…as in: after 5 odd years, on OS X the official uploader still “requires” you to either lose all your data every time it stumbles, or … force-crash it. Which, paradoxically, keeps your data intact. Confused? You should be.<\/p>\n
e.g. you get 50% through uploading a few hundred photos, and your broadband has a momentary slowdown. Ten seconds appears to be all it takes. Because the flickr app doesn’t do basic error handling, it’ll hang at this point – forever.<\/p>\n
If you do the obvious thing and hit “cancel” (there’s no “retry” button – why would you want to retry?), it deletes your data.<\/p>\n
If you quit, it also deletes your data. (this is the mistake I made just now. That’s 20 minutes of editing image data I now have to do all over again. Sigh)<\/p>\n
The only options are:<\/p>\n
1. pull out the network cable, causing it to hard-crash … and “enable” the retry button
\n2. force-quit the app, causing it to crash … and when you restart it, it will automatically load in all the data<\/p>\n
So, note to self: if flickr uploader hangs, FORCE KILL the ****er. Don’t do anything sensible or sane – it won’t work.<\/p>\n
And … note to flickr: there’s quite a lot of Mac users these days; might be a good idea to start supporting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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