Zenfolio/Menalto woes

Posted by Alex

October 12, 2009

There’s been a bit of a surge of reports of late that Migratr crashes on export to Zenfolio. I just got an email from them mentioning this and suggesting that I should update my API endpoints (I’m pointing to an older version of the API- Far back enough to be before they started versioning for consistency) and it should work… So, everyone, sorry for the inconvience, and that it’s taken this long for me to get around to it. Life’s been a little hectic of late :) I’ll be digging into this and verifying the fix very soon, and should have a working version up in the next day or two.

Also, for those of who you are having issues with Gallery- I have to admit Gallery support has always been a little sketchy with Migratr. Different hosting setups have meant that one person’s 2.2 installation could work with Migratr, wheras someone else’s would tank out while it was still pulling album data (before photos were even downloaded)- On top of that the “API” is meant to be used with PHP, which Migratr isn’t even written in. Support basically started out by ripping code out of some open source .NET Gallery remote and tweaking it to work with Migratr. With 2.3 this seems to have stopped working completely, so in the coming weeks I’ll be hunting around for a suitable replacement.

Also, if any experienced .NET developers can recommend good plugin frameworks, I’m planning on modifying the core Migratr code so that someone can write a service support DLL, drop it in the migratr directory, and have it show up as an option. This would help enormously with Migratr’s ability to support closing services, since it doesn’t always happen at a time where it’s possible for me to ninja something together (especially since they’re often places where I don’t have an account, and have closed account creations).

Thanks for the patience. Happy migrating!

-Alex

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