Flickr Schedulr

New Post: New feature request: upload all photos in a folder, and create a photo set using the folder's name

ddwalker — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:23:02 GMT

I started to use the Schedulr and really liked it.

I think the ability to upload a folder worth of photos is very useful.

Right now, to upload all photos in a folder, I need to press the "Add Batch" button, then navigate to the desired folder, select all the photo and click ok. Then in Schedulr, I need to select all the photos in the batch, and in the right hand panel, go to "Batch" and click on "Create new set for this batch", and give the set a name.

I would really like to see that I can drag and drop a folder in Schedulr. Then Schedulr would automatically scan the folder and add all the photos to a batch, and then automatically create a new set with the folder's name.

Even better, if I drag and drop multiple folders, they'll be added to different batches, and each would be uploaded to a different photo set in Flickr.

New Post: Can't Add Account in v3.1

ddwalker — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 06:04:51 GMT

Never mind. I tried again today and it worked.

New Post: Can't Add Account in v3.1

ddwalker — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:11:35 GMT

Seems like I have the same issue.

When the app asks me to authenticate w/ flickr, I entered my username and password. But nothing happens after that. On the top area of the Flickr Schedulr window, it says "adding account: no account was added".

In the log file, I found the following:

Schedulr Error: 0 :       [T01] [1/3/2013 12:08:42 AM] An error occurred while adding the account: FlickrNet.FlickrApiException: Invalid frob (108)
   at FlickrNet.Flickr.GetResponse[T](Dictionary`2 parameters, TimeSpan cacheTimeout)
   at FlickrNet.Flickr.GetResponseNoCache[T](Dictionary`2 parameters)
   at FlickrNet.Flickr.AuthGetToken(String frob)
   at Schedulr.Infrastructure.FlickrClient.EndAuthentication() in c:\Users\jelled\Desktop\CodePlex\schedulr\Main\Source\Schedulr\Infrastructure\FlickrClient.cs:line 116
   at Schedulr.ViewModels.ConfigurationEditorViewModel.AddAccount(Object parameter) in c:\Users\jelled\Desktop\CodePlex\schedulr\Main\Source\Schedulr\ViewModels\ConfigurationEditorViewModel.cs:line 194

I'm not sure what I did wrong.

GrandpasToys mentioned above that "even though permissions are added successfully in Flickr." Do I need to enable anything on the Flickr side. How to do that?

Thanks!

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

Martnal — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:33:52 GMT

Thank you!!

Martin

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

jelled — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:04:18 GMT

What Flickr Schedulr does is simply create a Windows Scheduled Task behind the scenes with the basic setting you provide in the application, but you can configure much more than that directly through Windows.

What happens to tasks that are still running when a new instance is requested depends on the settings in Windows Scheduled Tasks: you can make it wait for the first to complete, you can skip running the second, you can stop the first, or you can run both at the same time. By default, it will skip running a second instance of the task if the first one is still running.

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

Martnal — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:48:39 GMT

I like the idea of "Repeat every 1 hour(s) for a duration of 1 hour(s)". What do you think might/would happen if the first batch hadn't finished after one hour (i.e. slow internet upload connection)? This goes back to my original problem of needing to schedule uploads during my ISP's free period.

PS, I didn't kjnow about Windows Scheduled Tasks despite 30 years in IT (some of it DOS 2.2 though!)

Thanks.

Martin

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

jelled — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:27:10 GMT

Ah, no you can't do that. You could make the scheduled task repeat one time after 1 minute for example, so you can sort of simulate that though. Through the application you can make it repeat after an hour (set it up to "Repeat every 1 hour(s) for a duration of 1 hour(s)"), but if you want something quicker, you should open the task itself in Windows Scheduled Tasks and adjust it there.

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

Martnal — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:12:12 GMT

Right, I think I've got that, the concept of t a batch in Schedulr. Can I configure it to upload two or more batches in one scheduled event?

Martin

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

jelled — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:55:21 GMT

I'm confused. So what you need to understand is that a batch in Schedulr is a collection of pictures to be uploaded in one go. So in the application you will see "batches". Optionally, you can make all pictures of that entire batch be added to a Set in Flickr. So when you make changes to the "Batch" tab (to specify the Set) this is independent of the picture you selected, it simply applies to all pictures of the same batch. So if you want to add pictures to different sets, they must be in different batches as well.

