Help! I am unable to publish more photos to an existing smugmug gallery
I accidentally published just one photo from one of my Lightroom folders to a smugmug gallery I created when I intended to publish them all. However, it won't let me drag the rest (after selecting all of the rest) to the to the smugmug gallery.
I feel like I've tried everything including updating the smugmug plugin.
It seems like there's a setting that is blocking me from actually dragging the photos over. Any help is GREATLY appreciated
I accidentally published just one photo from one of my Lightroom folders to a smugmug gallery I created when I intended to publish them all. However, it won't let me drag the rest (after selecting all of the rest) to the to the smugmug gallery.
I feel like I've tried everything including updating the smugmug plugin.
It seems like there's a setting that is blocking me from actually dragging the photos over. Any help is GREATLY appreciated
Where are you trying to drag from? In the Library Module in Grid view you should be able to select and drag over.
I have not found a way to outright disable the downloading of comments, but you can cancel it by clicking the X to the right of the progress bar.
Thanks for your reply.
It's a little hard to do when you are uploading overnight. And it is frustrating in the morning when you find it has stalled because of the comments.
I accidentally published just one photo from one of my Lightroom folders to a smugmug gallery I created when I intended to publish them all. However, it won't let me drag the rest (after selecting all of the rest) to the to the smugmug gallery.
I feel like I've tried everything including updating the smugmug plugin.
It seems like there's a setting that is blocking me from actually dragging the photos over. Any help is GREATLY appreciated
I found the answer so I thought I'd share if anyone else encounters the same problem - you need to drag the thumbnail itself, not the frame around it.
I found the answer so I thought I'd share if anyone else encounters the same problem - you need to drag the thumbnail itself, not the frame around it.
You can also select all the photos from your folders that you want to add to the smugmug gallery and then right click on the gallery and choose "add selected photos"
LR 3.6
I get the error shown on the attachment when clicking photo and sync for my smugmug publish service. It starts off ok, runs for a few minutes, then pops up this. Looking at the folders, I don't see any evidence that it has found my old photos on smugmug and linked them to where I have them in Lightroom.
Could this be related to the fact that I have different lightroom catalogs pointing to the same smugmug publish service? In other words, on smugmug I have for example
trees
bushes
flowers
buildings
people
But the people are all in one LR catalog, while the others are in a different one. Which means that the plugin when started from the people catalog will never find any thing in that LR catalog to sync to the smugmug trees area.
I had some photos ready to be published, and one of them was already in fact in the target gallery, but what I got back was an error saying something about param (2) on that photo, plus another one that had not been uploaded yet. The other 4 new ones went up without a problem
LR 3.6
I get the error shown on the attachment when clicking photo and sync for my smugmug publish service. It starts off ok, runs for a few minutes, then pops up this. Looking at the folders, I don't see any evidence that it has found my old photos on smugmug and linked them to where I have them in Lightroom.
Could this be related to the fact that I have different lightroom catalogs pointing to the same smugmug publish service? In other words, on smugmug I have for example
trees
bushes
flowers
buildings
people
But the people are all in one LR catalog, while the others are in a different one. Which means that the plugin when started from the people catalog will never find any thing in that LR catalog to sync to the smugmug trees area.
I had some photos ready to be published, and one of them was already in fact in the target gallery, but what I got back was an error saying something about param (2) on that photo, plus another one that had not been uploaded yet. The other 4 new ones went up without a problem
Match concept seems sensible, though means this will be a long process. Worth it I think.
However, back to the drawing board.
You need to have something about whether or not to associate an image with a smart gallery. I was matching away happily when I hovered over the view in browser and discovered I'd been telling lightroom photos had been uploaded to a smart gallery, which is not true.
I have a smart gallery out there for all images containing the keyword 'red'. The plugin looked at one of my images and wants to match it to that gallery, which is not a real gallery.
I can see where I'd like to know if an image is associated to both a real gallery and a smart gallery derivative, but since I clicked on match to the smart gallery, does that mean it won't try to match when we get to the real gallery? Or is there an option to tell it not to pick up on smart galleries?
Brandon Smith http://redwoodtwig.com
Sony A7r4 with a selection of Rokinon Cine primes that I'm really enjoying learning how to use.
