I also have the same problem. V 4.1rc.

Same issue here.  At first I was getting the same error as clee01lisme, so I assume we're both on a Mac.  For some odd reason I started getting a different error when trying to publish a bit later:

An internal error has occurred: Error Domain=NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code=23 "Line 21: EntityRef: expecting ';'

" UserInfo=0x111052e00 {NSLocalizedDescription=Line 21: EntityRef: expecting ';'

}

Seems to me some settings xml file is corrupt.  If someone could at least point us to the right one, perhaps it could be manually fixed?

I was pretty eager to get some photos up on Flickr, so I downgraded back to 4.0.  Now, I get a permissions error when I attempt to publish, and the plugin settings page doesn't give me an option to log out (even though I deauthorized Lightroom in Flickr, attempting to reset everything when I first got the permissions error).

All in all, everything's completely hosed for me now with Flickr publishing. 

I agree, setting up another publish service is going to just mess things all up. I like Lightroom because I can keep things organized. That's not going to work if I have to create another one. How do I revert back to 4.0 and get things working the way they were previously?

I removed 4.1rc and re-installed 4.0 but the Flickr publish is not working. I'm on a Mac. This really needs to be fixed.

Slightly off topic, but I just tried to update V4, and it tells me it's up to date. Where can I get a new update from and does it fix performance issues?

I enountered the problem of not being able to upload to Flickr after installing LR4.1RC and the message "can't update this collection. An internal error has occurred: Invalid at the top level of the document".

I found a workaround that solved my problem.  (Your mileage may vary.)

I shutdown LR4.1RC and then replaced Flickr.lrplugin in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4\ with the Flickr.lrplugin from LR3.6.

When I restarted LR4.1RC and attempted to publish to Flickr, the plugin reported an authorization error. I right-clicked on the Flickr publish service and chose Edit Settings...

Under the Flickr account section, I saw that I needed to log-in again. I pushed the Log In button and reauthorized my Lightroom Publish Connection.

After that, I was able to publish without a problem to Flickr using the LR3.6 Flickr plugin.

I'm happy

GeorgeOfTheGorge

http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgeinthegorge/

Note, after installing the 3.6 Flickr plugin, I too got the authenication error when trying to publish and was not offered the chance to log in again.

At that point, I right-clicked on the Publish service for Flickr and selected Edit Settings... In that dialog, I had a Log In button that was enabled. Once I pressed that button, the plug-in went through the authenication process. After that, publish worked and has continued to work for me (your mileage may vary).

Earlier, I had expreimented with many other ideas for getting the 4.1RC Flickr plug-in to work before trying the 3.6 plug-in.  In that process I verified that I could create the error message "invalid at the top level of the document" using the 4.1RC Flickr plug-in by (1) creating a new Flickr publish service, (2) testing that the new service worked by uploading from it, (3) deauthorizing Lightroom on the Flickr website, (4) attempting to publish again from the new Flickr publish service. At that point the publish failed with the message ""invalid at the top level of the document".

My guess is that this problem revolves around the handling of the authorization token. I note that the LR4.1RC Flickr plugin is about 5KB larger than the LR3.6 Flickr plugin on my system. This suggests that there are coding differences between the plugins.

I should point out that I was careful not to delete my original Flickr publish service. I noticed that creating a new service and publishing previously published images to Flickr allowed duplicate images to be loaded into my Flickr photostream. These duplicate images did not have comments and appeared as new additions to my stream. If you value your view counts, comments and favorites, be very careful and don't make changes you don't understand. Operations such as removing and republishing images to Flickr might lead to the loss of this information.

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Thanks, it feels good to be able to help someone else and return the favor that many have provided me through these forums.

I have the same issue as DangermanUK... even if I downgrade, my login button on the publish settings page is disabled (so I don't have any way to reauthenticate), and I get a permissions error when I try to publish. 

I caved and just created a new publish service, which works fine.  Just a bummer I'll forever have to maintain a "4.1 RC" publish service, unless I want to delete and publish them all again.  And still no way to republish old photos...

Thanks for the tip gpiii, but that was actually one of the first things I tried when I saw the login button was disabled.  It didn't make a difference in my ability to login again, as I'd hoped it would.  LR still thought it was logged in, no matter what I did.  Thanks though.

simonsaith wrote:

This is a known bug that we fixed internally. Some background: Flickr annouced that they will deprecate the old user authentication API in July. This particular LR 4.1RC has updated the Flickr plug-in to use their authentication API of the future. However, the old user authentication token (incompatible with the new one) is still cached on in the old Flickr publish service created in the earlier version of LR.

 

The current workaround is to create a new Flickr publish service in LR4.1RC and use that instead of the one created earlier.

The work-around is, as folk have said, a real kludge - messy and difficult to adminster.  And, presumably, once done, you have to live with it forever, as  re-integrating to a single Flickr collection without loosing comments will be impossible.

@Simon: Are you saying that the Final Release will correct this bug, by updating the old user authentication token suring the update process?  (In which case, waiting for the Final is the sensible thing to do.)

Flickr LR4.1RC

This worked for me replace the Fickr plugin with the LR4.0 plugin

Right click on Flickr in LR4.1RC a dialogue box pops up with setting .. click on SAVE and exit

upload to flickr will now work

Windows 7 64 bit here

Can you elaborate?  I did the same but it still fails.  I copied the Flickr.lrplugin from a Lightroom 4.0 backup, overwrite the 4.1RC1 version, lightroom then asked me for a Flickr API key which I generated and configured, but I still cannot publish.  Did restart Lightroom.

Yeah, me too.  Broken in 4.1 final.  This after it took all day yesterday to re-upload after I blew away the old publish connection and made a new one.  I am dismayed.

After reading this updateed thread, I D/l'd and installed LR4.1.  I embedded a CR/LF in to a caption and republished, I did not have any problem. This was on a Mac, so maybe it inserts LineFeeds differently from Windows/DOS