I'm not sure what has caused these "19 extraneous bytes before marker $E2"
As MC, AcdSee, XnView, Picture and Fax Viewer, Photoshop all open the "corrupt" files and read the metadata just fine, I can only assume that they have built in tolerances regarding 'extraneous bytes' and that flickr is much more stringent.
The flickr uploadr is obviously performing an integrity check on the files, probably similar to that carried out by the "bad peggy" software, and the MC uploadr is not performing the check, meaning that when the bad files hit the flickr website, it says "no way" and the entire upload is aborted.
This is the first serious upload task I've thrown at the MC uploader, and to be fair, once I'd removed the three bad files from the Q, they all went up just fine and dandy, were placed in the requested set, in the correct order.
I intend to use the MC uploader on a pretty regular basis now that my brother has emigrated to New Zealand.
I'm hoping that Matt, Bob or perhaps Yaobing might be able to shed some light as to where these extraneous bytes have come from. The three files in question were copies of the original files, created using a batch file that makes the copy, adds the _edited_1 part to the filename and opens it in photoshop. While I'm working on the file in photoshop, autoimport gets busy importing the file and all its metadata, before I save the file from photoshop, which wipes most of said metadata, but, that doesn't matter because by that time, MC has it in its database. After I save the changes, autoimport goes to work again, updating for external changes.
Somewhere in all of that, corruption has crept in. I should add at this point that I have done this with hundreds of files and these are the first three I've ran into problems with.
I'll leave bad peggy scanning the entire picture folder (14 gigs worth) while I'm sleeping and report the results later.
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How about existing set retrieval?
If you upload some images to a new set, MC should do as requested.
Now, try and add some more images to that new set...
Do you see it in the drop down "Add to set" list?
-marko.