There are probably a few things I need to say about syncing so people understand how it works...
- searching the LR database is done on combination of DateTimeOriginal, Make/Model and maybe FileName depending on whether the previous exist.
- if a single record is found, it's automatically associated
- if multiple records are found, I use a ranking algorithm to determine what I think the correct sort order should be and then present the Conflict dialog to the user.
- if the SmugMug image contains no DateTimeOriginal or Make/Model info, searching is only done on FileName and as a result the conflict resolution dialog is always shown.
From LR's perspective, yes...SmugMug's Collected or Smart gallery images are considered to be uploaded images and are synced back to the LR published collections. This enables us to do some cool things like allow pros to sync back Event Favourites from their clients. We hope to do the same for proof delay orders (and orders in general) in the future. But the plugin has some additional smart logic to handle these virtual images so that you are not required to update the same image multiple times.
Try this example...
1. Within LR, create a new SmugMug gallery.
2. Add an image to that gallery and publish it.
3. On SmugMug, create another gallery and make a virtual copy of the image you just uploaded.
4. Now sync the new gallery and it's contents back to SmugMug....you should now have the same image within both galleries in LR.
5. Make an edit to the original image
6. Now both galleries will show that this image needs to be republished.
7. Republish the image to either gallery
8. Once it's finished, check the other gallery in LR...and you will see that the image no longer is required to be updated.
This is because the ImageID of the image is shared between the two galleries and it really doesn't matter which gallery I update the image for as it still links back to the right one. I just need to add some additional logic to make LR smarter than it is.
I hope that kinda explains it...lemme know if you have any additional questions.
Match concept seems sensible, though means this will be a long process. Worth it I think.
However, back to the drawing board.
You need to have something about whether or not to associate an image with a smart gallery. I was matching away happily when I hovered over the view in browser and discovered I'd been telling lightroom photos had been uploaded to a smart gallery, which is not true.
I have a smart gallery out there for all images containing the keyword 'red'. The plugin looked at one of my images and wants to match it to that gallery, which is not a real gallery.
I can see where I'd like to know if an image is associated to both a real gallery and a smart gallery derivative, but since I clicked on match to the smart gallery, does that mean it won't try to match when we get to the real gallery? Or is there an option to tell it not to pick up on smart galleries?
So the fact that the hover over "show in browser" displayed the name of a smart gallery means that the source gallery in the publish tool will also be updated. That's a relief.
I did come across one anomaly: I got a match screen where the browser side had a caption and the LR side did not. What I would have liked to do was tell it to copy the caption back down to LR. A control of some kind to let me tell it how I want to deal with keywords, titles, and captions would be really helpful. I try to get all those right before I publish, but being able to edit those on smugmug and have the edit go back to LR is certainly convenient when I'm not at the machine running LR.
From your description it sounds like the context menu on Smugmug categories or galleries contain a choice to sync just that category or gallery. I guess the normal use would be to have separate publish services for each category or gallery?
What should happen if I publish new photos to a smart gallery?
There are probably a few things I need to say about syncing so people understand how it works...
- searching the LR database is done on combination of DateTimeOriginal, Make/Model and maybe FileName depending on whether the previous exist.
- if a single record is found, it's automatically associated
- if multiple records are found, I use a ranking algorithm to determine what I think the correct sort order should be and then present the Conflict dialog to the user.
- if the SmugMug image contains no DateTimeOriginal or Make/Model info, searching is only done on FileName and as a result the conflict resolution dialog is always shown.
From LR's perspective, yes...SmugMug's Collected or Smart gallery images are considered to be uploaded images and are synced back to the LR published collections. This enables us to do some cool things like allow pros to sync back Event Favourites from their clients. We hope to do the same for proof delay orders (and orders in general) in the future. But the plugin has some additional smart logic to handle these virtual images so that you are not required to update the same image multiple times.
Try this example...
1. Within LR, create a new SmugMug gallery.
2. Add an image to that gallery and publish it.
3. On SmugMug, create another gallery and make a virtual copy of the image you just uploaded.
4. Now sync the new gallery and it's contents back to SmugMug....you should now have the same image within both galleries in LR.
