dedication to photographers. Looking forward to full LR3 integration for Zenfolio. Thanks for your help and understanding with previous versions. You rock!

david
Portland Oregon, USA

I’m new to this but I couldn’t find it referenced anywhere. Are you able to create a gallery in Zenfolio or do you have to upload into an already present gallery?

Thanks for your time,
Colby

Check the Zenfolio Tools section of the export dialog. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I have and use your lightroom 2 plug in for Zenfolio and it works just fine. I just intstalled Lightroom 3 on my mac, and I am having a problem installing it again for that. I donated to the site and have my code, but I can’t get anywhere after that. The lightroom 3 is telling me there is ” An error occurred while reading the schema for the plug – in- Zenfolio. Tje plug in will be disabled.

I then get this message-

+0.1: [x122075af8] line 7050:
missing plugin-manager title:
+0.1: [x122075af8] line 7050
The plug in for lightroom 2 to Zenfolio still works fine.
Any help apprecieated.
Thanks,
Karen

You can use the same install in both Lr2 and Lr3. In this case, it looks like you have a bad download or bad zip, but when you redo it, you may want to try the Lr3 version in beta here. It’ll work in Lr2 as well. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey, I’m not sure if this is on my end or not. I downloaded your latest version zip file (zenfolio-20100630.115.zip) but windows explorer says there’s no folders or files in it to extract. I still have LR2 zip file and I can extract and see them just fine. I can also unzip other zip files. LR2 zip file shows it’s 623k in size. LR3 file shows it’s 148k in size. I tried downloading several times and unzipping several ways. Any idea’s??
Thanks,
-Chip

Looks like you’re getting a bad download…. the same plugin can be used for both, and currently about 778k. Try downloading with a different browser…. —Jeffrey

I couldn’t get a good download with Vista using standard Internet explorer or 64bit. Tried it with Vista running Safari and it worked fine. Kind of weird. Thanks for the suggestion.
Can’t wait to use it. I really liked the LR2 version.
-Chip

Hi Jeffrey,

Is there a way to copy settings from export presets to publish profiles? I’ve got a couple of presets I used in LR2 to send pictures to different galleries, with different parameters depending on the gallery (size, metadata stripped, snapshots, etc…). Perfect candidates for publish profiles. It’s not a very big deal to copy those manually, but… 😉

BTW, looks like the “snapshot on export” feature is not available with publish, only with plain export, is that right?

Many thanks and cheers for the wonderful job!

JF

The export presets are part of Lightroom, and for whatever reason Adobe didn’t provide for them in Publish, so yeah, you have to copy them. I didn’t add snapshots to Publish because I didn’t think it made sense, since it gets republished with each change. Should I add it in there? —Jeffrey

I’m using version 20100702.116 and I’m unable to find the zenfolio tools section of the export dialogue. Am I missing something? The items I have are:
Publish Service
Your Zenfolio Account
Export Location
File Naming
File Settings
Image Sizing
Output Sharpening
Metadata
Watermarking
Zenfolio: Galleries in this Publish Service
Zenfolio: Delete Options
Zenfolio: Metadata Management
Zenfolio: Export Plugin Info

That’s the Publish Service dialog, not the export dialog (though they’re so similar you’d be forgiven for confusing them). I haven’t gotten the tools section in there yet, but it’s on the todo list. —Jeffrey

Hello, I am from midwest US. First I must say I love the plugin and appreciate your time and energy to make everyone else’s life easier.
I have been having problems with the resolution of images uploaded from Lightroom 3 to Zenfolio. Below are some comments from MPIX & Zenfolio support. I have a 12 mp Nikon D300; no problems when uploading direct when ordering (up to 30×40) prints. The first below is from Zenfolio support; the second is from MPIX.
HI Debbie,

All questions like this need to be fielded by the developer of the plug-in. I haven’t had anyone else ask this exact question and we are not sure as we have no access to the plug-in API. Have you contacted Jeffrey to ask this?

— Laura

From: “Mpix Customer Service”
Date: July 19, 2010 9:09:32 AM CDT
To: <debratrunko
Subject: RE: Problem Category: Other

Debra,
It is best to upload images from a folder on your hard drive. Uploading them from Light Room will compress the files resulting in smaller files being uploaded. Thank you!

Molly
Mpix Customer Service

To: Mpix Customer Service
Subject: Problem Category: Other

Unique Logon Email: N/A
First Name: Debra
Last Name: Trunko
Email Provided:
Problem Description: Resolution for printing larger prints uploading thru zenfolio plugin. I am using a trial of several website hosting/printing services (in particular Zenfolio). The plugin produced by Jeffrey Friedl limits sizing because he says the lightroom functionality takes care of the quality. The files I uploaded thru the plugin at the highest possible sizing says they are only good up to about 16×20. I have used a professional lab here in St Louis and have had prints up to 30×40 that are crystal clear with about a 10 mb file. They may do something on their end. The problem is the website greys out the option saying resolution is not good enough. If I just upload directly, the sizes are OK. I would prefer to use the plug in. I plan to post on his blog but I thought I would check with MPIX first. Any suggestions? Sorry about the long post but I am in trial mode trying to decide to purchase.

I’ve got to say that Mpix’s reply (about “Light Room”) is pretty moronic. What they should have told you is that regardless of how you upload your images, the suitability for printing depends on the uploaded image’s pixel size and JPEG quality. For maximum quality, don’t resize the image while exporting, and choose an appropriate JPEG quality (100 is obviously the highest quality, but comes at a very steep price in file size / upload speed. A quality of 90 is more than good enough for most situations, but see this for details). —Jeffrey

Just a follow up to my post re: MPIX and resolution. The error was on my end. I was exporting from the incorrect folder on my hard drive; one that had lower resolution jpegs for some other export I did. I apologize.

Hi Jeffrey, been using the plugin since LR3 and have uploaded a lot of photos with it but today I am getting this error message:

Unexpected HTTP reply

I’ve tried it 6 or 7 times in a row but the error remains. I can however upload to the zF site using their Java uploader with no problems. I am trying to upload 24 hi-res jpegs (in case that’s of any relevance whatsoever)

Plugin version is 20100726.120 (which I updated today BUT I got the problem with the prior version too and that’s why I updated to this version)

Any ideas?
Cheers
Lloyd (UK)

Would appreciate a log the next time you get it, thanks. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

This is a comment concerning Hans’ request for populating the zenfolio Category, Subcategory, Subcategory Detail fields and my undertstanding of those fields base on some research and discussion with zenfolio. You may have a better understanding…

Zenfolio provides drop-down menus for these fields while editing a photo’s properties. They’ve populated these menus with their own non-standard text values for these fields, which are similar but not identical, to the IPTCContent:IPTCSubjectCode, IPTCContent:Category, and IPTCContent:Subcategory codes. Zenfolio controls the content of these drop-down menus; users cannot change them or override their values.

I guess in answer to your question something in the interface that lets me pick those menu items would be good; however, if you were to provide an interface for this purpose, the possibility would always exist that zenfolio had changed their menu contents.

