Hey peter, great work. I have a question for you about batch uploading. Let me tell you about my workflow.

I shoot sports and sometimes shoot 20 games in a day (2-4k photos). When I get back I shove them all into an Aperture project named for the date. Then I go though and pull out the games (I have the frame numbers written down so it isn't that bad) and make an album of each game named for the teams playing. After weeding out out of focus shots, editing exposure, cropping, and keywording it is time to send them up to my smugmug site.

This leaves me with 10-20 albums that need to each go into their own separate smugmug gallery. Is there anyway you can think of to automate this process of sending to smugmug? At the moment I am using your plug-in and have to upload each album one at a time. When one is done I start over again and make a new album... etc.

What I am really looking for is maybe the ability to use your plug-in in an automator workflow or something like that. My goal is to do my editing after I get back from shooting and then start a batch process and go to bed while the upload finishes.

Thanks for any of your thoughts ahead of time!

P.S. Is there anyway to help donate to the cause?

Hi Peter,

I downloaded the Aperture plug in last week but have been unable to login into smug mug through the plug in, either with my name or email address and whether or or not I am logged into smugmug through the web. Great shame!

Would you have any suggestions please ?
Thanks a lot
fred (Australia)

I second the vote to be able to apply quick settings from Aperture to SmugMug! That way I wouldn't have to login with the browser and set the new gallery settings after creating it.

Great job, btw!

Hello! I am feeling slightly silly - but I download and installed the plug-in w/o problem but I can't seem to find it - I am in Apeture and I don't see anything smugmug related?

Can someone point me in the right direction?

hope I am not missing something TOTALLY obvious.

Thanks,
Tobias

Originally Posted by tgelston Hello! I am feeling slightly silly - but I download and installed the plug-in w/o problem but I can't seem to find it - I am in Apeture and I don't see anything smugmug related?

Assuming you've also INSTALLED the plug, just go to the FILE menu, and down to EXPORT. You should see an option that says APERTURETOSMUGMUG. Good luck.

I'm having issues with stuff freezing up during the upload process. I'm trying to export about 750 pics, but I can't get more than a few to process before the export window freezes. It's usually anywhere from 8 to 15, but has gotten up to as many as 48 once. it's REALLY annoying to have to keep coming back, finding where things froze, then starting again. (Not to mention the fact that Aperture starts re-naming from the top so my numerical sequence is all out of order, and there are some dupes online.) Any ideas?

Thanks,
jg

Howdy,

I tried to download and unstuff v0.28 just now and when it tried to unstuff, I got the following error:

An error ocurred during the Stuff operation.
Error #17535

I'm running 10.5.1 and Stuffit Expander v10.0

Suggestions?

Thanks,
fish

Originally Posted by fish Howdy, I tried to download and unstuff v0.28 just now and when it tried to unstuff, I got the following error: An error ocurred during the Stuff operation. Error #17535 I'm running 10.5.1 and Stuffit Expander v10.0 Suggestions? Thanks, fish

Update Stuffit?

Just started using both Aperture and SmugMug, and I'm glad this plug-in exists! It certainly makes things much easier. I have run into a few issues or possible improvements and as I remember them, I'll try to provide the feedback here, starting with this post. :)

1) SmugMug has some bizarre rules for keywords (see "The rules" section after expanding "Tell me how to add and edit keywords" on this help page). Exporting an Aperture keyword that doesn't strictly conform to these rules will cause things to get messed up in SmugMug. For example, a keyword of '2007' doesn't appear in the keyword list, 'day 1' shows up as 'day', etc. A work around for this is to edit the keyword in Aperture to include quotes (i.e. use the keyword "2007" instead of 2007) prior to the export, but this isn't an ideal solution in my mind. I don't know whether this is the plug-in or SmugMug itself, but if the plug-in is setting the keywords, could it always (or at least when the keyword doesn't conform to the "rules") enclose the keyword in quotes so the keywords are displayed properly on images in the SmugMug galleries?

2) In Aperture, I plan on keywording photos of family and friends with people's names so I can quickly and easily find all images of that person (possibly with other criteria). For privacy reasons, I'm reluctant to have their names be set as keywords on photos exported to SmugMug. Could there be a way in the export plug-in to exclude all keywords that fall under certain portions of the keyword hierarchy?

3) Someone has already mentioned it, but it'd be nice to be able to "sync" changes to an album in Aperture to SmugMug. I can only imagine how challenging that would be on its own, so maybe a simplified version that just replaces existing photos? For example, when exporting an image with version name "x", the plug-in determines if "x" already exists in the targetted album and, if so, replaces the photo and its metadata with the new version, or if no previous image is found the image is uploaded as a new image for the album. My primary use here would be just for updating keywords; as time allows, I'd like to go back through my photos and re-keyword photos with new classifying keywords. I doubt that Aperture's export plug-in architecture would allow just exporting of keywords as an option, but I think that replacing the full image in the gallery is an acceptable workaround. While deleting and re-uploading is my current workaround (unless I can use the bulk keyword edit feature in SmugMug to manually make the same changes), I don't think it would preserve any existing comments people have made on the old photo.

