Nik,
what's the javascript that you are using to open it ?
Maybe I can sort it for you.
Cheers,
David
Thanks for the offer!
I think I will fix it over the weekend, but in case you're bored now:): - just get the script from the website, it's fairly simple, you'll see it.
Cheers, mate!
Constantly getting issues of late trying to upload photos via StarExplorer. It creates the galleries that I asked it to do just fine, but for some reason StarExplorer does not seem to think so so it tries again and again until it fails. This is a real pain for me since I try to upload 15-30 galleries at a time and it leaves me with 3 empty galleries for each one it tried to create and no uploaded photos. If I try to do it again SOMETIMES it will work but not often and I am forced to manually delete each gallery and start over.
I have installed the latest version, had it get all albums and emptied the hash and re-logged in but I am still getting the same off and on issues. More often off then on.
Constantly getting issues of late trying to upload photos via StarExplorer. It creates the galleries that I asked it to do just fine, but for some reason StarExplorer does not seem to think so so it tries again and again until it fails. This is a real pain for me since I try to upload 15-30 galleries at a time and it leaves me with 3 empty galleries for each one it tried to create and no uploaded photos. If I try to do it again SOMETIMES it will work but not often and I am forced to manually delete each gallery and start over.
I have installed the latest version, had it get all albums and emptied the hash and re-logged in but I am still getting the same off and on issues. More often off then on.
Really sorry about this inconvenience.
It might have something to do with incorrect server responses.
I had similar exerience recently, but it was spotty to say the least. I'd say - it should come to normal over time.
Unfortunately, I don't have access to server's code, so at this point all I can do is to suggest to wait or contact smugmug R&D...
Star*Explorer: v.155 is here
Recently ( don't know when, I only found it a couple days ago) smugmug online upload log access URL has been changed (again:-).
I figured I better update S*E before somebody except me notices it, too:-)
I've searched the thread for this, but couldn't find an answer to this specific question...
I tend to upload my images to Smugmug and then caption them online. I find myself wanting from time to time to re-download my images, but with the caption data embedded in the image's IPTC fields. I know that Smugmug doesn't do this as a function of NOT modifying the original. However, this modified original is exactly what I need. Will S*E do this? Thanks!
I've searched the thread for this, but couldn't find an answer to this specific question...
I tend to upload my images to Smugmug and then caption them online. I find myself wanting from time to time to re-download my images, but with the caption data embedded in the image's IPTC fields. I know that Smugmug doesn't do this as a function of NOT modifying the original. However, this modified original is exactly what I need. Will S*E do this? Thanks!
-Greg
Sorry, this request has certain technical implications that do not allow me to put it into the code right now (translation: too much trouble:-).
You can download both images info and images themselves and then run all kind of reports on them, of course, but the actual file modification - thus far I have been leaving it for the photo editors/managers...
However, if you are serious about this - drop me an email and we can discuss a few advanced options...
Sorry, this request has certain technical implications that do not allow me to put it into the code right now (translation: too much trouble:-).
You can download both images info and images themselves and then run all kind of reports on them, of course, but the actual file modification - thus far I have been leaving it for the photo editors/managers...
However, if you are serious about this - drop me an email and we can discuss a few advanced options...
Thank you for using Star*Explorer!
Thanks for the quick response. I'd been looking for an excuse to start playing with REST, so if downloading albums with embedded IPTC data isn't available functionality yet, I'll start fiddling around. I'll let you know how things go, whether I have success or I get way in over my head.
-Greg
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your email address shows permanent failure. I tried it several times from several accounts, it does not work.
Please contact me from a different email address so I can issue the license.
Thanks!
Upload Sort Order Question
I use S*E to upload to Smugmug. I use Bridge/ACR/CS2 for preparing my images. I'm working on a large upload (1000 images spread across 15 galleries). I would like to do the upload in a way that causes the images to end up in the galleries sorted by the star rating in Adobe Bridge.
I have verfied that if I manually drag the images into S*E one at a time, S*E will upload them in that order and they will appear in that order in Smugmug (as long as you display in upload order).
But, if I multi-select a bunch of images in Bridge and drag those into S*E, they get reordered by filename in S*E and the Bridge sort order is not preserved. Obviously, it could be that Bridge is losing the sort order in the drag/drop info it passes to S*E or that S*E is resorting them - I can't tell who's changing it.
What would be the easiest way for me to get images from Bridge sorted by rating uploaded into a Smugmug gallery in the same sort order?
