Bricked hard drive says what?
No alarm bells, nothing to worry about, I’ll rewrite it from scratch again if I have to (though I probably won’t have to)… But my hard drive bricked yesterday, ironically just as I was logging in to an SVN server to create a repository for it. Dell’s sending me a new hard drive to replace the bricked one, and I’m taking it in to some data restoration specialists to see if I can pull the source code off. Thanks to Migratr’s large dependance on free third party libraries, its own code size is actually pretty small-
However, just so you know, it’s going to take probably on the order of a week before I can get going again. Longer, if I have to rewrite everything from scratch.
But one way or another, it’ll be back again. So none of that “(insert something on the internet here) is dying” nonsense :P
Fed up with Yahoo Photos
I am, for the time being, completely blocked on completing integration of Yahoo Photos into migratr.
Yahoo Photos, Issue 1: When I register for an API key, they don’t give me a “shared secret” key- For some reason they just don’t feel like handing out all the information I need in order to authenticate to their service.
Yahoo Photos, Issue 2: They don’t have any mechanism for desktop clients to authenticate to their services. Only browser based services.
Yahoo Photos, Issue 3: As a third party application, Migratr is forbidden from being the mechanism by which you move your photos to another service. The “license agreement”:http://developer.yahoo.com/photos/#additional states:
“Copying Restrictions. If the user of your application is previously informed of, consents to, and initiates such action, you may permit your application to copy the user’s photos delivered via the Yahoo! Photos APIs and store them to another location, *provided that your application does not enable the photos to be imported or otherwise transferred to another photos service or application offering materially similar services as Yahoo! Photos offers.*”
Rather odd, considering the service is shutting down.
For those of you who are still stranded on Yahoo Photos, I’d recommend utilizing Yahoo’s free built-in migration to flickr, and from there using migratr to go wherever you want. I told many of you I was working on providing a one-step process to do this, so you wouldn’t have to use Flickr as a middle-man, and I’m sorry I can’t provide that. However, yahoo photos doesn’t close for another 47 days. If enough of you voice discontent over this issue, they might flip the switches necessary for me to help you out. In other words, this would be an excellent time to make a stink. In the meantime, I’ll be adding support for services which work, and which people can move to.
In the meantime, happy migrating!
-Alex
Quick bugfix
There was a small bug in the version I just released which would prevent you from uploading pictures which you downloaded from picasaweb. My mistake.
Anyway, it’s fixed now.
Hooray!
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Migratr 0.6.2, added Picasa Web Support
Hit the big giant button to download the new version!
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Two changes in this release:
*Google Picasaweb has been added to the list of Migratr’s supported services! Yippee, hooray!
*A minor bugfix- Since 23HQ doesn’t display titles, exports to 23HQ now move the title to the top line of the description. Thanks to “splitbrain”:http://www.splitbrain.org for the suggestion!
As always, If you encounter any bugs, or feel like requesting something, “the migratr forums”:http://forums.callingshotgun.net are the best place to do so.
Migratr 0.5, now with album support
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“Migratr Forums”:http://forums.callingshotgun.net
Just added album support to Migratr. I was going to toss in a few extra things before releasing a version, but it’s been a little while since my last release, I figured I’d stick with the “incremental” approach.
So, Changelog:
New in Migratr 0.5.0
- Album Support- Migratr now tracks how your photos were organized into “photosets” (Flickr,23), also known as Albums (SmugMug), and automatically adds the photos to their corresponding sets during the export process.
Users going between SmugMug and one of the other services should be aware of a slight difference in how the services organize photos. Flickr and 23HQ enable one photo to be a member of multiple photosets. These services can be considered “Photo-Based”, wheras SmugMug is “Album-Based”. In SmugMug, a single photo cannot be a member of multiple albums. Instead, Migratr will automatically upload the same photo to different albums.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU-
- If you’re migrating TO SmugMug, then you should be aware that from this point forward, if you edit one photo in one album, you’ll have to repeat those photo edits for every copy of the photo in all the different albums. If possible, I’d recommend editing it on your hard drive after importing, but before exporting to SmugMug.
- If you’re migrating FROM SmugMug, then you’re going to have unnecessary file duplicates in your different photosets (assuming you’ve put any photos in more than one album). After Migration, you’ll probably want to go on and delete your duplicates, simply adding one photo to the multiple photosets. This helps with things like tracking the popularity of the photo, and not having to look on two different pages to see what comments people have left for one picture.
Next up: Uploading from your hard drive (without importing from a service first), and support for “PicasaWeb”:http://picasaweb.google.com from Google. In the meantime, I highly recommend you check out “jUploadr”:http://www.juploadr.org and “pictureSync”:http://picturesync.net/ for the mac. Both are excellent bulk uploaders, and if you don’t already have all your photos tagged, titled, and organized on one of the supported photoservices, these would be excellent applications to use.
Good luck, and don’t forget to drop by the forums!
-Alex
