Flickr Uploadr V3

melekalikimaka

nyone else having issues with this, it keeps stopping uploading after a few pics. Its rediculously bloated now also for its job ugh

rymus

(and I know this won't help your situation much)

In case anyone was wondering, the new mac version of the flickr uploadr is even better than the old version. It truly is a beautiful piece of software.

In the interests of bug testing, I'll download the windows version in a minute and see if I can make it stall..

rymus

Right.. mine crapped out after not even doing 1 photo with a helpful "Heuston we have a problem" error. It's blaming my internet connection but I doubt thats the problem as it's a 30mbit fibre connection. Only oddity I can think of is that it's pulling the photos from a local NAS so maybe that's causing a timeout...

melekalikimaka

ah so its not me

rymus

nope.. definately not. Just trying another upload of a 77mb batch of photos now. each one is approx 4/5mb. It's incredibly slow to draw thumbnails when bringing the photos into uploadr and it's uploading incredibly slowly.

Maybe heavy traffic or other network problems with flickr uploads at the moment?

CraggyIslander

try uploading 2 similar sized batches at same time.. one from windows and one from mac

dont use the thing myself

DaireQuinlan

Does it actually support proxies yet ? I downloaded it originally to try in work and gave up in disgust when I realised there was nowhere to specifiy a proxy server. For something thats meant to be a piece of professionally produced software (and not an overly complicated one either) to connect to a server and upload something, thats a pretty astonishing omission.

rymus

doesnt look like it supports any kind of proxying at all.

GristlyEnd

It's the biggest POS if you ask me. I've gone back to the earlier version.

DaireQuinlan

Ahum, looks like I should have done a modicum of investigation instead of just uninstalling the thing in disgust ...

I followed the instructions from 'myfear' and it worked great:

1. Edit Uploader prefs file. Typically, you’ll find it in:
C:\Programm Files\Flickr Uploadr\defaults\preferences\prefs.js

2. Add the following lines to this file:

pref('network.proxy.http', 'your.proxy.org');
pref('network.proxy.http_port', 1234);
pref('network.proxy.type', 1);

Where you fill in the needed values for your proxy server and port (printed in bold) Do not (!) use a protocoll for the proxy ... simply the host name!

from the forum help thread

Really though, having to track down a configuration file and manually enter the values is pretty poor form.

DaireQuinlan

DarrenG wrote: »

It's the biggest POS if you ask me. I've gone back to the earlier version.

Or just use JUploader, works grand for me, miles better than the original flickr uploader (for windows at least), doesn't have the rakes of bugs that seem to plague the new uploader.

run_Forrest_run

for some reason I can't use it in work so I switch back to the old uploader but when at home I have no problem using it.

DaireQuinlan

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

for some reason I can't use it in work so I switch back to the old uploader but when at home I have no problem using it.

you're probably behind a proxy in work, see my post above.

challengemaster

off topic:

rymus wrote: »

Right.. mine crapped out after not even doing 1 photo with a helpful "Heuston we have a problem" error. It's blaming my internet connection but I doubt thats the problem as it's a 30mbit fibre connection. Only oddity I can think of is that it's pulling the photos from a local NAS so maybe that's causing a timeout...

WTF Where did you get that connection from!?!?!


On topic: uhm, I just use this and haven't had any problems..

melekalikimaka

challengemaster wrote: »

off topic:




On topic: uhm, I just use this and haven't had any problems..

old skool

challengemaster

Why change from what works ?

melekalikimaka

challengemaster wrote: »

Why change from what works ?

uploader is lot better for large amounts of files and high res stuff, tagging and the like too

challengemaster

melekalikimaka wrote: »

nyone else having issues with this, it keeps stopping uploading after a few pics. Its rediculously bloated now also for its job ugh

rymus wrote: »

Right.. mine crapped out after not even doing 1 photo with a helpful "Heuston we have a problem" error.

DarrenG wrote: »

It's the biggest POS if you ask me. I've gone back to the earlier version.

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Really though, having to track down a configuration file and manually enter the values is pretty poor form.

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

I can't use it in work

melekalikimaka wrote: »

uploader is lot better for large amounts of files and high res stuff, tagging and the like too

uh huh, looks like its much better to me!

rymus

challengemaster wrote: »

WTF Where did you get that connection from!?!?!

Still further off topic;

It's the work connection. I do most of my uploading in here

melekalikimaka

challengemaster wrote: »

uh huh, looks like its much better to me!

touche

bigeoino

For those of you who use it, Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta can upload to flickr too...
(do-you-use-flickr-then-check-out-windows-live-photo-gallery-beta

Fajitas!

Still on the older uploader on this (windoze) laptop, but have both versions on my vista desktop.

If I use it, it'll work for three to six photos, and won't work again until restart. Also won't let me use any ftps until restart. That's probably more vista than the uploader though...

ThOnda

Back to version two, because I haven't found the button "Upload" in the newest version.

DaireQuinlan

ThOnda wrote: »

Back to version two, because I haven't found the button "Upload" in the newest version.

heh. That IS bad :-)