My preference would be that zenfolio use published IPTCContent meta, and that if the IPTC content fields contained values in the original file, then the plugin would export them and zenfolio would use them in their search and browse functions. I’ve spoke to them about this and I don’t think it will happen so we’re left with yet more non-standard IPTC. 🙁

Jeffrey,
Hello and thanks for all of the time you put into these plug-ins. My name is Bob, I am a pipefitter by day and a photographer by night (my true passion). I am using a Mac with the Snowlepard OS. I just downloaded your plug-in for LightRoom 3 which allows me to upload photos to Zenfolio. Problem is I have no idea how to unzip the file. I am sure to you it is a no brainer but I am totaly dead in the water. Sorry to bother you and if you do not have time to answer this I truly understand.

P.S. I live in East Alton, Illinois. It is a few hundred miles south of Chicago or 20 miles north of St.Louis, Mo.

If the .zip file doesn’t unzip automatically, just double-click on it in Finder. —Jeffrey

And now an odd update from my error report last night. I created a new service using your plugin, and the new one is working just fine… and, that seems to have forced the old one to work. Maybe this will help on the quest, but it’s definitely weird.

Thanks again for the great plugins Jeffrey!

Colin

Hi,

I wanted to test out your Zenfolio plugin that everyone seems so happy with but keep on getting the following message

“An error occured while reading the schema for the plug-in “jf Zenfolio”. The plug-in will be disabled.” Or I get a message that the plugin does not work with this version of Lr.

What am I doing wrong or how can I get around this? I just tried 20100829.123 on a trial of Lr 3.x. I’m wondering if it’s worth moving from Apeture.

You’re using a pirated version of Lightroom; if you’re going to do that, just stay with Aperture. —Jeffrey

Just wondering, when a photo is deleted from any website I have uploaded to with any of your plugins, why the metadata is not updated to reflect the fact it is no longer on the remote service.

ie

I upload to ZenFolio. Metadata is written as “Uploaded to ZenFolio: Yes” with the date and time.

If deleted, this metadata is not altered in the database. Whats the rational for that behaviour?

The plugin doesn’t maintain an omniscient ever-present connection to Zenfolio… it contacts Zenfolio only to update data, so there’s no way for the plugin to know that the image has been deleted/changed/moved/whatever on Zenfolio. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

Wouldn’t it be handy to have a ‘mirror’ Collection Set in LR that actively updates as I add images to Zenfolio?
Only issue I can see is it wouldn’t track site deletions unless the plugin could initiate those as well?

I’m always going back and forth figuring out what’s ‘up’ and what’s not. Keywords would be hopelessly out of date for me..

Thanks for your good work.

Bruce

It’s called “Publish“, and is new in the plugins for Lr3. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I would appreciate help with a problem I am experiencing with the Zenfolio plug-in

I am using version 20101104.124, installed in Lightroom 3.3 RC, running under Windows XP.

When I go to “Edit Settings” and press the ” refresh user data” button, I receive 9 lines of computer code (?) ending in:
debug:547 : Assert @Debug 547

I have tried reinstalling the plug in and re-starting Lightroom several times to no avail

The plug in worked perfectly until recently

Any thoughts or help would be most welcome
Thanks for a great product so far,

Regards
Stephen Edgar
Holywood
Northern Ireland

I just pushed a new version (20101112.125) that should hopefully fix this… sorry for the hassles. —Jeffrey

Zenfolio plug-in version 20101217.128 seems to put a “quality limit” to jpegs being uploaded that did not exist in previous versions. You did not note this change in your history log. Since Zenfolio is now allowing tiffs which are substantially bigger than the average jpeg (enough at 100%) I don’t understand the limitation.http://regex.info/blog/wp-admin/edit-comments.php#comments-form

Do I have to roll-back to an earlier plug-in to get my files uploaded at 100%?

The change went in during the summer, as noted in the history log. It’s just to prompt the user who might no be aware of the huge size tradeoff, and can easily be dismissed and disabled in the future by following the instructions in the message itself. —Jeffrey

I just got a Zenfolio account today and just registered your Export to Zenfolio plugin. Thanks for all of the work you do for this!

I am starting slow here and created a gallery on Zenfolio called Animals. I published two photos to it from LR3 using the plugin, and then I modified the metadata on the Zenfolio site (caption, title, etc.) When I re-publish, the metadata is overwritten on the site.

I suspect I’m slower than the average bear and have missed a setting somewhere, but any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Kyle
As the docs say, publish sets up an ongoing relationship, where the master is in your Lightroom catalog, and the online version is updated as needed to reflect changes in the master. It’s intended that titles and such are maintained in Lightroom. —Jeffrey

I am experincing a failure when using the LR to Zenfolio plug in. This is a registered version on Vista Premium, LR 3.3. It states a security error trying to connect to internet and questions my system date and time. I’m on the internet now, can log into Zenfolio normally but cannot log in from the plug in on LR 3.3. Really could use some help here. Thanks in advance

Sounds like you have some kind of security app that’s preventing Lightroom from connecting to Zenfolio. You probably need to set some kind of exception with your security app. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the clarity on the New Zenfolio galleries point, can you briefly explain where this new functionality can be found, I am probably being dumb but cant find an option to create new gallery in Publish.

Thanks

Kevin

Check the “Tools” section of the Publishing Manager, just above the “Albums in this Publish Service” section. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for this great plug in. Say, I have changed my email address on Zenfolio, and now the LR uploader will not publish for me. It says “can’t log into Zenfolio, invalid credentials”. How can I tell the plug in that I have a new email address associated with my website? In other words, how can I re-sign in without having to dump your plug in and re-install it? Thanks!

Barbara Lee
Oakland, CA

In the Publishing Manager section where you log in, there should be a note directing you to the Export Dialog, where you can reauthenticate with your new credentials. You’ll then be able to continue using your Publish Service with the new credentials. —Jeffrey

Thanks Jeffrey,

I’ll try LR3.4 to see if it fixes the issue.

On another subject, what is the reccomended approach to rename a ZF Callary considering its interactions with your plugin?

Thanks — Dan

I don’t think that the plugin cares about the name, so you can rename it at Zenfolio as you like, and when you refresh the list of galleries, the new name will show up in the gallery list. A publish collection won’t be renamed, unfortunately, and though it won’t be disconnected from its gallery, there’s currently no way to update its name. —Jeffrey

HI Jeff,

I am a registered user of your Lightroom 3 plug-in for Zenfolio, and have been for about six months now. I have noticed some problems uploading my pictures to zenfolio. It seems as if I choose more than 4 pictures at a time, the system freezes and the upload stops. I get a “Network Error” message. It has taken me 3 days to upload 90 pictures from my commerical shoot that I did on Monday. I know it can take longer or shorter to upload the pictures depending on the file size. But this is a change from the norm on my end.

I did just download the newest version and still no improvement. Version: 20110518.140 and I have Lightroom3.

Thank you

Kristen
Is there anything that can be done?

