Applescript (on the Mac side) should be able to do it.
But: Have you tried simply saving the action, opening it up on one of t he Macs and making the droplet on it?
I’ve never tried the following, but I read it somewhere…
"If a droplet is created on a PC and loaded onto a Mac, drag and drop the droplet .exe file onto the Macs Photoshop icon. This will prepare the droplet for the Mac environment."
Does this help?
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Questions (personal interest):
* Since the destination folder is hard coded in the droplet .exe, is your objective to be able to drag/drop files from any machine onto the common droplet’s icon and have the processed files saved in a common folder somewhere on your network?
* When you create the droplet in the PC, is the Destination path name specified the same as it would be if the droplet was created on the Mac?
* What version of Mac/OS? 10.3? 10.4.3?
Sounds like you need a script to run on the PC to do what you want.
The script would watch the hot folder, and run the action when a new file is put in it. It could even delete or move the file after processing.
Ask on the PS scripting forum, they’ll have more info for you
Sounds like you need a script to run on the PC to do what you want.
Good point… The script could invoke the droplet via command like, pass the files to it, then, as you say, delete the source files upon completion. Where it might get messy is if two batches of files ended up in the hot folder at about the same time. (Fun to "what if?", ain’t it! :))
The OP did not indicate how many Macs he has nor the purpose of the not-working droplet. That would be interesting to know, too.
But you’re right, scripting in some way, shape or form could sure play a part "somewhere."
