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ckapusta
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March 18, 2012
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Errors posting to Facebook in Lightroom 4

  • March 18, 2012
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Hello,

I recently setup a Facebook connection in Lightroom 4, and everything Authorized properly, however, when I go to publish a photo, any photo, I get an error back stating "Photo Upload Failed" and when I click OK, a second box pops up saying "Cannot Update this Collection".  The strange part is 50% of the time the photos actually do upload to Facebook, but they are never marked as such in Lightroom, so every time I publish it tried to reupload the photos.  What am I doing wrong here?  Elements seems to work fine, and Lightroom 3.6 worked fine from this same PC.  I did a fresh install of Lightroom 4, built a new Catalog, still the same problem.

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Correct answer MassNerd

Samething happens to me. Using LR4 and this also used to happen in all versions of 3.x. Facebook uploading is hit or miss. I blame it on Facebook. Even when using their new uploader in Firefox, uploads fail.

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Toy Janssen
Toy Janssen
Participant
March 30, 2012

I had also a problem with uploading and found out that FB changed settings in my account. see: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4301938#4301938

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A_Jan
Participant
March 30, 2012

I have the same problem after using LR4 to upload images into FB directly from LR4. No problems with LR3. The message photo upload failed always comes up but the photo actually got uploaded.  The image will not move into the published area in the LR window and remian as an unpublished photo. The image stays there continously even after you try to upload other images thus making the same image uploaded into FB many times.

This is still a problem today -30 April 2012.

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elimcjah
Participant
March 29, 2012

I just bought the upgrade from LR 3 to LR 4 last night and am running it on Mac OS X 10.7.3 and am having the exact same problem.  What gives? 

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ckapustaAuthor
Participant
March 29, 2012

I really believe it's a Facebook problem.  My uploads work sometimes and not others.

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ReidSimpson
Participating Frequently
March 28, 2012

Bumped into it again last night. On a whim, I closed a browser tab that was open on a photo album and then LR was able to upload without a hiccup.

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Senhor_Ron
Participating Frequently
March 28, 2012

Tried that approach, but for me it makes no difference wheither a browser is opened or not, logged in or out...

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Stan Burman
Inspiring
March 26, 2012

Same thing here with OS X 10.7.3 and Lightroom 4. I get an error back stating "Photo Upload Failed" and when I click OK, a second box pops up saying "Cannot Update this Collection". One image in the collection I'm trying to publish will show up on FB. The rest do not. Nor do I get the image transfer to a "published" section in Publishing Services.

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Senhor_Ron
Participating Frequently
March 28, 2012

Same here - again - with OS X 10.7.3 & LR 3.6.

Yesterday all worked well, today no more.

My guess? Facebook change - as usual - ... Sometimes I wonder why I still bother about that ´place´ ...

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MassNerdCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 20, 2012

Samething happens to me. Using LR4 and this also used to happen in all versions of 3.x. Facebook uploading is hit or miss. I blame it on Facebook. Even when using their new uploader in Firefox, uploads fail.

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ReidSimpson
Participating Frequently
March 20, 2012

May be a coincidence, but I had another browser on another PC open on my FB account and when I closed that, things started working better from LR.

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ReidSimpson
Participating Frequently
March 18, 2012

I published two collections yesterday afternoon using LR4 without any errors, but today I have the same problem you have. I used to see this on LR3, too. In general, I just waited a few hours and tried again.

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