I’d guess it’s something with your network, such as a security app interfering with Lightroom’s use of the network, a router that needs to be rebooted, etc. It’s hard to tell, but it’s unlikely to a problem in Lightroom. The next time you get a “Network Error”, perhaps send me the log (as described here and I’ll take a look. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I see how you can make a gallery “private” while using this plugin, but is there a way to add a password without having to go into Zenfolio afterward?

Thanks,

Bev
Portland, OR

No, sorry, only a few of the high-level gallery options are available in the plugin. I wonder, though, whether I could have it open the gallery-options page at Zenfolio automatically for you…. —Jeffrey

Has anyone tested this with Lion? I get a general slowing down of lightroom and no export. Just kind of passive resistance if you will ☺

I have changed my email address in Zenfolio and now the plug in does not let me create anything unless I change the email back to the original in Zenfolio. How do I change my email on the plugin???

Thanks

In the upper section of the export dialog, log out and re-login; it should work if your Zenfolio “user login name” remains as it was. (If that changes, it’s considered a different account and is unrelated to your prior account as far as the plugin is concerned.) —Jeffrey

When trying to publish to Zenfolio I receive

Unexpected HTTP reply from http://www.zenfolio.com/api/1.4/zfapi.asmx: Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.

Plugin 20110819.161

Upload was working just fine until I got this

Thanks – Ryland in Atlanta

This was a problem at Zenfolio; they tell me that it’s fixed now. —Jeffrey

I have purchased Light Room from Amazon after having the Zenfolio plugin get disabled. I have sent several requests for a re-validation code but have yet to receive this in my email. I have sent a valid serial number, uninstalled and reinstalled light-room and the plugins and it still doesn’t work. This is starting to delay my anticipated workflow. Can you please send me the re-validation coed I have requested?

Thanks

Patrick, I’ve sent it twice… perhaps check your spam filter? —Jeffrey

Hi
If I simply ‘Write metadata back to Files’ in Lightroom, should this trigger a republish? It seems to, and I figure it shouldn’t since I have not changed anything. I have set the plugin to republish only on Title and Description changes.
Thx
Nick

Hah, yeah, you’d think it shouldn’t matter, but Lightroom maintains a “metadata status” bit of metadata, and “last time written back” changes, so it considers it a change. It’s not among the items I explicitly tell Lightroom to look at, but that area seems rife with bugs, so it doesn’t surprise me that Lightroom triggers a republish in this way. I’ll see whether I can’t pin something down and submit to Adobe… —Jeffrey

Unfortunately Zenfolio can’t figure out how to fix their recent login problem. Many users (like me) now are required to re-login every 24 hours, and Zenfolio has tried (unsuccessfully) to fix this for weeks…It sounds like this might causing what the previous poster described. However (IME ) I can upload with the plugin and still be transferred to the usual “edit” page as long as it’s not been more than 24 hours since my last login.

Fantastic! It works brilliantly, thank you so much for your responsiveness!

My 2 cents on the Zenfolio Category/Subcategory/Subcategory Detail discussion:
Since, as pointed out by Fried in July last year, these resemble but don’t match the content-normalized IPTC fields (IPTCContent:IPTCSubjectCode, IPTCContent:Category, and IPTCContent:Subcategory codes), we can’t use these.
Could a good solution (from a user standpoint at least 🙂 be to associate the Zenfolio Category/Subcategory/Subcategory Detail based on the Lightroom keywords, i.e., if one of the keywords matches an entry in the Zenfolio Category/Subcategory/Subcategory Detail tree, then this this/these are set correspondingly at Zenfolio (in addition to the standard export of the keywords of course). Corner cases: if a “leaf” matches (e.g., Subcategory present but category not explicitly metioned), the parent(s) are set automatically. If there are multiple conflicting matches, the first one is used to set the Category/etc.
Thanks again!

How do I choose (in Lightroom) which album the images are uploaded to in Zenfolio? When I upload from Lightroom 3 to Zenfolio, it places all of my images in one album and I can’t choose which album to upload to!

See the ‘Export Destination” section of the export dialog. You should probably check all the sections of a dialog, at least the first time. —Jeffrey

It would be great if this plugin could also create Zenfolio Groups (not just through Auto Destinations).
Right now I need to go onto the Zenfolio website to do this.

Second issue: there seems no way to reload the gallery list including folders in the plugin’s “Zenfolio: Tools” section.

Anyway, thanks for such awesome plugins!

The list-reload thing is there… the “refresh list” button next to the upload-destination list. —Jeffrey

Really like this plug-in — it has made publishing to Zenfolio much easier. One request for a future feature: I shoot most of my pictures with GPS data. I don’t know if this is possible or not, but it would be really nice if the Export to Zenfolio plug-in had a check box to strip the GPS data prior to publishing to Zenfolio. I often get permission to take photos in locations (e.g., at people’s houses) and while they do not mind my sharing the photos, they do not want the data released on where they photos are taken. Unfortunately in this day and age, the GPS data can be used to pinpoint items for burglaries. So something that would making it easy to strip when exporting would be outstanding…Thanks for your consideration…

It’s a fairly heavy job, so it’s its own separate plugin, my metadata wrangler —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey. I’m Jon from Roanoke Virginia.
I love your Zenfolio plugin v. 20111214.172 (just registered ;). I was wondering if there is any way to include a specific link for each photo in my Zenfolio gallery in the description field of each corresponding photo in a Facebook album? The idea is to allow people to click the link in a Facebook photo and go right to the same photo on Zenfolio to purchase it. Is that possible without doing it all individually?

Thanks! Jon

Sure, you can use the ZenfolioUrl template token in your caption. —Jeffrey

version 20120106.173

Hi, I just tried to update one of my folders and got the message “Can’t log in because of invalid credentials”. It seems to me that I did change some of my log in info at Zenfolio, would that have something to do with it? Appreciate your help!

Thanks,
Lynn Haynes

lhaynes.zenfolio.com

Just visit the top section of the export dialog, log out, and re-log-in… —Jeffrey

Hi, I’m Emma writing from London…
I LOVE your Zenfolio LR exporter.. I’ve been using it for years, as well as your other plugins, and am incredibly grateful for your work, However, I’m having a problem with the Zenfolio one (Vers 20111017.170), which I can’t see reported by anyone else: Since upgrading to LR 3, the plugin seems to intermittently uninstall itself from LR, and when I go to the plugin folder to find it, it’s reverted to the trial version, limited until I register it again. I reregistered it last time, paying again for the latest version, but I think there’s something wrong here and would rather not have to keep paying for it. Can you help?
Thanks…

You never have to pay for “it”, unless you mean the 1-cent PayPal minimum fee. Anyway, I’d guess almost certainly that your Lightroom preferences file has gone corrupt. It’s easy to fix, but somewhat of a hassle. Check out this FAQ… —Jeffrey

Windows 7 – LR 3.5 – jf Zenfolio 20111017.17

I have a plugin upgrade question. I need to move the plugin location on my hard drive. It is currently under my “program files” folder and can’t update because that requires Administrator privileges. Before I move the files, will it affect my plugin publish settings? Maybe I’m overthinking this, but I just want to make sure so I don’t have to set up my publish settings again. Thank You!

