Lightroom Plugin Sync Photos Seems Broken

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  • AperturePlusAperturePlus Registered Users Posts: 374 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2013
    David - do you know how to get an older version from the site? I have 2.0.2.1 and am having the same issues as you. I thought that I would try out the one you said was ok for you - 2.0.1.20 (while David Devbobo is away), but it seems that the site only has the latest version?
  • DBRDBR Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2013
    David - do you know how to get an older version from the site? I have 2.0.2.1 and am having the same issues as you. I thought that I would try out the one you said was ok for you - 2.0.1.20 (while David Devbobo is away), but it seems that the site only has the latest version?

    That sounds like a very reasonable thing to do. I tried it as well. Unfortunately, the older version behaved exactly the same as the newer version. I think that either I did something wrong (like accidentally canceling the sync) or the server software changed. Certainly the server end of things has been changing over the last week, as the software team tries to fix bugs, add features, and respond to user issues.

    David
  • ablichterablichter Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2013
    Hi,
    when launched from the explorer context menu, I can't choose existing galleries.
  • AperturePlusAperturePlus Registered Users Posts: 374 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2013
    Does anyone know ho to get older versions off the server?
  • AperturePlusAperturePlus Registered Users Posts: 374 Major grins
    edited August 26, 2013
    David Devbobo are you back from Fiji? Hope you had a great time?

    Other than hoping to get the 2.0.1.20 link, is there any chance that DigiMarc could be incorporated into your plugin? I have no idea what the stats are of SM clients that use the plugin and use DigiMarc as well, but I would think (hope!?) that there are many.

    The workflow without being able to incorporate it from Lightroom, is a PITA.
  • ablichterablichter Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited August 26, 2013
    David Devbobo are you back from Fiji? Hope you had a great time?

    Other than hoping to get the 2.0.1.20 link, is there any chance that DigiMarc could be incorporated into your plugin? I have no idea what the stats are of SM clients that use the plugin and use DigiMarc as well, but I would think (hope!?) that there are many.

    The workflow without being able to incorporate it from Lightroom, is a PITA.
    Nothing to do with digimarc, but did you ever try this plugin ?
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited August 26, 2013
    DBR and AperturePlus,

    I can assure you that there are zero code differences between 2.0.1.20 and 2.0.2.1 in the area of image syncing...in fact it's only a 2 line change (see the attached screenshot from my commit to github).

    That being said, I have come across a few other cornercases where things weren't working as expected since I've been back.

    Please give 2.0.2.3 a go and let me know if it resolves the sync issues that you are seeing.

    If not, please upload your zipped cataloges (.lrcat file only) to https://www.hightail.com/dropbox?dropbox=SmugMug with a link back to this thread in the description as a reference.

    Cheers,

    David
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited August 26, 2013
    David Devbobo are you back from Fiji? Hope you had a great time?

    Other than hoping to get the 2.0.1.20 link, is there any chance that DigiMarc could be incorporated into your plugin? I have no idea what the stats are of SM clients that use the plugin and use DigiMarc as well, but I would think (hope!?) that there are many.

    The workflow without being able to incorporate it from Lightroom, is a PITA.

    To support this properly, Adobe or DigiMarc need to create a Post-Process Action plugin to handle this.

    After a bit of googling I found a video on youtube that showed how to do this from within LR with export to disk. This method makes use of a PS droplet that is running after the image has been exported to disk. Using the PS droplet and Jeffrey Friedl's "Run Any Command" plugin, you should be able to make it work with our plugin but it might take a bit of experimenting.

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers,

    David
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • bkrodgersbkrodgers Registered Users Posts: 13 Big grins
    edited August 27, 2013
    I'm getting a similar but somewhat different error to one reported earlier. It reads "An internal error has occurred ?:0: attempt to index field 'trimEnd' (a nil value)." This is with 2.0.2.3.
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited August 27, 2013
    bkrodgers wrote: »
    I'm getting a similar but somewhat different error to one reported earlier. It reads "An internal error has occurred ?:0: attempt to index field 'trimEnd' (a nil value)." This is with 2.0.2.3.

    Please upload your zipped cataloges (.lrcat file only) to https://www.hightail.com/dropbox?dropbox=SmugMug with a link back to this thread in the description as a reference.

    Please include a description of what actions you were doing...eg. syncing images for your entire account or an individual album, etc.

    Thanks,

    David
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • AperturePlusAperturePlus Registered Users Posts: 374 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2013
    devbobo wrote: »
    DBR and AperturePlus,

    Please give 2.0.2.3 a go and let me know if it resolves the sync issues that you are seeing.

    If not, please upload your zipped cataloges (.lrcat file only) to https://www.hightail.com/dropbox?dropbox=SmugMug with a link back to this thread in the description as a reference.

    Hi David

    I tried 2.0.2.3 and the returned results are less than before. I have 418 images in a specific gallery and I am now only seeing 110 through the plugin.

    I gave sent you the log.

    Thanks for the help.
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited August 27, 2013
    Hi David

    I tried 2.0.2.3 and the returned results are less than before. I have 418 images in a specific gallery and I am now only seeing 110 through the plugin.

    I gave sent you the log.

    Thanks for the help.

