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trouble using Action

Participant ,
Oct 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021

Been using Action since introduced, but suddenly can't seem to be able to generate any new sets of images. The catch folder only records a single image which is overidden by the next image leaving the folder with a single final image when the transfer cycle is completed. 

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Actions and scripting , macOS
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Participant , Oct 23, 2021 Oct 23, 2021

I hate to tell you this, but I had major Mac OS corruption that were causing me several problems including the one I asked for help from the DW community. Finally, I got a dreaded white circle with slash error message on my monitor and the Apple store  in San Francisco, after much probing, reinstalled a current version of the OS software and all my problems were resolved.  I did not realize that Yosemite was no longer Apple supported so when similar problems as had been earlier resolved with onl

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Community Expert ,
Oct 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021

Are you using Automate > Batch to run the action on a folder of images?

 

Or just running the action on a single open image?

 

Please post a screenshot of the Action panel with all of the steps fully expanded/visible for review.

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Participant ,
Oct 14, 2021 Oct 14, 2021
How do I do a screennshot of Action steps?
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Community Expert ,
Oct 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021

It sounds like your action has a save as step that has a recorded a file name in the step.  So the action always saves to that same file. The step should have no file name recorded in the step.  That way  Photoshop will default the name to the current document name and save the file type recorded in the step into the location recorded in the step..

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Community Expert ,
Oct 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021

Please expand Save step in your action and post screenshot here. I am also suspicious that your problem is what @JJMack have described.

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LEGEND ,
Oct 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021

Remove your current saving step. Then create new document and record saving it in destination folder (using desired file format), but without changing name that you see in text box while confirming saving operation.

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Participant ,
Oct 23, 2021 Oct 23, 2021
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I hate to tell you this, but I had major Mac OS corruption that were causing me several problems including the one I asked for help from the DW community. Finally, I got a dreaded white circle with slash error message on my monitor and the Apple store  in San Francisco, after much probing, reinstalled a current version of the OS software and all my problems were resolved.  I did not realize that Yosemite was no longer Apple supported so when similar problems as had been earlier resolved with online help I found out the hard way was no longer available.  Apple should do a better job of notyfying its customers when an OS is no longer supported. Thanks to all and sorry to have bothered you unnecessaily.

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