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lenaw53360365
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November 8, 2019
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Dropbox plugin from Alloy Photo stopped working after installing Lightroom CC 2019

  • November 8, 2019
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I just upgraded to Lightroom CC 2019, and I had to upgrade all my plugins as well. All of them went fine except Dropbox plugin from Alloy Photo. I can't even connect to the Alloy website or send an email. Now I'm trying to use the other on recommended on Adobe plugin page, but I don't get the hierarchy visible in Lightroom, and I can't seem to put the new folders where I want them on the dropbox site. Any ideas?. I'm in sooo urgent need to get 3 jobs post to dropbox, been trying day and night for 2 days.

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Correct answer JohanElzenga

Alloyphoto is back, with an update for the Dropbox plugin.

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JohanElzenga
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November 21, 2019

Alloyphoto is back, with an update for the Dropbox plugin.

-- Johan W. Elzenga
JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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November 10, 2019

Here's the latest news about Alloy Photo. Vladimir Vinogradsky (the person behind it) is fine, but very busy. His hosting provider suddenly shut down, that is why you can't reach the website any more. He hopes to be back soon, but it will take a bit more time. He hopes by the end of the month. So use the workarounds till then.

-- Johan W. Elzenga
    lenaw53360365
    lenaw53360365Author
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    November 10, 2019

    Johan that is great news. Thank you for investigating. I will continue to use my new less convenient setup until then. /Lena

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    November 9, 2019

    Yes, that is what I intend to do if the plugin stops working.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
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    November 9, 2019

    "the plugin allows you to backup to Dropbox without having to create a folder of local copies"

     

    Agreed. The mildly inconvenient workaround is to select the newly exported subfolder in Finder, right-click, and do Smart Sync > Online Only.

      JohanElzenga
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      JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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      November 9, 2019

      BTW, if you simply need to upload some stuff to Dropbox, like you said in your initial post, then of course what John said is quite right. You don't need the plugin for that, you can do it yourself. Either use the Dropbox app, or log into the Dropbox website and upload the images directly to Dropbox in your browser. You just need to export them to disk first, you can't upload from within Lightroom.

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
      lenaw53360365
      lenaw53360365Author
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      November 9, 2019

      Yes I can work around it, although my IMac is so full and typically just this month when I have big jobs daily.. I have already turned on the selective sync for Dropbox so nothing to gain there. Anyway thanks for your suggestions. /Lena

      JohanElzenga
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      JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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      November 9, 2019

      I already said which version I use. Lightroom Classic 9 and MacOs X Mojave.

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
      lenaw53360365
      lenaw53360365Author
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      November 9, 2019

      I meant the plug-in 🙂

       

      JohanElzenga
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      JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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      November 9, 2019

      Version 2.12.1, which I believe is the latest. However, I just noticed that in the plugin manager it says that my trial ended. I do have a license, so that might be because of the upgrade to version 9. I can't enter my activation code (probably because the site is down), but the plugin seems to work fine despite that message.

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
        JohanElzenga
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        JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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        November 9, 2019

        The Dropbox export plugin runs fine on my Mac with Lightroom 9 and MacOS Mojave. Not sure if it would run with MacOS Catalina. The website is indeed offline, so there may be a problem.

         

        The reason to use this plugin rather than using the method that John Ellis describes, is that the plugin allows you to backup to Dropbox without having to create a folder of local copies (and because the plugin also includes special recovery options). In my case that local folder would be about 500GB and I simply don't have that kind of space left on my hard drive. And since Dropbox no longer follows symbolic links, I also can't create that folder on an external drive and then link it to the Dropbox folder.

         

        I noticed there is a similar plugin called 'Photoupload', but I haven't tried it yet. That could be an alternative if Alloyphoto is gone for good.

        -- Johan W. Elzenga
        lenaw53360365
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        November 9, 2019

        Hi Johan, I have been struggling with Photoupload for the last day, and it'n not near as convenient as Alloy. You don't have the mirror stucture, struggle with different sizes, logo or no logo. All this things that was perfect with the other plugin, and I used it for years, and it never gave me headache. So if it works for you, it might be a problem with my upgrade. Yes my computer got full and I recognised that I had two versions of all Adobe programs, so I deleted the older one. Apparently that was the one I was running all the time. Maybe I should try to reinstall. Which version do you use? 

        GoldingD
        GoldingD
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        November 9, 2019

        What did this  plugin accomplish?

         

        Whst is the exact url of the source?

         

         

        johnrellis
        johnrellis
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        November 9, 2019

        Alloyphoto.com seems to have gone unresponsive for a month.

         

        For Dropbox, though you don't really need a plugin. Export the photos to folders on your local disk and then upload those folders to Dropbox, either via Dropbox.com or installing the Dropbox app on your computer, which will sync your Dropbox folders with your local disk.

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