    Did you send the log or the catalog ? It's way better for me (and you) for me to have the catalog, so that I can run the sync and see what is going on/
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • AperturePlusAperturePlus Registered Users Posts: 374 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2013
    devbobo wrote: »
    Did you send the log or the catalog ? It's way better for me (and you) for me to have the catalog, so that I can run the sync and see what is going on/

    So sorry - I sent the log and not the catalog. I will send the catalog now as well.
  • DBRDBR Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2013
    devbobo wrote: »
    DBR and AperturePlus,

    Please give 2.0.2.3 a go and let me know if it resolves the sync issues that you are seeing.

    David

    I'll give it a try, and let you know - thanks! Hope you had a good time in Fiji!

    David
  • DBRDBR Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2013
    Thanks, David! Looks like the only ones that are not automatically syncing are the ones that I renamed on export by timestamp. It's successfully recognizing and matching camera, resolution, and time.

    Now - on to other issues!
  • bkrodgersbkrodgers Registered Users Posts: 13 Big grins
    edited August 27, 2013
    devbobo wrote: »
    Please upload your zipped cataloges (.lrcat file only) to https://www.hightail.com/dropbox?dropbox=SmugMug with a link back to this thread in the description as a reference.

    Please include a description of what actions you were doing...eg. syncing images for your entire account or an individual album, etc.

    Thanks,

    David

    Thanks David, I've sent that in. I'm getting the error when I click on "Sync" under the smugmug settings, with all sync options checked.
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited August 27, 2013
    bkrodgers wrote: »
    Thanks David, I've sent that in. I'm getting the error when I click on "Sync" under the smugmug settings, with all sync options checked.

    Thanks for that thumb.gif

    It seems that one of LR's SDK functions is throwing that error. I've added some code to catch that error, and have also passed details onto Adobe so they can fix it.

    I'll post another version of the plugin a bit later today...as I'm still looking through a few other catalogs at a few syncing issues.

    Cheers,

    David
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited August 28, 2013
    Version 2.0.2.4 [edit: old link removed]

    it should fix bkrodgers' error message and hopefully improve image syncing a little bit with help from using both AperturePlus' and bkrodgers' catalogs
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • AperturePlusAperturePlus Registered Users Posts: 374 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2013
    Thanks David. I downloaded 2.0.2.4. It sees the same amount as before (405 of a total of 418) I am afraid.

    Thank you for your unrelenting commitment!
  • DBRDBR Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2013
    David,

    I downloaded 2.0.2.4, and it fixed the null string error I saw with 2.0.2.3. However, the matching algorithm seems a little off, and it took me a few minutes to realize why. I have quite a few images for which it is suggesting seemingly odd choices. I am looking now at one image for which it is offering two matches. The first is a good match for Model and Dimensions, and a partial match for Filename (.CR2 file locally, and .jpg on SmugMug). Its Taken timestamp doesn't match - looks like I corrected for daylight savings time after pushing the image to SmugMug. This seems reasonable.

    However, the plugin is suggesting another possible match, which matches only the Model and Dimensions. There is no check by the Filename. However, after looking a bit more closely, I see that the Filename almost matches - as above, it's a .CR2 locally and a .jpg on SmugMug, but now there is a case mismatch in the name of the file (IMG vs. img). That is not unreasonable, but the weak match without a visible check mark surprised me.

    Is this the expected behavior?

    Thanks!

    David
  • canderson1229canderson1229 Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2013
    I'm also having trouble syncing images. I've tried all versions of the plugin but nothing seems to improve.
  • DBRDBR Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2013
    I'm also having trouble syncing images. I've tried all versions of the plugin but nothing seems to improve.

    Could you be more specific? Are you getting error messages? Did the hierarchy sync successfully?
  • canderson1229canderson1229 Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2013
    DBR wrote: »
    Could you be more specific? Are you getting error messages? Did the hierarchy sync successfully?

    No it didn't sync successfully. The sync was off and in the middle came back saying couldn't complete.
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited August 28, 2013
    Thanks David. I downloaded 2.0.2.4. It sees the same amount as before (405 of a total of 418) I am afraid.

    Thank you for your unrelenting commitment!

    Of the 13 missing images, 11 of them have a corrupt Model in the metadata, along the lines of this...

    Everything%20Gallery%20-%20AperturePlus.png

    I've added some new code to look for non-ascii chars in the Model and ignore the entry if it does.

    The final 2 images...don't have sufficient metadata and I'm guessing the filenames on SM are different to the ones in LR.

    http://www.apertureplus.com/Everything-Gallery/i-ghBBBjm
    http://www.apertureplus.com/Everything-Gallery/i-9pQ2M5L
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited August 28, 2013
    No it didn't sync successfully. The sync was off and in the middle came back saying couldn't complete.

    As always, I'm more than happy to take a look at your catalog.

    Please upload your zipped catalog (.lrcat file only) to https://www.hightail.com/dropbox?dropbox=SmugMug with a link back to this thread in the description as a reference.

    Cheers,

    David
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited August 28, 2013
    Version 2.0.2.5

    Fixes issue described here.
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • AperturePlusAperturePlus Registered Users Posts: 374 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2013
    Hi David

    Success! Thank you so very much for this.

    The two that you mentioned, had indeed changed filenames, hence that issue.
    As for the corrupt Model metadata.. I use Photomatix for HDR processing and I have noticed that it does sometimes corrupt this data. I have not been able to replicate it and it seems to be on a random basis, but this fix would be good for everyone else experiencing this issue as a result of Photomatix.
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