How do I see my now-disabled (post 8/1) Facebook publish collections?!

[dantestella]

So Facebook wants to cut off desktop application uploads with basically no notice... fine.

Lightroom throws an error message about this... fine.

www.adobe.com/go/facebook-sharing-error

But regardless of the upload capability for the plugin, how can I view (and copy to permanent Lightroom collections) the local versions of the folders? I obviously have all of the source DNGs, etc., but there is a considerable amount of editing and organization in there.

If there is no easy way, can I reload an older version of the plugin using Time Machine?

And hey Adobe, can we have a slightly more graceful letdown on stuff like this...?

Thanks,

[Tony_See]

It looks like you have accepted the facebook API change, so your question is (from my best reading of the above) is how to move images to a LR Collection?

Or do you mean Catalog perhaps . . . ?

Is that still your best option which platform and version of LR are you using?

[banquetbear]

In publish collections you can have folders and sub-folders, etc.  I used to use Jeffrey Friedl's facebook plugin, which obviously stopped working at the same time as the Adobe facebook plugin.  But I can still access the folders/sub-folders in Friedl's plugin, but you can't access the folders in the Adobe plugin, it simply says it is "disabled" and when you click on it it throws up a dialog box.  I'm assuming the question is how to get access to the collections (even if they won't upload/sync).  I can't answer the question sorry   but would suggest contacting support directly as I doubt there is a workaround.

[erinp11345451]

what is the contact info for support? i am having the exact same issue and tonnes of edited work is just gone. thank you for the info if you can provide please.

[erinp11345451]

i have the exact same issue. have you found any further information since your initial post on the 1st of august?

[john beardsworth · Accepted solution]

This script Facebook recovery script – Lightroom Solutions will copy your sets/collections to the regular Collections panel.

[dantestella]

Thank you!!!

For Mac users, you need to go to Preferences-->Presets and uncheck "store presets with this catalog." Then hit the button for showing the presets folder. Make a Scripts folder in there (if there isn't one). Drop the .lua file in there, recheck the "store presets with this catalog"  and restart LR. You will now have a scripts menu.

Consistent with using plugins with Adobe's other products, there are other places for scripts that might look right but are not.  These include:

- Opening the LR package, wherein there is a Scripts folder

- The location LR takes you when you press "show the presets folder" from preferences when you have the "store presets with this catalog" checked.

Dante

[erinp11345451]

did you initially have a message error when you tried this? i am asking a tech person within adobi to try it for safety reasons and he said he got an error message ....