[Digikam-users] 2.5 - flickr export doesn't work?

[Philip Johnsson]

Good that you solved the reason. If you file a bug report on the issue in
digikams bugzilla I bet that the develops can add that checking file size
feature.

Happy digikaming!

/Philip
 On Jan 13, 2012 9:33 AM, "Dr. Martin Senftleben" <drmartinus at drmartinus.de>
wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> thanks for the feedback. I have version 2.5 from Philip Johnsson's
> ppa. kipi as well.
> Hmm... I obviously needed this feedback, because it made me to look
> closer... ;-)
> I found that the files were too large (it would be nice if the plugin
> would give that information as feedback, then I would have found the
> problem right away; e.g. it could just check the file size when
> reading in the file data and tell: sorry, too big for flickr. That
> saves also the time of trying to upload the files). Anyway: the ones I
> wanted to upload were all over 50 MB, and flickr has a limit of 20 MB
> per file for pro users and 15 MB for ordinary users.
> This gigantic file size never came to my attention. I had transformed
> jpgs to png, which caused a size increase of more than 10 times. Wow!
> And when I reduce this png, they become about 15 MB in size, while the
> originals are 5-6 MB. Very strange, but I guess not. I probably will
> never understand the mechanics behind this, even though I know that it
> has to do with colour tables or so.
>
> Well, thanks, also for a very fantastic software!!
>
> Martin
>
> Am 12.01.2012 22:47, schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> > Me too. Work fine here. I use current code from git/master (next
> > 2.6)
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
> >
> > 2012/1/12 Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk>:
> >> On Torsdag den 12. januar 2012, Dr. Martin Senftleben wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> since there was no reaction, I would like to ask once again. is
> >>> there nobody else having this problem? Am i the only one?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any reply!
> >>>
> >>> Martin
> >>>
> >>> Am 10.01.2012 09:23, schrieb Dr. Martin Senftleben:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> since the update to 2.5 the flickr uploader doesn't seem to
> >>>> work. Is that already known, and if so (or if not), is there
> >>>> a remedy to this problem? I start the upload, and after some
> >>>> time it tells me that there was an error, but not what kind.
> >>>> The message (translated from German): "An error occured:
> >>>> unknown error. Cannot continue."
> >>>>
> >>>> Hope somebody can help.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards Martin
> >> I succesfully used flickr export with digikam 2.5 and
> >> kipi-plugins 2.5
> >>
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> - --
> Herzliche Grüße!
>
> Martin Senftleben
>
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