Publish to Flickr in LR4

When I try to publish to Flickr from LR4 after about an hour I get error saying file to large. Only published about 17 out of 600 images. If I try to restart fails quickly. How do I publish all of these to Flickr.

Flickr has a file size limit for a pro account of 20MB per image; it is less for a free Flickr account at 15MB
http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/
It is also a shame that the LR Flickr publishing service does not check the size of the rendered file before it tries to send it to Flickr.   It just sends it regardless and consequently if the file is too large this wastes significant time and bandwidth whilst you wait for the error to occur.    It is also unfortunate that the error message is not explicit about which file actually failed.
I have already raised a couple of recommendations to Adobe on these issues …if you feel relevant then add your vote ...
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/improve_flickr_publish_robustness_by _pre_checking_the_file_size_before_sending_to_flickr
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/improve_the_diagnostics_relating_to_ flickr_publish_failures
The only suggestion I have is …
If you publishing jpegs, have you set your quality to 100%?   If so, unless using Flickr for archiving purposes, you could try reducing it to say 90% or so as this will make little discernible difference to the online viewing quality …
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/jpeg-quality
and will reduce the file size to help mitigate the problem.
Alan.

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Error message: “Can’t update this collection. An internal error has occurred: End tag ‘body’ does not match the start tag ‘hr’.
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I set up a photoset in lightroom (have tried both smart and regular photosets with same results). These photosets can contain anywhere from 16 to 3000 or more photos. The first photos are uploaded – maybe 10, maybe 100, maybe 1000. Then it generally seems to stop working. Sometimes I can continue publishing new photos or republishing, sometimes I cant. For example I currently have 11 flickr publish photosets in one lightroom catalog, with the following success numbers:
NAHCR00 total 3044, published: 1851
NAHCR01 total 748,published: all
NAHCR03 total: 532 published: all
NAHCR04 total: 412 published: all
NAHCR05 total: 340 published: 152
NAHCR07 total: 248 published: 50
NAHCR08 total: 524 published: 197
NAHCR09 total: 44 published: all
NAHCR10 total: 40 published: all
NAHCR11 total: 32 published: all
NAHCR12 total: 124 published: 4
I have succeeded in uploading over 28000 pictures from flickr (mostly from three other lightroom catalogs to several flickr account, both paid and free). The other catalogs marks the photosets as public and generally seems to be more successful at uploading.
All of these problem photosets are marked as private so that only I can see them. The photos themselves have peculiar names including many special characters including chinese characters, arabic alphabets, spaces, commas, exclamation marks etc etc. I tried telling lightroom to rename the files to names with no special characters but it still fails.
I emailed Flickr with the above information and this was their response:
Thank you for contacting Yahoo Flickr.
I would first like to apologize for any inconvenience you have experienced while attempting to upload photos to your Flickr account.
First, Lightroom is a 3rd-party application; we can't offer any support for it. Please contact the developer of that application for help.
With that said, please note that there's a known issue with Avast's Web Shield and AVG antivirus that causes issues with uploads. If you have either of these applications, disable the "Link Scanner", add Uploadr to the exceptions list, and then try to upload. If the issue persists, temporarily turn off the anti-virus / firewall and try to upload again.
Please also see the following article on Flickr's upload limitations:
Flickr upload limitations
Lastly, here are some general troubleshooting steps that you can try:
Most connection issues arise due to a problem between your computer and Flickr and are often temporary. Try the following:
Briefly power off any broadband modems and routers to reset the network connection.
If you connect wirelessly, move your computer closer to the wireless access point, or 'plug in'.
If you're connected through a router, try plugging directly into the broadband modem.
See your manual for configuration options if the router is slowing or blocking uploads.
Also, try lowering your # or matching it to your ISP's value.
Additional troubleshooting
Try uploading with an alternate method:The web upload page, the Uploadr app, or upload by email.
If you're using an older version of Uploadr, update to the latest version.
Search our forums to see if there are any specific network hardware incompatibilities.
I realize that this isn't a satisfying response to your request, and I am sorry for that. Please let me know if I may be of further assistance, or if you have any questions or concerns.
Thank you again for contacting Yahoo Flickr.
Regards,
Elliot
Yahoo Customer Care

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yeah, i IM'd the links to a friend just now and she can see them. ***?
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Did you check the box to stay signed in for two weeks?
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Hi, am running LR4 on Win7 64bit, and have the following problem:
If I try to publish some images to flickr I get the following error after one image is published to flicker:
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This is appalling and, as Stéphane had pointed out, I have previously reported it against the release candidate.
It would be appreciated if you can confirm that this is the cause of the error simply to add more substance to the observation and it would also be appreciated if you could add your vote against the problem report in the link above.
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PS - Edit ... whoops, we crossed in the post - still worth adding you vote though if you want it fixed.

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Victoria,
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