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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

1 reply

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 28, 2023

"Would you recommend creating a new catalog and importing everything to it and then deleting the current trouble maker?"

 

That would likely get rid of the corrupt published collections, but it would get rid of any remaining uncorrupted ones as well.  Worth a try.  It's a little simpler and faster to do File > Export As Catalog.


Thanks for your feedback and all the time you spent. I think this software manifestation will go unsoved.  I've done several catalog File> Exports As Catalog and feel comfortable proceeding in that direction.

Thanks,

 

Lyle

 

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