Uploaded Tag?

[JAS Photo]

Kirk -

As I said in a prior note - I love the "Uploaded Tag". But is it supposed to disappear when PM is restarted?

Thanks
Joe

[Kirk Baker]

Joe,

As I said in a prior note - I love the "Uploaded Tag". But is it supposed to disappear when PM is restarted?

Yes.  The Upload Status Indicators will disappear when PM is restarted or when the Contact Sheet tab is closed.

-Kirk

[FVlcek]

I presume that if you want persistent logging of which photos were uploaded you can use the log option. Which is fine by me - FTP'd tags non-persistent (and not cluttering the file metadata) and log when I want persisten info on what when and to whom I uploaded.

[JAS Photo]

Is it too difficult to store this info? I wanted this feature for long term memory.

Thanks
Joe

[Kirk Baker]

Joe,

Is it too difficult to store this info? I wanted this feature for long term memory.

Storing that data inside the photos themselves would be problematic for a few reasons.  One, you may not want your client to be able to tell where you have previously uploaded your photo.  If the upload status were written to the XMP data, your client could simply open up the image in Photoshop and see this info.  Two, this data could get rather large (depending on how much each entry took and the number of times the photo were uploaded).  Three, depending on how you did the upload operation, the file you selected may not at all be the photo that was uploaded, rather a scaled derivative was sent.  So should the file that was selected be updated with the persistent upload info, or should the file that was actually uploaded contain the upload info?

In any rate we have decided not to make this data persistent for a variety of reasons.  You can keep the Upload logs if you like and they'll contain this history.

-Kirk

[Davpino]

What about secretcodes for your personal use, written in the EXIF/IPTC? Ok, customer could see your codes but they don't know what they mean.

[Brendan]

What about secretcodes for your personal use, written in the EXIF/IPTC? Ok, customer could see your codes but they don't know what they mean.

yes this is a good idea. there are a lot of iptcfields that PM doesnt display (e.g. the custom fields - fotostation can use this)

what about to use the .pmarrangement.dat file in every directory?

[JAS Photo]

Kirk -

As I've said - I really love the uploaded tag.

Have you thought of anyway to make it permanent?
It's just not very useful if I loose that info every time I restart PM.

Thanks
Joe

[Kirk Baker]

Joe,

As I've said - I really love the uploaded tag.

Have you thought of anyway to make it permanent?
It's just not very useful if I loose that info every time I restart PM.

We don't want to make it permanent.  You can always select the successfully uploaded files (there's a command in the File menu) and then add some sort of info that means something to you via the IPTC Stationery Pad.

-Kirk