Could not complete the Action ?

YrbkMgr

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Feb 1, 2003, 4:46:36 PM2/1/03

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Toggle the dialog of the Action to OFF (the little square next to the action name). It is trying to send your files to the directory under which the action was directing the file to be saved...

Enrique Ivern

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Feb 1, 2003, 4:40:34 PM2/1/03

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I'm trying to automate the saving for Web of a folder with a number of PSD files.
When I automate batch, I receive a message:
'Could not complete the action, since the destination folder does not exist'.
Now, in the automate command I have to select folders, so they have to exist.
What can be happening?
By the way, once such a batch automation starts, how can I stop it, so I won't have n times the same error message?
Thanks for your help.

YrbkMgr

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Feb 1, 2003, 5:08:39 PM2/1/03

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By the way, once such a batch automation starts, how can I stop it, so
I won't have n times the same error message?

Press ESC while the batch is running and you'll be presented with an option to continue or stop.

Enrique Ivern

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Feb 1, 2003, 9:26:01 PM2/1/03

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Thanks, I'm not sure I understand your first message. The action does the same thing with the dialog turned on or off.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm trying to set an image size. If I set the dialog on for the export command, it then works...I have to manually set the size for each picture, but at least it's semi-automatic.

YrbkMgr

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Feb 1, 2003, 11:14:03 PM2/1/03

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The action does the same thing with the dialog turned on or off.

Now I don't understand. What is producing the error - the action or the Batch Dialog?

Also, you didn't mention anything about resizing, although that shouldn't have anything to do why a destination folder is reported as not being present.

You can create an action from one or more actions as well so that you could have a Resize action, and a Save For Web Action, and combine them into a "Resize and Save" action and run that last one on batch.

In any event, I don't understand what is producing the error, the batch or the action. If you can elaborate, maybe step by step what you are trying to do, then we can peel back the layers of the onion a bit.

Peace,
Tony

Norbert Bissinger

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Feb 2, 2003, 1:22:34 PM2/2/03

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If your action includes a Save or Save As command you must override this in the Batch setup.

YrbkMgr

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Feb 2, 2003, 1:30:59 PM2/2/03

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Good catch Norbert... I assumed he had already done this: you have to toggle the dialog of the action to OFF, and check the box that says Override Save As information.

Enrique Ivern

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Feb 3, 2003, 6:44:20 PM2/3/03

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Thanks for your interest. The specific problem I mentioned went away when I replaced the export command with another.I'm sorry but I really don't know why.
Then,I retried everything and this is what I found:
No problem with the batch procedure...had overridden both open and save.
The action itself is problematic.
It's very simple: open, save for web (export)
if I put a save, I get two results in the output folder, if I don't, I don't get the naming convention specified in the automate batch.
Apart from that, I'm not being successful at changing the image size automatically, If I say i.e. height=600, I'll get approximate results, say 600, 615, 604, 563, for the different files (files are different)in the input folder, which is not bad but not what I asked... Any ideas on how to improve this?