Thanks for the zenfolio plug-in. I am new to zenfolio, and still learning Lightroom (which I love!) I have begun to do more project oriented photography and event photography for other people, and am needing a simple way of publishing albums of photos where clients can order what they want directly, without my having to fulfill orders. After looking through several options, zenfolio looks the best, so I set up a trial account. Last night, I tried the first upload, using the export to zenfolio option (via your plug-in). I am using LR 1.3.1. In my first attempt, I inadvertently clicked the export button before having completed the information in the export window. As a result, the exporting began, and I had to click the red ‘X’ in the export progress window at top left to cancel the export. But the two commands (‘export’ and ‘cancel’ seemed to hang in some kind of limbo for a very long time. I came back later, and it appeared to be done, so I redid the export process, this time being careful not to hit whatever it was (return? space bar?) before I’d filled out all fields. When that was done, I clicked on the ‘export’ button, and the exporting began. There were 64 full size jpegs selected (average of 5 MB each, on the outside chance that the dance company I was photographing wants to order larger prints for publicity purposes.) The uploading took a very long time, and when it was completed, I went to my zenfolio account and found that the earlier upload appeared there as well. So there were 4 folders, two labeled as ‘exported from Lightroom’ and ‘previous export from Lightroom’, and two folders labeled with the album name I gave to the group I was uploading to. (Please excuse this long-winded explaination!) It was my intention at this point, to have one album, on my zenfolio site, period. I want to understand how to do this so that I can take advantage of the export from Lightroom feature, but end up with only the album I am saving to visible on the page. Here’s the question: will there always be one folder identified as ‘export from LR’, and a second identified by the album name I give it? All images appear in each album or folder. (The export from LR appears as a folder, and the album as an album. But each one appears to have all the photos! I went ahead and deleted the earlier album, but am trying to understand about the ‘export from LR’ folder is for, and what to do with it. They appear in both the edit view, and the visitor view.

There should be checkboxes in the Export Dialog that turn on/off the “exported from” and “previous export” collections, in the “Upload Management” section. I haven’t used the LR1.x version of the plugin in ages, but I know they’re there. —Jeffrey

Discovered today when exporting text in the metadata field “caption” that the text is cut when using a “&” in the text. All letters after “&” is cut. I am using the old style view when exporting. Plugin version 20080704.49 with Lightroom 1.4 on Mac OS X.

Thanks, Olof

Running Windows XP2 with all service packs applied on system with 3MB RAM.

The plugin_loader.log file says “06/16/2008 18:40:51 ERROR plugin ID info.regex.lightroom.export.zenfolio export task failed with error Win32 API error (unknown error — FormatMessageW failed) when calling HttpSendRequest from private_AgHttpClient_post_L” but nothing else that looks interesting.

Guy

Got you revised plug-in “22080606.45″ regarding the lr.log file. Sorry to say, it is still writting the file to the desktop. You have to stay off that strong coffee. Looking forward to the revised- revised file.

Thanks again for all your effort and quick response.

David Brady

I have however a problem that one person above reported before but it seams to remain. I use Mac with Lightroom 1.4 and the Zenfolio plugin. What happening is that each time I use the plugin to export two folders are created: “Exported from Lightroom” and “Previous export from Lightroom”. I have to go to Zenfolio.com, login and delete these two each time I had exported with the plugin. Can that be solved?

Thanks, Olof

Uncheck the “add to …. collection” options in the Zenfolio: Upload Management section of the export dialog. —Jeffrey

What is the purpose of the file and is there a way to de-activate the file creation?

I know I can just delete the file each time I use Lightroom from my desktop, but it does seem like an unecessary action.

Thank you for all the effort you have put into this plug-in. It works great.

David Brady

Sorry ’bout that… that was just laziness on my part. I’ve pushed a new version (20080606.45) that writes the log to the documents directory, and only does it when it actually has something important to write (which shouldn’t be anything for the Zenfolio plugin). —Jeffrey

I have looked everywhere and used the registry settings that Alexander had on his site, but to no avail. I am using Vista and noticed that I get this error right off if I upload full size files – can;t finish the 1st file. I get through more photos being uploaded if I use a low resolution and file size, but still gives the error.

Is anyone sucessful in uploading full size images with this plugin, and if so what OS are you using. Any other tips appreciated.

Thanks!!