P: LR 4.1 RC, Flickr publishing broken

I am seeing this issue in LR4.1 after trying to publish an image that does not have a carriage return (caption is actually blank).

Can’t update this collection.
An internal error has occurred: Error Domain=NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code=4 "Line 1: Document is empty
" UserInfo=0x117311060 {NSLocalizedDescription=Line 1: Document is empty
}

I removed authorization and reauthorized, but that hasn't helped. I haven't tried adding a new Flickr publish service as I have ~150 images already in there and don't want to mess with what I've got.

I upgraded my LR 3,6 and what I downloaded was a LR version called 4,1 for Windows (July 20th).
Stéphane LeDauphin commented a month ago about Carriage Return killing LR4 export to Flickr - well this is still the same problem today!

A can't believe this is happening! I waited a really long time before upgrading in order to avoid all initial problems with the version - and then I get a piece of software that requires me to remove all Carriage Returns from my image captions if I want to update my old photos - which is exactly what LR4 recommends you to do!

... and since I allowed LR4 to change the LR3,6 database instead of creating a new - I have similar problems with LR 3,6. No upload possible.

When can we expect a fix for this?

If the issue is that you are receiving the message "Can't update this collection - Could not contact the Flickr web service" it may be because you have forced a line break (aka "carriage return") in your image caption. I read elsewhere in posts that this might be the cause. I often do that using the "Ctrl-Enter" keystroke combination to create a new paragraph. Just now I went back to an offending image, removed that Ctrl-Enter function (which closed up the text) and the image uploaded!

Sorry, but this issue is not fixed.

I can not even create a new flickr profile in LR 4.1 (OSX 10.6):
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4408502
So this is not about any carriage return.

Logging out and logging back in doesn't solve the problem of photos with captions containing newlines, nor does creating a new instance of the Flickr publish service:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

One of the Lightroom engineers thought that logging out and back into Flickr might get things back to a better state. Can you try that and let us know.

Hello,

Could you verifyif you haven't a carriage return in your caption ?

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

Stéphane

This problem still exists in the 4.1 final release (under MacOS 10.7.4). The cause and symptoms are the same (replace a photograph previously uploaded to Flickr).

Adding a new dummy Flickr service does not appear to resolve the issue for me.

Cariage Return kill LR4.1RC2 export to Flickr.
Work fine in LR3.x

Stéphane