Originally Posted by flyingpylon This seems to be a hot topic recently. Just to clarify, Smugmug Exporter does not allow you to download the actual images, just the image metadata (ID, size, caption, etc.).

I'm sorry, didn't mean to misinform..

Originally Posted by Nikolai Sorry about this.. Probably the cache problem.. Did you create the gallery from S*E?

Well, not exactly, as these are cats/subcats that were used before S*E. The new ones seem ok... well, sort of.

The most reliable way to clear the cache is to manually download *both* Albums and Galleries. I will (eventually) add some sort of utility button somewhere in Options. but for now this should do the job.

Ok, did that... seems to be working for the moment. Before trying this, it seemed to get worse. Every time I created a new gallery, I would have to download all galleries each time since it would revert to the old structure, and not show my new gallery. I just created several new ones to test (after downloading both as you asked) and it seems ok. The next time I batch upload and find the issue come up, I'll let you know.

Originally Posted by tmlphoto Nik, Any chance of future star*explorer version supporting some type of bulk downloading FROM smugmug. I know many people use smugmug as a backup system. I just recently had a total hard drive failure and want to download alot of pics from smugmug. I'd love to be able to do it without having to buy the backup DVDs.

Thomas,

I have been developing a Firefox extension for Smugmug, and I have the download functionality that you are looking. It is still kinda of in beta and I haven't done a general release, but if you are interested in trying it, send me a PM.

Cheers,

David

http://www.starexplorer.com

Improved registration logic, etc.

Originally Posted by Nikolai http://www.starexplorer.com Improved registration logic, etc.

Thanks Nik, hope you enjoyed your off-coding time!
The little doubleclick feature looks very useful, because it's faster than rightclick.
Maybe you could make it customizable either by letting the user choose between open album, open statistics and customize album?! Even better might be adding support for modifiers: shift+dblclick=statistics and ctrl+dblclick=album settings


Thanks!
Have a nice weekend,
Sebastian

Originally Posted by rainforest1155 Thanks Nik, hope you enjoyed your off-coding time! The little doubleclick feature looks very useful, because it's faster than rightclick. Maybe you could make it customizable either by letting the user choose between open album, open statistics and customize album?! Even better might be adding support for modifiers: shift+dblclick=statistics and ctrl+dblclick=album settings Thanks! Have a nice weekend, Sebastian

I was thinking about smth like that, I like your idea. Will do!

0:01:24: Started Gettings list of albums
0:01:24: Started Getting albums for My Smugmug
0:01:25: RPC-XML: invalid user (4)
0:01:25: Finished Getting albums for My Smugmug (0:00:01)
0:01:25: Trying to re-login
0:01:25: Started Getting albums for My Smugmug
0:01:25: RPC-XML: invalid user (4)
0:01:25: Finished Getting albums for My Smugmug (0:00:00)
0:01:25: Finished Gettings list of albums (0:00:01)


And when I went to create an album it also gave me an invalid user error too.... I can't do anything on it... I still have 13 days left for my trial-- what's going on?

Originally Posted by Shima 0:01:24: Started Gettings list of albums 0:01:24: Started Getting albums for My Smugmug 0:01:25: RPC-XML: invalid user (4) 0:01:25: Finished Getting albums for My Smugmug (0:00:01) 0:01:25: Trying to re-login 0:01:25: Started Getting albums for My Smugmug 0:01:25: RPC-XML: invalid user (4) 0:01:25: Finished Getting albums for My Smugmug (0:00:00) 0:01:25: Finished Gettings list of albums (0:00:01) And when I went to create an album it also gave me an invalid user error too.... I can't do anything on it... I still have 13 days left for my trial-- what's going on?

Sorry about the troubles..:-(
Did it work before and just stopped now, or you never had it working, period?
If it did, can you please veryfy that you can actually go to smugmug online (via browser) and do something with your account?
Lately several users experienced similar issues and on all accounts it was server-side problem, since their web access didn't work, too..:-(
With all that Rafael Nadal' success SM can be a bit slow lately...