I've got nearly 1000 images across 15 galleries so I'm trying to avoid having to manually reorder them again.
I use S*E to upload to Smugmug. I use Bridge/ACR/CS2 for preparing my images. I'm working on a large upload (1000 images spread across 15 galleries). I would like to do the upload in a way that causes the images to end up in the galleries sorted by the star rating in Adobe Bridge.
I have verfied that if I manually drag the images into S*E one at a time, S*E will upload them in that order and they will appear in that order in Smugmug (as long as you display in upload order).
But, if I multi-select a bunch of images in Bridge and drag those into S*E, they get reordered by filename in S*E and the Bridge sort order is not preserved. Obviously, it could be that Bridge is losing the sort order in the drag/drop info it passes to S*E or that S*E is resorting them - I can't tell who's changing it.
What would be the easiest way for me to get images from Bridge sorted by rating uploaded into a Smugmug gallery in the same sort order?
I've got nearly 1000 images across 15 galleries so I'm trying to avoid having to manually reorder them again.
I do hear your pain. At this moment I don't have anything to offer except renaming files or manually adjusting them in SE que (or on SM site afterwards, using wonderful arrange mode). :cry
However: you did it again! Your questions made me realize that I *CAN* apply "bridge" sorting. I simply never looked into this aspect.
So, please rest assured, I will add this - rather useful, I agree - feature to one of my nearest releases.
I do hear your pain. At this moment I don't have anything to offer except renaming files or manually adjusting them in SE que (or on SM site afterwards, using wonderful arrange mode). :cry
However: you did it again! Your questions made me realize that I *CAN* apply "bridge" sorting. I simply never looked into this aspect.
So, please rest assured, I will add this - rather useful, I agree - feature to one of my nearest releases.
Thank you!
Thanks for the inspiration!
OK, I guess I'll rename them in Bridge before dropping them into S*E. Is it S*E who's sorting by filename when they're dropped in?
OK, I guess I'll rename them in Bridge before dropping them into S*E. Is it S*E who's sorting by filename when they're dropped in?
No sir, it's Bridge, (or Explorer, if you dragging or sending from windows directly). I do not have any control over the way it keeps its selected items in the memory.
However, as I said, I'll try to make this change to S*E asap, so if you're talking about renaming thousands of files and can wait a week or two - I'd wait:-)
No sir, it's Bridge, (or Explorer, if you dragging or sending from windows directly). I do not have any control over the way it keeps its selected items in the memory.
However, as I said, I'll try to make this change to S*E asap, so if you're talking about renaming thousands of files and can wait a week or two - I'd wait:-)
HTH
I have to do my uploads this weekend. I can make do with the rename thing. I'll have to run a rename in Bridge in 15 different directories, then drop into S*E.
Star*Explorer: v.156 is here
Due to the changes to some SM HTML pages structure (and the lack of pertinent API), sales info-related functionality broke.
It's fixed now though:-) :ivar
Pro users, rejoice!
I have to do my uploads this weekend. I can make do with the rename thing. I'll have to run a rename in Bridge in 15 different directories, then drop into S*E.
Ask and thou shalt recieve!
John (and everybody else:-), get the latest S*E and turn the Bridge sort usage ON (in Options, Conversion tab).
From now on S*E will take care of it for you :-)
John (and everybody else:-), get the latest S*E and turn the Bridge sort usage ON (in Options, Conversion tab).
From now on S*E will take care of it for you :-)
I hope you didn't rename all your files yet:-)
Awesome! That is customer service. I'll give it a try soon. I haven't renamed anything yet.
John (and everybody else:-), get the latest S*E and turn the Bridge sort usage ON (in Options, Conversion tab).
From now on S*E will take care of it for you :-)
I hope you didn't rename all your files yet:-)
Maybe I'm not doing this right. I turn the Bridge sort option on in prefs, I sort by rating in Bridge, Select All in Bridge, then drag/drop those selected images into S*E, I was hoping it would preserve my Bridge sort order in S*E, but when I do it with build 157, S*E still sorts the images by filename order and assigns indexes to them in filename order.
Maybe I'm not doing this right. I turn the Bridge sort option on in prefs, I sort by rating in Bridge, Select All in Bridge, then drag/drop those selected images into S*E, I was hoping it would preserve my Bridge sort order in S*E, but when I do it with build 157, S*E still sorts the images by filename order and assigns indexes to them in filename order.