5. Make an edit to the original image
6. Now both galleries will show that this image needs to be republished.
7. Republish the image to either gallery
8. Once it's finished, check the other gallery in LR...and you will see that the image no longer is required to be updated.
This is because the ImageID of the image is shared between the two galleries and it really doesn't matter which gallery I update the image for as it still links back to the right one. I just need to add some additional logic to make LR smarter than it is.
I hope that kinda explains it...lemme know if you have any additional questions.
Brandon Smith http://redwoodtwig.com
Sony A7r4 with a selection of Rokinon Cine primes that I'm really enjoying learning how to use.
I did come across one anomaly: I got a match screen where the browser side had a caption and the LR side did not. What I would have liked to do was tell it to copy the caption back down to LR. A control of some kind to let me tell it how I want to deal with keywords, titles, and captions would be really helpful. I try to get all those right before I publish, but being able to edit those on smugmug and have the edit go back to LR is certainly convenient when I'm not at the machine running LR.
At this point, either thought this new release associates image on SmugMug with images in the LR catalog, as far as images go we still treat LR as the master and there is no syncing back of captions or keywords.
From your description it sounds like the context menu on Smugmug categories or galleries contain a choice to sync just that category or gallery. I guess the normal use would be to have separate publish services for each category or gallery?
I'm quite limited with what I can put in the LR UI...but context menu would be the ideal solution but I can't insert stuff there. As result, you can either sync images for your entire account from the Publish Manager screen or on a gallery basis from the edit dialog.
I plan to add both 'Sync Photos' and 'Sync Hierarchy' to the Category and SubCategory dialogs for syncing local portions of the tree, but that will be in a future release as it's a little more complex.
What should happen if I publish new photos to a smart gallery?
Adding smart gallery rules to an existing gallery doesn't prevent you from uploading an image to that gallery like normal. So if you added an image to a gallery that contained virtual images, it would just upload the new image normally....at this point, all virtual operations need to be done on SmugMug itself. That may change in the future.
At this point, either thought this new release associates image on SmugMug with images in the LR catalog, as far as images go we still treat LR as the master and there is no syncing back of captions or keywords.
I'm quite limited with what I can put in the LR UI...but context menu would be the ideal solution but I can't insert stuff there. As result, you can either sync images for your entire account from the Publish Manager screen or on a gallery basis from the edit dialog.
I plan to add both 'Sync Photos' and 'Sync Hierarchy' to the Category and SubCategory dialogs for syncing local portions of the tree, but that will be in a future release as it's a little more complex.
Adding smart gallery rules to an existing gallery doesn't prevent you from uploading an image to that gallery like normal. So if you added an image to a gallery that contained virtual images, it would just upload the new image normally....at this point, all virtual operations need to be done on SmugMug itself. That may change in the future.
Thanks, the sync box in the edit settings at the gallery level works great! I almost wish there was an option to simply grab your first choice and fly with it for a whole gallery, but much safer, if more tedious to have to click each one (That's more due to folders I have from pre-lightroom days where there are multiple copies of the same image with slightly different names and different appearances.)
The only time the top choice was just plain wrong was on an image where I had a virtual copy with a different crop. Smugmug had the one from the virtual copy, but the top choice was the original on LR, and so the wrong crop. It was obvious from the visual comparison and easy to find the right crop to match. But maybe it could go on your list near the bottom somewhere to use the crop as well as the original date and make/model prior to name.
For the title, caption, and keywords, it might be nice to highlight those boxes when they are different. With maybe some radio buttons to allow us to pick the one we want, with the default being LR.
Anyway, great job, this is something I've been looking forward to since I started using the Publish service. It will really be a great benefit to be able to see from inside LR what I have on Smugmug.
thanks a bunch!
Brandon Smith http://redwoodtwig.com
Sony A7r4 with a selection of Rokinon Cine primes that I'm really enjoying learning how to use.
Thanks, the sync box in the edit settings at the gallery level works great! I almost wish there was an option to simply grab your first choice and fly with it for a whole gallery, but much safer, if more tedious to have to click each one (That's more due to folders I have from pre-lightroom days where there are multiple copies of the same image with slightly different names and different appearances.)
