Lightroom 4 Publishing to Facebook

When I attempt to publish to facebook I get the message: Lightroom is unable to create temporary files on the Volume named "Local Disk (C:)? OS is Win 7, 64 bit! 1 Terebyte disk with over 700 gigs free!

Bibzie wrote:
Hi...Mine is fixed by right-clicking on the Lightroom icon. In Properties,
I set the program to run as "administrator", giving it permisisions to
write the files to the disk. Once that was done, it uploaded to Flickr
with no problems. Of course, I only tested 1 photo. I've heard it's
REALLY slow.
Running an application like Lightroom as Administrator is ill-advised because you are now allowing Lightroom and all of its plugins (3rd party or otherwise) to do *anything* to your system, whether you know it or not. The broken exporting and writing to temporary files just started happening recently. It could be something to do with the latest Windows update, or a bug in Lightroom that Adobe now has to fix because of a change to the OS.
Changing the permissions on the folder where temp files are written is another option (as another poster suggested).
What I did, however, was download Jeffrey Friedl's "JF Flickr" plugin, which does work correctly (http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/flickr). It is quite robust. It takes a little work to setup all of your Smart Collections again but he clearly puts effort into maintaining it. It didn't have the "API error" that the built-in plugin has.
Also what annoys me is that Adobe hasn't caught this yet or said anything about it. The best I could find was this thread. Native plugins should never be broken, Adobe!

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I have encountered the same problem you have! I have been posting to Facebook Pages for a few years now.
I have reported this problem to Facebook using their own problem reporting mechanism.
It would help if everyone who is having this issue should do the same. Here is the process:
1. In, Facebook, Click on the pull down on the far upper right of the screen.
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3. Click "Something Isn't Working"
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5. Explain the problem.
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Any insight or help from the professional community on this site would be greatly appreciated.

Victoria,
For Facebook: I used the following procedure found on another thread on this site dated 15 Mar 2012, The "Failed to receive the authentication token." will show up as a blue hyperlink right above the "Change Account" button.
I found I was able to complete it only using Microsoft IE on windows using the following method:
1. Delete Lightroom from the Apps on your account
2. Re-authorize from Lightroom (make sure Microsoft IE is the default internet browser)
3. When authorizing IE will go to an invalid URL - just copy all of the URL
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5 Replace "lightroom://..." with the URL you copied and it will be authorized
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Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can really do on our side, as the problem here is that the expected behavior is not occuring and the failure is outside of Lightroom itelf.
Here is what is supposed to happen:
1. Lightroom sends a request to your web browser to open an authentication page that is already built in to the host web site.
2. You authenticate, which gives permission for your account information to be sent back to Lightroom. This substitutes the need to enter a user name and password. It's a hall pass for Lightroom to send your files to your online account.
3. With authentication complete, the web page sends a token (similar to a cookie) back to Lightroom, which is then used whenever Lightroom needs to access the web servers to upload a file.
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I am trying to get the connection set up with facebook and have allowed lightroom to publish there.
Back in lightroom the publishing manager is then telling me it is authorizing and that is were it stays and hangs fore ever.
In my face book app account it tells me that lightroom still requires access to my basic info and still requires access to my photos, but since in lightroom the publishing manager is still trying to authorize my facebook nothing happens. I can't even cancel out of it as lightroom is frozen and that happens every time and I need to forcequit out of lightroom.
Anybody with any solution please.
Many thanks

Try:
- Logging out of FB in the browser first, so that the OAUTH or whatever it uses forces you to login again. It might automatically log you in anyway, but it is worth a try.
- Changing your default web browser to some other browser, ideally one you have never used on FB before (so credentials are not cached.) How you do this is platform specific, but is documented everywhere.
- Install Friedl's FB publish service (http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/facebook), which is minimal donation-ware. It has a little more capability and may be smarter about authentication tokens. You can try it for free, so that costs you nothing.

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Here is an answer to your "pages" issues with the default Facebook plugin. Check out Jeff Friedl's plugin...
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1686 557
Here is his personal blog, from which he supplies a wealth of information and a variety of plugins for Lightroom (see "Lightroom Goodies")...
http://regex.info/blog/
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I have created a lightroom 3 publish service that will export each photo as a huge TIFF file over a slow broadband connection to an external server. The external server creates 3 compressed JPEG files from the TIFF file.
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