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I am pleased to announce a new version of FTP Sender for Lightroom,   this includes a new drag and drop so you can drop files into the file list from explorer as well as sending them from direct from Lightroom, this should help when you have a large number of files to send which exceeds the parameter length supported by Windows.

To use drag and drop simply select the files in Windows Explorer and drop them on to the file list.

See the original release notes for installation and usage with Lightroom.

Download FTP Sender V1.5

FTP sender is free,  however if you would like to send me a donation just click on the button to send me a donation by Paypal (no account needed)

The latest version of Lightroom FTP Sender is available new features include “Abort” button,   and a test connection button.

It can be downloaded below.   See Initial Release for more information.

lightroomsender

My PC has Raid 5 for the main data disks and that makes it fairly slow to write to disk. This meant I really wanted to move the Lightroom cache, but not the database on to another disk. Well today I managed it.

Firstly I found an article about using symbolic linked drives on the Mac, which lead me to search for a tool to do the same under windows. I found Junction there are a few limitations in that you need to be using NTFS as a file system, but I was so I crossed my fingers and did the deed.

1. Make sure Lightroom is NOT running.
2. Move the “Lightroom Database Previews.lrdata/” directory to the new hard drive.
3. Put the Junction exe in the Windows directory
4. From the command line type Junction “old dir” “new dir” and press enter
5. Start lightroom and your cache is moved.

This is probably a tip only for advanced PC users and its well worth reading though the help for Junction and the Shell Shocked Article before you start, but it’s speeded up my Lightroom no end so it was worth it for me.

New: June 2009

I have just found Link Shell Extension which adds a GUI interface to the Junction Command.   Very Nice and it works in x64 Vista

Newer Version Available see : FTP Sender 1.5

Now I am using Coppermine for my gallery I wanted a quick way to upload files from Lightroom. So I wrote the Lightroom FTP Sender.

This is a first version, but feel free to try it. Please leave me a comment if you find it useful. If enough people find it useful, there are some extra features I would like to add.

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