Export to PicasaWeb Changelog

What's new in Export to PicasaWeb 20150126.277

Jan 29, 2015
  • Added support for the {People} template token, which works in conjunction with my People Support plugin to automatically include in upload captions and the like the names and/or ages of people in a photo.
  • Fix to the date_diff() function supported by the LUA template token.
  • The Plugin-Extras dialog to resend metadata could allow the [Resend] button to be pressed when no metadata was selected, resulting in confusion.
  • Updated the camera-name code to try to guess the actual camera model of Hasselblad H5D files, since in their infinite wisdom Hasselblad decided to encode three distinct models with the same internal code, making it impossible to know for sure what camera produced a given image file.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20131106.251 (Jan 27, 2014)

  • A complete overhaul of the "Associate Images Automatically" code (in File > Plugin Extras > PicasaWeb Extras). It's still a fragile process, but it might work a bit better now.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130822.244 (Aug 23, 2013)

  • Added the ability to import captions and map location from PicasaWeb back into Lightroom.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130820.243 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Made big updates to the "Export with Smart Previews?" section; you can now pick to be asked whether to export via Smart Previews, and can differentiate between when the Smart Previews are "good enough" for an export and when they are not.
  • Fixed the KW/KWE tables in template tokens; they had been broken when using load for the script.
  • Better handle very long user account names, so that the [Logout] button doesn't get cut off of the Export dialog.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130701.241 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • Work around a bug that causes the export-related progress bar to not show up right away.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130531.235 (Jun 4, 2013)

  • Made the "fetch my list of albums" operation substantially more efficient for users with a lot of G+ shares.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130524.234 (May 27, 2013)

  • Apparently, a recent change broke things on Lr2, which some folks apparently still use.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130520.233 (May 21, 2013)

  • Added the ability in Lr5 to export images even if the master image file is not available, so long as there's a smart preview available.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130501.232 (May 1, 2013)

  • Update for Lr5

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130412.231 (Apr 16, 2013)

  • Fix to the Twitter fix.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130328.229 (Mar 30, 2013)

  • Fix for the registration system.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130319.228 (Mar 19, 2013)

  • Export could crash if a too-big-for-the-remote-service video upload was attempted.
  • Fixed a possible plugin crash in Lr2 that might happen if the remote site's servers are failing.
  • The account upgrade from "PicasaWeb" to "G+" that Google forces requires Lightroom support not found in Lr2, so tell the user that instead of just crashing.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130214.226 (Feb 19, 2013)

  • Small fix for Lr2

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130206.224 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Update the Twitter-related code to handle their new API. Their old API goes away next month.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20130201.223 (Feb 4, 2013)

  • Added the ability to use "automatic destinations" (the naming of target galleries based upon image metadata) in Publish. It's been in Export for years (as illustrated in this 2008 article on backing up), and you must create the destination presets from Export, but you can now access them in Publish.
  • Added the ability to set the caption on a one-off basis by just typing it in, avoiding the need to make a preset each time.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20121222.222 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Seems there's a Lightroom bug for Lr4.3 on Windows tickled by the previous update, causing an error when uploading a replacement. This update untickles the bug.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20121220.221 (Dec 21, 2012)

  • A lot of work on the upload data path, making it more efficient and restoring the ability to retry the attempt on certain errors.
  • For Lr4.3 and later, greatly enhanced the efficiency of replace operations (e.g. when republishing an image).
  • Added automatic retry for the new mysterious Google response “UNAVAIL (GumbyTask: Fife status=APPLICATION_ERROR, message=/BlobService.CreateBlob to 10.165.81.9:4616 : APP_ERROR(7) MigrationProxy BaseOperation rejected because maximum thread pool capacity was reached.)”.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20121203.219 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Add a link to the FAQ for the "missing destination cookies" error.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20121020.218 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • A recent optimization for Lr4 broke support for Lr2.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20121017.217 (Oct 17, 2012)