Feel free to move it as you like, then just point the plugin manager at it, and you’ll be fine. —Jeffrey

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

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

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

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

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

Love the plugin. Have lightroom 3, plug version 20120303.181

when i try to upgrade to version 20120614.193 i get this error.

Internal Error: Can’t load missing file “Version.lua”

any ideas?

Thank you!

Any kind of missing-file error is likely due to a bad install… check out this FAQ…. —Jeffrey

hi Jeff,thanks a million. For my family photography I have the images arranged in lightroom in the default YYYY-MM-DD folder layout that is a standard import setting.

I wish to generate a similar structure of groups and galleries on zenfolio but find that I seen to need to use jf folder publisher with Media Gallery Manager to set the whole thing up with the folder structure. perhaps I am missing an option within your zenfolio plugin to to this but if it is possible it has not jumped out at me.

Am I missing something? Would you find such a facility usefull? and are you working on anything like this?

Finally and perhaps I am pushing it with all the questions but if you were a wedding/portrait photographer would you go with zenfolio or smugmug?

Ronan

You can’t do it via Publish, but you can do it via normal Export as described here. It’s on my todo list to bring this to Publish as well. As for Z vs. S, I really can’t say. Both seem exemplary, yet both have a quite different “feel” and different feature sets. Some folks will find that one is clearly better than the other for their needs, but I can also imagine most people being thrilled with either. The only tangible difference to me, personally, (who doesn’t really use either because I use my blog) is that Zenfolio allow an arbitrary-depth hierarchy, which I find useful at times. —Jeffrey

Thanks Jeffrey, just checking its not a bug you would want to look into.

Looking into it a bit more, my network seems to be quick enough according to the check utils, but to zenfolio its really slow for some reason.

Jeffrey,

An update/solution to my upload speed problem, which i’m posting up here just in case it can help anyone else.

The root of my problem is the Asus motherboard utils (AI SuiteII) for their latest motherboards. Specifically the “Network iControl” plugin, which seems to be some sort of Quality of Service util. It seems to have a quite subtle effect on the networking, as my internal LAN is full speed, and general internet speed tests show the correct speed. However, it slows up transfers to Zenfolio to around 20k/sec. With it disabled i get 200-300 k/sec.

jools

Hi Jeffrey,

Yes, I know (I think ;-)) how to configure the galleries at the publish servive level. The point, when I expand the publish service in the left hand pane, I see the different collections/galleries with the number of items in each of them, but when I right-click one of them and choose “Edit gallery…” I get than message “Sorry, you can’t edit collection properties yet.”.

JF

I was saying to right-click on the publish service name to bring up the settings, but since you wrote this comment a month ago, I’ve updated the plugin to enable the right-click “create gallery” thing, so it should work if you have a recent version. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

This is not an issue with the Zenfolio plugin – rather the import image plugin. Zenfolio suggested that I contact you as the developer of the plugin. I am able to successfully import an image list but receive and error message Unexpected error Failure handler info:
Error message :[string “ExportMenuItem.lua”] 981: attempt to perform arithmetic on local blankFilenameCount” (a nil value) Status: false

Plugin v: 0.1.0.25 Lightroom v4.1 etc.

Thanks for your help!

Steve

The next time you encounter this error, please send a log. —Jeffrey

Hi,

I’m using Lightroom 3.6. I’m suddenly unable to upload images to Zenfolio. I keep getting error code
Debug 1188. I’ve downloaded and reinstalled the Lightroom publishing manager Version 20120908.199. I’ve rebooted the machine. All of the images (save for four) on my website were sucessfully uploaded using an earlier version of the manager. Any suggestions?

I’m writing from Southern California.

Thanks,

Paul Lawrence

Is the error that’s reported related to networking? If so, there’s nothing I can do but suggest you check the standard things like rebooting your router, check that some security app isn’t diddling Lightroom’s use of the network, etc. Otherwise, next time you run into the error, perhaps send a log. —Jeffrey

Hello, and thanks for your plug-in. I love it.

I do have a small issue with it though, I keep getting errors when exporting to zenfolio. I have 92 files I’m uploading, they are around 18 meg each. I can get 20-30 uploaded before I get this error…

“Debug 1188: network error when attempting
http://up.zenfolio.com/xxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxx/upload.ushx: the handle is in the wrong state for
the requested operation”

It won’t upload after that until I close lightroom and re-open it.

I’m using it on lightroom 4.1 with version # 20120905.199

This is a Windows issue of unknown cause… see this FAQ. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I just installed the Publish Service by using your manual.
In general it works really fine, but some of the galleries already existing in Zenfolio dont give back all photos in the publish collections.
This happens to old galleries and also to some of the new created galleries.
I create the new galleries for Zenfolio in the section of the “Publishing Manager” with setting the hook for creating a normal publish collction at the same time. After that I use the Lr export dialog to upload the new photos to Zenfolio. The publish collection stays empty until I click the “repopulate” button in the “Publishing Manager”. Now most of the photos appear in the collections of the publish service, but some do not.
What am I doing wrong ?

Kind regards from Berlin, Germany
Stephan

If you want them in your Publish collection, you should publish them that way, and use “Export” only when you want a one-time upload that isn’t part of a publish collection. Most people who use Publish no longer need Export. —Jeffrey

I am using your plugin very happily but I need to change my workflow slightly and when using the “Publish” feature I had it set to temp file but I now need to to output to a specific folder. Can I do this without ruining all of the associations I have already made? What would be your suggest way of approaching this?

Lightroom doesn’t let you change that, so the best I can suggest is to make sure everything’s published, then make a new Publish Service and “claim” all the photos in it. Then when you’re satisfied it’s comparable, delete the first one. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

Kinda weird I recently installed windows 8 and did a clean install of light room 4, I am not 100% sure but I also think I had already installed the plug-in, but when I checked today it wasn’t showing up on the plug-in manager so that is why I am installing it again.I went ahead and tried to install the plugin. as soon as I attempted to install the plug in I get ” an error occurred while trying to load this plug in.” no other error code is shown. was wondering if you had an older version of the plugin I can try.

Lightroom remembers what plugins you had installed, and their location on disk, in your Lr Preferences file, so if that got wiped, you’d have to re-point Lightroom at all the plugins. If you’re having install problems, this FAQ might help. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I’ve been migrating my photography over to Zenfolio, and am pleasantly surprised to see you have a ZF Lightroom plugin. It’s pretty good, but there’s one feature I’d like to see: more support for categories and subfolders. I can anticipate that it will quickly become impossible to organize my ZF publish collection without the ability to group them into subfolders on the Lightroom interface.

Is this on your to-do list, by any chance? If not then I’ll probably have to switch to Smugmug.

Thanks!

