Facebook Exporter for Aperture 0.5.2

Trying this for the first time today.

First run – fine – I uploaded 30 or so photos to a new album.

Every successive attempt though gets no further than the spinner saying “loading photos”

Cancelling the export closes the window, but leaves Aperture dead in the water – clicking the menu bar – nothing. Clicking images in the the browser window – nothing. Keyboard commands – nothing.

Only option is a force quit.

I thought maybe I need to kill the preferences and try again, but unfortunately can’t find any anywhere on my system (I even did a ‘find’ from the CLI

Any ideas what may be going on? Or how to get it working again? (Anything to avoid the hideous Java upload thing – this is the reason I’ve simply linked to Flickr for the past 2 years!)

Ben

Not working for me either… This is after having 0 issues since using this application over a year.. I think it may have something to do with the new facebook?

Same here. Hopefully, you can export your photos to iPhoto and then send them to Facebook using the iPhoto to Facebook exporter. It has a new version which works better. Maybe an update for the Aperture’ one?!

Unfortunately, I have to report the same … upload 2 or 3 photos out of say 60 and then the activity monitor just sits there “Uploading image x of y”.

Tried leaving it over night and it still did not move.

Also looked into forcing my connection to a different server cluster for ‘api.facebook,com’ to see if that would resolve the timeouts but to no avail.

I cannot swear but I think the issue is via the FB API rather than the plugin itself … either way, hopefully it gets resolved soon.

The export button doesn’t even activate! Stays grayed out!

this worked perfectly for me! I believe it’s possible that the problems listed of spinning and not uploading are because of some issue on FB itself. I’ve had TERRIBLE problems with the FB uploader for iPhoto and found a pile of folks on the FB forums sharing the problem.

one thing I wondered about – I don’t get any indication of activity after I hit ok after tagging. photos went up fine, but no indicator. where should I look?

Cliff – if you don’t select photos so they have a white border the export button stays gray – could that be the problem?

thanks for the plugin!
Allison
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Using Aperture 2.1.1 and SW version 0.5.2 :

i have same problem reported before from Allison.
The Plug in Connects to Facebook – then shows the selected pictures – then you click on EXPORT Buntton and nothing happen.
No progress bar – anything uploaded checking on facebook web site, but … if you try to quit aperture it say that is currently exporting (to continue or to quit)… but is not true !

Any suggestion to fix that

Try moving the plugin from OS X’s system library to your user library. Type this in the Terminal, followed by your admin password:

sudo mv /Library/Application\ Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins/Export/FacebookExporterAperture.ApertureExport ~/Library/Application\ Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins/Export/

I got this to work with Aperture.

I left my browser logged out of FB, then I created a new album from my pictures in aperture. Once i had done this I right clicked on the album in the projects list and went to FacebookExport. The app logged in and I exported my album. There was NO progress bar, and Aperture looked like it wasn’t doing anything.

I then logged into FB and the album was pending.

Note. There was only one photo in the album I exported, and I realise the issue is potentially more volatile when there are multiple images. I will try again but with more images and report back.

The key seemed to be leaving FB logged out while I exported.

Hope this helps someone.

Regards
Tom

I have to confirm that after the first upload the plugin freeze on Loading Photos…
But, if you upload 3 pics a time than it works, same for you all?

uhm… actually, now it’s freezing even with just 3 pics to export…

sorry for the multiple messages but MAYBE I found the bug!
I try to upload the same pictures from iPhoto and the uploader give me an error message, and excluded ONE pic from the upload list.
The alert says: “Facebook allow pics with a maximum of 3:1 ratio” so that has to be what make your plugin for aperture to fail!
The pics with an aspect ratio over 3:1 are not allowed on FB!

Yes! Excluding THAT picture with exotic aspect ratio everuthing works! so just handle the error and your pliging will be PERFECT!
Thanks!

Same problem but only with certain photos. Weird.

Trying this for the first time today.

First run – fine – I uploaded 30 or so photos to a new album.

Every successive attempt though gets no further than the spinner saying “loading photos”

Cancelling the export closes the window, but leaves Aperture dead in the water – clicking the menu bar – nothing. Clicking images in the the browser window – nothing. Keyboard commands – nothing.

Only option is a force quit.

Any ideas what may be going on? Or how to get it working again?

I’ve tried several times to upload different albums of photos. some with as little as 7, some with as many 30+…

Facebook exporter says that it’s exported the photos successfully, but then back in aperture the little thing keeps spinning saying its uploading… but only uploads 2 or 3 photos, the rest keep bringing up an error message.

Wondering if this is to do with constant changes in facebook, or possibly the Mac OSX update to 10.5.7… or a combo of both?

has anybody investigated this further?

I tried to setup the FB exporter in Aperture 2 and I can’t log in. It just shows the busy cursor until I close the plug-in.

I have the following setup:

Mac OSX 10.5.7
Safari 4 – released version
Aperture 2 – latest updates installed

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

In a conversation with Sean, he told me that the program is not currently compatible with Safari 4.0. Downgrading to a 3.x version should solve the problem. No workaround is presently available.

Doesn’t work for me either since a couple of weeks ago. When I cancel the login a message says that a token couldn’t be acquired from FB.

I’m using Aperture 2 on OSX 10.5.7 with latest patches.

Might have to try the Safari 4 downgrade as I’m a Firefox user.

Thanks for the help.

Ok I FOUND IT!!!!!!!
That is to do with the aspect ratio, max was right.

I had one panorama picture and it didn’t export with all the symptoms you’ve described, but once I excluded that photo, it works perfectly

It has to be smaller pictures otherwise it won’t upload. Try using preset for 600×600.