For faster support please use support@starexplorer.com.
I may miss a post in a thread, but I never miss an email:-)
Thank you!

It worked without fault before... and then it just would not create albums or get albums without an invalid user error...

I still had complete functionality over my account on smugmug.com though, and was able to manually upload each file to the folder on there as a slower alternative...

It has magically started working like normal again now though, so now I am more confused as to why it temporarily didn't work! Who knows!?!

I will remember to email in the future.

One last quickie question- when my trial expires, if I don't purchase will I be locked out of using the program? I'll probably be purchasing it, but I was just wondering how that works. Thanks :)

Originally Posted by Nikolai Sorry about the troubles..:-( Did it work before and just stopped now, or you never had it working, period? If it did, can you please veryfy that you can actually go to smugmug online (via browser) and do something with your account? Lately several users experienced similar issues and on all accounts it was server-side problem, since their web access didn't work, too..:-( With all that Rafael Nadal' success SM can be a bit slow lately... For faster support please use support@starexplorer.com. I may miss a post in a thread, but I never miss an email:-) Thank you!

Originally Posted by Shima It worked without fault before... and then it just would not create albums or get albums without an invalid user error... I still had complete functionality over my account on smugmug.com though, and was able to manually upload each file to the folder on there as a slower alternative... It has magically started working like normal again now though, so now I am more confused as to why it temporarily didn't work! Who knows!?!

I'm not sure what is exact reason (most likely servers overload), but it's definitely server-side. As I mentioned before, several S*E/SM users had similar symptoms which were magically cured when the owner visited his/her SM account..

Originally Posted by Shima I will remember to email in the future.

Yes, please, way more reliable method:-)

Originally Posted by Shima One last quickie question- when my trial expires, if I don't purchase will I be locked out of using the program? I'll probably be purchasing it, but I was just wondering how that works. Thanks :)

Yes, once the trial expires it will simply stop working.
But hey, you still have 13 days or so left:-)
Not that it matters since it's a one time deal, you don't have to repurchase it every year (even though I would not mind:-)

Cheers!

Nikolai,
I just purchased a copy of star*explorer, but I forgot to input my smugmug account. One problem is that I use two of them. Will I have to purchase two licenses?

Thanks,
Winn

Originally Posted by winnjewett Nikolai, I just purchased a copy of star*explorer, but I forgot to input my smugmug account. One problem is that I use two of them. Will I have to purchase two licenses? Thanks, Winn

Thank you very much!

Yes, all you have to do is you need is to purchase an extra license (which is only 50% of the full price).

When you do it, please specify both accounts and also specify whether you need two separate license files (in case you are going to use them on different computers) or a single "combined" license, which would allow you to switch between the accounts on any PC.

HTH

Just discovered a S*E feature that's somehow in my way while figuring out a new way to presort my pictures, so they appear in a non-alphabetical order in the gallery.
When you drag in some files, S*E seems to sort this list alphabetically instead of leaving the order as it is. This is obsolete in my view, because you can easily do it afterwards with the S*E GUI.
Can you reproduce this and at least make it optional in the next release?

Thanks,
Sebastian

Originally Posted by rainforest1155 Just discovered a S*E feature that's somehow in my way while figuring out a new way to presort my pictures, so they appear in a non-alphabetical order in the gallery. When you drag in some files, S*E seems to sort this list alphabetically instead of leaving the order as it is. This is obsolete in my view, because you can easily do it afterwards with the S*E GUI. Can you reproduce this and at least make it optional in the next release? Thanks, Sebastian

It's not possible. Windows drag and drop works as a black box and gives me (an application programmer) absolutely no way to know in which order the files being dropped were originally selected. They always come sorted by name
That's why S*E has a full sleuth of ways to change and fix that order.
As a workaround (which I use sometimes) is simply drop files one by one in the order you want. This way they will acquire proper position in the queue from the very beginning.

