Annoyance with Simple Uploader

afarber

I tried to get some uploads in under the wire last night before the scheduled downtime. I didn't quite make it and a few files did not get uploaded.

The log in the simple uploader showed me that a few file didn't make it, but the file names were too long to display and I could not figure any way to see them - no adjustable fields and hovering over didn't give a pop-up.

I then tried the log on my smugmug account. Of course, since the uploads didn't make it to smugmug server at all, they were not in the smugmug log.

I'm now missing 7 files from a 450+ photo gallery and I'm not sure how to figure out which ones are missing. They are somewhere in the middle of the file list (for reasons I don't quite understand), as the beginning and the end of the upload are all there.

I guess my post is for two reasons:

1. This is something that should be fixed in the uploader to handle and display long file names in the error log.

2. Any suggestions on how to figure out which files are missing without wasting hours?

Thanks!

Andy

afarber wrote:

s in the error log.

2. Any suggestions on how to figure out which files are missing without wasting hours?

Thanks!

Dump everything you dumped in last night, back in, and choose "skip dupliates" ?

afarber

Nice! thanks. I'll do it as soon as I get home.

Thanks, Andy!

Andy wrote:

Dump everything you dumped in last night, back in, and choose "skip dupliates" ?

Raz

Hi,

I didn't conduct a complete study on this, but I tried it once and saw that it was uploading an image which was already there.

So does it check for duplicates only after the image was uploaded?

How about using the list of images from the error log as a new list for upload?

Thanks,
Raz

afarber

It determines which files to skip as soon as you load them into the uploader. It does not upload the duplicate file unless you select Allow or Replace.

Raz wrote:

Hi,

I didn't conduct a complete study on this, but I tried it once and saw that it was uploading an image which was already there.

So does it check for duplicates only after the image was uploaded?

How about using the list of images from the error log as a new list for upload?

Thanks,
Raz

SamirD

afarber wrote:

It determines which files to skip as soon as you load them into the uploader. It does not upload the duplicate file unless you select Allow or Replace.

Caveat: It gets the list of existing files when the uploader is initially loaded. If you have another upload session adding files to that gallery, it will only skip files that it determines at the time the uploader was loaded.

For example. You've broken your batch into equal pieces and are uploading each piece from FF and IE respectively to the same gallery. You decide to stop the upload sessions, clear out the upload lists, and use only the IE upload session while using FF for something else. Unless you go back to the gallery and then back to the uploader, it will not correctly determine which files to skip.

I've done quite a bit of experimenting with this as I usually need 6-7 upload sessions to keep my three cable modems saturated.

Nimai

I totally ran into this the other day. I had accidentally exported about half of my photos I planned to upload at low-res. I discovered this after they had uploaded, so I deleted the low-res ones from SmugMug. I went back to the browser window that had the uploader still running in it, and added all of the files again, feeling smug as I chose "Skip Duplicates". Well... they didn't get skipped. Now it makes sense. I needed to re-load the uploader. I'm sure the smarties at SmugMug can think of a way to make this work without reloading in the future.

SamirD wrote:

Caveat: It gets the list of existing files when the uploader is initially loaded. If you have another upload session adding files to that gallery, it will only skip files that it determines at the time the uploader was loaded.

SamirD

Nimai wrote:

I totally ran into this the other day. I had accidentally exported about half of my photos I planned to upload at low-res. I discovered this after they had uploaded, so I deleted the low-res ones from SmugMug. I went back to the browser window that had the uploader still running in it, and added all of the files again, feeling smug as I chose "Skip Duplicates". Well... they didn't get skipped. Now it makes sense. I needed to re-load the uploader. I'm sure the smarties at SmugMug can think of a way to make this work without reloading in the future.

I would really like to see something where instead of checking at only the initial load, it checks after each file is uploaded during the beginning of the 'verify' stage. This will make it a bit more accurate and more difficult to accidently upload dupes.