  • Plugin was blocking export due to DPX-video format in some cases where Lightroom didn't allow the format to be changed.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20121014.216 (Oct 16, 2012)

  • Added a help dialog when encountering the mysterious 'handle in the wrong state' error.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20121010.215 (Oct 10, 2012)

  • Fixed Twitter authentication.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20121009.214 (Oct 9, 2012)

  • Workaround for an "attempt to call field 'getProgressScope'" bug introduced in Lr4.2.
  • Enhance the {EMPTY} template token so that it interrupts the squelching of superfluous joining characters.
  • Disallow DPX-format video export, since that totally breaks things.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20121002.213 (Oct 2, 2012)

  • Keywords weren't being sent properly... likely broken since v209.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120902.212 (Sep 3, 2012)

  • Fixed some issues surrounding the "Create Album" dialog in Publish.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120820.211 (Aug 21, 2012)

  • Updates to the environment in the {LUA} token (in the template tokens in my plugins) to include photoTime() and currentTime(), and other changes to match the updated docs at that link..

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120816.209 (Aug 17, 2012)

  • Throw an error if a caption is longer than Google allows, or if an image has too many keywords.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120723.208 (Jul 24, 2012)

  • Fix (I hope) a "attempt to index a nil value" error.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120722.207 (Jul 23, 2012)

  • Better reporting when you're out of quota at Google when trying to replace an image.
  • Oops, a side-effect of recent changes caused the log to bloat with a binary dump of exported images. Fixed.
  • Wow, it seems some people using Lr2 are still using very old versions of Lr2 that aren't up to snuff feature/bugfix wise. I don't want to support gratuitously old stuff, so I put a minimum of Lr2.6 to use the plugin.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120702.206 (Jul 3, 2012)

  • Previous change had broken the ability to edit smart-collection rules.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120626.205 (Jun 26, 2012)

  • In Lr4+ you can now create albums from the publish-service context menu, and also create "collections sets" for local organization of your publish collections. (You can't possibly imagine how difficult something so seemingly simple was to fit into Lightroom's Publish infrastructure.)

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120614.204 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • Twitter support now allows suppressing "Private" geoencoded locations in Lr4.1+

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120604.202 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • It seems that Google creates a lot of spurious internal-use albums for some G+ users; these are now omitted from the album list shown in the plugin.
  • Discovered that the plugin was being inefficient when it fetched the album list from Google, doing so twice in a row. Now doing it just once, and in a much more efficient way to boot.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120601.201 (Jun 1, 2012)

  • A corrupt image date could crash the upload at Google.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120530.200 (May 31, 2012)

  • New upload engine in Lr4.1 that greatly increases the efficiency of large uploads. In Lr4.0 and older versions, upload handling is inefficient and large uploads can crash Lightroom, but from Lr4.1 you can easily upload up to PicasaWeb's max 20MB images and 100MB videos. (Note: PicasaWeb advertises videos up to 1GB, but you get that only when uploaded via the Picasa desktop app. The limit to third-party apps like this plugin is currently 100MB)
  • Due to remaining limitations in Lightroom, the plugin can use this more-efficient method only for initial image/video uploads, and not for replacements. The big win is for initial video uploads, so this is not a huge setback because Google doesn't allow videos to be replaced anyway (the plugin continues to silently ignores video updates).
  • With Lr4.1 and later, you also get an upload percent-complete report in the task progress bar, and the ability for upload cancels to take effect immediately.
  • Also added the ability to control whether geoencoded locations are sent along with the photo to PicasaWeb, and from Lr4.1 proper (the actual Lr4.1, not the 4.1RCs), the plugin knows whether a photo's location has been marked as private, so the plugin can now respond to that and exclude the geoencoded location in such situations. Options have been added to export and to metadata-resend operations; they default to excluding private locations.
  • Update to handle the Mac App Store version of Lightroom.

New in Export to PicasaWeb 20120508.199 (May 18, 2012)

  • Lr2 registrations were broken again.