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Flickrexport tries to replace photo deleted from Flickr - Can't Find!
Hi, this could be user error, but first time this combination of circumstances occurred, but basically an Export from Aperture failed halfway through and it was easier for me to kill the files and collection at the Flickr End than work out which files were missing and do a partial re-upload.
However, each time i ran the FlickrExport it would eventually fail with a 'photo not found' error and a list of files that it could not find, which threw me as all the Aperture Masters and Previews where present and working, not referenced Masters or anything like that.
Eventually I tracked that for each photo that I was uploading the 'replace existing photo on Flickr' tickbox was ticked (done automatically), knowing that that photo had already been uploaded it was trying to replace, except of course it couldn't because I'd deleted it from Flickr (hence the user error comment as I've never noticed this feature before so I *could* have solved the original issue differently), which I assume is the reference to 'not found'. Manually unticking the 'replace' box in the Flickrexport dialogue for each image appears to have worked so I'm up and running again.
I assume somewhere that Flickrexport caches a list of files it's uploaded? Either that of Flickr is giving you duff info because the images don't exist at that end any more. Regardless if you weren't already aware of this figured I'd post as a bug, or at least something that probably needs to be handled better.
Setup is;
Aperture 2.1
FlickrExport 1.0.9
Leopard 10.5.5
However, each time i ran the FlickrExport it would eventually fail with a 'photo not found' error and a list of files that it could not find, which threw me as all the Aperture Masters and Previews where present and working, not referenced Masters or anything like that.
Eventually I tracked that for each photo that I was uploading the 'replace existing photo on Flickr' tickbox was ticked (done automatically), knowing that that photo had already been uploaded it was trying to replace, except of course it couldn't because I'd deleted it from Flickr (hence the user error comment as I've never noticed this feature before so I *could* have solved the original issue differently), which I assume is the reference to 'not found'. Manually unticking the 'replace' box in the Flickrexport dialogue for each image appears to have worked so I'm up and running again.
I assume somewhere that Flickrexport caches a list of files it's uploaded? Either that of Flickr is giving you duff info because the images don't exist at that end any more. Regardless if you weren't already aware of this figured I'd post as a bug, or at least something that probably needs to be handled better.
Setup is;
Aperture 2.1
FlickrExport 1.0.9
Leopard 10.5.5
I’m really not sure it makes me emotional!
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Inappropriate?FlickrExport only offers the option to replace if the photo being exported has a "Flickr ID" metadata tag in the Aperture database. At the moment, it doesn't check if that photo still exists on Flickr, and that's where this error is coming from.
FYI, you can select all the thumbnails in the list and set them to be uploaded rather than replaced.
I’m appreciating your emotional detachment :-)
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Inappropriate?Ah, was half way there, knew it would be something like that. Not played with the betas of FlickrExport 3, but if this is handled in the same way can I suggest a better error handling routine and/or message at a minimum. Might have been having a bad day, but to me saying "Can't find Photo" wasn't intuitive that it was the Flickr end.
Also the end result was that the photo doesn't get uploaded, overwrite or not, which is definitely not what I was after!
I’m feeling a little silly :-)
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Inappropriate?I think I can probably have FlickrExport preflight the existence of photos on Flickr before attempting a replacement. Ticket filed!
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