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Desbrina
Desbrina
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May 29, 2020
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Easily moving PSDs to cloud documents

  • May 29, 2020
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Is there an easy wasy of moving a large amount of PSDs to the cloud documents? I know they can be opened and then saved, but there are also 300 of them

 

I currently have them under the synced files but would like to move them over to cloud documents

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May 30, 2020

Don't forget you will still need backups. This may be easier if you keep the PSD and back them up too. For some reason many people abandon backups when moving to the cloud, and later wish they hadn't.

    Stephen Marsh
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    Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 30, 2020

    I don't believe that Adobe have designed cloud documents to be batched using actions or scripts, it all appears to be manual.

     

    In my tests the action explicitly records the original file properties. The modal dialog toggle retains the original filename saved.

     

    Looking at the underlying action manager script code from a cloud save, there is a unique local_id":"urn:uid:local:XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX" alpha-numeric code string that is generated which would appear to be used to sync to the cloud server database.

     

    I am guessing that this would be a barrier to automation, however, I would be happy to be wrong!

    Myra Ferguson
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    Myra FergusonCommunity Expert
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    May 30, 2020

    I tested it by creating an action with Save As... to save it to Cloud Documents and toggled the modal control on. When I go to File > Automate > Batch and set it to use my action, it comes up with the name of the document to be saved. You have to do a little extra clicking--once to Save to cloud documents in the Save As dialog and again to Save when the Cloud documents dialog appears after that.

      Desbrina
      DesbrinaAuthor
      Inspiring
      May 30, 2020

      Doens't really speed it up for me as i have to enter the file name as it remembers the name of the file used to create the action.

      Myra Ferguson
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      Myra FergusonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 29, 2020

      You could make an action to save to Cloud Documents. Then go to File > Batch, set the Action to the one you just made, and set the Source folder to be the one that contains your 300 files.

        Desbrina
        DesbrinaAuthor
        Inspiring
        May 29, 2020

        When i try that it doesn't save it using the original file name, it uses the filename of the one used to create the action

        Myra Ferguson
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        Myra FergusonCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        May 30, 2020

        Use Save As in your Action. After it's done recording, click the icon to the left of the Save step. It'll open up the save dialog to let you use the name of the file. You'll have to click Save to Cloud Documents and Save, but it does speed it up and give you the name you want.

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