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Bill Steele
Dec 22, 2006
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Running a batch process to make thumbnails in Photoshop CS 8.0. I made an action: open, resize, sharpen, append "TN," save. First time, a month or so ago, it ran just fine, saving to a folder called "thumbs."

This time, it happily accepted a new source folder in the Batch dialog, but totally ignored the destination folder I set, as well as the naming instructions. It insisted on saving to the old "thumbs" folder specified in the action. I tried moving the folder to another location, and then to the trash, and the destination in the original action automatically changed to wherever I put it, including the trash. When I dumped it and emptied the trash, running the batch resulted in a series of "Could not complete the action because the folder could not be found" messages. When I did let it save to the "thumbs" folder it ignored the naming rules. The behavior was the same whether or not I checked "Override action Save As commands."

Is this a bug or did I do something wrong in setting it up?
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KatWoman
Dec 22, 2006
"Bill Steele" wrote in message
Running a batch process to make thumbnails in Photoshop CS 8.0. I made an action: open, resize, sharpen, append "TN," save. First time, a month or so ago, it ran just fine, saving to a folder called "thumbs."
This time, it happily accepted a new source folder in the Batch dialog, but totally ignored the destination folder I set, as well as the naming instructions. It insisted on saving to the old "thumbs" folder specified in the action. I tried moving the folder to another location, and then to the trash, and the destination in the original action automatically changed to wherever I put it, including the trash. When I dumped it and emptied the trash, running the batch resulted in a series of "Could not complete the action because the folder could not be found" messages. When I did let it save to the "thumbs" folder it ignored the naming rules. The behavior was the same whether or not I checked "Override action Save As commands."

Is this a bug or did I do something wrong in setting it up?

if you recorded the save as part of the action it will choose whatever you picked in that or look for it
remove the save part from the action?
use the naming and create save folder in the batch interface?

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