mogrify

[stevenr43112311]

trying to export my images in lightroom and using Mogrify - but keep getting this message tring to export 

Failed to Run Mogrifty

More information will be the file LRMogrifty_Log on your desktop

can anybody help ?

[johnrellis]

Some troubleshooting steps:

1. Roll back to LR 13.4 -- do you get the same symptoms?

2. Can you attach the entire Mogrify 2 log file?

3. Attach a full-resolution screenshot (not a cellphone pic) of whatever error  you see?

[Shipp]

Thanks John,

I had no problems in 13.1 - I avoided upgrading until this week until some bugs were ironed out because of neccessity to upgrade LR catalog. 

That is the entire Mogrify .txt file - I have the Adobe log - is that more useful?

I just tried again and it exported 7 images without crashing.

I tried it again straight away on 100 images and it crashed after one. 

Latest screenshot attached. 

[johnrellis]

1. Doing a test rolling back to LR 13.1 would confirm whether the problem is indeed related to upgrading to 13.5.1, or if it's just coincidental that it occurred after the upgrade.

2. It looks like the plugin is installed in a Dropbox folder:

/Users/danielshipp/Dropbox/Daniel Docs/IT/Lightroom PlugIns/LRMogrify2.lrplugin

Try installing it in a non-Dropbox folder on the local disk, e.g. in ~/Documents or ~/Desktop. As evidenced by many posts here, Dropbox and LR don't always get along. I've had users of my plugins trip over installations placed in Dropbox failing in weird ways.

3. The version of Exiftool distributed with the last release of Mogrify is 5 years old. If the previous options don't help, I can provide details about how to upgrade to the latest version of Exiftool.

[Shipp]

Thanks John,

I rolled back to 13.1 and was able to utilise the LR/Mogrify 2 plug-in with no errors.

Back in 13.5 I tried relocating the plug-in outside of Dropbox and it crashed again.

I would appreciate any guidance about updating Exiftool, it is mentioning it in the error message.  

[johnrellis]

I just now successfully tested Mogrify adding text to a photo with LR 13.5.1 / Mac OS 14.6.1, so it's not as simple as LR 13.5.1 breaking it for everyone. Hmm.

1. Which version of Mac OS are you running?  Intel or Apple Silicon Mac?

2. Download a fresh copy of the plugin and install it on your Desktop.  Does that work? (I'm wondering if your copy of the plugin got corrupted somehow.)

3. If step 2 doesn't help, you could update Mogrify's version of Exiftool by:

a. Download the latest Mac OS installer "MacOS Package: ExifTool-12.96.pkg" from here:

https://exiftool.org/

b. To run the installer, right-click the downloaded file ExifTool-12.96.pkg and do Open (double-clicking won't work).  Let the installer do its thing.

c. Start Terminal and copy/paste these commands

cd ~/Desktop/LRMogrify2.lrplugin/exiftool/

cp -R -p /usr/local/bin/exiftool /usr/local/bin/lib .

./exiftool -ver

That last command should produce the output "12.96".

[johnrellis]

Also, after tonight, I'll be totally offline until 9/19.

[Shipp]

Thanks for the follow up John,

I'm running a Mac Intel 14.6.1 :

  Model Name: iMac

  Model Identifier: iMac20,2

  Processor Name: 10-Core Intel Core i9

  Processor Speed: 3.6 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 10

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 20 MB

  Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled

  Memory: 128 GB

  System Firmware Version: 2022.140.5.0.0 (iBridge: 21.16.6074.0.0,0)

Updated the Exiftool as per instructions, received the correct output.

Tried exporting again and it crashed. Error message in screenshot. 

More info in the Mogrify .txt file this time though :

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The error occured when trying to run this command:
"/Users/danielshipp/Desktop/LRMogrify2.lrplugin/exiftool/exiftool" -o "/var/folders/jz/ysgr11ms26xb8k5q7bnyjpx00000gn/T/shipp_240902_140253_5148.jpg" -tagsfromfile "/tmp/lua_OzNkOr-2.jpg" -All:All -XMP:All -icc_profile "/tmp/lua_OzNkOr.jpg" 1> "/Users/danielshipp/Desktop/LRMogrify2_log.txt" 2>&1

The error occured when trying to run this command:
"/Users/danielshipp/Desktop/LRMogrify2.lrplugin/LRMogrify.extras/magick" mogrify -virtual-pixel mirror -font "/Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf" -undercolor "rgba(50.00%,50.00%,50.00%,0.70)" -gravity SouthWest -fill "rgba(100.00%,100.00%,100.00%,0.85)" -density 72 -pointsize 30 -annotate 0x0+20+20 "@/var/folders/jz/ysgr11ms26xb8k5q7bnyjpx00000gn/T/lr2mtext.utf8" -density 300 -strip -type TrueColor -format tif "/tmp/lua_pyPql5.jpg" 1> "/Users/danielshipp/Desktop/LRMogrify2_log.txt" 2>&1

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[johnrellis]

I've run out of troubleshooting ideas on this. As a plugin developer, I find the symptoms strange: Both "magick" and "exiftool" producing errors in LR 13.5.1 but not LR 13.1, fresh installs of the plugin in a new folder still causing the error, the plugin appears to work on other computers.

At this point, I think the developer would have to debug using the plugin's source code to pinpoint the issue (which could be in LR, or the plugin, or a weird configuration issue on your computer, who knows). But as you know, the developer stopped supporting the plugin many years ago, even though he keeps selling it.

[Shipp]

If only it was a native feature in Lightroom (as it is in Capture One). I am at a loss to explain why we can't include metadata in the watermarking feature.  

It's a wake up call to me that I have relied for so many years on a third party app for something so important to my workflow which I will now have to rethink unless a future update fixes the issue. 

I appreciate your help John.