What can this program do? It may look a bit odd that it cannot upload to SkyDrive. Uploading there works better straight from the web using the Silverlight plugin – I don’t have to resize the photos, I put them there in their original size and it shrinks them by itself during the upload, so instead of pushing, say, 2MB I only send 100kB. Besides, I only put one-off albums on SkyDrive. Which brings us to the core of what this little program can do. Basically, it works like this:
- It loads the list of photos stored on the disk
- It loads the database, which is kept in
txtfiles on the disk - It finds out which files are not in the DB and uploads them via email
- It writes the newly uploaded files to the DB
And that’s it. The only problem is that it sends through GMail, which anxiously flags this kind of sending as spam. And I have quite a lot of those photos right now, since I haven’t added any new ones in ages (except for the few yesterday). Luckily, the program is ready for that too: if sending the email fails, nothing gets written to the DB. I just hope that when it fails, I’ll find out right away in the program, and not that the program will pretend everything is fine and then I’ll get an email, or nothing at all, about “unauthorized overloading of the service”.