At 5:41 PM -0600 12/22/08, Don Roberts wrote:
Emily, may I ask you a question since you know Photoshop and I
struggle with it? I have made my own actions and have purchased
some and I thought that they were great. Somewhere, somehow they
just stopped working. I have been from PS 7 through CS and now CS3
and the play action option will not work. I just get the universal
slash in the circle forbidden symbol. Would you have any idea how
to troubleshoot that? Adobe hasn't been much help and forums keep
implying that I am just an idiot, which may be true, but it doesn't
help me.
OK. Some questions come to mind.
So they show up in your actions palette but you can't run them?
Have you tried opening one of them and trying to run parts of it?
Are there parts that run and parts that don't?
Especially with someone else's actions that old you might find the
action is asking PS to do something it no longer does, like the
location of a command has been changed since PS 7, for instance.
Did you copy your actions from PS 7 to CS3 when you upgraded?
Are your actions in the correct folder in your Photoshop folder?
Would it be more efficient to rerecord them than go on fussing about
them not working?
If the answer to the final question is "yes", forget about the old
ones and rerecord them. If you've been using PS since 7 you might
have some new ideas about how to make them anyway and the new
versions might be better.
Just for a start.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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