Did I miss something?
No, I simply didn't express myself clearly.
There is a "persistent" sorting, then one you get each time when you navigate to a folder. If you arrange your images with the mouse (like SM arrange mode) this order will be persistent. And this is the only info I know how to get access to.
So if you drag your images around in Bridge, it will remember this arrangement. Then S*E would pick up that "arranged" order on the inital add/drop.
No, I simply didn't express myself clearly.
There is a "persistent" sorting, then one you get each time when you navigate to a folder. If you arrange your images with the mouse (like SM arrange mode) this order will be persistent. And this is the only info I know how to get access to.
So if you drag your images around in Bridge, it will remember this arrangement. Then S*E would pick up that "arranged" order on the inital add/drop.
HTH
I played with it and found a way how to do what you want.
prepare your images
sort them the way you want (that sorting mode will be checked)
Drag at least ONE image around (You can return it to its old place immediately after that)
Observe that sorting changed from whatever method you used on step 2 to "Manually".
And guess what - now *this* is your manual order, i.e. the one that S*E would understand:-)
So all you need to do after sorting is a little manual shuffle - and you're home free:-)
I played with it and found a way how to do what you want.
prepare your images
sort them the way you want (that sorting mode will be checked)
Drag at least ONE image around (You can return it to its old place immediately after that)
Observe that sorting changed from whatever method you used on step 2 to "Manually".
And guess what - now *this* is your manual order, i.e. the one that S*E would understand:-)
So all you need to do after sorting is a little manual shuffle - and you're home free:-)
HTH
I appreciate you helping me out Nikolai, but Bridge appears to be screwing things up. I sort by Rating. I uncheck ascending order to get the highest rated images first. I drag one image to a slightly different position and this causes it to go to Manual in the menu, but also causes it to go back to ascending order with all the highest rated images last.
I can't seem to get it to go with highest rated images first and a manual sort without manually sorting each one into the preferred order (for 1000 pictures). So, it appears that Bridge won't let me switch to manual sort while keeping highest rated shots first. It looks like a Bridge bug to me, but it's currently blocking me from getting this to work.
I appreciate you helping me out Nikolai, but Bridge appears to be screwing things up. I sort by Rating. I uncheck ascending order to get the highest rated images first. I drag one image to a slightly different position and this causes it to go to Manual in the menu, but also causes it to go back to ascending order with all the highest rated images last.
I can't seem to get it to go with highest rated images first and a manual sort without manually sorting each one into the preferred order (for 1000 pictures). So, it appears that Bridge won't let me switch to manual sort while keeping highest rated shots first. It looks like a Bridge bug to me, but it's currently blocking me from getting this to work.
John,
I agree, that this is an inconsitent Bridge behaviour, BUT I still think you're OK:-)
I played with it again and it seems that the thing that screws the things up is that ascending flag. Here is how to overcome it.
Let it be.
Sort by rating (best images are in the end)
Shuffle (your order is made persistent)
Send/drag/add to S*E (same order is accepted)
You will see them in the list in that precisely "wrong" order
Click on Index column once or twice to sort them in reverse
Click "apply order" button (greeen and red piramyd)
John,
I agree, that this is an inconsitent Bridge behaviour, BUT I still think you're OK:-)
I played with it again and it seems that the thing that screws the things up is that ascending flag. Here is how to overcome it.
Let it be.
Sort by rating (best images are in the end)
Shuffle (your order is made persistent)
Send/drag/add to S*E (same order is accepted)
You will see them in the list in that precisely "wrong" order
Click on Index column once or twice to sort them in reverse
Click "apply order" button (greeen and red piramyd)
Done!
Ahh. That seems to work - cool! Use S*E to reverse the order and avoid Bridge's bug - I get it.
The first time I tried this, S*E hung (completely non-responsive) right after I started the upload before anything had shown in the terminal window. Drag/drop in, reverse the order, apply order, start upload, hung. I killed the process, started over, it restored the queue and started the upload fine.
Ahh. That seems to work - cool! Use S*E to reverse the order and avoid Bridge's bug - I get it.
The first time I tried this, S*E hung (completely non-responsive) right after I started the upload before anything had shown in the terminal window. Drag/drop in, reverse the order, apply order, start upload, hung. I killed the process, started over, it restored the queue and started the upload fine.
Glad it worked out. I'd hate the idea of manually renaming/rearranging thousand images.
