Duplicate Gallery ?

[Bernard]

Lightroom Version Number

LR 7.4

Operating System

1. Windows 10

Within a publish service (TTG CE4), I want to rename the album names.
Some renames are successful, others get an error message :
"Duplicate gallery found
if you proceed, this gallery will have a number appended to the slug"
I vaguely remember that some years ago I created some albums that were deleted afterwards.
But no present album or slug names are duplicates, I checked all of them.
Is it possible that 'deleted' galleries are still present in the catalog but do not appear ?
Bernard

 

[LouieSherwin]

Bernard,

I don't recognize the publish service that you reference. Can you give a better description? In any case this is likely a problem with the plug-in or the service API and not in Lightroom. You should contact the plug-in developer directly.

-louie

 

[Johan Elzenga]

As far as I know, TTG CE4 is a web gallery, not a publishing service. I'm not sure it is fully compatible with Lightroom 7. It seems pretty old.

 

[Bernard]

Hi Louie,
Thanks for answering.
The publish service is for a web gallery from 'The Turning Gate'.
I don't think it's a problem with the plug-in. The error message is from LR, and basically it says the 'slug ' name, which is stored in the catalog, is a duplicate.
The slug name is part of the gallery information provided to LR.
Bernard

 

[Bernard]

Hi Johan,
A LR publishing service is used in order to define and update the TTG web gallery. TTG CE4 is indeed quite old but has been used by many people; the problem I mention today was already present in LR 6.
Bernard

 

[LouieSherwin]

Hi Bernard,

Even though the error appears to be comming from Lightroom it is the plug-in that is failing. Something has changed as I suggested earlier. Did a quick look at The Turning Gate and there is a bunch of resources about the CE4 plugin including Docs & Support contact form.

-louie

 

[Bernard]

Thanks Louie, I have been in Docs & support already , no luck.
Sorry to insist, but I get the error message when trying to rename an album name, which is in fact a LR collection. I believe there is a 'phantom' collection in LR which contains the same 'slug' name.

 

[LouieSherwin]

I believe there is a 'phantom' collection in LR which contains the same 'slug' name.

While that may be true I am pretty sure that there is no Adobe field "slug". This is almost certainly a field created by the plug-in developers to support the web galleries. I would use the contact form on the Turning Gate site and send them the error message. That is going to be the best way to solve your problem.

-louie

 

[Bernard]

Here is the error message.
I think I made a wrong interpretation of the word 'slug' in the message, I am not sure anymore it's the same as the field 'slug' in the gallery description?
Sorry for the confusion.
Bernard

 

[Bernard]

Thanks Louie and Johan, I have found a hit in the TTG support , and is indeed due to TTG, not LR.
Bernard