P: LR 4.1 RC, Flickr publishing broken

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

With LR 4.1 RC, the Flickr publisher seems to be broken. I added 2 new photos to a collection today after updating to the 4.1 RC, and tried to publish, but I get an error message: "Can't update this collection. An internal error has occurred: Invalid at the top level of the document."

Publishing the same collection (without the 2 new images) worked fine yesterday in 4.0 before the RC update. Closing and re-starting LR did not solve the issue. Running Vista x64 SP2 with all updates and 64-bit LR installed.

[error404ts]

create a new Flickr publishing profile. Simply editing the existing profile will not work with this release candidate. if that doesn't work then uninstall and reinstall v4.0.

[error404ts]

create a new Flickr publishing profile. Simply editing the existing profile will not work with this release candidate. if that doesn't work then uninstall and reinstall v4.0.

[bcw99]

Creating a new profile worked for me with LR4.1

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

yes deleting the service and creating the profile worked (4.1RC). but then you lose all the connections between your previously exported sets... that sux!

[error404ts]

Dont delete the non-working service. It may end up working in the final release. just create the new one until a final update is released.

[rhaquephoto]

This issue has been fixed in Lightroom 4.1 RC 2 - http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/li...

[J453]

Correct. This is fixed in Lightroom 4.1 RC 2:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/li...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

How do we get informed about new releases?

I happen to be at this email-list about LR4.1RC and that is how I got informed.

Is there any other way, do you email owners of LR when there is a new version? I'm scared that I might once miss the boat when I'm out of the office...actually working.

Thanks for fixing Flickr uploads.

[J453]

When 4.1 is officially released, you will get a notice when you run Lightroom.

[DdeGannes]

OK my problem with publishing to Flickr is fixed in LR 4.1 RC. Thanks Adobe.

[Guest]

No it hasn't been fixed: I just downloaded LR4.1 RC2, and I still get 'Flickr authentication failed'.

[Guest]

Sincere apologies - it does work. Didn't realise I had to re-authorise! Doh!

[KAB55]

It fixed the problem on my system. Go into Flickr and revoke the authorization for LR. When you restart lr and publish it should ask you to authentiate in Flicker again.

[Guest]

@kurt < Thanks. Fixed now.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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

Stéphane

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hello,

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

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

Stéphane

[J453]

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.

[johnrellis]

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...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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.

[JudsonR]

Sorry, but this issue is not fixed.

[JudsonR]

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!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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?

[gregbenz]

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.

[bcw99]

I can upload to Flickr from LR4 OK but there is no option given to enter a caption or comment for each picture within the plugin. However, if I first upload to my other site, 500px, their plugin does give me that option. If I then upload to Flickr, Flickr somehow picks up the data I entered into the 500px plugin and shows the caption etc!