[digiKam-users] google photos upload broken?

[Peter Teuben]

I guess one workaround to add to locked albums is to upload them to a 
temp album, then in the online app move them into the locked album.

There was a time when the "new album" was not present for me, so I got 
into the habit of creating an album online, and then adding into them. 
Perhaps that was in the pre-XOAUTH2 method.

Sort of related to this, I'm uncovering a lot of info that's not in the 
digikam manual. In face, the one I just looked at from 2018 says "TODO".

I'm now composing a section for this, who knows where it will wind up.


- peter


On 4/1/20 1:18 PM, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> I was hoping Google would fix this problem quickly, but it doesn't actually
> look like it. I will add a message box when trying to upload to a locked
> folder. As I said earlier with the Picasa Web API, there was no such
> restriction, the new Google Photo API no longer allows it. Something can only
> be uploaded in albums created by the digiKam App itself.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Mittwoch, 1. April 2020, 18:55:28 CEST schrieb Peter Teuben:
>> thank you Maik,
>>
>>     brilliant!   this was the solution!!!   I'll go hunt down that bug
>> tracker, to see if I can learn more tricks.
>>
>>      I could not see on the browser interface any icon or option where it
>> says locked or not. Let alone flip it.
>>
>> 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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