Picasa Uploader problems.

JohnBiggsJohnBiggs Registered Users Posts: 841 Major grins
edited December 9, 2008 in SmugMug Support
If I try to upload a large number of images using picasa (over 100), after lots of waiting and everything looking like it's working, the confirmation page says 0 images uploaded. The error log has no errors either!

It takes a long time to upload the images just to find out that it failed. At least figure out what the limit is and put a warning to the user.

Thanks,
John
Canon Gear: 5D MkII, 30D, 85 1.2 L, 70-200 2.8 IS L, 17-40mm f4 L, 50 1.4, 580EX, 2x 580EXII, Canon 1.4x TC, 300 f4 IS L, 100mm 2.8 Macro, 100-400 IS L
Other Gear: Olympus E-PL1, Pan 20 1.7, Fuji 3D Camera, Lensbaby 2.0, Tamron 28-75 2.8, Alien Bees lighting, CyberSyncs, Domke, HONL, FlipIt.
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Comments

  • rynosharkrynoshark Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited June 12, 2008
    I get exactly the same behavior, anyone know what is going on and how to fix this? I want to use Picasa to bulk upload a bunch of photos. Thanks!
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited June 12, 2008
    The problem is the way Picasa handles uploading images. It bundles all the images up in a single POST...which means if your connection fails at any point during that upload basically none of the images are uploaded.

    While putting in limits seems like a good thing to do, it doesn't mean that you won't experience the problem before you reach that limit...and other users are limited where they may have never had an issue at all.

    I have some ideas for a slightly different implementation which I will look into after the project I am currently working on.

    For the time being if you are having issues, I suggest that you attempt to self regulate the number of images you are uploading in a single batch.

    Cheers,

    David
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • pancamopancamo Registered Users Posts: 55 Big grins
    edited July 8, 2008
    All 0 of your photos were uploaded
    Success!
    All 0 of your photos were uploaded.

    This is annoying... I've spend 2 days trying to upload 400 pics and each time I get success followed by the Success! note above...
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    It would be nice if the picasa uploader uploaded one at a time and picked up where it left off...

    It would also be nice if the upload process discarded duplicated files..


    devbobo wrote:
    The problem is the way Picasa handles uploading images. It bundles all the images up in a single POST...which means if your connection fails at any point during that upload basically none of the images are uploaded.

    While putting in limits seems like a good thing to do, it doesn't mean that you won't experience the problem before you reach that limit...and other users are limited where they may have never had an issue at all.

    I have some ideas for a slightly different implementation which I will look into after the project I am currently working on.

    For the time being if you are having issues, I suggest that you attempt to self regulate the number of images you are uploading in a single batch.

    Cheers,

    David
    Dan Pancamo Photography
  • darryldarryl Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
    edited December 5, 2008
    Guh, the > 100 bug bit me today. So annoying! Any progress on a fix?

    On the positive side, with Picasa 3, it looks like Videos can now be uploaded to SmugMug. Woohooooo!
  • JohnBiggsJohnBiggs Registered Users Posts: 841 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2008
    I switched to lightroom and I use the lightroom uploader. It's so much better that lightroom is worth buying.

    Only thing I hate about the lightroom uploader is the developer makes it expire every 2-3 weeks. Talk about being on a deadline and dealing with upgrading plug ins and his unreliable web site... arghh
    Canon Gear: 5D MkII, 30D, 85 1.2 L, 70-200 2.8 IS L, 17-40mm f4 L, 50 1.4, 580EX, 2x 580EXII, Canon 1.4x TC, 300 f4 IS L, 100mm 2.8 Macro, 100-400 IS L
    Other Gear: Olympus E-PL1, Pan 20 1.7, Fuji 3D Camera, Lensbaby 2.0, Tamron 28-75 2.8, Alien Bees lighting, CyberSyncs, Domke, HONL, FlipIt.
    ~ Gear Pictures
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