Comments on: Working with a Wedding Client’s Photo Selects in Lightroom 2

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:15:22 +0000

@Robert, It creates multiple Smart Collections by design. I’d suggest the best option is for you to select all items in the new Smart Collection, then add them to a regular Collection you create to store the client selects. Once you have done this you can delete the Smart Collection created by the script. This way you can add all of the selects for the client to a single Collection and have complete control over the order in which they appear.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:26:10 +0000

Matt,
Great script, very helpful. Here’s my question: If I receive more than one email from a client with picks, LR2 creates a new Smart Collection for each import. Is this by design, user error on my part, and if not, is there some way to modify the script so that it will import (i.e. append current) the already created smart collection?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:41:34 +0000

An updated version of the script has been released, adding support for TTG Highslide galleries and working around the file renaming bug in Lightroom 2. The new home page for the script is here: http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/ttgclient/

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:49:07 +0000

@Raimund, Glad you found it useful.

I have a mostly complete revision of this script that has a “safe” mode which works around the need to revise naming schemes. Downside is that it has to be more lax in its checking, so could return photos what weren’t actually selected by the client. If any of you are interested please let me know and I’ll finish and publish it ASAP.

As an aside, I’m pretty sure they have fixed this little bug in the LR3 beta so the TTG galleries (and the others, for that matter) should no longer have this problem. Will double check and make sure.

By: Raimund

Raimund — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:30:29 +0000

Thank You for the usefull Script.
I too had those ranme Issues which i solved by editing the renaming scheme from – to _

Now it works as it should

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:21:52 +0000

@Nico, Sorry for the delay.

That does sound like a strange problem. Did you keep the email(s) and the collection files that were created? If you did please let me know and I’ll let you know the address to email them too. I’ll see if I can figure it out.

One more question: You made the comment “they’re correct (change the _ to -)”. Does this mean you are modifying the generated collection my hand to fix the naming? If so one accidentally introduced space might be able to explain this problem because it would create a smaller search string that would match more photos.

PS I think they have fixed the – to _ file renaming problem in the LR3 beta so hopefully we won’t have to deal with this issue for too much longer.

By: Nico

Nico — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:47:51 +0000

So I have been using your pl script quite successfully until today.
I have a Collection Set with 4 collections in them. Each collection had the files renamed. Each collection is representative of a Gallery online. So I have 4 emails w/ collections, 1 for each gallery/collection.
I create the pl output for each, and they’re correct (change the _ to -).
when I import the file it does not collect the correct files for some reason. For example, I have 88 images in my Pre-Ceremony collection and the customer picked 55 of them. I import the file and it collects 106 images.
I can’t figure this one out.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:21:27 +0000

@Rob, You only need to type the following:
ttgclient.pl taylor.txt

The other text you are including is actually a customised version of what the command will return when it runs successfully.

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:16:18 +0000

Ok I have downloaded perl for pc and I have tryed this on a mac and pc getting the same error everytime i imput your data discribed above I get the error (Can’t open Smart: no such file or directory)
What am i doing wrong here is what i am typing

ttgclient.pl taylor.txt Smart Collection Taylorcottage.lrsmcol ready for import to LR2

Thanks Rob

By: Sean McCormack

Sean McCormack — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:36:39 +0000

I changed my normal renaming to using ‘_’. I don’t even ponder it anymore. In fact to get the files, I usually do a search and replace to remove everything but the sequence numbers, and then pop them in the search on the required folder. Slightly long winded, but I find it faster than waiting on a whole library search.