I’m not quite sure what you mean… do you mean Publish Collections? They can be flat or hierarchical, as you like. It’s the same for my SmugMug plugin. —Jeffrey

Thank you so much for offering this plug-in. I am creative but not technical so i am sure that i am doing something silly- I am getting this error message-
zenfolio#207 +27.3: [x10aefb1a8] @Export line 849:
Missing destination cookies:
[x10aefb1a8] @Export line 849
[x10aefb1a8] @Debug line 1267
Love your photos- I am from Philly

See this FAQ on that unfortunate error. )-: —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Again, thank you for your excellent plug-ins. your dedication is really appreciated! There is one curious thing happening with the Zenfolio plug-in that I did not expect. Hopefully it’s just my misunderstanding. The “don’t enlarge” checkbox in the Image Sizing section doesn’t seem to take effect.

When I was setting things up, I set the Image Sizing -> resize to fit (checked, long-edge) option to 10000 pixels and had the “don’t enlarge” checkbox OFF. As expected, all of my uploaded images ended up being 10000 px as expected. So far so good.

When I then checked the “Don’t enlarge” checkbox and began uploading new galleries, I expected that my regular photos (5184 x 3456 px) would get uploaded to zenfolio at their original resolution (ie. not enlarged) but my panoramas (16852 x 4707 px and larger) would get resized down to 10000 px at the longest edge. This does not seem to be the case. Everything is still ending up 10000 px on the long edge.

I’m using LR 4.2 Mac and ZenFolio Export Plug-in v 20121020.205.
I will try upgrading the plugin…

Is it the plug-in or am I doing something incorrectly?

Thanks & keep up the great work!
-Frank

What you expect is what should be happening, so this is, er, unexpected. Please restart Lightroom, export one image that should not be upsized (and confirm that it did indeed get upsized), then send the log along with a note describing the situation. Thanks. —Jeffrey

Hi, I just wanted to bring something to your attention.

I’m playing with LR4 trial at the moment and was having performance issues so I had a look to see if I could do anything to help it. One of the things I found was disabling the modules from even loading in the first place (not just hiding them) so I tried that.

The reason I’m mentioning this to you is that disabling the secondary screen support (by moving MultipleMonitor.lrmodule to a different location) broke your plugin. It gives the schema error message until you re-enable the secondary screen module. It doesn’t seem like they should be linked for any reason so it might not be something that comes to mind if anyone else does the same thing – so I thought I’d let you know about it.

I wouldn’t think they’re linked either, but then, if you’re doing that kind of stuff under the hood, all bets are off and you’re on your own. It’s not something I would do, recommend, or debug. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, I downloaded the plug-in for export to Zenfolio. Everytime I click on the zip file in my downloads folder, the Windows Photo Editor opens. I watched it for 30 minutes and nothing appeared. I have no idea how to unzip the zip file. I am in Atlanta, GA, USA.

I’m not sure what to tell you… it’s a ZIP file that’s been standard for 20 years. Perhaps right click and “open with…” or “Expand all…” or the like? —Jeffrey

I see in the latest version that the cover photo can be set via Lightroom keyword, but I don’t see anywhere how this feature works. Is there a special keyword?

Thanks in advance for your reply, and thanks in general for all the insanely great stuff you do.

Pick any keywords you want to use to signal the plugin that the photo should be installed as the cover. Personally, I use “COVER”, and mark it in Lightroom as a not-for-export keyword. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Regarding using your zenfolio plugin to publish photos to Zenfolio.

If I change photo titles in Zenfolio or delete a photo in Zenfolio, how will that affect the photo in Lightroom? Will it be deleted, altered?

Thanks, the plugin is great!!

John

Nothing will happen directly when you change the title at Zenfolio, but it’ll get overridden if you republish the same photo from Lightroom, or export with “replace” enabled. If you delete the photo at Zenfolio, nothing will happen in Lightroom until you try to replace/update the image, in which case it’ll see the photo is no longer there and just send another copy… (I think). —Jeffrey

Sam from Salt Lake City, Utah. Jeffrey, using LR 3.6, Win Home Pro, 64 bit processor, 4 gigs ram.
I am getting the corrupt catalog message on export:
Version in use – 3.6
version 3.6
20130220.217

Internal error: corrupt collection settings.

I have done all the troubleshooting steps; backing up the catalog, deleting and rebuilding the catalog.

Relinked online photos.

Any thoughts?

Sam

Sorry, there’s nothing you can do but delete the offending collection. I think there’s a bug in Lightroom that causes things to get corrupt sometimes, but it’s so fleeting that I’ve never been able to pin it down. )-: —Jeffrey

I am using the current plugin for Zenfolio as I start building my site. After uploading a gallery and making no changes to the photos in that gallery at least 25% of the pictures in that gallery are showing as “modified photos to re-publish”. All the pictures get to Zenfolio, just can’t figure out why LR is saying they have been modified.

Thanks,
Sean

I think this is a bug in Lightroom that (sometimes?) considers plugin-related metadata updates as sufficient changes to require reupload. I’ve never seen this bug myself, so I’m not sure, but I’ll report to Adobe and see what I hear. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

I am using your latest version (20130412.222) of the Export to Zenfolio plugin for Lightroom (version 4.4). Hierarchical Naming is selected and I do see my galleries in a hierarchical format. However when creating a new gallery, it is initially placed outside the hierarchy, as if it was flat. Only when I go back into the plugin settings and select the “forcefully rename….” option does the newly created gallery appear in the correct hierarchy location.

Another question with regards to creating a new gallery. The text reads ” You can use this to add a new group or gallery to your Zenfolio account”. However, I do not see the option to create a group in the pull-down menu.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and dedication in keeping these wonderful plugins current as technologies and API’s change. It is very much appreciated.

Mathew

Part of world = Dallas, TX

This was just sloppiness on my part; I’ve pushed a new version of the plugin that fixes the former, and updated the prose of the latter to reflect that you can create only a gallery there. (You can create a group via the similar part of the Export Dialog.) —Jeffrey

* How are custom (ie, non-alphabetic) orders maintained? I’ve setup an Publish instance to save the temp files (to try and then create mirrored iPad galleries). However, since the temp files don’t have a sequence #, they are listed alpabetically. I can’t use mod/creation date because item x out of y could be republished, and/or the order manually changed in LR.

[wish] It’d be nice to have the option to delete any orphan files temp files when doing export – otherwise, one has to manually delete temp export folder, select all files in LR, mark all to republish, and then republish the entire zenfolio set. All to get a synched set of jpegs for iPads, manual movie creation, etc.

* [snag] Keyword Filtering, “Strip these”: Bias*, FclLen* — does not strip out Bias0 as a keyword (it’s ok though, i have a workaround to stop their exporting from within LR)

Image ordering at Zenfolio is subject to the ordering options you’ve set for each gallery there; custom ordering within Lightroom never reaches Zenfolio. The plugin doesn’t keep track of local files you might have saved… that’s really quite a bit more difficult to do correctly than you might think; consider my Collection Publisher plugin for that. For your iPad, consider some of the items in my Lightroom to iPad workflow blog post. Finally, you can replicate collections across publish services and regular Lightroom collections by using appropriate smart-collection rules. It can get messy when you have many such pairings, but it’s a start. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

First of all many thanks for the ZF plugin. I am using LR3 on MacOS 10.6.8 and the latest version of the plugin (20130501.223). It has worked great for me for the most part and the only issues have been that at times the upload encounters an error and stops. It is an annoyance, but not a deal breaker. I suspect this could be due to network issues and not worry about this. On the other hand, the plugin has indeed made my life simpler and allowed me to build my site.

