Jeff Groves's dashboard

Jeff Groves replied on July 07, 2009 19:22 to the question "Brightkite crashes on iPod Touch when you view some profile photos" in Brightkite:

That's what I was thinking once I figured out that it was related to large image files. Not sure how you would prevent the problem aside from preventing large image files from being used for profile pictures or to do some real-time image resizing on the server side before they are sent to the iphone/ipod.

Jeff Groves replied on July 07, 2009 16:41 to the question "Brightkite crashes on iPod Touch when you view some profile photos" in Brightkite:

OK, after more experimenting, it seems that only pictures that are very high resolution cause the app to crash. So, pictures that are of dimensions of approximately 3056px × 2292px or approximately 818.2 KB in size cause this crash to occur

Jeff Groves marked one of Tony Hillerson's replies in Brightkite as useful. Tony Hillerson replied to the question "Brightkite crashes on iPod Touch when you view some profile photos".

Jeff Groves replied on July 07, 2009 16:09 to the question "Brightkite crashes on iPod Touch when you view some profile photos" in Brightkite:

Yes, I had WiFi access. I've recreated the issue after a complete power-cycle of the ipod touch as well.

The symptoms are that you click on the icon of the photo, the photo seems to download, then milliseconds after the picture in high resolution is displayed the app crashes.

Jeff Groves replied on July 07, 2009 16:06 to the question "Brightkite crashes on iPod Touch when you view some profile photos" in Brightkite:

Actually, it seems to crash on most all pictures when you tap on the small picture to be able to view the larger picture that is provided in the person's profile.

This seems to have started happening since the last update of Brightkite about a day or two ago.

Jeff Groves asked a question in Brightkite on July 07, 2009 16:03:

Brightkite crashes on iPod Touch when you view some profile photos

Why does Brightkite crash on iPod Touch when you view some profile photos?

Jeff Groves replied on July 05, 2009 03:53 to the question "FlickrExport says "connection failed" / "server may not exist"" in Connected Flow:

I'm on iPhoto `08 version 7.1.5 (378)

Jeff G.

P.S.: Not to trivialize the issue at hand, but there is an open source exporter for iPhoto that uploads to Menalto Gallery that doesn't have the same issue, and it's open source. You might take a peek under the hood and see how they resolved the issue with iPhoto `08 that you mention ... http://zwily.com/iphoto/

Jeff Groves replied on July 04, 2009 00:10 to the question "FlickrExport says "connection failed" / "server may not exist"" in Connected Flow:

Fraser, there is obviously an issue with V3 where the scripting is such that it's running through the entire list of possible photos in the iPhoto library instead of just the pictures that have been selected for export.

We've tried everything that has been suggested, and they've not worked.

It's time to get into the code and figure this problem out and stop trying to point fingers elsewhere.

Jeff Groves replied on May 21, 2009 17:19 to the question "FlickrExport says "connection failed" / "server may not exist"" in Connected Flow:

I don't get a File Sharing dialog pop-up at all. I get an error message from iphoto itself that the a photo isn't available and if I want to find it. Since the photo that its complaining about isn't one that I've chosen to export, I just click "Cancel" to the pop-up.

Here are the steps that I follow:

1. I start iphoto


2. I select a few photos to upload (these photos are actually on the machine and editable)


3. I select Export from the menu


4. I click on the tab for FlickrExport


5. FlickrExport logs in to my account successfully


6. I choose to export to "stream and set"


7. When I click on the "Export" button, I begin to get the error messages from iphoto that some other picture (one that I haven't even selected to export) isn't available and do I want to try to find it or cancel


8. I have to hit cancel to this message once for each missing photo in my iphoto library (even if the reference to the photo is in my Trash folder in iphoto!) while it prepares each photo and once for each missing photo when it finally starts trying to upload the photos that I've actually selected.


9. Eventually all of the photos that I have selected get uploaded, but the number of times that I have to hit Cancel is huge.

Jeff Groves replied on May 05, 2009 00:54 to the question "FlickrExport says "connection failed" / "server may not exist"" in Connected Flow:

Log file from iphoto just before I had to kill it because FlickrExporter was repeatedly telling me it could not connect:

May 4 09:25:46 TUSMA03MLKVT02K iPhoto[10688]: *** WARNING: Method dragImageForRows:event:dragImageOffset: in class NSTableView is deprecated on 10.4 and later. It should not be used in new applications. Use dragImageForRowsWithIndexes:tableColumns:event:offset: instead.

Is this something of interest here?

Jeff Groves replied on May 04, 2009 17:53 to the problem "FlickrExport 3 for iPhoto unusable when away from home LAN even when I'm exporting pictures on the local hard drive" in Connected Flow:

OK, this is a dupe of this one, but the issue still stands.

Why does FlickrExport 3 fail when I'm trying to export photos that actually are on my local hard drive and not on a disconnected shared network drive? Other export plug-ins for gallery and Facebook do not have this issue in the same circumstances.

Jeff Groves replied on May 04, 2009 17:46 to the question "FlickrExport says "connection failed" / "server may not exist"" in Connected Flow:

I am having the same issue. What I do not understand is why I get this error message when I'm not trying to export files that are on my file sharing server.

Apparently FlickrExport 3 for iPhoto runs through the entire list of photos in iPhoto before trying to export just the pictures that I've selected.

Why does it do that? Why not just work with the pictures that have actually been selected instead of running through all of my iPhoto entries.

The exporter for gallery and for Facebook work just fine when I export only selected photos that are local hard drive from iPhoto. It's only FlickrExport 3 that fails.

Jeff Groves reported a problem in Connected Flow on May 04, 2009 17:26:

FlickrExport 3 for iPhoto unusable when away from home LAN even when I'm exporting pictures on the local hard drive

FlickrExport 3 for iPhoto goes into an apparent infinite loop that complains that my connection has failed when I use FlickrExport 3 for iPhoto away from my home LAN