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Q: Having so many problems sharing photos on Facebook

Using iPhoto with Facebook was a great way to share photos with my friends. The new Photos app with Yosemite is not so great. After figuring out that the Facebook upload limit was 50 photos (is there any way to have the number of photos selected to be displayed somewhere on the screen so that I wouldn't have to guess?), I learned that:

 

1. I couldn't create a new Facebook album in Photos. Instead I had to upload to the Timeline, and then change the album name from "OS X Albums." Not critical, but it would be easier for me if I new which albums on Facebook I was publishing to.

 

2. The photos on Facebook were uploaded out of order, necessitating some rearranging the photos after the upload. Would there be any way to upload them to Facebook in the order I intended? With 50 or more photos it would be a lot of work to get them in the right order. Having them uploaded in the correct order will save me a lot of time.

 

3. I also added descriptions to most of the photos. In iPhoto the descriptions would also be uploaded to Facebook as captions for each photo. The new Photos app didn't include the descriptions with the photos during the upload. I prefer to have this feature so that I can add the commentary before publishing them on Facebook.   Would that still be possible? I would like it so that I wouldn't have to type up the captions twice.

 

Doug

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 4, 2015 8:39 PM

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  • by Dominick Issi,

    Dominick Issi Dominick Issi Jan 8, 2016 11:43 PM in response to dougstorms
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    Jan 8, 2016 11:43 PM in response to dougstorms

    Appears my issue is different than those posted here. I USED to be able to, in a FB discussion, click on the camera icon ... have the finder window open ... select a picture from an album I had stored on my Mac and post it TO that discussion. I CAN do it within iOS but NOT SO from OS X. What's the deal? I was told by the super tech from Apple that I needed to get my 3000+ pictures into OS X Photo as using the old finder window albums would soon no longer work in iOS. Did that but NOW Photo appears to be USELESS for a onesie-twosie posting of picts into most any online application. Solutions?

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jan 9, 2016 1:17 AM in response to Dominick Issi
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    Jan 9, 2016 1:17 AM in response to Dominick Issi

    Try posting on the forum for Photos.

     

    Photos for Mac

  • by AxeBox360,

    AxeBox360 AxeBox360 Jan 9, 2016 10:46 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jan 9, 2016 10:46 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    Actually, this entire thread needs to be moved to the Photos forum. Note the  OP's title.

     

    Forum moderators - help!

     

    i feel your pain. So apps work well with the Photos library, some do not. I just tried to access Photos from  Facebook on Safari by clicking on the camera icon , then picture folder, and finally on the Photos library icon. I got the spinning rainbow wheel for about 10 minutes and then nothing. Apple needs to fix this . I've submitted it to them at least 12 times to them last year and I've asked everyone I know to submit it as well .

     

    Until it is fixed, you will have to export the picture to a folder and select it for upload from there.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jan 9, 2016 11:50 AM in response to AxeBox360
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    Jan 9, 2016 11:50 AM in response to AxeBox360
    I just tried to access Photos from  Facebook on Safari by clicking on the camera icon , then picture folder, and finally on the Photos library icon. I got the spinning rainbow wheel for about 10 minutes and then nothing.

     

    That's because you're telling Safari that you want to upload the entire Library package, not a photo.

     

    Apple needs to fix this

     

    It's not broken. Try doing it the way you're meant to:

     

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  • by AxeBox360,

    AxeBox360 AxeBox360 Jan 9, 2016 1:28 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jan 9, 2016 1:28 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Oh my gosh. You are correct! The media section on the left was off screen. There were no visual indicators that there were more options that I could scroll down to see it. So unless you know it's there, you'll miss it. I scrolled down  on the left side and  found "Media"  underneath "Tags". it works just as you stated.

     

    Thanks.

     

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    after scrolling.

  • by Dominick Issi,

    Dominick Issi Dominick Issi Jan 9, 2016 2:30 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jan 9, 2016 2:30 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    You're a GENIUS! 

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jan 9, 2016 2:36 PM in response to Dominick Issi
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    Jan 9, 2016 2:36 PM in response to Dominick Issi

    You know you can collapse those Favourites and Devices headings in the sidebar, right?

  • by AxeBox360,

    AxeBox360 AxeBox360 Jan 10, 2016 5:35 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jan 10, 2016 5:35 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Why would I want to collapse my most-used section of finder?

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jan 10, 2016 10:36 PM in response to AxeBox360
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    Jan 10, 2016 10:36 PM in response to AxeBox360

    Why you would I have no idea, nor care. My response was;t to you. But, to clarify, that's not the Finder and it might help you notice other features of the OS. You can expand them after, you know, it's not a permanent condition.

  • by mhschlager,

    mhschlager mhschlager Jan 31, 2016 11:37 AM in response to dougstorms
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    Jan 31, 2016 11:37 AM in response to dougstorms

    Just ran into the FB 50 limit and had previously slammed into not being able to create albums.

     

    But I would add one more thing, it says it uploads to the Timeline folder, but still always adds it to OS X Photos. It's a pain in the ***.

     

    Honestly, to get photo sharing to Facebook (arguably the most used feature in a photos app) wrong at this stage in the game is inexcusable, doubly so considering they've had something mostly worked for years in iPhoto.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jan 31, 2016 11:48 AM in response to mhschlager
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    Jan 31, 2016 11:48 AM in response to mhschlager

    Unfortunately your post makes little sense. "Not able to create albums"? Why not? Then what's "it" in this sentence:

     

    it says it uploads to the Timeline folder, but still always adds it to OS X Photos

     

    I'd be curious to see who'd argue that uploading to Facebook is the most used feature...

  • by mhschlager,

    mhschlager mhschlager Jan 31, 2016 12:21 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jan 31, 2016 12:21 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    I think it's pretty clear if you read the thread (and original post), but regardless: you can't create new albums on Facebook when sharing photos, just select an existing one.

     

    Furthermore: it (Photos) uploads to the Timeline album, but it (the photo uploaded) is actually in the OS X Photos album on Facebook

     

    Finally, one would think 1.5 B users uploading 300 M photos per day would make for a pretty important, if not the most important feature of a photo management application. Re: https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jan 31, 2016 3:18 PM in response to mhschlager
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    Jan 31, 2016 3:18 PM in response to mhschlager

    Reading your post on the iPhoto forum about the Photos app made it unclear what "it" you referred to. I wondered if you meant unable to create albums in Photos.

     

    So, now we have one person arguing it's the most used feature, though offering no evidence at all.

  • by AxeBox360,

    AxeBox360 AxeBox360 Feb 4, 2016 4:36 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Feb 4, 2016 4:36 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    The poster's statement was clear to me, I guess that I must be a master of reading comprehension.

     

    Unfollowing this thread since it is clear the Apple is not going to fix .

     

    My work around has been to keep some 'dummy' photos around and use  to create a new album in Facebook using my browser. after the album is created , I can upload photos to it from Photos app. after that , I remove the dummy photo and proceed to update the photo captions and tag the people in them.

  • by Blueboing101,

    Blueboing101 Blueboing101 May 3, 2016 1:28 AM in response to RecoveringDesigner
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    May 3, 2016 1:28 AM in response to RecoveringDesigner

    Same here, I used Iphoto for years with no trouble at all. Great program with many advantages over this new version, I have a lot of trouble even trying to get all of my old near 40k photo's into the app in the first place and then suffer headache after headache trying to share where before it just happened at a click... May time machine the **** out of this mess as so far El Capitan is slow and its programs unwieldy. APPLE, YOU HAVE FAILED ME.

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