What’s Happening with Migratr.
It’s been a little while since a new version came out. I know Migratr was typically on a weekly or bi-weekly schedule, and it hasn’t been lately. I feel like it’s necessary to drop in a note and just let everyone know what’s going on with Migratr.
Migratr is still under active development. I haven’t had as much time to devote to it lately, but there’s still a lot of things I’d like to see Migratr do. The thing is that I’ve kind of gotten all the “easy” stuff out of the way, so I can’t really power through a feature in a weekend anymore.
For 1.0 I’d REALLY like to have Webshots and Zooomr supported. Both are, however, being unusually silent regarding API keys. This is especially frustrating from Zooomr, as they posted to the dev group a month ago saying they were going to start handing out API keys, I put in a request, and STILL haven’t heard from them.
Migratr has evolved far beyond its original incarnation as a Flickr > Zooomr migration utility, but until I have Zooomr added to my roster, I won’t be able to consider Migratr a full 1.0 release.
As a sidenote, I’d like to apologize for the ridiculous amount of spam that was all over my forums lately. The forums started to feel like ground zero for anyone wanting to find either porn or tramadol (Not sure why they’re always advertised in combination, but I’d rather not speculate), I’ve read some posts on phpbb spam and made some adjustments to the way the forum works… With any luck, this is now under control.
Thank you for your past & ongoing support, ideas, bug reports, and generally positive attitude.
-Alex
Migratr 0.9.8, Zenfolio Support Added!
I’m happy to announce that Zenfolio is now supported by Migratr! Zenfolio’s a pretty swanky service that’s gotten a lot of mention in the forums.
You might also notice that I skipped my typical version number incrementing system (+ 0.1 for a service, +0.0.1 for a bugfix) and downed it a bit. That’s because, as proud as I already am of Migratr, I don’t feel like it’s QUITE 1.0 yet. Maybe it’s just a quirk of mine, the feeling that it’s never done, that there’s always something that can be improved. Part of that is that there’s always more metadata that can be added to the migration (privacy, geotagging, album descriptions, album/set nesting)… Part of it is that my original inspiration for writing Migratr, namely a group of people in the Zooomr chatrooms who wanted to move all their stuff over to Zooomr, still haven’t been given a tool that’ll do that for them (and won’t, alas, until the API is made available).
I really like working on this project. And I absolutely love hearing back from people who have used it. So if there’s something you want to see added, or if it saved you hours upon countless hours of clicking and typing and dragging & dropping, drop a line in the forums and tell me what you’re thinking! Migratr has been shaped largely by input from the people who have used it.
Enjoy the release:)
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-Alex
0.9.3 - Bugfix release
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I know, you’ve gotten used to me dispensing amazing features and brand new services on a weekly basis. However, in the process of helping a user migrate a huge photo collection, I came across a significant set of bugs that needed fixing, before I moved on to adding anything else.
FIXES IN MIGRATR 0.9.3:
*Smugmug importing: There was a fringe case where having an empty album would cause Migratr to bail out. This has been fixed (those of you who were still having trouble with SmugMug, give it a crack)
*Crash on beginning of export when pending.txt was present: Fixed. Sorry about that, it was a rather ridiculous bug, due to same bad code as the next one…
* Crazy fringe case where, sometimes, exporting would result in your photodata.xml being overwritten (along with all your metadata).
Wacky stuff, but it should all be flowing like sugar & honey now.
Also, don’t forget to drop by “the feature poll”:http://forums.callingshotgun.net/viewtopic.php?t=65 and tell me what kind of stuff you’d like to see added next! Currently it’s a tie between privacy settings (public/private photos), and ZenFolio support.
Enjoy the release!
-Alex
Phanfare, resume, and a few bugfixes.
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Good times keep on rollin’, huh?
This is a pretty good-sized update, so without further ado:
Changes in version 0.9.0:
Features:
- “Phanfare”:http://www.phanfare.com support added! Yet another photo sharing site added to our collection of services. Thanks especially go to the users who cast their vote in the forums. The only ones who voted, voted for Phanfare. Let that be a lesson to the rest of you that the poll isn’t just up there for show. I actually pay attention to that thing!
-Resume Upload/Download is now functional! I’ve set it up to work without any user interaction whatsoever. If the file is on your hard drive, migratr won’t redownload it. If a resume list (it’ll be in a textfile called “pending.txt”) exists in the folder with all your photos, it’ll only upload the photos on that list, provided you’re uploading to the same service, and the list isn’t empty.
Bugs Fixed:
-FIXED: SmugMug was not authenticating properly.
-FIXED: Faces.com support is now fully functional: There was an issue where the API didn’t return photos that weren’t in albums. The Faces.com team were very helpful in fixing that and keeping me up to date.
-FIXED: Exporting to Picasaweb would create albums even though ones with an identical name existed.
Three features, three bug fixes. Enjoy, guys.
-Alex
Migratr 0.8.0 - Back in the game!
The data recovery went very well, and I was able to get all my data back without a problem!
I’ve gone through and did some proactive re-factoring of the source code, to make features a lot easier to add in the future.
Migratr 0.8.0 comes with a few new features.
* Faces.com support - Yet another photo sharing service, now supported by Migratr. Special thanks to the faces team for their help with using the API.
* Hard Drive Upload - I recently discovered that a couple of review sites had mentioned that you could upload straight from the hard drive without having imported first (ie, uploading just a folder full of photos sitting on your hard drive, with no meta-data xml file that comes with an import from another site). This wasn’t something I’d actually done, but there was so much enthusiasm over this feature that I couldn’t help but add it in.
* Error Logs - Because sometimes, even with test accounts on each service Migratr supports, I just can’t find a way to experience some of the bugs that you guys do, when there are errors uploading or downloading your photos, Migratr will create an “errors.log” file at the end of an import or an export, listing everything that went wrong. Your posting the contents of these logs will GREATLY increase how efficiently I can fix those bugs.
You guys have been really great about providing details of what you see, and constructive criticism, and I can’t thank you enough or emphasize how helpful that’s been in making Migratr a useful product for so many people. The logfile is just there to supplement your input with information about the areas of source code where things went wrong (on the occasion that they do). They’re still useless without detailed input from YOU on what OS you’re running, how much memory/hard disk space you have, what service you were using, whether you were uploading/downloading, and what exactly happened. I intentionally left everything except the error occuring out of the logs to protect user privacy- You only tell me what you want to. Still, the more you tell me, the better I can help:)
As an aside, I would especially like to thank Gillware data recovery for the fantastic job they did putting my hard drive back together. I tend to gush when I find a combination of exceptional service and an amazing price, as the two tend to be almost mutually exclusive sometimes. Data Recovery, especially, seems like an industry that prices its customers based on a “you’re panicked enough to agree to anything” business model. Gillware, however, had the lowest price I could find, no deposit, and even AFTER they recovered data, would send you a list of recovered files, and only charge you if what you needed was in that list. They did an incredible job technically, they were extremely friendly and helpful over the phone, and their pricing model was (relative to the industry) pretty cheap. Of course, backing up would have been cheaper (A problem since corrected), but in a pinch, I’d recommend them to anyone.
And on that note… Enjoy the release!
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