http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=75570

Since I'm still on XP, I wonder if somebody with S*E trial or a valid Vista-safe .SEL license can check if S*E is now capable of converting .CR2 into .JPG under Vista?

The acid test #1 is to add .CR2 to the list of acceptable file formats in Options|Upload, and then add a RAW file to the upload queue. If you highlight it and see an image - that's good news. Play with screen splitters and see it it scales up nicely - that's test #2.
Finally, clear the queue, go to the Options|Conversion tabe, add .CR2 to the list of files to be automatically converted to JPEG, click OK and add a .CR2 file into queue again.
If it's converted (shows as jpeg) - yay , you just got yourself a new nifty tool to add to your Rawflow :-)

John asked for the progress bar fix: done :-)

Also, image replace functionality wasn't working correctly if more than one previously uploaded image was added at a time (one by one was OK). Kinda broke the whole point.. Anyway, should be fixed now...

Nikolai:

I think my evaluation copy of Star*Explorer expired, so I'll have to ask here: S*E supports searching by Keywords, as well as Captions, yes?

So if you're displaying a view of all the photos across galleries with the keyword of "Noah", can you just "Select All" and choose to download the originals to your hard drive?

Also, to achieve this functionality, are you using the RSS feeds? Don claims that "Searching via the API has been there for years." But I have not been able to find this in the API.

Thanks!

--Darryl

Originally Posted by darryl Nikolai: I think my evaluation copy of Star*Explorer expired, so I'll have to ask here: S*E supports searching by Keywords, as well as Captions, yes? So if you're displaying a view of all the photos across galleries with the keyword of "Noah", can you just "Select All" and choose to download the originals to your hard drive? Also, to achieve this functionality, are you using the RSS feeds? Don claims that "Searching via the API has been there for years." But I have not been able to find this in the API. Thanks! --Darryl

Darryl,

1) yes, S*E supports searching by image keywords and/or captions (and few other things:-)
2) no, search is not linked to the image download, although I can see this could be a cool feature, so thank you for the idea!
3) no, it's not RSS-based. Yes, API has a lot to do with it, but there are non-API things that make S*E search fast and easy to use, wildcard search being just one of the things that no other tool/API has :-).

HTH

Well, guess what!
Darryl suggested a great idea to make Search results downloadable - and now they are.

If you run a search, you will notice that you can now download the albums/images found. It also allows you to download individual images, a feature that was not previously available. So if you need to download only some images for any album - search for the album name, include images into your search options, select the ones you want and hit Download Images button or select context menu command. Of course, all the download options are at your disposal.

Also: a minor bugfix for image replacement functionality: the replacement images were not shown properly in the queue preview.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

New version is available. Statistics download fix plus minor UI improvements.

Howdy-

So I wanted to move Star*Explorer from one machine to another. However I get a license error. I think it might be because I changed my e-mail address on SmugMug. What should I do to get it working again?

Originally Posted by BradfordBenn Howdy- So I wanted to move Star*Explorer from one machine to another. However I get a license error. I think it might be because I changed my e-mail address on SmugMug. What should I do to get it working again?

Brad, sorry about that, please drop me an email with the current singup info (acct/email) and I will send you a new license pronto..

Originally Posted by Nikolai Brad, sorry about that, please drop me an email with the current singup info (acct/email) and I will send you a new license pronto..

Nikolai-

As soon as I get away from work and to my personal machine I will send you that info.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by BradfordBenn Nikolai- As soon as I get away from work and to my personal machine I will send you that info. Thanks.

Kool!

Just to close the "ticket" so to speak. Nik got me sorted out. I can even run Star*Explorer using VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro running Leopard. It is pretty cool.

Originally Posted by BradfordBenn Just to close the "ticket" so to speak. Nik got me sorted out. I can even run Star*Explorer using VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro running Leopard. It is pretty cool.

Nice!
Thanks for the followup, Brad!

I share my Star Explorer upload bandwidth with a Voice Over IP line. When doing a large upload the telephone becomes useless. Conversations become garbled etc.

My router has DD-Wrt firmware, and I can set Quality of Service priorities for different traffic based on the ports used. It appears that Star Explorer uses the standard port 80 that is used for all web browsing. Is this correct?

I had hoped that it used port 20 or 21 like other FTP apps so that I could lower the priority. Here is what I am attempting to do

VOIP - Premium priority
www - Standard Priority for web browsing
ROES ftp torrents and Star Explorer - Low priority.

Any Ideas??

Originally Posted by tradbourne I share my Star Explorer upload bandwidth with a Voice Over IP line. When doing a large upload the telephone becomes useless. Conversations become garbled etc. My router has DD-Wrt firmware, and I can set Quality of Service priorities for different traffic based on the ports used. It appears that Star Explorer uses the standard port 80 that is used for all web browsing. Is this correct? I had hoped that it used port 20 or 21 like other FTP apps so that I could lower the priority. Here is what I am attempting to do VOIP - Premium priority www - Standard Priority for web browsing ROES ftp torrents and Star Explorer - Low priority. Any Ideas??

Yes, absolutely.
There is a bandwidth cap slider on the secondary (queue/upload) bar, as well as in options. IIRC it's fully available in trial and then becomes a part of the Power/Pro edition.
Please let me know if you have any more questions/concerns.
Thank you for trying Star*Explorer!

Some users experienced "handle in the wrong state" issue that would interrupt their uploads. While the root of the problem lies mostly outside of S*E grasp, I added a major switch that would allow S*E to automatically repeat an upload if there are still any (or a specified number) of files in the queue. So from now on you can just let it run and try untill it's al done.

This new version should also take care of the intermittent problem when S*E loses connection after some lengthy operations (multiple albums creation being one of them).

Please check the History and explore updated Options dialog (Connection tab) for the details.
Merry Christmas!

Arrgh... minor glitch in the "manual login" behaviour. Fixed.
Merry Christmas!

Thanks for keeping this updated. Time to go download.

Originally Posted by BradfordBenn Thanks for keeping this updated. Time to go download.

Thanks Brad,
but I hope you meant: time to upload with a new S*E !
Cheers!

Nik: any plans to support video upload? Tried uploading a basic video from the wife's P&S, and S*E b0rked on it.

I figured it would just upload the thing, with no attempt to convert...but no go. This happened to be an .avi from this camera, the other one does .mov.

Any chance you can offer the option to simply upload whatever file type I ask S*E to do, right or wrong?

Originally Posted by cmason Nik: any plans to support video upload? Tried uploading a basic video from the wife's P&S, and S*E b0rked on it. I figured it would just upload the thing, with no attempt to convert...but no go. This happened to be an .avi from this camera, the other one does .mov. Any chance you can offer the option to simply upload whatever file type I ask S*E to do, right or wrong?

Have you gone to the S*E preferences/upload screen and added *.avi to the allowable file types and then tried it. I don't "know" that that would work, but it sounds like it's worth a try. *.mpeg and *.mpg are already there.