And, seeing how I'm new to both Aperture and SmugMug (and Digital Grin!), if anyone read any part of the above and said "man, he should be doing X instead of trying to do Y", then please drop be a line and set me straight! :)

Thanks,
Michael

Originally Posted by Andy Update Stuffit?

That was it. Brand new Leopard system came with Stuffit 10. Current version is Stuffit 12.

Thanks Andy!

Originally Posted by renaissancekid Assuming you've also INSTALLED the plug, just go to the FILE menu, and down to EXPORT. You should see an option that says APERTURETOSMUGMUG. Good luck.

Ah - there it is.

Thanks,
Tobias

Originally Posted by renaissancekid I'm having issues with stuff freezing up during the upload process. I'm trying to export about 750 pics, but I can't get more than a few to process before the export window freezes. It's usually anywhere from 8 to 15, but has gotten up to as many as 48 once. it's REALLY annoying to have to keep coming back, finding where things froze, then starting again. (Not to mention the fact that Aperture starts re-naming from the top so my numerical sequence is all out of order, and there are some dupes online.) Any ideas? Thanks, jg

I'm encountering the same thing. I've been trying to upload roughly 500 images, and the plugin hangs at various points between a dozen and up to around 100. I'm baffled, because I'm pretty sure I've used the plugin with success before.

If there is a log I could send to David -- if you're reading -- please let me know what to do. I'm obviously self-interested in figuring this out, but it's such a great aid (when working) that I'm really happy to try to help troubleshoot this.

Peter

I sent a batch of photos to a gallery with this plug in and the photos transferred fine, but no kewords or captions appear in SM.

I'm using a MacPro. In the past I've had success with your plug in. Have you any ideas what's keeping my tags from following and more important, my captions?

I'm having the same failure of words not being exported when using SmugExport.

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Ivar looked at my galleries and my current exports are stripped completely of metadata.[/FONT]

Hi Peter, can you put our new logo in the app :)



Here's the correct logo, you find it as an attachment on this wiki page: http://wiki.smugmug.com/display/SmugMug/SmugMugGraphics

Thanks!

Originally Posted by MacLoyal I sent a batch of photos to a gallery with this plug in and the photos transferred fine, but no kewords or captions appear in SM.

Can you verify under Aperture -> Presets -> Image Export that the "Include Metadata" checkbox is checked for the export preset you are using?

Thank you for that tip! I had no clue where to look. That is probably a faster way to solve this problem. I can't check right now because I am resending a batch of photos at this very moment. Here's the way I finally got it fixed:

I searched and posted in several forums before calling Apple Support today. I've discovered the problem with that tech person's guidance. If anyone else faces this dilemma, check your settings here:

Aperture > File > Export Versions

Then you get a pop up box with some drop down menus. The top drop down box has 'Edit' at the bottom of its list. Go into there. You'll have several preferences to choose from (file type, dimensions, quality, etc) and there's a tiny box that accidently got unchecked which says something like: Include Metadata.

I can't check it for exact wording because I'm merrily re-exporting right now - Metadata intact!

Originally Posted by MacLoyal Thank you for that tip! I had no clue where to look. That is probably a faster way to solve this problem. I can't check right now because I am resending a batch of photos at this very moment. Here's the way I finally got it fixed: I searched and posted in several forums before calling Apple Support today. I've discovered the problem with that tech person's guidance. If anyone else faces this dilemma, check your settings here: Aperture > File > Export Versions Then you get a pop up box with some drop down menus. The top drop down box has 'Edit' at the bottom of its list. Go into there. You'll have several preferences to choose from (file type, dimensions, quality, etc) and there's a tiny box that accidently got unchecked which says something like: Include Metadata. I can't check it for exact wording because I'm merrily re-exporting right now - Metadata intact!

It's this:

That's the screen shot I needed last night! At that point I didn't know that setting/preference existed, let alone where to find it. That little box messed me up pretty thoroughly for a bit, but I'm humming along again!

Thanks again, for your efforts to point me in the right direction.

Just a simple feature request...would it be possible to have the plug-in set up so that you could continue to work in Aperture while you upload pics to SmugMug? Sometimes when I am uploading a lot of pics, it would be nice to be able to continue my workflow.

Just a suggestion...this may not be possible. In any case, thanks for writing an awesome plug-in! It's the reason I decided to use SmugMug--it was so easy!

How can I make that happen? Very frustrating -- feel I have tried everything -- I must have missed something though!