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Hobbit_Bilbo
Participant
April 17, 2017

P: Export from DNG to JPG for Flickr results in "not an image file"

  • April 17, 2017
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After upgrading to Lightroom 6.10 I can no longer export from my DNG files to JPG format (used for Flickr). Flickr reports the JPG files (most of them) are "not an image file". Have done this numerous times before, with versions prior to LR 6.10. Cannot decipher what it is that make some exported JPGs corrupt - some work, some don't. Appears to be a bug.

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
July 19, 2017
Lightroom CC2015.12/6.12 was released today and should address this issue.  Please update your Lightroom to the latest version and let us know if you continue to see the issue. Thank you for your patience.

http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/07/lightroom-cc-2015-12-now-available.html
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
johnrellis
Legend
April 18, 2017
Flakr has been notoriously unreliable for the past several years, after they redesigned the service and Yahoo entered its death spiral.  
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
April 18, 2017
Probably what "Flickr" did - not me.
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Hobbit_Bilbo
Participant
April 18, 2017
Hi Rikk - I do not know what you did...but it works flawlessly for me now. Tried two different ways (both direct and via plug-in), both failed yesterday, both work now. Many thanks!
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
April 18, 2017
@carl

Are you still having issues today?
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Hobbit_Bilbo
Participant
April 17, 2017
@8510810: I am using direct upload, no plug-in. Just a flat export from an edited DNG file, to a JPG, into Flickr upload. Has worked flawlessly. Btw - I am on a Mac OSX platform (no clue if relevant), 10.12.4.

@796284: thanks for the link. Appears that I should either just "remove" the LR exported file(s) Flickr does not accept, and/or keep retrying. Not great, but worth a shot. Thanks a million for your help.
Participating Frequently
April 17, 2017
Definitely not a new problem. Just found this old closed Flickr forum thread from 2014 discussing it.

https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157647059658014/
Participating Frequently
April 17, 2017
I don't think that this is a Lightroom problem but a Flickr one. I use Jeffrey Friedl's jf Flickr plugin to do my uploading and it just displayed the following error.



This must be something Jeffrey has seen often enough to warrant adding a specific error message for it. I got the error twice in fairly short succession, then checked if there was an update for the plugin. After downloading and installing the update and reloading the plugin, the third attempt got the image uploaded successfully.

I think you just need to keep trying to upload your images.
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
April 17, 2017
Are you using a direct upload?
A plugin to publish direct?
Lightroom's built-in Flickr Publish Service?
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org