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Lightroom Plugin “FormatMessageW failed” Error: Possible Solution from Alexander Kiel

by Jeffrey Friedl Sat, January 5th, 2008 4:34pm JST (17 years ago)

Alexander Kiel's has developed some insight into the “FormatMessageW failed” error that plagues some Windows users of Lightroom export plugins, including my export plugins for Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, and Picasa Web. From his reports, the problem seems to be related to IE7 and slow internet connections.

He poses a potential solution, so those running into this error are encouraged to see his writeup on the subject.

November	16th,	2007	Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for SmugMug
November	16th,	2007	Lightroom 1.3 & Export Plugins for SmugMug and Zenfolio
November	20th,	2007	Lightroom Export Plugin For Flickr (sort of)
November	21st,	2007	SmugMug/Zenfolio/Flickr Export-to-Lightroom Plugins Released
December	17th,	2007	Just Released: Picasa Web Export Plugin for Lightroom
July	29th,	2008	Jeffrey's “Export to SmugMug” Lightroom Plugin

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Jeffrey – I’m a new Lightroom user and ran into this issue while uploading pix to flickr for the first time.
Other than the workaround mentioned in Alexander Kiel’s blog (which I haven’t tried yet simply because it changes a rather low-level regkey), are you aware of any other workarounds or solutions.
Since it happens only with IE7, have you tried talking to someone at Microsoft about it?
If not, I might be able to put you in touch with some folks..

— comment by Umesh on February 5th, 2008 at 4:26pm JST (16 years, 11 months ago) — comment permalink