As the collections and galleries have grown (860 galleries now and probably will grow more over time), there is a significant slowdown in the plug-in that I think is quite troubling. When I right click on the plugin and choose “Edit Settings” or something like that – it takes forever to see the list of galleries. Usually I end up adding galleries in Zenfolio on their website and then using the above dialog box, try to “sync” it with the ZF plugin.

Am I doing something wrong? Thanks a lot for all you’ve done, I really appreciate it.

Regards,

Vivek from CA.

I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong, you just have a lot of galleries, which means a lot of data to be thrown about, which is all the worse for a plugin because of how Lightroom saves a plugin’s data (it’s really quite inefficient for large data sets). I tested with 1,100 galleries and it took about 8 seconds on my circa-2010 MacBook Pro for the album list to come up. Unfortunate, but liveable. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Your Flickr and Zenfolio plug-ins are excellent. But I cannot get the Zenfolio Galleries to synch up in LR (4.0) after (a) moving one Gallery, and (b) deleting another Gallery. I right click on Edit Settings in Publish Services in LR, and I then refresh my Gallery List. The list in the Edit Settings box is updated fine with both changes. But when I save the Edit Settings dialog box, those 2 updates don’t show in the Publish Services area of LR.

Thanks.

John (Chicago)

Enabling the “forcefully rename” option in the “Galleries in this Publish Service” section of the Publishing Manager should cause the Zenfolio collections to be renamed. For Flickr, the Lr collections are not a one-to-one mapping to Flickr groups or sets (one collection can publish to multiple sets and/or groups), so there’s a “Rename” context menu item that you can use to set any name you like. —Jeffrey

So i purchased a copy of lightroom 4 an i installed it to two of my systems, one MacBookPro and one PC. I would like to run the Zenfolio plugin on both systems. Is this possible and if so how?

Sure, just download and install it on both systems. That’s pretty obvious, so I’m not sure what you’re actually asking. —Jeffrey

Using Windows 7, LR 4.3 64bit……I was having export to Zenfolio issues so I downloaded newest version (.231) and it’s still happening. I have contacted both Adobe & Zenfolio, and they said to check with you.

I can’t log in via LR, or export, obviously. I can get to your FAQ though. ???

This is the message I’m getting when I try to export “Lightroom can’t access the internet. Please check your firewall and security applications and add an exception as needed to allow Lightroom to connect to api.zenfolio.com”

I turned off my firewall, allowed LR access through firewall (even though it was turned off), and I still can’t connect.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Trudy

It really sounds like something on your system is blocking Lightroom’s HTTPS access to Zenfolio. I can only suggest to keep digging. —Jeffrey

Windows 8, Lightroom 3.6 (64 Bit), Export to Zenfolio Plugin Version 2013701.233

When I try to select new Zenfolio galleries to upload into as either smart or standard collections, it allows the selection successfully, but when I try to save, it immediately crashes Lightroom completely, and never saves the information. It was working before, but now something is awry. The only software load I can think of that changed was installing Trend Micro Internet Security. Is it possible for that to be a cause of this??

Thanks!
Bob

I’ve never heard of a security app causing problems here, but it’s easy enough to test by disabling it temporarily. You also might want to do an integrity check on the catalog, and if all else fails, try flushing your Lightroom preferences file. —Jeffrey

Oregon, USA

Hey jeff; no bug report for you but I can’t seem to find any info about whether your plugins can create categories or “collections” or “groups” but when I use your plugin to receive the hierchial list of galleries/groups/collections, etc it shows up but I cannot create brand new ones from within your plugin so I create them at the source (smugmug or Zenfolio as I’m debating on a switchover)

I assume this is a limitation of your plugin? If so I will assume there will be no reply? Or maybe I will get a reply if I missed something?

Thanks! I will be looking to support your plugin(s).

See the “Zenfolio Tools” section of the Publish/Export dialogs. —Jeffrey

Also, im having problems finding the download for PC… when i unzip the file i get a folder with content but no plugin installation file…

I’m guessing that you’re looking in the plugin installation folder… pop out one level and you should see the “zenfolio-jfriedl.lrplugin” folder. —Jeffrey

Austin, TX area

Love the plug-in; couldn’t live without it.

I have discovered one odd behavior that I don’t care for. When creating a publish service, one selects the galleries for the service. All well and fine. New galleries can be added as needed. Super.

However, there’s no way to remove a gallery from the service. Once in, it’s in. I don’t recall seeing this with the plug-in in LR3 several months back, so wondering why this is? It’s a pain to remove a service and recreate it if a gallery is no longer needed.

There’s a “Delete” in the context menu for the gallery name.—Jeffrey

Hallo Jeffrey,
since 2 weeks i trie to export images from lightroom to zenfolio but in not works :/
i have all my photos in the smart collection at lightroom. Then i mark the images an
push the button “export”. the i coose “to zenfolio” and the computer is
progression an at the end i get this warning: “no images to process – all images were filtered out due
to the settings in the “Zenfolio: Upload Destination” section of the Export Dialog.”
I am totaly confused because i cant understand the problem. also google cant help me!!
i delated all my images on zenfolio, there are no images any more, that cant be the problem.
i also made an update of your plug in (20130701.233)
i am from germany (Karlsruhe) and hope so much you can help me!!!
love greetings!!!
Sonja

In the Export Dialog, there’s a section titled “Zenfolio: Upload Destination”. See all the settings there. —Jeffrey

I just started getting an “Internal Error: corrupt collection settings” error message when I try to create a new collection/gallery. What can I do to fix this?

Unfortunately, that’s a general-corruption version of the error discussed in this FAQ. You might be able to fix it by recreating the collection. It’s been a source of mystery and frustration for years. )-: —Jeffrey

Just found the known issue that I didnt see before. Could only be option 4 (It could be your ISP or the upload destination is having “issues”, so perhaps you just need to give it time. (Many upload services have different upload endpoints between their own web-based uploads and the 3rd-party API that plugins use, so it’s possible their API could be having issues while their web-based tools continue to work, and vice-versa.)) as I dont use anything but the built in firewalls with LR allowed and tried the other all ready. I would def not discount something with my Internet as my Time Warner service is horrible but is the better of the two in my area. Is there anything I can have them look for? This issue has persisted for months to the point that I will prob stop using your uploaders.

