[digiKam-users] google photos upload broken?

[Peter Teuben]

answering my own query:   that lock icon is visible on the digikam Album 
pulldown list. They look like a little folder that's either open or 
closed. It's the open ones where one can add onto.


I'm sure this is widely know, but if you have a lot of albums , 
rebuilding that list takes a long time. A "Reload" seems faster to me.

Makes me wonder, should I find another service for my photos if google 
is giving us such a lousy API?  Can we expect progress?

I use flickr too, but it's not so great in the social media world, and I 
now worry about its future.

- peter


On 4/1/20 12:33 PM, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> This is your typical error message when trying to upload a image to an album
> with a lock icon. It is only possible to upload images in albums that were
> also created by the digiKam App itself (normal folder icon). This is a feature
> / bug in the Google API. There are many corresponding entries in the Google
> Bug tracker.
>
> The upload works here with the current developer version otherwise without
> problems.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Mittwoch, 1. April 2020, 18:11:36 CEST schrieb Peter Teuben:
>> all
>>
>> My album uploads to google photos has stopped working some week(s) ago.
>> The new OAUTH2 method had been working fine for me the past year or so,
>> but now it's dead again. It will properly read the albums, though there
>> is a message
>>
>> unknown: reply error: QNetworkReply::NoError - "Unknown error"
>> unknown: parseResponseListAlbums
>> unknown: list albums
>>
>> after each album. But the albums do appear in the selection box where to
>> upload to. Then when you select the photos, it  happily seems to process
>> the file(s), until I see this:
>>
>>
>> Digikam::MetaEngine::save: Metadata for file "DSC_8127.jpg" written to file.
>> unknown: reply error: QNetworkReply::NoError - "Unknown error"
>> unknown: parseResponseAddPhoto
>> unknown: response "CA .........."                        (long string)
>> unknown: In slotAddPhotoSucceeded 1
>> unknown: in upload nextphoto 0
>> unknown: reply error: QNetworkReply::ProtocolInvalidOperationError -
>> "Error transferring
>> https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems:batchCreate - server
>> replied: Bad Request"
>>
>> I've also tried digikam7 (beta), but same error message.   I've tried it
>> by removing the ~/.config/digikam_oauthrc file and revoking permission
>> on the google end, and retracing all steps. Same error.
>>
>>    I tried the very latest beta for Kubuntu20.04, which comes with
>> digikam 6.4, and same story. I've been using Kubuntu18.04 for my normal
>> digikam work.
>>
>> If nobody else has this problem, something else I must have missed in
>> all of this, and I'll experiment around, but I'm out of ideas right now.
>>
>> btw, flickr uploads work fine. So it's just google for me.
>>
>>
>> - peter
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