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Automation broken?

John Boy

2007-02-02, 6:14 pm

CS2 - with all current updates

Two problems.

1) Droplets do not execute. Not even the simplest ones.

2) Automation - Batch using an input folder and destination folder and
"include subfolderes" does not honor the destination folder. Instead it goes
through all folders, but writes back to the FIRST subfolder of the input,
over-writing filenames that already exist.

Thus, a folder with nine subfolders, with each file in each folder ImageN
where n is 1 to n all I end up with the the very last folder... all previous
files overwritten by names from the last.

(Oh, source and destination folders have different names and are on
different physical drives.)

This truly, truly sucks. Yeah, I am renaming all the files as a workaround.

Bill Steele

2007-02-02, 6:14 pm

In article <12s6p0sj2bobfc7@news.supernews.com>,
"John Boy" <jb@nowhere.com> wrote:

> CS2 - with all current updates
>
> Two problems.
>
> 1) Droplets do not execute. Not even the simplest ones.
>
> 2) Automation - Batch using an input folder and destination folder and
> "include subfolderes" does not honor the destination folder. Instead it goes
> through all folders, but writes back to the FIRST subfolder of the input,
> over-writing filenames that already exist.
>
> Thus, a folder with nine subfolders, with each file in each folder ImageN
> where n is 1 to n all I end up with the the very last folder... all previous
> files overwritten by names from the last.
>
> (Oh, source and destination folders have different names and are on
> different physical drives.)
>
> This truly, truly sucks. Yeah, I am renaming all the files as a workaround.

My experience is that the destination folder is ignored altogether,
subfolders or not. It simply uses the folder specified in the original
action called by the batch process.

John Boy

2007-02-06, 6:15 pm

"Bill Steele" <ws21@cornell.edu> wrote in message
news:ws21-C36F2B.15011902022007@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...

> My experience is that the destination folder is ignored altogether,
> subfolders or not. It simply uses the folder specified in the original
> action called by the batch process.

You are right, of course. I got into the action to find that.

Fortunately File - Scripts - Image Processing is smarter.