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Smart Object not updating

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June 12, 2019
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Hello,

i know that there's another post with this title but it was not answered.

I have many images with the same smart object "place linked".

After editing the original file the update is not shown to any of the images using it and the layer of the smart object has the yellow sign.

If I click on "update modified content" the update is shown normally.

The fact is that I don't want to open each file manually every time I make an update to the original linked one.

What is going on?

Thank you

Correct answer Alessandro Vecchi

CC2019 is to heavy for my setup.

Anyway after some research I found an answer that suits my need perfectly.

Please to anyone that comes to this question refer to this other one Auto-update linked smart objects in Photoshop

The user Valp gave an awesome solution!

Alessandro VecchiAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

CC2019 is to heavy for my setup.

Anyway after some research I found an answer that suits my need perfectly.

Please to anyone that comes to this question refer to this other one Auto-update linked smart objects in Photoshop

The user Valp gave an awesome solution!

JJMack

Community Expert

That thread states

"That should work for your situation. Please try go to Layer > Smart Objects > Update all Modified Content another option download the file Name : Update All Modified Content.jsx and then In File > Scripts > Scripts events manager... add the script to be triggered on Open document and it's done."

If that scriot does a menu Layer>Smart Object>Update All Modified Content that may fails in document that are not layered. or do not have smart object layers. Ftom the Layer meni I see the commade is not always available I see it grayed our here. If the script through an error put the command in a try catch and ignore the error. That way you will never see the error message.

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JJMack

Alessandro VecchiAuthor

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Sr,

with all the respect you talk too much and help too little.

You act as a user manual.

What the user suggested works perfectly.

I've been able to do exactly what I need thanks to an action and running it in batch.

I understand that you know a lot but what we look for here is life solutions, general information can be easily found in google.

Thank you for your time!

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

Maybe you did not option drag a copy from the library?

New smart object via copy is a poorly named & poorly utilized command. Better name would be "New independent smart object" or "Duplicate Smart Object as Sibling" or something to denote clearly and concisely that the new smart object is independent.

A quick way is to drag and drop on the page icon to make a clone duplicate

Sorry have to get back to work, apologies for not having more time to review & compose my reply hope this helps.

Alessandro VecchiAuthor

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Hello,

it seems that I don't have this option.

I use Photoshop CC 2015.

JJMack

Community Expert

Are you using Place Link or Place Embedded? Place Embedded embeds the files in the Layers object to update that object you need to open the object and change the temp work copy. When you make changes the the temp work document and commit the with a save Photoshop will updated the layers embedded object file and render the smart object layer.

JJMack

Alessandro VecchiAuthor

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Hello,

place linked.

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