Lightroom 4 plugin

cmjdavies

Hi, I've been using the LR 4 plugin for a few weeks. All good and loving the two way sync.

My problem, I uploaded a gallery of 150 pictures but forgot to keyword them. So I went to the SM folder within lightroom, added keywords to all of the pictures and re-published. The problem? I'm now two hours in to LR fully republishing all of the pictures.

What did I do wrong? Shouldn't it have just sent across the keywords? I didn't make any changes to the actual pictures at all.

I need to know because there are some other galleries that need key working and I was planning on doing it from within LR but not if it want to completely re-publish the picture.

Thanks

Chris

EntropicTendencies

cmjdavies wrote: »

Hi, I've been using the LR 4 plugin for a few weeks. All good and loving the two way sync.

My problem, I uploaded a gallery of 150 pictures but forgot to keyword them. So I went to the SM folder within lightroom, added keywords to all of the pictures and re-published. The problem? I'm now two hours in to LR fully republishing all of the pictures.

What did I do wrong? Shouldn't it have just sent across the keywords? I didn't make any changes to the actual pictures at all.

I need to know because there are some other galleries that need key working and I was planning on doing it from within LR but not if it want to completely re-publish the picture.

Thanks

Chris

Hi Chris,

I believe this is a fundamental Lightroom Publish Service architecture limitation - it's not just specific to the SmugMug plugin.

Later releases of Jeffrey Friedl's plugin (http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smugmug) introduces some control of what triggers an image to be re-published, but if I remember correctly it will still upload a new image with meta data updates (it has been a little while since I've used it).

I'd suggest that you apply the same keywords in both the SmugMug gallery and in Lightroom. Obviously modifying the metadata in Lightroom will trigger the images to be re-published (which you don't want). Go to that gallery in the publish service and select all the images in the library loupe view - a right click (or Mac ctrl-click) on the selected images will open the menu and you should see "Mark as Up-To-Date" second from the bottom.

If you do it this way it is important that you apply the same keywords in Lightroom because if you subsequently do republish your images the keywords will be updated from Lightroom as the master copy and you will lose any changes that are only on the SmugMug images.

I must admit that I'm lazy - I'm happy to make the changes in Lightroom and re-publish because while it might take a long time it's easy and 1/2 the amount of work for me (and it reduces any risk that the master copies and the online copies are not in sync).

Barrie

devbobo

G'day Chris,

The Publishing stuff that got introduced in LR3 is built on top of the Export functionality...when we physically upload the image, we are using code from the Export functionality. The problem is that at the point when we are doing the export/upload, there is no way to determine whether the image has been physically altered or that only metadata has been modified.

We've ask Adobe to make this info available during export, but we're not sure if it's made it into LR4. If it hasn't we will most probably look at adding an option in the plugin to control whether we just update the metadata or upload the image on a republish.

Cheer,

David