Ed Holloway has released an eagerly awaited (by me, anyway) Beta 2 of PhotoSync for Windows Home Server.
PhotoSync monitors your WHS Photos folder (or any sub folder you select) and automatically upload the contents of that folder (and every sub folder) to your Flickr account. Best of all, it works almost right out of the box – it’s a truly great add-in.
Over to Ed:
The new version has several tweaks, bug fixes and the following enhancements, based on community feedback:
- Ability to name Flickr Images based on the file name
- Ability to automatically create Flickr ‘Sets’ based on the folder name
- Ability to set Flickr photo permissions (Public, Friend, Family)
- Allow selection of any WHS Shared folders as the sync folder
- Automatic upload throttling to keep large amounts of photos from bogging down your Internet connection
- Ability to disable PhotoSync from the WHS console
Other notes and changes:
- WHS console application no longer opens Internet Explorer on your server
- Setting changes take place quicker
- Config tools now use UNC shares (\\ServerName\ShareName\) rather than drive letters
Note – If you have a free Flickr account, you are only allowed to create 3 photo sets. If you have more photo folders than this, PhotoSync will still upload them, they will just not be part of a set
It’s great to see that PhotoSync is now exposing some of the great functionality of Flickr (sets and permissions in particular). This is definitely a recommended download.
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