Expono Downloader (beta) - Ready for Testing

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The Expono Downloader for Windows, Mac and Linux is ready to be tested!

This is a very simple application that let's you download all your photos with one click, or select photos from a specific album to download. Auto-organize your photos in folders based on the album structure on expono. Cancels download without corrupting downloads. Choose to save the files in the Original Filename or the Expono Filename (global unique).

The purpose of this app is to make it easy to restore lost photos, or just retrieve all your originals from Expono. Future releases might include more advanced features such as, the ability to download meta data (comments, tags etc) related to a photo. Or, even download photos from friends accounts. But for now, it's a "insurance" app for our users to easily restore the content they upload. Using Expono as an online backup now makes more sense with this application available.

System Requirements:

Windows

Windows XP

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Mac OS X

Power PC / Intel Macs

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Linux

x86-based Linux dists with GTK+ 2.8 (or higher)

glibc-2.4

CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System)

libstdc++.so.6

Internally we have tested the Downloader on Leopard/Snow Leopard, Ubuntu 9.10, and Windows 7.

Known Issues

Currently crashes on Linux if you try to download files to a folder you don't have write access to

How can I help?
First and foremost, find bugs. We won't add more features in v1.0. Feature request are however welcome for v2.0. Ok, got it. What can fail?

- Weird characters in albums/photos behave differently on different operating systems.
- Unexpected data response from the servers which caused by weirdness in your accounts.

Who can run this app?
Currently, everyone with a PLUS account and BETA flagged user. Currently we have BETA flagged all PLUS users (a little pen and green bug is displayed on your profile photo)

Download Links
Expono Downloader for Windows v0.9.4-beta

Expono Downloader for Linux v0.9.4-beta

Expono Downloader for Mac OS X v0.9.4-beta

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Belinda Isabell Klein (Employee) December 04, 2009 22:02

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Kai Andresen December 05, 2009 12:01

Just tested downloading one of my albums, worked like a charm! This is really great! Now Expono turned into a very good backup solution for my jpeg image files, wonderful!

I used Ubuntu 9.10

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Just tested downloading one of my albums, worked like a charm! This is really great! Now Expono turned into a very good backup solution for my jpeg image files, wonderful! I used Ubuntu 9.10

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andreas.diederich December 05, 2009 13:36

Hey! Cool downloadapp. Unfortunately I got some problems when trying to download my first album.
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- andreas.diederich December 05, 2009 13:43
  
  Can these bracket signs be the source to my problems?
  
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- Magnus Jonsson (Official Rep) December 05, 2009 13:56
  
  Maybe or folder rights. Which OS do you run?
  
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- Magnus Jonsson (Official Rep) December 05, 2009 14:00
  
  The problem is that it can't create the file. There are two reasons for that. 1) Invalid characters. 2) Write access denied. In you case I believe it has to do with write access. Try changing download path.
  
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Hey! Cool downloadapp. Unfortunately I got some problems when trying to download my first album. <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/satisfaction-production/s3_images/129258/expono_downloadfail.JPG"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/satisfaction-production/s3_images/129258/expono_downloadfail_inline.JPG" alt="" /></a>

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andreas.diederich December 05, 2009 14:16

Thanx for quick reply! I think i found the reason! It's related to the bracket signs, beacause I managed to download all my other albums that doesn't include bracket signs in the folder name! FYI i run Win XP on a small netbook:-)
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- Magnus Jonsson (Official Rep) December 05, 2009 14:36
  
  Thanks for letting us know :) We simply have to create a function to remove illegal chars if found. It all depends on the OS and filesystem. Example: Brackets under OSX is perfectly valid.
  
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- Magnus Jonsson (Official Rep) December 05, 2009 15:07
  
  I got a fix for it now :) Will do some testing and wait to see if some more issues pops up
  
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Thanx for quick reply! I think i found the reason! It's related to the bracket signs, beacause I managed to download all my other albums that doesn't include bracket signs in the folder name! FYI i run Win XP on a small netbook:-)

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andreas.diederich December 05, 2009 16:15

That sounds great! Just ask if you need further help "bug-hunting" in this nice Expono Downloader :)

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Anders Bjørnstad December 05, 2009 16:49

I just downloaded one of my albums, and it worked out great! I do however have a couple of enhancement requests for future releases.

1. Make it optional to remember the username when logging in to the download application.
2. Not only download albums, but be able to download by tags, locations, favorites, people in photo ++ as well.
3. Make it optional to download the photos in different resolutions.

Keep up the great work guys (you too Belinda)!
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- Magnus Jonsson (Official Rep) December 07, 2009 17:48
  
  Duly noted :-)
  
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I just downloaded one of my albums, and it worked out great! I do however have a couple of enhancement requests for future releases. 1. Make it optional to remember the username when logging in to the download application. 2. Not only download albums, but be able to download by tags, locations, favorites, people in photo ++ as well. 3. Make it optional to download the photos in different resolutions. Keep up the great work guys (you too Belinda)!

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Magnus Jonsson (Official Rep) December 07, 2009 23:02

Here is a new updated version of the Downloader which fixes all reported issues:

- Stripped invalid characters in albums to be compliant on all operating systems according to the list of reserved characters here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename

- Proper folder writable rights checking on all operating systems

Expono Downloader for Windows v0.9.5-beta

Expono Downloader for Linux v0.9.5-beta

Expono Downloader for Mac OS X v0.9.5-beta

If no new issues are reported in a couple of days this release will turn into version 1.0

Thanks for your help :-)

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Here is a new updated version of the Downloader which fixes all reported issues: - Stripped invalid characters in albums to be compliant on all operating systems according to the list of reserved characters here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename - Proper folder writable rights checking on all operating systems <a href="http://updates.expono.com/expono-downloader/ExponoDownloader_Windows_0.9.5-beta.exe">Expono Downloader for Windows v0.9.5-beta</a> <a href="http://updates.expono.com/expono-downloader/ExponoDownloader_Linux_0.9.5-beta.tar.gz">Expono Downloader for Linux v0.9.5-beta</a> <a href="http://updates.expono.com/expono-downloader/ExponoDownloader_OSX_0.9.5-beta.zip">Expono Downloader for Mac OS X v0.9.5-beta</a> If no new issues are reported in a couple of days this release will turn into version 1.0 Thanks for your help :-)

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