Switch Photos

  • Resolved Ditto Dito

    (@ditto-dito)


    8 years ago

    Hi Jordy,

    I try using the Switch Photos, but things don’t go as expected; can you give me a hint ?

    1/ add the “new” photo to the WP/LR collection. This is my easiest way to have “new” and “old” near each other, so I can select them both. I don’t “publish”, of course.
    2/ Select “new” and “old”
    3/ Library > Plugin Extras > Switch Photos. Window comes up to confirm the images. Click “Switch Photos”. Done and Ready.
    — In LR, “new” is still in the “To Publish” part, “old” is still in “Published”.
    — In WP no visible change, neither : “old” is still there, “new” is not in sight.

    But: It appears that “old” is marked as not published (or unlinked). I modified “old” (dust removal), and re-published. Now I have “old” twice in the WP media library.

    Can you give me a run-through of how this is supposed to be used ? Thanks !

    • This topic was modified 8 years ago by Ditto Dito.
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  • Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Hi Ditto,

    Funny, I didn’t think about it, and what you did is actually confusing for WP/LR Sync. Actually this feature is not supposed to be used within the WP/LR Sync publish service, it’s meant to be used with a photo which is not published and a photo which is published (so in Folders or Collections). So basically one photo shouldn’t be published through WP/LR (the new one) and the other one (the “old” one) should be. And the plugin will switch the too. Can you try this again with this in mind?

    I need to add something in my plugin to actually check if the photo was published or not…

    Thread Starter Ditto Dito

    (@ditto-dito)

    Hi Jordy,

    No, luck.

    I right-clicked on an already published image and “Show in Folder”, then selected another photo (unpublished, of course). Although the dialog displays as if everything went fine, there is no visible change: The “published” collection in WP/LR still shows the old photo, not the new one. And on WP there still is only the old one.

    There is no error message in the log-file. Not on the PC, not on the server.

    I see that some of the “new” images I have been playing with are in WP/LRs general “Photos” folder (not in the collection I am using for publishing). I published them, but although everything seems to be fine, they don’t arrive on WP.

    Very strange, all this.

    I will clean up everything and start from scratch to see.

    Edit : Did so, nothing works here. This is what I did :
    – select three photos and dragged into the standard Photos folder of the WP/LR publishing service
    – published
    – they arrive in the WP media library ; they are in the Published section of WP/RL
    – go to Folder of one of the photos
    – select arbitrarily another photo
    – Switch photos – all seems to be correct and running w/o problems.
    – nothing changed nowhere

    • This reply was modified 8 years ago by Ditto Dito.
    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    You said that…

    Switch photos – all seems to be correct and running w/o problems.

    Does this mean that the Publish Service looks fine to you? The new photo is there, and the old photo has been removed?

    If no, I am not sure what’s going on yet, but if yes… are you sure all the caches has been cleared on your server-side? Since the image will have exactly the same name, it will be cache by everything, including CDN, and all.

    Thread Starter Ditto Dito

    (@ditto-dito)

    What I meant is that I can publish as expected. And when switching photos, it *looks* as if everything works in the dialogue, but it doesn’t.

    I don’t have any caches, other than the browser cache (of which I took care). This is all internal with an Ubuntu LAMP stack hosting WordPress and my Win10 machine right next to it.

    And I tried it again, this time documenting everything with screen-captures between the different steps. And it works this time. What a mess.

    I’ll keep an eye on this. I do need the functionality, and I am sure there is a problem somewhere.

    But case closed for the moment. Thanks a lot for your help!

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    I feel like the first time you made a mistake by switching photos that were both already in the Publish Service (it’s not really your mistake, the plugin should have told you that you can’t do this, the result of doing this operation is unknown to me in reality). This updated things, in an unexpected way, and the tests after that got fuzzy. From now maybe you will have no issues with this anymore ??

    On my side, I noted that I need to implement something to avoid this case to happen.

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