QA brought this up during testing, while I agree it's a good feature. it's more of a nice to have rather than a showstopper and I was keen to get a release out with the pending release of LR4 beta. There is more than a good chance that this was make it into an upcoming release.
The only time the top choice was just plain wrong was on an image where I had a virtual copy with a different crop. Smugmug had the one from the virtual copy, but the top choice was the original on LR, and so the wrong crop. It was obvious from the visual comparison and easy to find the right crop to match. But maybe it could go on your list near the bottom somewhere to use the crop as well as the original date and make/model prior to name.
So I only use DateTimeOriginal, Make/Model and maybe FileName for initially searching the catalog to return a result set. I then use a totally different set of parameters to rank the returned results. I've tweaked weighting of my algorithm that it works to return the correct results in the majority for case....I'm interested to investigate your case as I may have to tweak something here or there. I'll followup with you in PM to get a copy of your LR database.
For the title, caption, and keywords, it might be nice to highlight those boxes when they are different. With maybe some radio buttons to allow us to pick the one we want, with the default being LR.
I'll take a look at this once I get a chance and evaluate whether it's a viable solution.
Fails to Sync
I'm trying to use the Sync Photos option, and it works for a small number of my galleries. However, with most, it pops up a dialog box saying "An internal error has occurred: SmugMugDialogs.lua:1952: attempt to index local 'fi' (a nil value)". I attached a screen shot of the dialog box. What might cause this?
I'm running Lightroom 3.6 64-bit under Windows 7, and I have the LR SmugMug plug-in version 1.0.2.16.
Can you please check the file permissions on the SmugMug.lrplugin folder and see they are set to Read-Only. If they are can you please set them to RW and retry. If not, please screenshot the permissions so that I can see.
I'll add some additional logic to check if the folder is read-only or not, so it won't fail there.
I'm trying to use the Sync Photos option, and it works for a small number of my galleries. However, with most, it pops up a dialog box saying "An internal error has occurred: SmugMugDialogs.lua:1952: attempt to index local 'fi' (a nil value)". I attached a screen shot of the dialog box. What might cause this?
I'm running Lightroom 3.6 64-bit under Windows 7, and I have the LR SmugMug plug-in version 1.0.2.16.
Can you please check the file permissions on the SmugMug.lrplugin folder and see they are set to Read-Only. If they are can you please set them to RW and retry. If not, please screenshot the permissions so that I can see.
I'll add some additional logic to check if the folder is read-only or not, so it won't fail there.
Cheers,
David
Thank you! That was the problem, and it's working now.
Sync photos in Edit Gallery.
So, am I right in thinking that clicking Sync Photos in the Edit Gallery dialog should download photos from Smugmug ?
If so, where do they go ?
If not, then how do I do this ?
When I right click on the gallery under the Smugmug section, select Edit Gallery... then tick the Sync Photos and click Edit, I get a dialog box that says Initilising and then nothing. Is this only for galleries that you have already uploaded from Lightroom to Smugmug ? Or will it download photos uploaded to Smugmug from the web browser ?
So, am I right in thinking that clicking Sync Photos in the Edit Gallery dialog should download photos from Smugmug ?
If so, where do they go ?
If not, then how do I do this ?
When I right click on the gallery under the Smugmug section, select Edit Gallery... then tick the Sync Photos and click Edit, I get a dialog box that says Initilising and then nothing. Is this only for galleries that you have already uploaded from Lightroom to Smugmug ? Or will it download photos uploaded to Smugmug from the web browser ?
Let me know if I'm not being clear.
Andrew
It's for people like me who have a bunch of photos on smugmug that I put up there before the publish feature was added to LR. It goes to each smugmug photo and tries to find a match in your current LR catalog.
For example, I have a smugmug gallery called XYZ that I've been adding to for several years. In my current LR catalog, though, when I navigate to that gallery, it only shows 6 images, the six I've added since I started using the publish feature. Sync will go out to smugmug and link the images there to existing images in my LR catalog. So I don't need to open a browser, go to smugmug, and see what is there besides the six most recent.
I wouldn't mind having the option to grab what's on smugmug and downloading it if no match is found.
That would be a life saver if my computer, all three of my offsite backup drives and my carbonite account all went up in flames.
