P: PS 26.5 Droplets Could not complete the Create Droplet command because the file was not found.

attn Adobe: Please fix this. It has been months. The answer to getting all your PS super users should not include rolling back to previous versions, or sneaking around to the Bridge batch function, or whatever all the other workaround suggestions are that have come up. Building droplets that users processing enormous images batches can drap and drop to are VITAL to keeping up our production needs is absolutely vital. They have worked for years and now just don't. Pick up a phone and call the apple OS people if you have to, but get us back up and using droplets the way we need to. You know, it's actually hard enough to keep up with the constant tech changes in our lives. So it is really disappointing when a time saving tool we've finally learned how take advantage of just starts failing us--and only because we are keeping up with tech updates. Adobe, get us working faster/smarter again please.

I'm a long time Mac tech (from back in the System 7 days), a developer, and used to work for Apple, as well as being a working pro photographer. You almost never need to NOT update your Macs. My advice is to update.

When you're in a production environment you often need to block updates to maintain a controlled working environment to avoid bugs created by the OS. I currently have updates turned off now because of things like this, but this one got past me. 

looking at the results of renaming the folder to .app and it almost working, it looks like users have made more progress on understanding this than Adobe, and it would suggest this is in fact an Adobe issue that could be resolved if Adobe cared enough about its professional user base to address this.

crickets from Adobe. This needs to be fixed.

Blocking OS updates is a REALLY REALLY bad idea. They not only have bug fixes but deal with security holes that are known and in the wild. Its best practice to keep systems fully patched and up to date.

@Lea274729453wlg  thanks for trying out my idea! my company has blocked Mac OS 15.x updates (thankfully!) so i wanst able to test it myself. Sorry it didnt work as i imagined it would:/ Since Adobe doesnt seem to care much about it I think having some additional older version of Ps installed just for this sounds like best workaround

once again, this is a proposed solution that doesn't work.

Again: it's a problem with macOS Sequoia 15.4. and PS

• when you create a droplet in PS you get a folder:
  [name].appContents and the message:
  "The command "Create Droplet" could not be used because the file could not be found."
• then open the folder, put all contents in a Contents folder and rename the parent folder to [name].app
• the result is an executable app, if you use this, in PS the message appears:
  "The process could not be executed because an unexpected EOF (end of file) occurred."

Compared to a working Droplet, the file Droplet.8BDR is missing.

Based on the screenshot from @jonathantabensky it kinda looks like its somehow skipping a "/" in the path of the final app it creates. It should have created "Image Finish TEST.app" with "Contents" folder inside which then contains what you see below:

Below is how my droplet "style feed - crop top" looks like when i remove .app extension:

Try manually creating "Contents" folder inside the current one and moving current files&folder inside it and then rename the main folder so its got .app extension.

The issue started with macOS Sequoia 15.4. Droplet creation works fine up through 15.3.

I've just updated PS to 26.8.1 on Sonoma 14.7.6 and it also worked in exact same way

they have a widely used feature that has been broken in macOS for months now

By @Aaron Tipton 

I've just created droplet on Sonoma 14.7.6 and PS 26.7, had to do alt+right click&open to allow it in gatekeeper but after that it worked fine & as intented so its not really broken...