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lyleb59349507
lyleb59349507
Participating Frequently
April 23, 2023
Question

Can't delete publishing service

  • April 23, 2023
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I have several items that are listed in Publishing services as missing plug-in. When I try to remove them I get the following:

Can't delete the published collection

An internal error has occured: ?:0:

attempt to index field

'publishSettings' (a nil value)

 

I'm using the latest 12.3 release of Lightroom Classic on iMac (2015) with latest OS

Thanks,

Lyle

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GoldingD
GoldingD
Legend
April 23, 2023

Have you tried reinstalling the plugin? And this would be withing the plug-in manager.

 

lyleb59349507
lyleb59349507Author
Participating Frequently
April 23, 2023
It’s not exactly a plug-in I think. They are all some sort of artifact from opening my SmugMug services and making changes to the folder hierarchy with SmugMug. I posed the question to SmugMug support but no answer yet. They refer, I believe to folders in SmugMug. No matter what I do I can’t get rid of them. I will look through the Lightroom area on my hard drive to see if I can find any reference to them as plugins

Thanks,

Lyle
lyleb59349507
lyleb59349507Author
Participating Frequently
April 27, 2023

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I just noticed in your screenshot that all the lines with "(missing plug-in)" appear as top-level instances of publishing services:

 

Did you make a new instance of the SmugMug publishing service for each new published collection?  (E.g. by right-clicking SmugMug and doing Create Another Publish Service.)

 

Normally, if a plugin is missing, all the collections in the instance would look like this, indented under the publish service instance:

 

Regardless, the SmugMug service(s) in your catalog look very sick, and I think your only hope is to get SmugMug support to help you.

 

I recall someone else with similar symptoms a few months ago, either here or at Lightroomqueen.com, but unfortunately, I can't find that thread. (I don't recall seeing a final answer about whether the problem was sorted out.)


I just tried a little test and checked a different catalog and also created a new catalog. In both cases the false entries are not visible. They only occur in my main catalog that I have been using for over a year. Would you recommend creating a new catalog and importing everything to it and then deleting the current trouble maker?

 

I have been working with SmugMug technical support and they can't figure it out so far.

 

Thanks,

Lyle

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