Images missing after saving from PS

[ericl59476742]

Got a weird issue, possibly a bug.

What happens: In LR I do my edits (for stacked photos) and apply them to multiple images. I then send them to PS as layers. When I manually align, stack, and save them they work correctly. So I created a basic PS action to select all layers, align, stack, save, and close. This all works great. After it saves it sends it back to LR where I will start the new tif that PS sent back.. and then move on to the next set of images.

Should be pretty straight forward. However after editing all of the photos I realized 80-90% of all of the new files were gone.. not deleted in my recycle bin, not missing stars, not in the folder and unlinked in LR.. just gone like I had never saved it.

So I started the process again and tried to see what was going on. I wasn't able to pinpoint the exact cause or time - but I believe the image deletes or whatever after the next set of images are saved within the action - maybe like the previous tif is being overwritten by the new action. There were a couple photos in the original process that I couldn't run the action on, which makes me think it is that... also because I edited the action and removed the save and close function and so far in my new testing nothing is coming up missing.

- latest version of PS and LR, m1 imac running 12.4 Monteray

Has anyone ever run into this issue before?

[kentdesign]

So when you click Save in PS, the photos do not show up in LRC but are still saved somewhere on your computer?

[ericl59476742]

They show up in LRC, and is saved on the computer - but it seems like it overwrites the previously saved photo

[JohanElzenga]

Sounds like maybe you recorded the save with the name of the file. As a result, the next time you run your action it saves the result with the same name and so it overwrites the previous file.

[ericl59476742]

That's sort of what it sounds like.. but when I send files from Lightroom to Photoshop and do my stacking and manually save, it will automatically save it back to Lightroom as a new image.. but when using the script and I hit save, it will overwrite the previously created image.

I have not yet tested this with physically closing PS after saving, but that might cause it.. however I don't need to physically close it when manually saving

[JohanElzenga]

Instead of recording the save step in your action, manually add it by adding a menu item. That way you can just add the 'Save' menu, without also recording the file name and the location in that step.

[ericl59476742]

Thanks. I ended up just removing the save and close from the action - but why does Save not just "save"?

[JohanElzenga]

Thanks. I ended up just removing the save and close from the action - but why does Save not just "save"?

By @ericl59476742

When you record an action, sometimes some extra details get recorded that you would not want to be recorded. In this case it maybe because the image has never been saved before, so it's more or less a "save as" rather than a save. It's definitely possible to just have 'Save' and then 'Close' in an action, but you may need to add that manually rather than use 'record'.

[kentdesign]

Maybe you can change that last step in the action you created?