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Though it looks quite nice, I've experienced several issues since downloading the recent version (I'm running a Macbook Pro, Leopard, with 2gigs of RAM):

• When launching the app for the first time, it never opened the interface window, just hung there. A restart resolved this, though I'm not sure if it will happen again


• The Upload Photos button didn't initially show up at all. I had to add several photos into the queue before the button appeared.


• Uploads do not always complete, but there is no status

I want to upgrade back to my pro account, but I can't ever get through the payment process. I want to pay with paypal. I get to the screen that says "How would you like to pay for this service?" and select the paypal radio button then hit the "Continue" button. It turns gray, and nothing happens. Any clue about what's going on? I'm using the Safari browser.

I just posted this issue to the official Uploadr 3 thread in the Flickr forums, but I never go over there unless I'm having a problem, and this one's so sneaky I'm surprised I even noticed.

I found a while ago that when uploading photos via the "Send to Flickr" shell extension, I wouldn't get an upload button. Easy enough, just relaunch the application and it shows up. But it looks like after Uploadr enters this state, all photos in that batch and all subsequent batches are uploaded with the sneaky "hide this photo from public searches" setting enabled, even though the default setting shows in the UI. Restart the application and launch the executable normally and the setting will behave as expected.

To see if this has happened to any of your photos, scroll down to the bottom of your photo page and click the "flag this photo" link to see if the checkbox is enabled.

There is discussion in the linked thread that there is a way to use the Organizr to change this setting for multiple photos at once, but I haven't been able to find it yet.

On some of my photos there are tags that, when clicked, lead to a page that says I have no photos with that tag. It's a very odd bug, given that the error is demonstrably and logically untrue, but there it is.

TO see an example of this bug, try clicking on any of the tags on this photo:
http://flickr.com/photos/muller/28250...

The concept behind the Upload to Blog feature is great. I use it to moblog: take photo on cameraphone, send it to special Flickr email address, Flickr adds photo to my photostream and also sends it as a post to my blog.

Unfortunately the "sends it as a post to my blog" part only works for me about 50% of the time. Anyone know why that is?

Keep getting mails back from www100.flickr.mud.yahoo.com:

This is the Postfix program at host www100.flickr.mud.yahoo.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The Postfix program

<photos@www100.flickr.mud.yahoo.com> (expanded from
<*snipped*@photos.flickr.com>): Command died with status 1: "/usr/bin/php
-d log_errors=On -d error_log=/var/log/mail_handler.log
/var/www/html/www.flickr.com/mail/handler.php 2&>1". Command output: sh: 1:
No such file or directory
</postmaster>

I reported this in shoZu too but that place seems like its dead.

As of yesterday (2008-09-11) My shozu uploads have not been posting to flickr. I was wondering if

a) other users have been experiencing this problem.
b) if there was an known outage.

My flickr username is Chris1051

i had a yahoo account "hellocamerashy" linked it up with flickr, then i deleted it a few years ago. so now when i want to use a different yahoo account with flickr with the same email, it kept asking me to log into "hellocamerashy" to reset the settings. but i am unable to log in since the account has already been removed.

flickr uploadr for blackberry has bugs. when i load a picture to upload on my blackberry curve, it keeps the description info, and the tags from the picture before, and doesn't have the general editing functions menu like "cut, paste, clear field, select" to easily erase and retype the info for the new picture.