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I’ve created a few actions and turned them into droplets. I’m experiencing two problems with the way the droplet renames processed files that are going to cause some major headaches. I’m hoping there’s a solution to these ;o)
1) Script asks if I want to save over a file. I may have two source files: file.tif
file.jpg
and I want to save them both as JPGs. It processes the first one, saves it as file.jpg, then goes to the second one, but then already sees a file called file.jpg and asks if I want to save over it. I can only save over, or cancel. I can’t rename the file at that time. That’s a problem.
2) It’s TRUNCATING MY FILE NAMES! This is the bigger headache. I have it set to save them as Windows compatible file names, but it’s truncating everything to 32 characters (like it’s assuming it’s Mac compatible). This causes two problems. a) I’ll have to rename every single file reference in my database (HUGE PITA) and b) some long, but different file names are being truncated to the same shorter filename…which means I loose one of the two images.
Are there any fixes to this?
1) Script asks if I want to save over a file. I may have two source files: file.tif
file.jpg
and I want to save them both as JPGs. It processes the first one, saves it as file.jpg, then goes to the second one, but then already sees a file called file.jpg and asks if I want to save over it. I can only save over, or cancel. I can’t rename the file at that time. That’s a problem.
2) It’s TRUNCATING MY FILE NAMES! This is the bigger headache. I have it set to save them as Windows compatible file names, but it’s truncating everything to 32 characters (like it’s assuming it’s Mac compatible). This causes two problems. a) I’ll have to rename every single file reference in my database (HUGE PITA) and b) some long, but different file names are being truncated to the same shorter filename…which means I loose one of the two images.
Are there any fixes to this?
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