Create Action to Delete a Specific Compound Path on a Folder of PDF's

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I have a folder containing over 800 PDFs with identical specifications. When I inspect their layers in Illustrator, they're composed of two compound paths and a single path. I just need to open each file, delete the topmost compound path, save it, move on to the next, then rinse-and-repeat. Is there an action, or a set of actions, I could use to accomplish this automatically?

[Kurt Gold]

Probably that's doable with an action in Batch mode.

Can you share some of the files and mark what exactly is going to be deleted?

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It took me all day but I figured it out! I built an Illustrator action that’s got a hotkey, then built an Automator script to run it 800 times. LOL