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Craig White replied on September 23, 2009 20:04 to the problem "Unable to Export--Application not Responding" in Connected Flow:

My simple fix is to make sure I change the title of (at least) the first photo, in which case I can leave the "Copy title and description back to iPhoto" checked. If you don't change the title of the first photo you are uploading, however, it will still crash!

Craig White replied on June 13, 2009 19:59 to the update "FlickrExport 3.0.1 for iPhoto and Aperture" in Connected Flow:

Uh-oh. Methinks I spoke too soon, I've had another hang. It's now an intermittent thing, as it did go through twice since the aforementioned updates without new titles.

I'll just have to continue always changing the title of the first picture to make sure the batch goes through, 'tis all...

Craig White replied on June 12, 2009 19:27 to the update "FlickrExport 3.0.1 for iPhoto and Aperture" in Connected Flow:

An update Fraser: 7 days ago I updated to the latest patches, including iLife Support 9.0.3 and iPhoto 8.0.3... and my problems with not changing the photos titles seems to have gone away. Thought you might like to know that everything seems to work now!

Craig White replied on May 16, 2009 15:40 to the update "FlickrExport 3.0.1 for iPhoto and Aperture" in Connected Flow:

Hi Fraser - the latest: I just updated to Mac OS 10.5.7, and everything else has been running smoothly... so I thought I would try, just for the heck of it, to upload my first photos since then without changing the first title, and it crashed as it has always done for me. The work-around of changing the titls still allows uploads for me.

Craig White replied on May 05, 2009 05:58 to the update "FlickrExport 3.0.1 for iPhoto and Aperture" in Connected Flow:

Oh - sorry - never saw the "build a machine message" 'til just now. I have a 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro w 4GB of memory running 10.5.6, and iPhoto 8.0.2, build 402, so I'm right up to date.

Craig White replied on May 05, 2009 05:54 to the update "FlickrExport 3.0.1 for iPhoto and Aperture" in Connected Flow:

Hi Fraser, no, no other third-party plugins or extensions. I did have the problem again tonight when forgetting to change the title of the first image again.

Craig White replied on April 21, 2009 15:02 to the update "FlickrExport 3.0.1 for iPhoto and Aperture" in Connected Flow:

Hi Fraser,

I have installed the update and have run FlickrExport 3.0.1 twice now, the first time without making any changes to the title of the first image, to see if that would still hang FlickrExport and iPhoto. It did. The second time I made a change to the title of the first image and everything uploaded normally. So, users will still find that they must make a change to the title of the first image.

Craig White shared an idea in Connected Flow on March 24, 2009 17:01:

Use Flickr geotags to tag locations for iPhoto files.

I am interested in an application that would speed up my geotagging in iPhoto.

Over the years I have added geotags to over 6,000 of my photos in Flickr. Now that Apple includes geotagging in the latest iPhoto release, I would love it if an application existed that allowed me to geotag my photos in iPhoto from the versions that were put on Flickr. The most difficult aspect of this would be matching the files uploaded to Flickr with the originals located on my computer, but surely that is not an insurmountable problem. Even if this were application had to use a dialogue box to ask the user to confirm every single match it would still be far faster than having to find all of the geo-coordinates manually again. I am sure I am not the only person who would be interested in an application such as this!

Craig White replied on March 20, 2009 13:39 to the problem "Unable to Export--Application not Responding" in Connected Flow:

Time for another update.

After continued daily use of FlickrExport 3.0, with "Copy title and description back to iPhoto" still checked on, it continues to work without fail. That is, I now always change the title of the photos in FlickrExport. It only ever crashed if I did not change the title.

What is new is that for the first time since upgrading to 3.0, I created a new set for the photos to be loaded into in Flickr. The set was created, with the correct title, but the description I wrote did not make it to Flickr... and I wrote a good long description. That will need some attention from you guys.

Craig White replied on March 17, 2009 20:39 to the problem "Error Code: -1 + Feature Request" in Connected Flow:

I'd love to have that Save feature too for the times when Flickr is freaking out.

Craig White replied on March 13, 2009 18:57 to the problem "Unable to Export--Application not Responding" in Connected Flow:

After many more exports, still with "Copy title and description back to iPhoto" checked, I think I have cracked what makes it crash, and what doesn't: my experience, consistently repeatable, has been that it will crash if you have not changed the title. If you have a changed title, no crash.

I attempted many exports with all sorts of variables checked, unchecked, filled in, blank, in the dialogue box, but always with the "Copy title" preference in the default ON position, and the only consistent results have come from actually changing the title of the photo in FlickrExport. It works beautifully, as it should, when I do that.

Craig White replied on March 13, 2009 12:48 to the problem "I miss the tag list from FlickrExport 2" in Connected Flow:

Okay, well, I have now unchecked it, so I assume that log-in with Flickr will be shorter now, but it never did any auto-completing for me anyway. I have hundreds of tags. Is there a practical limit to how many tags one can have before that feature stops working?

Craig White replied on March 13, 2009 12:43 to the question "Feature change request: bigger thumbnails please!" in Connected Flow:

Thanks! Looking forward to 3.1! (Enjoy Italy!)

A comment on the problem "Unable to Export--Application not Responding" in Connected Flow:

Whoops! Now I have had it hang with multiple photos. Crap. – Craig White, on March 12, 2009 21:57

Craig White asked a question in Connected Flow on March 12, 2009 21:25:

Feature change request: bigger thumbnails please!

The thumbnails in FlickrExport 3.0 are tiny now, and with my particular workflow, it would help immensely to see a larger pic of the image when it is clicked on. I have been doing all my titling and describing in FlickrExport (it has been faster than doing it in iPhoto I have found) and I would like to still do that, but the thumbnails need to be bigger again to help differentiate similar shots!

Please consider what you could do in that regard!

Craig White replied on March 12, 2009 20:59 to the idea "How about using the GPS/Place data from iPhoto 09?" in Connected Flow:

Will it make any difference if we pile complaints on here about Apple denying location data to plugins? Could ConnectedFlow go to Apple and plead on our behalf? Or should we be grumbling at Apple ourselves? And where would we do that exactly?

Craig White started following the idea "How about using the GPS/Place data from iPhoto 09?" in Connected Flow.

Craig White replied on March 12, 2009 20:55 to the problem "I miss the tag list from FlickrExport 2" in Connected Flow:

I agree that the tag downloading was unnecessary... except I still see a dialogue box telling me that 3.0 is doing that when I connect to Flickr.

Craig White replied on March 12, 2009 20:52 to the problem "Unable to Export--Application not Responding" in Connected Flow:

I've been having the hanging problem... sometimes. Always when trying to send just one photo. On occasion when sending two photos. Never when sending more than that (although I have not tried every different number above two of course...)

I have not switched off the "Copy title etc to iPhoto" because, well, I want to copy it back. I certainly tried changing all the other settings in the FE dialogue box, but only sending multiple photos seems to keep it from hanging.

Using 10.5.6, iPhoto 8.0.1, FlickrExport 3.0 on a 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro.

Craig White started following the idea "Support for multiple Flickr accounts..." in Connected Flow.