kflickr strips exif tags on upload

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Binary package hint: kflickr

I had 200+ photos which for some unknown reason, I decided to upload using kflickr ( even though I am severely affected by another bug which prevent kflickr from showing image thumbnails).

After all the photos, I discovered that all the uploaded photos had their exif tags removed.

To verify, I took a photo with exif tags (confirmed using the 'exif' tool). Uploaded it using the web uploader of flickr. And then uploaded the same with kflickr. The photo uploaded by kflickr didn't have exif tags displayed in the photo page.

P.S. Yes, I have exif display enabled in my flickr account.

[TundraMan (asselsm)]

Don't get all snarky with comments like "which for some unknown reason, I decided to upload using kflickr", this is not appreciated. The thumbnail problem along with the EXIF problem are due to the version of KFlickr shipped with Ubuntu, it is extremely old (something be addressed via bug 383499 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kflickr/+bug/383499). I am in the process of making the latest version available for Karmin in my PPA, please try it and if the bug continues leave this bug open, otherwise this should be a dupe of 383499. The PPA can be found at https://launchpad.net/~asselsm/+archive/ppa.

[Sandip Bhattacharya (sandipb)]

Hey Tundraman,
now that I have had a decent night's sleep after posting that bug report, I realize that I needn't have vented my frustrations in the bug. Really sorry for that. After uploading 200+ photos using my slow connection till late in the night, putting titles and descriptions in Flickr (because I cannot see the thumbnails in kflickr) and *then* realizing that exif tags are missing really set me off. I had to re-upload all the photos using postr for the time being.

I appreciate your hard work on this. I want kflickr to do well. Else I wouldn't have bothered to file this bug report. If this and other bug you mentioned are both fixed, this would be the best flickr uploader in the Linux world. And that is the reason I still try to use it.

Thanks again.

[Sandip Bhattacharya (sandipb)]

BTW, this bug might be caused by bug 383499, might be fixed by that bug but does that make this bug a dupe? Or just dependent on that bug? Isn't bug 234942 also going to be fixed by bug 383499?

[Sandip Bhattacharya (sandipb)]

Installing from PPA solved this problem for me in Karmic. I used this package: https://launchpad.net/~asselsm/+archive/ppa/+files/kflickr_20090726-1~ppa1~karmic_i386.deb.

In fact. both the bugs I see on Karmic are solved: EXIF tags are preserved and thumbnails are visible.

Thanks Tundraman, for packaging it.

[TundraMan (asselsm)]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Hey Tundraman,
> now that I have had a decent night's sleep after posting that bug report, I realize that I needn't have vented my frustrations in the bug. Really sorry for that. After uploading 200+ photos using my slow connection till late in the night, putting titles and descriptions in Flickr (because I cannot see the thumbnails in kflickr) and *then* realizing that exif tags are missing really set me off. I had to re-upload all the photos using postr for the time being.

No problem. I realize when hard work and more importantly - time -
seems to be wasted by misbehaving software that this can be
frustrating. So no worries.

>
> I appreciate your hard work on this. I want kflickr to do well. Else I
> wouldn't have bothered to file this bug report. If this and other bug
> you mentioned are both fixed, this would be the best flickr uploader in
> the Linux world. And that is the reason I still try to use it.
>

True, submitting a bug is far more valuable then just writing it off
and doing nothing. Thanks for keeping at it.

Let's hope Ubuntu can get this officially uprev.ed to my latest code
base and others won't similarly waste their time.

Mark

> Thanks again.
>
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