I guess it would defeat the purpose of saving time, since you're pressing play on action A, x number of times anyhow I think that you misunderstood. It does not defeat the purpose of saving time, let me explain… Action A is only played once. It does not matter if it has 1 or 100 steps, the action needs to be played at some point on your other layers anyway. Or as you mention, the action could be simplified or have steps unticked to turn them off for the purpose of recording faster, then tick them again to turn them back on. To repeat Action A, the play step is duplicated by dragging the action step to the new action icon, like this: Once you have a number of duplicated steps, you can shift select multiple play steps and drag them to the new icon. In the example above there are three play steps. If I shift select all three play steps and dragged them to the new action icon, I would now have six play steps – all without manually playing the action multiple times. I could then shift select all six play steps and duplicate them again, resulting in twelve play steps etc. Glad you found a scripted solution, I love actions – however there is only so far that one can take them.
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