I’m down in Charlottesville for a couple of days, helping my mom get around as she gets some more surgery on her arm (it never quite healed properly from her motorcycle accident 15 months ago). There are a bunch of restaurants and bars that I used to frequent as an undergrad just a short walk from the hospital, and the nurses assured me that hanging around the waiting room would gain me nothing except, perhaps, a deadly staph infection. So I wandered up to the Corner, had lunch at Bodo’s (now with official Jewish approval — he’s matrilinear & everything!) and then wandered over to Plan 9 music, where I’ve been sipping coffee and having very little luck using the free wireless.
This provides a handy excuse for why I haven’t yet completed my timesheet, but it also means that I just lost an entire batch of meticulously-tagged Halloween photos when the upload died partway through. This brings me to the putative reason for this post: there’s got to be something better than the OS X Flickr Uploadr, right? The goddamn thing has a single failure mode: catastrophic. I appreciate simplicity, but I kind of expected Flickr to take some of the savings it enjoys from vowel-related cost-cutting and reinvest it in software development.
Yeah, I use Flickr Uploadr but I don’t like it. I would switch to something else if there was a better option.
It doesn’t break for me nearly as often as it breaks for you, but still–you’d think it wouldn’t be that hard for them to modify the program so that it saves all your captions, etc if the connection goes out in the middle. Looking around quickly, there appear to be a few other solutions, but the only one that seems to definitively address the mid-upload crash problem is the Flock uploader. And if you’re using that it means you’re using Flock, so you’re already screwed. Sorry.