Brandon Smith http://redwoodtwig.com
Sony A7r4 with a selection of Rokinon Cine primes that I'm really enjoying learning how to use.
As Brandon mentioned, we currently only sync back images that already exist in the LR catalog.
This was the initial phase in implementing image syncing...yes, we plan to have a feature that allows you to import photos from SmugMug back into LR if they don't exist..but it's a little more complex as it includes saving images to a predetermined location and importing them into the catalog.
So, am I right in thinking that clicking Sync Photos in the Edit Gallery dialog should download photos from Smugmug ?
If so, where do they go ?
If not, then how do I do this ?
When I right click on the gallery under the Smugmug section, select Edit Gallery... then tick the Sync Photos and click Edit, I get a dialog box that says Initilising and then nothing. Is this only for galleries that you have already uploaded from Lightroom to Smugmug ? Or will it download photos uploaded to Smugmug from the web browser ?
I can report that the update feature works as I was automatically pushed the latest update. Also pretty happy that the watermark bug appears fixed. I think I am going to have to check out the Sync feature when I don't have to get up for work in 9 hours....
I have a couple of examples of items that didn't sync that I think are pretty easy matches - same file name, same capture date, etc.
Is this something you're interested in getting more information about? I'm getting probably 99% matching, but can provide data on that 1% if that is helpful.
I have a couple of examples of items that didn't sync that I think are pretty easy matches - same file name, same capture date, etc.
Is this something you're interested in getting more information about? I'm getting probably 99% matching, but can provide data on that 1% if that is helpful.
John,
sure
Please zip up your .lrcat file and upload it using yousendit
If you could also include some info about specific images on SmugMug (ImageIDs and AlbumIDs would be handy) as well as files within the LR catalog that it should be matching to.
One of the things I am finding is that probably because I didn't used enough keywords or title/captions, that the sync process if finding multiple images to choose from. What has happend is that all the images it presents to choose from have the same timestamp, probably because when using the high speed auto mode on the 7D the difference isn't noted. So the sync process is very slow for me.
Is there a way to just say "If the timestamps are the same take the first image"? Or some other way to speed things up? Or maybe "just take the one that has the same root name, i.e. without extension"?
Comments
Is there a way to stop Lightroom from trying to retrieve comments ?
I don't have any on my photos and it it is slowing the photo uploading when it tries to retrieve comments.
thanks
Andrew
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I accidentally published just one photo from one of my Lightroom folders to a smugmug gallery I created when I intended to publish them all. However, it won't let me drag the rest (after selecting all of the rest) to the to the smugmug gallery.
I feel like I've tried everything including updating the smugmug plugin.
It seems like there's a setting that is blocking me from actually dragging the photos over. Any help is GREATLY appreciated
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Thanks for replying Brad. That is exactly what I have been trying and it doesn't work.
It's a little hard to do when you are uploading overnight. And it is frustrating in the morning when you find it has stalled because of the comments.
Andrew
I found the answer so I thought I'd share if anyone else encounters the same problem - you need to drag the thumbnail itself, not the frame around it.
Ok, it only took me 20 mins to find this answer, but thak you so much!!:ivar
Now I'm in business!!!
What have you learned today?
Andrew
- bug fixes
- auto updating for future releases
- video uploading for power/pro users
- image syncing
Don't have the update? Get it here.
SmugMug API Developer
My Photos
LR 3.6
I get the error shown on the attachment when clicking photo and sync for my smugmug publish service. It starts off ok, runs for a few minutes, then pops up this. Looking at the folders, I don't see any evidence that it has found my old photos on smugmug and linked them to where I have them in Lightroom.
Could this be related to the fact that I have different lightroom catalogs pointing to the same smugmug publish service? In other words, on smugmug I have for example
trees
bushes
flowers
buildings
people
But the people are all in one LR catalog, while the others are in a different one. Which means that the plugin when started from the people catalog will never find any thing in that LR catalog to sync to the smugmug trees area.
I had some photos ready to be published, and one of them was already in fact in the target gallery, but what I got back was an error saying something about param (2) on that photo, plus another one that had not been uploaded yet. The other 4 new ones went up without a problem
http://redwoodtwig.com
Sony A7r4 with a selection of Rokinon Cine primes that I'm really enjoying learning how to use.
