Beardy's plug-ins

[johnbeardy]

Just a quick note to say that I've been getting my hands dirty and learning a bit of Lua, the programming language used by Lightroom. It's been about as much fun as the toilet scene in Trainspotting, but I have now put a couple of simple utilities on my site.

Size and count is a simple dialog box that tells you the total size of the selected items, and tells you how many are online and offline/missing. It's most handy when you are working out buckets, for instance.

PseudoRatings is a way to make Lightroom's Print print ratings as stars - not as numbers.

More will follow...

John

[Dorin Nicolaescu]

Nice.

Some feedback if you accept... How do you calculate the size? Explorer gives me fewer megabytes (if we define a megabyte as bytes*1024*1024).

Also, isn't it possible to only have one OK button in Lua? Cancel seems redundant.

[johnbeardy]

Thanks Dorin. The size is the sum of what's recorded in Lightroom, so there's no call to Finder/Explorer. I suppose my view is that if Lightroom is wrong, that's something Adobe should fix, and I don't plan to do a Finder/Explorer call. But firmly in my sights is reading/writing with exiftool, and should mean I'll work out the Finder/Explorer call en passant.

Yes, it would make sense to lose the Cancel button. I'll see if I can find out how that can be done.

John

[Dorin Nicolaescu]

I did some digging... Do you get the size from the AgLibraryFile.importHash field? (The only place where I could find file size info. Or is there an SDK funtion for this?)

That number over there seems to be correct to the byte. But your plug-in calculates the megabytes as bytes/1000/1000, which is... well, most people are used to bytes/1024/1024.

[johnbeardy]

I used photo:getRawMetadata("fileSize"). I could put 1024 into the function instead.

I have been looking around and it doesn't look like I can suppress the cancel button. I'm using LrDialogs.presentModalDialog. I could switch to LrDialogs.message which has no cancel button but is ugly and doesn't seem to accept a columnar layout.

John

[johnbeardy]

Just put a /1024 version online.

John

[Dorin Nicolaescu]

Just put a /1024 version online.

That's better

EDIT: If you deselect all files, the plug-in acts truly in Lightroom spirit, as if everything is selected. Nice touch, John!

[johnbeardy]

Yes, I knew that last bit - the plug-in loops through "catalog.targetPhotos". Maybe I'll just change the text from "selected".

John

[markpirozzi]

John,

Thanks for creating this plugin.

It seems that a substantial amount is added for Virtual Copies.  Is the amount equal to the VCs being exported as DNGs?  (I have been converting my DNG VCs to DNGs before archiving, so I should have done the conversion before using your plugin, but just curious.)

I take it this only works for RAW files: "I used photo:getRawMetadata("fileSize")".  I first tried it on a group of mixed file types and got about 7GB instead of the 4GB that the finder and Toast indicated.

Mark

[johnbeardy]

Thanks Mark

OK, I understand the VC problem. It's counting each VC and including its size. I think that should be easy to fix.

As for getRawMetadata, I will have to look further into that. I don't think it's restricted to raw files, but is raw in the sense of not being formatted - there's also a getFormattedMetadata function. My suspicion is that each function reads the file size at the point at which the file was first registered in Lightroom, and I don't discount bugs either in my coding or in Lightroom.

Good to know people are interested in this!

John

[johnbeardy]

1.03 is now uploaded and resolves the virtual copy double-counting.

I'm not sure about the non-raws, because the code seems to work as I expected. I've actually edited a file outside Lightroom and added a few layers, but as soon as Lightroom sees it again the file size is updated in the catalogue, and the plugin works correctly. Maybe see what else distinguishes those files?

John

[markpirozzi]

I'm not sure about the non-raws, because the code seems to work as I expected. I've actually edited a file outside Lightroom and added a few layers, but as soon as Lightroom sees it again the file size is updated in the catalogue, and the plugin works correctly. Maybe see what else distinguishes those files?

John

The files with the inflated total file size were layered PSD files.  I'll try it with layered TIFF files and retry using PSD files.

Mark

[johnbeardy]

Definitely look at what LR says the file size is, as well as Finder/Explorer. The error could easily be Adobe's.

John

[johnbeardy]

And now joined by a third plug-in Find missing files

John

[markpirozzi]

John, I re-tried the Size and Count plugin on non-RAW files and it seems to be working now.  It's usually off by 20 to 50 MB from the finder, but more than accurate enough for making buckets.

Thanks, Mark