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March 30, 2025

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

  • March 30, 2025
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When I create a droplet in Photoshop 2025, it creates a folder instead of an EXE file. What is the solution?

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Known Participant
May 22, 2025

Not working any longer, very sad. You can't avoid the complicated authorisation process for the first use, these are probably Apple Guidelines.

 

By the way, the Droplets are still Intel and not Universal Apps. Maybe Adobe could change that too?

Known Participant
May 20, 2025

Thanks for that. Fortunately the Batch function in Photoshop still works OK too. However neither of these have the same funtionality and speed of a Droplet.

jarvsky
Participant
May 20, 2025

Too bad there isn't a solution yet for creating droplets on Mac OS Sequoia. But for those who need to batch resize and format change, I found out that Adobe Bridge has a feature in the Workflow tab to do this. Go to the Workflow tab, click + to make your own and + for different steps. In each step, change to match your needs. Save that workflow, then drag your images onto that workflow and press Start Workflow.

Participant
May 20, 2025

I am also experiencing this issue, are there any updates yet?

Participating Frequently
May 19, 2025

Aaron,

 

Thank you for the status update from your encounter with Adobe's PhotoShop.™

You are FIRST PERSON TO ACTUALLY SHED ANY LIGHT ON THE CAUSE of this issue.

Why is Adobe kicking this can down the road for so long?  It's been MONTHS! Quite a few I believe.

The droplets funtionality is CRITICAL to my workflow, as I'm sure it is to many others. Thank God all the droplets I had created prior to this problem still funtion percectly. But of course I can't create an NEW ones.

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE -

ADOBE - CAN YOU ELEVATE THE PRIORITY ON THIS ASAP.

We all love PhotoShop™but not addressing such a fundatmental process as a droplet is unacceptable.

 

I guess I understand, afer reading Aarons's post a little better now about the .app file creation being subject to the most recent changes in macOS, but WHY THE RADIO SILENCE?

 

COULD YOU PLEASE AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE IF AND/OR WHEN THIS ISSUE WILL BE CORRECTED?

 

Thank you. A loyal PhotoShop™user now since it's inception. 

John

 

Known Participant
May 19, 2025

To be clear, this issue was caused by Apple with another ridiculously restrictive security update! (ie: can't open a webp image without a warning now, OMG really?!) 

As proof, I've been running PS 25.7 due to a separate issue that Adobe has yet to address. I can't make a droplet with that version either whereas I could before macOS 15.4. However…

Since Photoshop runs on macOS, Adobe needs to either figure out how to make a vital feature in their software work with the OS it's running on, or clearly tell us that the feature is now dead so we can move on and find an alternative better than activating an Adobe license on an old workstation just to make a droplet.

There may also be some confusion from the title of this thread which refers to an EXE file as if it happened in Windows, but my guess is they meant to say APP, not EXE, which is also implied with the topics tag being macos.

ron53
Participating Frequently
May 19, 2025

The community guidelines state that I need to be kind and respectful.........however, I just got off the phone with PS tech support. That's 49 minutes I'll never regain back again. Total waste of time. The tech was absolutely clueless, as if she never heard of this issue. I humored her and let her run through the entire process, including rolling back to an earlier version of PS (25.12), which proved nothing. My guess is that the OS has messed something up. Also note, Apple released a OS 26 today with no relief for the droplet issue. This is more than frustrating. 

 

Inspiring
May 19, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hc54O9zaT8 this may help for the droplet already created that won't open

Participating Frequently
May 17, 2025

i' m afraid all heads in Adobe works on New Fantastic Ai things, so they have no time to fix Droplets that REALLY help people automate their workflow.

Participant
May 16, 2025

I have a set of droplets that still work, but I can't modify them (i.e. change folder location for output).  I started down a path on ChatGPT to see if I could somehow open I could fix it, but it was far too complicated and I don't have the time to learn Javascript or AppleScript.   

Tack me on the to the list of frustrated users wasting time trying to figure out a workaround.  Adobe - are you listening?