SmugMug API Developer
My Photos
SmugMug API Developer
My Photos
Much better. At first.
Match concept seems sensible, though means this will be a long process. Worth it I think.
However, back to the drawing board.
You need to have something about whether or not to associate an image with a smart gallery. I was matching away happily when I hovered over the view in browser and discovered I'd been telling lightroom photos had been uploaded to a smart gallery, which is not true.
I have a smart gallery out there for all images containing the keyword 'red'. The plugin looked at one of my images and wants to match it to that gallery, which is not a real gallery.
I can see where I'd like to know if an image is associated to both a real gallery and a smart gallery derivative, but since I clicked on match to the smart gallery, does that mean it won't try to match when we get to the real gallery? Or is there an option to tell it not to pick up on smart galleries?
http://redwoodtwig.com
Sony A7r4 with a selection of Rokinon Cine primes that I'm really enjoying learning how to use.
- searching the LR database is done on combination of DateTimeOriginal, Make/Model and maybe FileName depending on whether the previous exist.
- if a single record is found, it's automatically associated
- if multiple records are found, I use a ranking algorithm to determine what I think the correct sort order should be and then present the Conflict dialog to the user.
- if the SmugMug image contains no DateTimeOriginal or Make/Model info, searching is only done on FileName and as a result the conflict resolution dialog is always shown.
From LR's perspective, yes...SmugMug's Collected or Smart gallery images are considered to be uploaded images and are synced back to the LR published collections. This enables us to do some cool things like allow pros to sync back Event Favourites from their clients. We hope to do the same for proof delay orders (and orders in general) in the future. But the plugin has some additional smart logic to handle these virtual images so that you are not required to update the same image multiple times.
Try this example...
1. Within LR, create a new SmugMug gallery.
2. Add an image to that gallery and publish it.
3. On SmugMug, create another gallery and make a virtual copy of the image you just uploaded.
4. Now sync the new gallery and it's contents back to SmugMug....you should now have the same image within both galleries in LR.
5. Make an edit to the original image
6. Now both galleries will show that this image needs to be republished.
7. Republish the image to either gallery
8. Once it's finished, check the other gallery in LR...and you will see that the image no longer is required to be updated.
This is because the ImageID of the image is shared between the two galleries and it really doesn't matter which gallery I update the image for as it still links back to the right one. I just need to add some additional logic to make LR smarter than it is.
I hope that kinda explains it...lemme know if you have any additional questions.
SmugMug API Developer
My Photos
So the fact that the hover over "show in browser" displayed the name of a smart gallery means that the source gallery in the publish tool will also be updated. That's a relief.
I did come across one anomaly: I got a match screen where the browser side had a caption and the LR side did not. What I would have liked to do was tell it to copy the caption back down to LR. A control of some kind to let me tell it how I want to deal with keywords, titles, and captions would be really helpful. I try to get all those right before I publish, but being able to edit those on smugmug and have the edit go back to LR is certainly convenient when I'm not at the machine running LR.
From your description it sounds like the context menu on Smugmug categories or galleries contain a choice to sync just that category or gallery. I guess the normal use would be to have separate publish services for each category or gallery?
What should happen if I publish new photos to a smart gallery?
http://redwoodtwig.com
Sony A7r4 with a selection of Rokinon Cine primes that I'm really enjoying learning how to use.
I'm quite limited with what I can put in the LR UI...but context menu would be the ideal solution but I can't insert stuff there. As result, you can either sync images for your entire account from the Publish Manager screen or on a gallery basis from the edit dialog.
I plan to add both 'Sync Photos' and 'Sync Hierarchy' to the Category and SubCategory dialogs for syncing local portions of the tree, but that will be in a future release as it's a little more complex.
Adding smart gallery rules to an existing gallery doesn't prevent you from uploading an image to that gallery like normal. So if you added an image to a gallery that contained virtual images, it would just upload the new image normally....at this point, all virtual operations need to be done on SmugMug itself. That may change in the future.