Now shuffling the batches removes all batch-specific settings like the Sets. So make sure to organize your batches first, then configure the Set belonging to each batch.

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

Martnal — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:43:30 GMT

I'm still not clear on something somewhere! I add a set, and add descriptions and tags. Repeat for second set. Shuffle batch. Select a picture from first set and add NEW Set details. Select a picture from second set and add NEW Set details. That changes all the first set too.

What am I doing wrong still?

Martin

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

Martnal — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:52:16 GMT

I will try it and report back.

Thanks,

Martin

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

jelled — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:42:13 GMT

No, fortunately it's not that difficult. You can only create a Set for an entire batch that is defined in Schedulr. So if you choose to create a Set, it will contain all the pictures in that batch.

The way you configure this is to select any picture in a batch (doesn't matter which) and in the Batch tab you configure the set as you've already done. To configure another Set, you select a picture from the batch that will contain all those pictures and do the same.

Hopefully that's clear?

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

Martnal — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:36:10 GMT

Jelle, thank you. Could you confirm this.? After doing the batch shuffle I must open the batch, select the pictures for set one, specify the set details, then repeat for set two. And also for any further sets? Is that my only option? It is a bit laborious if the sets are large.

thanks,

Martin

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

jelled — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:31:03 GMT

When you shuffle the batch, there should be a message that says:

All the files in the queue will be shuffled and all batch settings will be reset. Are you sure you want to continue?

So effectively this includes the setting that creates a set for the batch. After you shuffle, you should select a photo in the batch again and go back to the Batch tab to configure the Set.

Hopefully that helps...

Cheers,

Jelle

New Post: What am I doing wrong?

Martnal — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:13:17 GMT

I am trying to select two groups of photos which I want to add to two new sets. The following notes list what I am doing. The photos reach my Flickr account but they don't seem to be put into sets. I'm using Windows XP. Thanks in advance,

Martin

using Schedulr:

Select QUEUE from top memu

Click Add Batch from the bottom menu

Select the photos for the first batch, watch progress bar at top

(Ctrl-A to select all - is this needed?), right panel opens.

Insert description and tags

Click on Batch for new set.

Click checkbox and add name and description

check scheduler or repeat for second batch

Click Shuffle batch

Clear scheduler

Set scheduler.

Click Create, and enable should be on.

Confirm Next Run Time. "The scheduled task is active"

Upload starts, a few seconds after the set time.BUT photos are added to Flickr but no sign of a new set

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New Post: Stops working after a few days?

clf23 — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:20:10 GMT

Ok, the basics. Here's what I think I've discovered so far. Yes, I leave my computer on. I don't have multiple accounts so it never gets "logged out". But I think it is going into a sleep mode. And I'm guessing that might be the problem. I went into the task manager and found the task and I clicked the box to tell task manager to wake my computer from sleep mode for this task. And its run perfectly the last 4 or 5 uploads. So I'll keep monitoring that, but at this point that seems to have done the trick. Thanks for all your help! I'll let you know if it turns out to be more than this though,

Chris

New Post: Stops working after a few days?

jelled — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:27:16 GMT

I would put "Repeat every 12 hours for a duration of 23 hours" just to make sure that the repeated run is definitely within the range (since in your case the task will repeat after 12 hours until 12 hours have passed so it could be just in or out that time range, I don't know how it works internally if that counts or not).

But regardless, if it isn't running on the next scheduled run time (in your case 9:00 AM) then it's not the task configuration itself of course. Task History is indeed something inside of the Windows Task Scheduler. You can open Task Scheduler and find your task in the root with the name provided on the screen ("Flickr Schedulr (90066280@N00)" in your case). If you open the task, it has a "History" tab. Potentially you need to enable task history on the right of the Task Scheduler window.

And just to cover the basics: I assume that your computer is always running and that your user is always logged on? Because the task is configured as such, so it won't run if you're logged off or in sleep mode.

New Post: Stops working after a few days?

clf23 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:30:39 GMT

Ok, here is what my schedulr task setup looks like. Under status, the next run time looks right. But notice the previous run time. Its a few days ago. And I'm guessing that its not actually going to run at 9:00am tomorrow morning. It will miss that one, just like it has since the 9th.

I'll try to turn on Task History. Is that something I do inside of the Windows Task Scheduler?

Chris