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I'm just now tinkering around with the gallery generate/upload feature of LR. It's kinda neat, but it doesn't seem very useful right now. Reason being, it seems to take ages just to generate and upload a 7 image, Quality 7', 45'px LR HTML gallery.

I was going to possibly start using this as a quick and easy way to share images, but it doesn't look like it's all that feasible...lacking the quick part. I can't imagine trying to generate and upload a more extensive gallery...of say 1'' pics.

I don't know if it's my DSL, my server or LR though. I'm not sure how I'd even determine that.

Anyone have any thoughts on it?
 
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I use it all the time, sure - it's not very quick, but it is easy. I did an event last weekend and uploaded 13'ish pictures with the LRG paypal template and it took around 1'-12 minutes with NO interaction. That's perfectly fine to me. If I'm doing big galleries then I would leave it running when I went to bed.
 
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rcannonp said:
How long does it take to create the gallery on a local disk? It took less than 3 minutes to create and upload a 28 image gallery over my cable connection. DSL is slower than cable, but it shouldn't take all that much longer. I would guess that it's a server issue.
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paulchilly said:
I use it all the time, sure - it's not very quick, but it is easy. I did an event last weekend and uploaded 13'ish pictures with the LRG paypal template and it took around 1'-12 minutes with NO interaction. That's perfectly fine to me. If I'm doing big galleries then I would leave it running when I went to bed.
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That would be nice but mine was lagging into hours for just 7 images. Seems like it's my FTP timing out though. Galleries generate on-disk fast(ish) but even those aren't impressive.
 
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The FTP facilities are more of a convenient add-on than a major feature - if you're having trouble, I'd just export to disc and then use dedicated FTP software to upload.
 
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Victoria Bampton said:
The FTP facilities are more of a convenient add-on than a major feature - if you're having trouble, I'd just export to disc and then use dedicated FTP software to upload.
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Thanks. I don't figure on using it much anyway. I already have a batch upload via ftp & .txt file for proofing. It's just cool if everything works well for those few times it'd be handy...like sharing a quick gallery with friends or fam. I don't need to break speed records...but timing out isn't fun. I could walk away from it and/or multitask if it weren't for that.
 
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I seem to be having better success with it now. I have another question though...

Are the FTP'd galleries stored in a temporary, or permanent, cache anywhere on my hard disk or are they sent straight to FTP without being placed anywhere on my disk? If they are indeed stored on disk, where are they?
 
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I believe, just temp storage, but if you want access to them. Export them to the HD, instead of straight FTP, or do both. I export to the Apache Server Folder of my Laptop and use My own FTP to upload.

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I don't necessarily want access. Just curious if it's filling my hard drive for no real valid reason...I'd purge it.
 
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In that case it should be just a temp and get auto purged after a short while, with FTP Upload, as apposed to Export.

AFAIK,

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Or perhaps it doesn't even store anything temporarily. It may be like exporting (ie converting) and instead of somewhere on the hard drive, everything goes straight to the server.

BUT if I don't shoot anything for awhile and my hard drive suddenly shows as full, I'll know better. :p
 
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