SmugMug API Developer
My Photos
Thanks, the sync box in the edit settings at the gallery level works great! I almost wish there was an option to simply grab your first choice and fly with it for a whole gallery, but much safer, if more tedious to have to click each one (That's more due to folders I have from pre-lightroom days where there are multiple copies of the same image with slightly different names and different appearances.)
The only time the top choice was just plain wrong was on an image where I had a virtual copy with a different crop. Smugmug had the one from the virtual copy, but the top choice was the original on LR, and so the wrong crop. It was obvious from the visual comparison and easy to find the right crop to match. But maybe it could go on your list near the bottom somewhere to use the crop as well as the original date and make/model prior to name.
For the title, caption, and keywords, it might be nice to highlight those boxes when they are different. With maybe some radio buttons to allow us to pick the one we want, with the default being LR.
Anyway, great job, this is something I've been looking forward to since I started using the Publish service. It will really be a great benefit to be able to see from inside LR what I have on Smugmug.
thanks a bunch!
http://redwoodtwig.com
Sony A7r4 with a selection of Rokinon Cine primes that I'm really enjoying learning how to use.
So I only use DateTimeOriginal, Make/Model and maybe FileName for initially searching the catalog to return a result set. I then use a totally different set of parameters to rank the returned results. I've tweaked weighting of my algorithm that it works to return the correct results in the majority for case....I'm interested to investigate your case as I may have to tweak something here or there. I'll followup with you in PM to get a copy of your LR database.
I'll take a look at this once I get a chance and evaluate whether it's a viable solution.
Cheers,
David
SmugMug API Developer
My Photos
I'm trying to use the Sync Photos option, and it works for a small number of my galleries. However, with most, it pops up a dialog box saying "An internal error has occurred: SmugMugDialogs.lua:1952: attempt to index local 'fi' (a nil value)". I attached a screen shot of the dialog box. What might cause this?
I'm running Lightroom 3.6 64-bit under Windows 7, and I have the LR SmugMug plug-in version 1.0.2.16.
Thanks,
DAvid
Can you please check the file permissions on the SmugMug.lrplugin folder and see they are set to Read-Only. If they are can you please set them to RW and retry. If not, please screenshot the permissions so that I can see.
I'll add some additional logic to check if the folder is read-only or not, so it won't fail there.
Cheers,
David
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Thank you! That was the problem, and it's working now.
So, am I right in thinking that clicking Sync Photos in the Edit Gallery dialog should download photos from Smugmug ?
If so, where do they go ?
If not, then how do I do this ?
When I right click on the gallery under the Smugmug section, select Edit Gallery... then tick the Sync Photos and click Edit, I get a dialog box that says Initilising and then nothing. Is this only for galleries that you have already uploaded from Lightroom to Smugmug ? Or will it download photos uploaded to Smugmug from the web browser ?
Let me know if I'm not being clear.
Andrew
It's for people like me who have a bunch of photos on smugmug that I put up there before the publish feature was added to LR. It goes to each smugmug photo and tries to find a match in your current LR catalog.
For example, I have a smugmug gallery called XYZ that I've been adding to for several years. In my current LR catalog, though, when I navigate to that gallery, it only shows 6 images, the six I've added since I started using the publish feature. Sync will go out to smugmug and link the images there to existing images in my LR catalog. So I don't need to open a browser, go to smugmug, and see what is there besides the six most recent.
I wouldn't mind having the option to grab what's on smugmug and downloading it if no match is found.
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As Brandon mentioned, we currently only sync back images that already exist in the LR catalog.
This was the initial phase in implementing image syncing...yes, we plan to have a feature that allows you to import photos from SmugMug back into LR if they don't exist..but it's a little more complex as it includes saving images to a predetermined location and importing them into the catalog.
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David
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Is this something you're interested in getting more information about? I'm getting probably 99% matching, but can provide data on that 1% if that is helpful.
John,
sure
Please zip up your .lrcat file and upload it using yousendit
If you could also include some info about specific images on SmugMug (ImageIDs and AlbumIDs would be handy) as well as files within the LR catalog that it should be matching to.
Cheers,
David
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Is there a way to just say "If the timestamps are the same take the first image"? Or some other way to speed things up? Or maybe "just take the one that has the same root name, i.e. without extension"?
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