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May 31, 2018
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Question about Droplets and moving them to other machines

  • May 31, 2018
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Well i made a bunch of automated functions with actions and saved them as droplets all is well on my machine but then i wanted to share the droplets and the "save as" feature is looking for my machine. Is there a way around this? how do I share the droplet with other peoples machines?

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    JJMack
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    May 31, 2018

    To share droplets between machines I believe Photoshop would  need to be the same version on all machines and installed in the same location.   Any saves as path recorded into the actions use the create the droplets  the path may need to exist in both machines.  I know I can manually add folders in Photoshop save as dialog so  Photoshop save as feature may be able to create folders if the do not currently exists.  For sure the Drive letter must exist in both machine configuration.   I would not think the save as would be looking for you machine unless you use an  UNC recording the save as step where you specify your machine network name in the UNC.  That save as will always use your UNC to save the document on your machine.  To share droplets I would expect mach would need very similar confutations. The Actions may also need to be installed one all machines if the action is not copied into the droplet executable when the droplet was created.  I do not have very good knowledge about the how the droplet executable works if the action played is in the droplet exe or is your Photoshop user id actions palette.    I have not used droplets in years and never tried to distribute droplets. I can easily believe there may be problem distributing droplets

    JJMack
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    May 31, 2018

    Thanks for your reply.

    What I want is a relative path instead of an absolute path. I'm not sure if that is possible but that is the problem.