David

I wish I could offer concrete advice, but I just don’t know. The line between your CPU and Zenfolio’s CPU, and back, is so very complex that I’m surprised it works for anyone, but it usually does. It could be entirely in you hands (low-quality Ethernet cables, flaky router, etc.) or completely out of your hands. There’s just no way to guess from afar what it might be. )-: —Jeffrey

ill have the problem of jf Zenfolio no populating folders from Zenfolio into LR. Any other ideas how to solve this problem? Right now I have 2 galleries with pictures which will not import.
Thanks

Are you sure they’re not Groups? Groups don’t show up in the plugin. If they’re really galleries, hit the Zenfolio-gallery refresh button in the plugin and send a log and I’ll take a look. —Jeffrey

This plugin is awesome! Started testing with it and everything seems to be working great. I’m ready to start implementing this!

When I export a wedding I like to put the jpegs into multiple folders broken up by the parts of the day to make it easier for people to find the photos they’re looking for.

Currently I have to manually enter in a subfolder on export or move the jpegs after export. Entering in a subfolder isn’t too difficult, but if you want all your photos to have an ongoing sequence number it gets time consuming. Moving jpegs after export in LR is slow as well.

I use the auto naming function in the zenfolio uploader plugin to create group and gallery hierarchies on zenfolio and I’m wondering if this could be built in for local export as well?

I.E. I would use a meta data field and designate certain photos “getting ready”, “Ceremony”, “Dance” etc… Upon export LR would automatically put those photos in a subfolder called “getting ready” etc… Perhaps it could be built into your zenfolio plugin so that one export would simultaneously build a local folder structure and then upload to zenfolio too.

Maybe you already have something like this.

P.S. I was getting a lot of zenfolio errors and you suggested that it was a local problem, and it turned out to be a setting on my NAS that was causing occasional hangups during constant reads (and then timeouts to zenfolio or something). fixed it and a lot less errors to zenfolio.

As for having a consistent sequence number, if it fits with your workflow you might consider doing a bulk rename within Lightroom. For getting the images to appropriate galleries at Zenfolio, you might consider placing them in sub-folders within Lightroom (“getting ready”, “Ceremony”, etc.) and then using a variation on what I talk about in this old article to have them sent to parallel galleries at Zenfolio. —Jeffrey

I am using window 7 and Lightroom 5.2 (which is the latest version of today 11/12/13). Will your program/plugin work without issues with Zenfolio?

Thank you,

Generally speaking it should, but I can’t speak to your intended workflow, the stability of your system and of your network and of Zenfolio, so “without issues” is pretty broad…—Jeffrey

So I have been using many of your Lightroom plugins for years. (paid) I have been quite happy so far with how they work. This is the first problem I have really encountered that wasn’t user error:

Just downloaded the LR5 compatible Zenfolio plugin (version 20131106.242) and used it to upload nearly 400 images to my site. Had a couple of network errors, that it could not seem to resolve. Then the program hung. After restarting it and getting the upload to continue, I found that the previews in the library grid view would not change from the group of images I had uploaded. I would go to other collections, other groups of photos, ANY other images in my catalog and the view would not change. I only see the images in my Publish group that I had just uploaded. I can only work on or inspect or navigate those images.

I disabled the plugin and all of the other ones I had as well, and with a restart the problem went away. I added in the new Zenfolio plugin, it starts off working, I publish with it, and the problem comes back. I disable it, restart, and problem is gone. So clearly something is not right with this current iteration, and the current LR version and my machine.

I have not tried new versions of your other plugins that I use so . (mainly because my PayPal account is empty at the moment!)

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

John, Chicago, Illinois

OS X 10.9, LR 5.2

I’ve not heard of exactly this bug, but it sounds like the same general selection bug that’s plagued all Publish services since Lr5. I believe it’s fixed in the Lr5.3 beta, so please give that a try. —Jeffrey

SUGGESTION FOR NEXT LR PLUGIN:
I’m a regular user of your Lightroom plugin for Zenfolio and have a suggestion for your next plugin upgrade…some photo jobs require me to structure many subfolders within my master client folder. When I’m in the export from LR interface, it would be very handy if the string of folders/galleries were collapsible/expandable like in the menu bar of Zenfolio (administrator side). At the moment I have to do a lot of scrolling up and down to find the gallery I want.

Otherwise, love the plugin. Thanks.
David. Melbourne. Australia.
OS10.9; LR4

That’d be nice, but Lightroom doesn’t allow for it )-: —Jeffrey

Hi, how can I create a Smart Collection ONLY based on published photos containing a comment ? thanks

Sadly, Lightroom doesn’t expose this at all, which has bothered me (and many others) for ages. But I just thought of a workaround that might help… I’ll investigate and report back. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, I have been using LR 5.2 with latest Zenfolio plugin 20131106.242 with no problems. Suddenly when I attempt export to my website I get “Can’t log on to Zenfolio. Invalid credentials.” I have re-loaded the current plugin, used LR’s Plugin Manager to register it, and it says it’s installed and running. Once I make an attempt to upload to Zenfolio, the message changes to “Installed but may not be working.”

I am writing from Fair Oaks, California. Really appreciate your amazing support ovetrb the years! What’s my simple fix? Thanks very much.

Visit the top of the Export dialog and log out, then re-login with your current Zenfolio credentials. —Jeffrey

Thank you so very much! I had changed my pwd. Duh. Thanks for your patient support.

Hey Mr Jeff! Any idea when you may have the wonderful LR5 export module for Zzzzzzenfolio super rockin? Your note is scaring me a bit on our high volume computer so I am not using it. I really like it a lot on LR4 of course. Ideas sir?
WC

I don’t know what you mean… the plugin works just fine with Lr5. —Jeffrey

Hi I dont suppose you are thinking/willing to make a Lightroom publish plugin for photodeck.com web building site. I have tried Smugmug zenfolio and still not found the perfect solution for me.. photo deck seems to work well but not have a easy control of what goes from lightroom to the site is a deal breaker, they have an export plugin but thats not really the answer.

Cheers

Russell
russellburton.com

It’s not on my radar, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey – great plugin!
Zenfolio have announced their new service of RAW file storage – are there plans to enable export of the original files AND jpeg to Zenfolio, ideally at the same time?
Writing from Northern Ireland!
Cheers
Paul

I don’t notice anything new in their API for raw-file support. Perhaps ask them to ping me when they add it? —Jeffrey

hi Jeffrey, can you please send me an url/anchor to the answer to this:

how do i add a new zenfolio gallery from the LR plugin? is that not possible? must I first add the model’s gallery on zenfolio before the plugin can work with it? Or did I miss this step above?

See the “Zenfolio Tools” section of the Export/Publish dialog. —Jeffrey

Hi, have question/issue with Zenfolio Publish Service.

I have a DNG photo which is published to ZF using your plugin and all is good. My image count in the PS (Publish Service) collection as well as in ZF itself is 26.

Now I want to publish a VC (Virtual Copy) of one of the photos already in the Publish service collection. I drag the VC to the Publish Service Collection and it goes in the “New to be added” section. I then click the publish button and it moves to the published section as it should. the PS Collection in LR now shows 27 images, including both the DNG and VC of the image in question. But the new image (Virtual Copy) never shows up in ZF itself.

