Upload the whole wedding in one go: up to 2,000 photos and one panel to follow it all

A wedding can leave fifteen hundred photos on the card, and uploading them is usually the least pleasant moment of the workflow: you start, you wait, you can't tell what is happening in the background and you hesitate to touch anything in case it breaks. With this update, large sessions can be uploaded, deleted and downloaded with more room to breathe, and with a single place to see how each task is going.

One panel for everything running in the background

Uploads, deletions and photo downloads now appear in the same panel, Background tasks, at the bottom right. Each row shows its type (Upload, Deletion or Download), so you don't have to hunt for where each process is shown.

While a task is running you can keep moving around PhotoHeart. When it finishes with nothing to read, it stays for a few seconds and then clears itself. For uploads and deletions, the status is checked against the server, so if you reload the page you don't end up with stale notices: a deletion carries on, and a half-finished upload reappears as interrupted so you can choose between publishing what was already uploaded or discarding the batch.

One limit worth knowing: downloads live in the open tab. If you reload or close it, they are not resumed.

Large uploads, in batches

PhotoHeart doesn't wait until the whole session is prepared before starting: it processes the photos in batches of 50 and, while one batch is being sent, it prepares the next. That way the upload starts right away and the browser doesn't pile the entire session into memory (there are at most two batches at a time).

The limit per upload is 2,000 photos, with a maximum of 50 MB per image. For a full wedding that is plenty; if you work with more, split it into two uploads.

If you run out of space halfway

If your storage runs out partway through an upload, PhotoHeart keeps and publishes what had already been uploaded and tells you the rest was left out, with a link to free up space. The photos that didn't make it are marked with the reason "No storage space left", so you know which ones to repeat once you have room. If not even the first batch fits, the upload is cancelled and you are notified all the same.

Cancel or close the tab without leaving the session locked

If you cancel, PhotoHeart cleans up what had been uploaded from that batch, and the panel shows it while it works. If you close the tab halfway instead, the session isn't left reserved forever: after about 15-25 minutes the server releases the reserved space and whatever had not started uploading. If some photos were already uploaded, when you come back to PhotoHeart it asks you to choose between publishing them or discarding the batch.

Large deletions and downloads

Large deletions are prepared in batches, and deleting photos also works on accounts with many sessions. If the server takes too long, the notice says so clearly and confirms that no photo has been removed.

Downloads of more than about 2 GB change too. In desktop Chrome, the browser lets you choose where to save and the ZIP goes straight to disk. In other browsers (Safari, Firefox or mobile, for example) the ZIP is built in memory, so it is now split into several numbered files: the first downloads on its own and each of the following ones with its Download part 2, Download part 3… button when it is ready. This applies both to downloading a client's selection from your panel and to Download all in the gallery.

Where to see it

Upload from the Images tab of your session and the panel will appear at the bottom right. If it ever warns you that there is no space, the link takes you to Your account → Storage, where Free up space is.