Other than that - it's beyond my reach

HTH

Originally Posted by Nikolai It's not possible. Windows drag and drop works as a black box and gives me (an application programmer) absolutely no way to know in which order the files being dropped were originally selected. They always come sorted by name That's why S*E has a full sleuth of ways to change and fix that order. As a workaround (which I use sometimes) is simply drop files one by one in the order you want. This way they will acquire proper position in the queue from the very beginning. Other than that - it's beyond my reach HTH

But it does seem to work for PS. How did the Adobe guys do it?
I'll have a look around the net and will see if I can dig something up for you.

Sebastian

Originally Posted by rainforest1155 But it does seem to work for PS. How did the Adobe guys do it? I'll have a look around the net and will see if I can dig something up for you. Sebastian

If you're talking about filebrowser or bridge - then yes, they have total control.
But in windows explorer.. it's a different story :-(

If you find me wrong - I'll be very happy!

Originally Posted by Nikolai If you're talking about filebrowser or bridge - then yes, they have total control. But in windows explorer.. it's a different story :-( If you find me wrong - I'll be very happy!

No, I dragged some files over from my database (IMatch) directly into PS6. I see that the Windows Explorer doesn't do this, but there the files are sorted by name. In my database there's a sort mode where I can sort the pictures manually to fit my needs (Lighttable). It doesn't matter in which order I selected the pics, but in which order the picturelist is. So when I sort the files in my database after size and drag a couple over to PS they are in exactly the same order.
I can't reproduce this in the Windows Explorer (use it never anyways), but for example TC (written in Delphi) is doing it the same way as IMatch by sorting the drag and drop list after the current sortpreset in TC.

Hope this clears things up a bit,
Sebastian

Originally Posted by rainforest1155 No, I dragged some files over from my database (IMatch) directly into PS6. I see that the Windows Explorer doesn't do this, but there the files are sorted by name. In my database there's a sort mode where I can sort the pictures manually to fit my needs (Lighttable). It doesn't matter in which order I selected the pics, but in which order the picturelist is. So when I sort the files in my database after size and drag a couple over to PS they are in exactly the same order. I can't reproduce this in the Windows Explorer (use it never anyways), but for example TC (written in Delphi) is doing it the same way as IMatch by sorting the drag and drop list after the current sortpreset in TC. Hope this clears things up a bit, Sebastian

The order of the items in a standard issue drag-n-drop message (which S*E uses) is controlled by the source app (in our case - windows explorer). There is also another, more advanced drag-n-drop protocol, called "OLE drag-n-drop", but its implementation and usage is way more complicated (as practically everything with OLE:-).
Sorry, buddy, I guess it's not in the (nearest) stars :-)

Originally Posted by Nikolai The order of the items in a standard issue drag-n-drop message (which S*E uses) is controlled by the source app (in our case - windows explorer). There is also another, more advanced drag-n-drop protocol, called "OLE drag-n-drop", but its implementation and usage is way more complicated (as practically everything with OLE:-). Sorry, buddy, I guess it's not in the (nearest) stars :-)

Okay, I see your point. The whole thing isn't top priority, but it would be nice to have. It looks that TC is using OLE and so IMatch most certainly does it too.

What about a compromise by adding the possebility to drop listfiles on S*E which just contain the filenames in the desired order?!
From my non-programmers standpoint this should be easy to do? And I'm not asking for a csv-import feature - just a txt files with path+filename.

Thanks a lot,
Sebastian

Originally Posted by rainforest1155 Okay, I see your point. The whole thing isn't top priority, but it would be nice to have. It looks that TC is using OLE and so IMatch most certainly does it too. What about a compromise by adding the possebility to drop listfiles on S*E which just contain the filenames in the desired order?! From my non-programmers standpoint this should be easy to do? And I'm not asking for a csv-import feature - just a txt files with path+filename. Thanks a lot, Sebastian

I see what I can do about it:-)