Am I doing something wrong or what I’m trying to do not possible?

Thanks — Dan

It should all work just as you expect. Visit the VC in the Publish Collection and choose “view at Zenfolio” from the thumbnail context menu, and it’ll show you where it is on Zenfolio. —Jeffrey

I made a donation and have used the plug in for over 4 years and it suddenly disappeared
from my computer. Was the plug in good for a limited time?

Terry Alphonse
If you didn’t actually delete the plugin files, perhaps your Lr preferences file (which records what plugins you have installed) has gone corrupt. See this FAQ. If you did delete the plugin files, just download again. —Jeffrey

Jeffery,
Great product.

Looking to set the “alt=” string tags in Zen via some field in LR. Is this something you set in the plugin ? I have search the documentation and cannot seem to find this. By default Zen sets this to the title string but you can set it independently.

Cheers
Eric

As far as I can tell, they don’t expose this to the API used by third-party apps. You might ask them to do so…. —Jeffrey

I’ve been using this plugin for several years and its always been fantastic. Very occasionally an upload drops out or I get the error “BadServerResponse” or NetWorkConnectionLost”.

Do we know what causes these errors? Can I do anything to avoid them in future?

Networking can be a mystery… this could be your ISP, or maybe a proxy you’re using, or maybe Zenfolio itself is having issues. It’s hard to tell, sorry, and in the face of that uncertainty, I don’t know what one can do to guarantee success. —Jeffrey

When I upload to Zenfolio and have the option activated to send a tweet to Twitter, the image file is always too big to be exported to Twitter. It would be nice to have an option to downsize the image just for Twitter (if it’s not already there?)

It would, but unfortunately Lightroom doesn’t make it easy to do that. )-: —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

When I export from Lightroom, the plug-in only allows for exporting at 92% quality. Is it possible to export at 100% quality? If so, how? From California!

The lower-left of the export dialog will have a note telling you where to go to override the limitation. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
last weeks I often have th problem at publishing photos with the zenfolio plugin, that II get an error message like “Attempt #2 error “network connection lost”, retry nox…” Can you tell me what it means and how it can be fixed? Couriously the publishing progress still remains.

It means that the network connection was lost (the connection to Zenfolio was severed for some reason), so the plugin was counting down a few seconds before retrying the upload. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
For the last week or so, when I upload to Zenfolio it takes FOREVER (5-10 minutes per photo) to upload. I installed your latest version, updated to LR 5.6, and it has no effect. If I export the photos to my local disk (in the same size as in the Plug-in module) and then use the Zenfolio uploader, it goes quickly. So the problem seems to be isolated to using the plug-in.

I really appreciate this plug in – not having to export to .jpg and then upload saves me that extra step, so thank you and I hope you can help me figure this out.

Best,
Laura

They could have been having issues with the upload endpoint for third-party apps like my plugin. Normally it should be the same speed as their uploader. —Jeffrey

Can’t export, getting “tweet text too long”. I don’t want it to tweet for me. How can I “fix” this. Windows 8.1

I just downloaded the latest (2014-12-11) version of the Zenfolio plugin to fix the “Unexpected HTTP rely” error which I started getting and you mentioned in your version history entry 20141211.271. (I’m not using your one click option as I already had a workflow prior to it’s availability that I’m still using).

In going through the process I discovered that the plugin would not re-load into the LR plugin Manager. After some frustration I noticed the the “lrplugin” folder in your download is now named ‘Zenfolio-fjriedl.lrplugin”. Note that the first two letters after the hyphen are FJ not JF as my prior version had been. Is this deliberate or a typo?

It’s not that way in the ZIP (the building of which is all automated… no chance for a one-off typo), but I’m hard pressed to guess how it might have gotten swapped on your machine… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Still love your Lightroom plugin! I’ve developed a upload issue with the new version. It’s the dreaded “Unexpected HTTP reply” error. What does “Unlucky timing during an upload ” mean? I have to reload the plugin several times a day (I’m editing and posting a bazillion photos of The Nutcracker). Any advice?

THANKS!!!

Sharen

The errors are likely just Zenfolio having issues… they’ve had sporadic issues of late. In any case, you shouldn’t have to reload the plugin… that shouldn’t make any difference one way or the other. If the issues persist, feel free to send a log and I’ll take a look. —Jeffrey

I often get network errorswhen uploading photos. For example, I am getting an error box with a title of “Network error contacting up.zenfoilio.com”, and the message in the box simply says “Task Completed” Then there is a Cancel button.

Unfortunately I have to force quit LR to get rid of this (or any other error message produced by the plug-in, such as Time-Out errors etc)

Is there a more graceful way – such as having the cancel button actually make the box go away??

LR 5.7, latestet version of plugin OSX Yosemite

It’s really frustrating when cancel buttons don’t cancel, isn’t it!? In this case I can only guess what’s going on, but perhaps the network is stuck waiting to hear back from the remote server, and until it times out, nothing gets to run. If you leave it for a while, perhaps it’ll clear? Zenfolio has been having all kinds of problems with their servers lately, but I’m not getting reports like yours, so I’m wondering whether it’s your system/router/ISP somehow. Networking issues are notoriously difficult to debug. )-: —Jeffrey

Thank you, Jeffrey…even if it’s a little belated!

Back in May of 2013, I commented that I’d like for your plugin to give us the ability to import our titles and captions (ones that we created using Zenfolio tools) into our Lightroom metadata. Although I regularly update my JF-Zenfolio plugin, I was unaware (until recently) that you had promptly responded to that feature request way back in mid-2013, when you created the option “Import Image Metadata from Zenfoloio…” located in “Zenfolio extras…”

I’ve already made extensive use of this option since my workflow had resulted in the vast majority of my 2000+ Zenfolio images being titled and captioned after image export from Lightroom. The “new” feature greatly reduced the effort required for me to back-up my Zenfolio title/caption metadata–a task that might otherwise be very tedious and difficult to do.

I lost your Lightroom plug-in when installing the new Adobe Lightroom CC today. Can you help me to re-install it? Thanks!

The install instructions haven’t changed since Lr2, so just install it as you did the first time. You shouldn’t have lost plugins when you upgraded, though, so that’s a bit worrisome. —Jeffrey

HI. Any chance one plugin could be used for smug mug and Zen. The reason I ask is having created all the folders and galleries I might at some point wish to change site Say Smugmug to Zenfolio. I would really like not to have to create the folders and smart galleries again but simply change the login details and now upload what I have to the new site. Hope that makes sense, Do you have any suggestions if this would be possible.

Thanks

Sorry, no, I don’t see an easy solution here for switching over. —Jeffrey

Hi, I just downloaded the latest Zenfolio plug in. Its sitting on my desktop. I’d like to move it somewhere else. Is there a specific place the plug in icon should live? and if i move it to I need to reimport? thanks!

As per the install instructions, put it wherever you want it to stay (say, a “Lightroom Plugins” folder in your “Documents”), then simply point the plugin manager [Add] button at the new location. —Jeffrey