I've uploaded v3 and all my files from the old version are gone. Somewhere it says I can continue to run V2 separately but the v3 installation seems to have written over v2, so I can't run the old version.

How can I access all of that previous information?

 

The new v3 does not overwrite the old version. If you're on windows, you should see both versions in the installed applications list.

In any case, once the dust settles and there is more known about which statistics will be made available from the ESP API, I will add import functionality for the old V2 data, which is still there. V3 stores its data alongside the old one.

Wish: Maybe it's possible to not have to be forced every time to chose for the country (the Netherlands in my case) but the last country used to keep as the default choice.

Yep, totally agree. It's a huge list, and most contributors will often just use one or a few.
Considering a few options on how to best approach this, but it's definitely on the list. Thanks!

Finally managed to log in and download deepmeta 3.0. I'm watching the tutorial and to be quite honest, I don't like the new version at all. The old one was much more intuitive and easy to use but I guess he had to cripple the program to accommodate ESP. I wonder how much money they wasted on all this? Guess that explains the latest round of paycuts for everyone...

You're probably mostly referring to the way Batches are handled?
I must admit I've been struggling with this. The ESP site is 100% focused around batches: it's your starting and endpoint. This makes sense for ESP, being an upload portal.

With DeepMeta, I don't want to lose the "portfolio management" part. I know there's very little (if any) management left in V3 at this point, but to me, V3 a new starting point, and I'm determined to go beyond what DM 2 could deliver.

This is why I still have flat lists of Files and Releases in there. Contributors will want to see stats and work at the level of their portfolio as such, not necessarily in the context of batches.

I realize I have a long way to go, but I'm not a quitter

All feedback, positive and negative is totally welcome. Don't hold back

Can I use it for vector files? Any tutorial?

Here's something to get you started:
http://www.deepmeta.com/GettingStarted/AddingNewIllustrations/

Well, maybe.
But if it is like this how can you explain that some like me and others have absolutely no problem?
I mean that if there is a problem from iStock's end everybody should face it. But apparently it is not like this.
For this I was trying to understand if it could be related to a specific version of DeepMeta, a specific platform or a specific OS.

Whenever there's an issue in DeepMeta, it's almost always caused by problems with the iStock API servers.
Sometimes only a subset of the users are affected; I guess that's the nature of the beast: there are more than one server, so it could depend on the one you wind up to. Problems could also just affect one type of upload, and in addition, sometimes it's just plain intermittent.

Look at DeepMeta as a browser and the iStock servers as a website: when a site is (partially) down, it doesn't usually help to update your browser, you have to wait for the site to be fixed.

To get a feeling of whether it's just you or lots of others are involved as well, you can check out the following status page:
http://www.deepmeta.com/Support/iStockphotoAPI/

It shows the total errors encountered at any given time. Big red bumps means there's something wrong at the server side.

Thanks all for reporting. I made sure iStock HQ is aware of the problems, and let's hope for a quick fix. Thanks for your patience.

You're right, it makes sense.
Though of course you should still verify the choices DeepMeta has made, as some may be wrong.

that's very useful. Thanks!

You're welcome ... you're the one who started this all

I don't think it'll be too hard to add the changes you suggested. Most likely in the next release.

Thanks again for all the detailed reports. Additional ones from anyone are still welcome!
I suspect there are more special cases of country/state/province naming out there in the field...

Quote from: Karen on May 31, 2016, 06:11

Quote from: FrankyDM on May 31, 2016, 05:36

Thanks for trying it out Karen.
If you can, please post the exact description text you used, so I can have a look.

The image IPTC description field:
Berlin, Germany - May 28, 2016: Description."

I also tried "05 28 2016" instead of "May 28, 2016" with same results

Felixstowe, England, UK - February 22nd, 2016:: Outdoor Pool in Holiday Resort" similar result to Karen

As I mentioned in my post right above: there is still a bug.
However, "February 22nd, 2016" is not going to work anyway as a date, "February 22, 2016" would (once the other bug is fixed).

Thanks for reporting, and keep them coming!

Thank you for your work Franky!!!
Just tried to upload an editorial image with IPTC description field as per the guidance.
DM did triggered the "Editorial use only" check box successfully! 
though DM did not copy description field's value into DM Caption field and did not choose the country in the list. 

Thanks for trying it out Karen.

If you can, please post the exact description text you used, so I can have a look.

Yes, I've reported this to iStock HQ some time ago.
Only a few users seem(ed) affected by this. If anyone still gets this, report back and I'll pass it on.
Thanks

Hi Franky,

Sorry for the delay, it took me some time to get back to this. Okay, let me explain in more details and hopefully we can do something about it. Here is the editorial caption format (taken from IPTC Caption field) which is accepted in SS, BS, DT, DP, 123RF and possibly many others:

CITY, STATE/COUNTRY � MONTH DAY, YEAR or CIRCA MONTH YEAR: [Factual description of the image content, including what the image portrays].

... (shortened)

Thanks so much for the detailed summary. It's much appreciated!

I can work with that. I'll let you know if I need any more info.
You're all still welcome to send me some example JPGs that I can test with. I'm particularly interested to see which IPTC fields you're using, as well as variations in the formatting. (email: fdm at eazign dot be).

Thanks!

Franky, I actually meant just Title field from IPTC. When it is formatted like "City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Description of what is going on in the picture" it is accepted as editorial to SS and all other major agencies without much additional clicking/editing required (you would usually have to set Editorial check box/option to "Yes" though and sometimes select special category like at Dreamstime's system for example). However, DeepMeta required to manually specify that information again in picture description dialog and provide separate editorial description. I am not sure, it might actually be iStock requirement and DeepMeta is simply just following the  rules of the agency. My point was that it is redundant, time consuming and simply antique and I was wondering if there is any way to make it more streamlined. Manually picking all these dates and places again just makes it really time consuming to submit editorials to IS.   

While it's true that iStock uploads demand all those additional selections being made (country, date), it's also true that DeepMeta could auto-convert info imported from the IPTC title or description and auto-complete these selections for you.

In order to do that, I need to find out what the exact practice is. Details matter.

E.g. you've mentioned:
"City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Description of what is going on in the picture"
as well as:
"City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Title"

A few questions:
- It is the IPTC "title" field you are referring to, and not the "description" field?
- About "Month Day Year": is this "2 21 2016", "Februari 21 2016" or something else?
- If you put this info in the "title" field, then what goes in the "description" field?
- iStock has a separate "caption" field for editorial, where should that be taken from?

Just gathering some info here. I see some possibilities for better automation.
Thanks!