Hungups happen. That's why the persistent queue is there to help you:-)
Hungups happen. That's why the persistent queue is there to help you
The persistent queue was a pleasant surprise. I didn't know it had that functionality. It asked me if I wanted to restore, I said yes and it was right back where I was before. Pretty nice.
The persistent queue was a pleasant surprise. I didn't know it had that functionality. It asked me if I wanted to restore, I said yes and it was right back where I was before. Pretty nice.
It's been done a while ago, sometime in summer methinks...:D
Star*Explorer: v.158 is here
It turned out the changes to the sales info HTML was deeper than I originally thought and my parser was still confused.
Fixed.
Just browsing through the forum and thought I would drop by to say thanks.
I am sure that I use Star Explorer much less frequently and intensively than most here. But when I do it never fails to cross my mind what a blessing it truly is! :ivar
Saves me a lot of time and effort. Thanks again, Nik.
Just browsing through the forum and thought I would drop by to say thanks.
I am sure that I use Star Explorer much less frequently and intensively than most here. But when I do it never fails to cross my mind what a blessing it truly is! :ivar
Saves me a lot of time and effort. Thanks again, Nik.
Great to hear something like this sometimes :-)
Thank you for using Star*Explorer!
And I have something to say back - check the next post:-)
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Thanks for the offer!
I think I will fix it over the weekend, but in case you're bored now:): - just get the script from the website, it's fairly simple, you'll see it.
Cheers, mate!
I have installed the latest version, had it get all albums and emptied the hash and re-logged in but I am still getting the same off and on issues. More often off then on.
Really sorry about this inconvenience.
It might have something to do with incorrect server responses.
I had similar exerience recently, but it was spotty to say the least. I'd say - it should come to normal over time.
Unfortunately, I don't have access to server's code, so at this point all I can do is to suggest to wait or contact smugmug R&D...
Recently ( don't know when, I only found it a couple days ago) smugmug online upload log access URL has been changed (again:-).
I figured I better update S*E before somebody except me notices it, too:-)
Latest version is ready for you on www.starexplorer.com
Nikolai,
I've searched the thread for this, but couldn't find an answer to this specific question...
I tend to upload my images to Smugmug and then caption them online. I find myself wanting from time to time to re-download my images, but with the caption data embedded in the image's IPTC fields. I know that Smugmug doesn't do this as a function of NOT modifying the original. However, this modified original is exactly what I need. Will S*E do this? Thanks!
-Greg
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Sorry, this request has certain technical implications that do not allow me to put it into the code right now (translation: too much trouble:-).
You can download both images info and images themselves and then run all kind of reports on them, of course, but the actual file modification - thus far I have been leaving it for the photo editors/managers...
However, if you are serious about this - drop me an email and we can discuss a few advanced options...
Thank you for using Star*Explorer!
Thanks for the quick response. I'd been looking for an excuse to start playing with REST, so if downloading albums with embedded IPTC data isn't available functionality yet, I'll start fiddling around. I'll let you know how things go, whether I have success or I get way in over my head.
-Greg
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Hi Nikolai
I stumbled across your software when i was trying to find out if Send to Smugmug could pass a proxy.
Your software is great. Esp the SSL option on upload, gets around our companys upload restrictions!! (((-:
Has made uploading etc much much easier, just wish i'd found it sooner..!!
Nice one Nikolai.
Regards
Mark.
Thank you very much for your kind words - and welcome to Dgrin!
John,
your email address shows permanent failure. I tried it several times from several accounts, it does not work.
Please contact me from a different email address so I can issue the license.
Thanks!
I use S*E to upload to Smugmug. I use Bridge/ACR/CS2 for preparing my images. I'm working on a large upload (1000 images spread across 15 galleries). I would like to do the upload in a way that causes the images to end up in the galleries sorted by the star rating in Adobe Bridge.
I have verfied that if I manually drag the images into S*E one at a time, S*E will upload them in that order and they will appear in that order in Smugmug (as long as you display in upload order).
But, if I multi-select a bunch of images in Bridge and drag those into S*E, they get reordered by filename in S*E and the Bridge sort order is not preserved. Obviously, it could be that Bridge is losing the sort order in the drag/drop info it passes to S*E or that S*E is resorting them - I can't tell who's changing it.
What would be the easiest way for me to get images from Bridge sorted by rating uploaded into a Smugmug gallery in the same sort order?
I've got nearly 1000 images across 15 galleries so I'm trying to avoid having to manually reorder them again.
