[Shotwell] Fwd: Today, Shotwell can not upload photos to FB

[Erasmo Perez]

Hi dear Shotwell community:

It is a real pleasure for me to inform you that once all the offending
pictures names had been modified in order to follow a strict adherence to an
ASCII-only format (removing ill-characters like "ñ" or "é") all the photos
in the collections from Shotwell are correctly uploaded to (and appear
instantly in) the Photos section of my Facebook account.

With the names of the pictures changed to an ASCII-only format, Shotwell
Connect is working like a charm :-)

I would like to thank all the Shotwell community (developers and users) for
you very well appreciated software and helpful guidance.

Thank you very much

Kind regards

Erasmo

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erasmo Perez <perez.erasmo at gmail.com>
Date: 3 December 2010 13:35
Subject: Re: [Shotwell] Today, Shotwell can not upload photos to FB
To: shotwell at lists.yorba.org


Hi Lucas:

You may be right, because just before I leave house for work I made a last
test uploading another pic and Shotwell Connect worked, but the original pic
I intended to upload continued being not published by FB. I then suspected
that maybe there was something wrong with the first picture. On the road to
work I figured that I should extract the exif headers from both pictures and
send them to this list, but that would be tomorrow when I return home from
work.

If it is the case that the ill-formed name is the culprit of the lack of
publication of the pic in FB, the solution will be easier :-)

As soon as I get back home I will try renaming the first pic with an
ASCII-only name and I will let you know the code bahaviour.

Thank you very much :-)

Kind regards for your great help

Erasmo


On 3 December 2010 13:17, Lucas Beeler <lucas at yorba.org> wrote:

> Hi Erasmo,
>
> We had a similar problem with Picasa Web Albums that turned out to be
> a text encoding issue. I noticed that you were trying to upload a file
> named "Bebé 096.jpg", which clearly contains an accented character
> (the "é"). To help diagnose this problem could you try uploading a
> photo whose filename only contains US ASCII characters (i.e., the
> letters a-z upper- and lower-case without any accented characters and
> the digits 0-9 and write me back (i) letting me know whether the
> ASCII-only upload was successful; and (ii) if the upload wasn't
> successful, attaching the log output as per Jani's post.
>
> Regards,
> Lucas
>