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Now you can upload images to Flickr. That means that both free and paid LJ users can insert images from the local drive and have them automatically uploaded somewhere before posting. Note that you need to login to Flickr in Internet Explorer because Semagic always uses IE cookies for authentication during upload.
IE here means a browser which cookies are accessible by external applications. You can continue using other browsers but need to login at least once via IE to make the cookies for flickr.com saved.
General note if you used Semagic for a long time but at some point it started crashing on login
Crash dumps that I received during past several months clearly show that it is most likely caused by some spyware and virus programs at your computer. Crash dump contains list of all loaded libraries and the point where the error occurs. In all cases it was listing some unknown .dll files that were intercepting network connections and the error occurred inside that spyware rather than Semagic itself. All users actually had antivirus tools installed but those particular viruses were not detected. Some of those files were even hiding themselves from the file explorer. So people had to either manually remove the files that I pointed them to or use tools like HijackThis to remove spyware that was hiding or restoring itself. That solved the problem in all reported cases.
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- Register at flickr.com if you have not already.
- Go to Journal/ Pictures menu in Semagic and select "Flickr" in the Server type.
- Press Ctrl+M to insert local image (or or use corresponding toolbar button or menu item from the right-click menu), select "Image" and press "..." to browse for file.
- Insert the image tag into the entry and press "Post" to post the entry. Image upload window is invoked if there are local images in the entry. This behavior is controlled via Journal/ Pictures/Open/Options, by default it is set to always find and upload locally stored pictures. You may need to go there first if you for some reason turned it off.
- Press "Authorize..." and follow the link to flickr.com to allow Semagic accessing your files.
- Return to the upload window and wait until the files are uploaded and you see URLs assigned to each file. The window is closed automatically and the entry is posted with local links replaced by new URLs.
IE here means a browser which cookies are accessible by external applications. You can continue using other browsers but need to login at least once via IE to make the cookies for flickr.com saved.
General note if you used Semagic for a long time but at some point it started crashing on login
Crash dumps that I received during past several months clearly show that it is most likely caused by some spyware and virus programs at your computer. Crash dump contains list of all loaded libraries and the point where the error occurs. In all cases it was listing some unknown .dll files that were intercepting network connections and the error occurred inside that spyware rather than Semagic itself. All users actually had antivirus tools installed but those particular viruses were not detected. Some of those files were even hiding themselves from the file explorer. So people had to either manually remove the files that I pointed them to or use tools like HijackThis to remove spyware that was hiding or restoring itself. That solved the problem in all reported cases.
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