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I do hear your pain. At this moment I don't have anything to offer except renaming files or manually adjusting them in SE que (or on SM site afterwards, using wonderful arrange mode). :cry
However: you did it again! Your questions made me realize that I *CAN* apply "bridge" sorting. I simply never looked into this aspect.
So, please rest assured, I will add this - rather useful, I agree - feature to one of my nearest releases.
Thank you!
Thanks for the inspiration!
OK, I guess I'll rename them in Bridge before dropping them into S*E. Is it S*E who's sorting by filename when they're dropped in?
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No sir, it's Bridge, (or Explorer, if you dragging or sending from windows directly). I do not have any control over the way it keeps its selected items in the memory.
However, as I said, I'll try to make this change to S*E asap, so if you're talking about renaming thousands of files and can wait a week or two - I'd wait:-)
HTH
I have to do my uploads this weekend. I can make do with the rename thing. I'll have to run a rename in Bridge in 15 different directories, then drop into S*E.
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Due to the changes to some SM HTML pages structure (and the lack of pertinent API), sales info-related functionality broke.
It's fixed now though:-) :ivar
Pro users, rejoice!
Ask and thou shalt recieve!
John (and everybody else:-), get the latest S*E and turn the Bridge sort usage ON (in Options, Conversion tab).
From now on S*E will take care of it for you :-)
I hope you didn't rename all your files yet:-)
Awesome! That is customer service. I'll give it a try soon. I haven't renamed anything yet.
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Maybe I'm not doing this right. I turn the Bridge sort option on in prefs, I sort by rating in Bridge, Select All in Bridge, then drag/drop those selected images into S*E, I was hoping it would preserve my Bridge sort order in S*E, but when I do it with build 157, S*E still sorts the images by filename order and assigns indexes to them in filename order.
Did I miss something?
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No, I simply didn't express myself clearly.
There is a "persistent" sorting, then one you get each time when you navigate to a folder. If you arrange your images with the mouse (like SM arrange mode) this order will be persistent. And this is the only info I know how to get access to.
So if you drag your images around in Bridge, it will remember this arrangement. Then S*E would pick up that "arranged" order on the inital add/drop.
HTH
I played with it and found a way how to do what you want.
- prepare your images
- sort them the way you want (that sorting mode will be checked)
- Drag at least ONE image around (You can return it to its old place immediately after that)
- Observe that sorting changed from whatever method you used on step 2 to "Manually".
- And guess what - now *this* is your manual order, i.e. the one that S*E would understand:-)
So all you need to do after sorting is a little manual shuffle - and you're home free:-)HTH
I appreciate you helping me out Nikolai, but Bridge appears to be screwing things up. I sort by Rating. I uncheck ascending order to get the highest rated images first. I drag one image to a slightly different position and this causes it to go to Manual in the menu, but also causes it to go back to ascending order with all the highest rated images last.
I can't seem to get it to go with highest rated images first and a manual sort without manually sorting each one into the preferred order (for 1000 pictures). So, it appears that Bridge won't let me switch to manual sort while keeping highest rated shots first. It looks like a Bridge bug to me, but it's currently blocking me from getting this to work.
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John,
I agree, that this is an inconsitent Bridge behaviour, BUT I still think you're OK:-)
I played with it again and it seems that the thing that screws the things up is that ascending flag. Here is how to overcome it.
Ahh. That seems to work - cool! Use S*E to reverse the order and avoid Bridge's bug - I get it.
The first time I tried this, S*E hung (completely non-responsive) right after I started the upload before anything had shown in the terminal window. Drag/drop in, reverse the order, apply order, start upload, hung. I killed the process, started over, it restored the queue and started the upload fine.
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Glad it worked out. I'd hate the idea of manually renaming/rearranging thousand images.
Hungups happen. That's why the persistent queue is there to help you:-)
Cheers!
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It's been done a while ago, sometime in summer methinks...:D
It turned out the changes to the sales info HTML was deeper than I originally thought and my parser was still confused.
Fixed.
No problems, no issues...
Just browsing through the forum and thought I would drop by to say thanks.
I am sure that I use Star Explorer much less frequently and intensively than most here. But when I do it never fails to cross my mind what a blessing it truly is! :ivar
Saves me a lot of time and effort. Thanks again, Nik.
Great to hear something like this sometimes :-)
Thank you for using Star*Explorer!
And I have something to say back - check the next post:-)