Facebook Exporter for Aperture 0.5.2

July 9th, 2008

Facebook Exporter is a free plugin from Sean Farley, which allows the export of photos directly from Aperture to Facebook.

This plugin has a variety of features which can be seen on Sean’s blog. A free download is available there as well.

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9 Responses to “Facebook Exporter for Aperture 0.5.2”

  1. Ben Jamieson Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    Trying this for the first time today.

    First run - fine - I uploaded 30 or so photos to a new album.

    Every successive attempt though gets no further than the spinner saying “loading photos”

    Cancelling the export closes the window, but leaves Aperture dead in the water - clicking the menu bar - nothing. Clicking images in the the browser window - nothing. Keyboard commands - nothing.

    Only option is a force quit.

    I thought maybe I need to kill the preferences and try again, but unfortunately can’t find any anywhere on my system (I even did a ‘find’ from the CLI

    Any ideas what may be going on? Or how to get it working again? (Anything to avoid the hideous Java upload thing - this is the reason I’ve simply linked to Flickr for the past 2 years!)

    Ben

  2. Ryan Says:
    August 11th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    Not working for me either… This is after having 0 issues since using this application over a year.. I think it may have something to do with the new facebook?

  3. Maxime Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    Same here. Hopefully, you can export your photos to iPhoto and then send them to Facebook using the iPhoto to Facebook exporter. It has a new version which works better. Maybe an update for the Aperture’ one?!

  4. Neil Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 am

    Unfortunately, I have to report the same … upload 2 or 3 photos out of say 60 and then the activity monitor just sits there “Uploading image x of y”.

    Tried leaving it over night and it still did not move.

    Also looked into forcing my connection to a different server cluster for ‘api.facebook,com’ to see if that would resolve the timeouts but to no avail.

    I cannot swear but I think the issue is via the FB API rather than the plugin itself … either way, hopefully it gets resolved soon.

  5. Cliff Says:
    August 26th, 2008 at 11:47 am

    The export button doesn’t even activate! Stays grayed out!

  6. Allison Sheridan Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 5:52 am

    this worked perfectly for me! I believe it’s possible that the problems listed of spinning and not uploading are because of some issue on FB itself. I’ve had TERRIBLE problems with the FB uploader for iPhoto and found a pile of folks on the FB forums sharing the problem.

    one thing I wondered about - I don’t get any indication of activity after I hit ok after tagging. photos went up fine, but no indicator. where should I look?

    Cliff - if you don’t select photos so they have a white border the export button stays gray - could that be the problem?

    thanks for the plugin!
    Allison
    NosillaCast at http://podfeet.com
    A technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias!

  7. Vittorio Pisano Says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Using Aperture 2.1.1 and SW version 0.5.2 :

    i have same problem reported before from Allison.
    The Plug in Connects to Facebook - then shows the selected pictures - then you click on EXPORT Buntton and nothing happen.
    No progress bar - anything uploaded checking on facebook web site, but … if you try to quit aperture it say that is currently exporting (to continue or to quit)… but is not true !

    Any suggestion to fix that

  8. Matt Danger Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 11:52 am

    Try moving the plugin from OS X’s system library to your user library. Type this in the Terminal, followed by your admin password:

    sudo mv /Library/Application\ Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins/Export/FacebookExporterAperture.ApertureExport ~/Library/Application\ Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins/Export/

  9. Tom Procter Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    I got this to work with Aperture.

    I left my browser logged out of FB, then I created a new album from my pictures in aperture. Once i had done this I right clicked on the album in the projects list and went to FacebookExport. The app logged in and I exported my album. There was NO progress bar, and Aperture looked like it wasn’t doing anything.

    I then logged into FB and the album was pending.

    Note. There was only one photo in the album I exported, and I realise the issue is potentially more volatile when there are multiple images. I will try again but with more images and report back.

    The key seemed to be leaving FB logged out while I exported.

    Hope this helps someone.

    Regards
    Tom

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