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Help with save for web & destination action

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 2, 2025
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I need help, please

I would like to create an action that Save for web + asks for a destination

I can't seem to understand how to do that as once I'm in save for web window it asks for a destination that gets embedded in the action.

I want to click play and get Photoshop to ask me to select a folder, I'm on mac if it matters

D Fosse

Community Expert

Other than checking "show dialog" in the action, just throwing something out there:

Do you really need to keep these jpegs, or can they easily be recreated from master files with this action?

If the latter, the action could just be directed to an outbox somewhere to collect them.

The immediate instinct is to save everything, but in practice you don't need to.

L

LeonCreativeAuthor

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Hi

Thank you for your replay

I save hundreds of files per day for a website and each file needs to go to a different folder ( different brands) so when i click save for web i need the option to select where it goes

Leon

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Selecting a target-folder hundreds of times a day seems close to inefficient.

Isn’t there a meaningful way of identifying the target-folders based on filename, file-location, …?

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@LeonCreative

That’s how actions work. Whether using Save (absolute local file path and/or filename) or Export > Save for Web (absolute local file path and filename) these and other parameters are recorded.

The best that you can do in an action is use the "modal control" to make the entire action interactive, where you can then change the recorded save location and filename:

Scripts can provide more options than actions.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

@Stephen Marsh , I seem to recall that there have been issues with Save for Web in Scripts occasionally.

Might have been about png, though.

Have you used Save for Web in Scripts recently?

@LeonCreative , wha Save for Web?

Which file format?

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@c.pfaffenbichler – I can’t recall the issues exactly, it may have been that some user-selectable options override the action or script, I really can't recall and these must have been less common edge cases.

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