Droplet Couldn't communicate with Photoshop Windows 10

Question

I have had this problem before but now it’s cropped up again. I’m running PS 27.4.0 on Windows 10.

I have done this before, because old droplets work. But now I can’t seem to get new droplets to work.

my steps:

Create droplet and save it to a dir that’s executable (/documents/adobe/droplets)
Right click, go to properties, click on “compatibility tab”. Click on Run program as administrator. Then click on “Change settings for all users”.

I used to be able to get the admin icon attached to the droplet icon, like this:

Now when I do this with a new droplet, it just never runs. I keep getting the error:

I can’t for the life of me get it to work anymore and can’t get any new droplets to run.

Nancy OShea · Accepted Answer

This could be due to a permissions mismatch at the UAC level.

Run Both the Droplet & Photoshop as Administrator.

Right-click your Droplet, select Properties, go to the Compatibility tab, and check Run this program as an administrator.
Do the same for the main Photoshop executable (Photoshop.exe).
Restart Photoshop and try the droplet again.

Hope that helps.

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