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

[hadi_9157]

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

[ExUSA]

Yes, we get it. Its a bug. I'm not posting for your benefit, because clearly you want to complain and not look at workarounds. If you go back through these forums, there are LOTS of bugs that were "the end of the world" but somehow everyone muddled through.

[Aaron Tipton]

OK that's fair! I'd say more of a broken feature than a bug. But you're right, we'll muddle through as we always do. But thank you for contributing to this thread. At this point I'm beginning to think there's some coding on my horizon whether I like it or not.

[nelsonh36902009]

Amen. This is bush league performance from Adobe/apple. Not first time. Very lame. 

[pierreb94]

IMPOSSIBLE DE CREER UN DROPLET

BONJOUR

Tout est dans le titre. MAC OS à jour - Photoshop à jour. Et pourtant impossiblede créer un droplet. Message m'indiquant qu'un fichier est introuvable et création d'un dossier complet (avec des fichiers incompréhensibles) au lieu d'une icone. J'ai même desinstaller réinstaler, supprimer les anciennes versions Photoshop

A l'aide... 

[Bojan Živković]

Please see this thread https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-ps-26-5-droplets-could-not-complete-the-cr...

[ExUSA]

As a workaround, try using the following as an Automator application. Substitute the actual action name/set. Obviously this can be fleshed out with more detail/error checking etc. Minimal testing on Sequoia with PS 25.7.

[Aaron Tipton]

Nice! Thanks! You could probably do something similar in the Shortcuts app too.

[Aaron Tipton]

Updated Photoshop Beta to 26.9, still not working on macOS 15.5

[kbarre]

Still not working in Photoshop 26.8.0, or the current Beta (26.9.0). This is a HUGE deal. Lots of us rely on droplets for our businesses.

[jonathantabensky]

Will we be able to create droplets at least before new Mac OS comes out, or will this be never ending!?!

[Vieri]

Any updates? It looks like the issue has not been rsolved yet, I am still unable to create droplets (macOS 15.5, PS 26.8). Thanks!

[Scott Griswold]

Is this how Adobe tests to see how many people use Droplets? Our company uses them daily. On top of the bug where the droplet appears to be damaged when upgrading the OS, now we have this issue. I was recently trying to solve the damaged droplet issue with the usual security and privacy and right click/open workaround and when that didn't work I went to recreate the droplet from an action. I was very disappointed to find that now this bug prevents me from even making a new droplet. There is no way I am able to roll back to an earlier version for all users. This needs to be fixed immediately. 

[Aaron Tipton]

Hopefully you've already found this, but now in Sequoia, after the damaged warning, go to System Settings, Privacy and Security and scroll down and you should see the message about the Droplet being blocked and click on "Open Anyway". I had one user that was not getting this but did after a restart and trying again. Good luck.

I'm in the same boat here with Droplets in our workflow. I'm looking into alternatives, maybe converting an action to a script to run instead. Adobe has left us hanging here on this issue since early April, so I'm less optimistic a solution is coming every day.

[Lea274729453wlg]

@Sameer KWhat is the status here? It is still not possible to create Droplets with 26.8.1.

[Aaron Tipton]

Does anyone out there have the macOS 15.6 beta to test this on?

@Sameer K when is someone from Adobe going to reply in this thread again? It's been over 2 months now. We really need to know if Adobe is even trying here. If Droplets are going to die, we need to start working on other solutions.

[pierreb94]

Hi

I have spent 3 hours with consumer service : Nothing works !! And, suprisîgly, I have spoken with 3 différent guys of adobe. They don't seem tu be aware about this problem.  I thing we should warn Photoshop youtubers. 

[Margaret25508514m22y]

Any updates on this? It's the end of June and I still can't get it to work. This software is expensive. Something like this should work without having to dance around trying extraordinary measures. 

[nofimag]

Can confirm that this is still an issue after the latest update. (26.8.1) Spoke to a friend who said that they contacted customer service and it sounded like droplets were going to be phased out. (also something about paying for certain PS upgrades in the near future.) However as I did not speak with them personally I can't confirm that so take it with mountains of salt.

As Adobe has been silent on the issue publicly (and with the current grifty culture being what it is), it's very possible though. 

[BjörnJärnankar]

Seem to me that there's 2 different kinds of problems with droplets. 

1) Old droplets doesn't work
This has a solution where you have to give permissions first, lots of tutorials about that. 

2) There is no way to create new droplets (at least on latest MacOS)
As far as I know there is no solution to this. I have tried several different computers and also tried granting disk access rights to Photoshop and Bridge in my computers settings. 

When, from photoshop, creating a droplet I get an error message saying "Could not complete the Create Droplet command because the file was not found.". Photoshop do create a folder DROPLETNAME.appContents and inside it there's a lot of files but none are executable. 

Will there be a fix for this soon? Is there's any way to manually convert the folder to a droplet? This is costing me hours of extra work every week and also I already put at least 20 hours into looking for solutions. 

Hoping for a swift reply. 

Best, Björn

[BjörnJärnankar]

Any update on above?

@Sameer K 

[inspirep81834253]

I am lucky that I have an older version of Mac OS Ventura on a computer. I use that to create the droplet, move that droplet to the newer OS/Computer and once I have granted it access in the security preferences, runs with no issues.

Starting to think about moving to a PC.

[mateuszc88978048]

Hi

Does anybody knows where can I download MacOS 15.3 Installation?

[Scott_BFAR]

I've seen others report this. When you try and save a droplet it says that the file cannot be found and you look where you tried to save it and there's a folder with a bunch of stuff in it instead of the droplet. I have 1000 files to do. I can't begin to say how annoying this is Adobe! I use this professionally, and it seems like lately every other update breaks something important. 

This is just a mess Adobe. It's super poor quality control and Adobe giving the middle finger to its clients. Please fix this ASAP. This is nonsense. 

[Scott_BFAR]

OK, what gives Adobe? I installed PS 25.13.2 and get the same issue. Sequoia 15.5. Really? I can't believe this. 

[Aaron Tipton]

Hey @sameerk why is this issue STILL NOT LISTED ON THE KNOWN ISSUES PAGE? It's been 3 months and you say it's with the team, so it's definitely a known issue, right?

As you can see there's a LOT of us waiting for an actual acknowledgement about this and many of us are losing hope for a solution. I hope we're wrong.