Quick response to matter below. Well, Emily, you did put me on the
right road. I ended up uninstalling CS3 and reinstalling and updating.
After that the default actions will play which they didn't before. None
of the others even show up in the actions menu so I am guessing that
they are just not compatible anymore. I will record new and pick up a
few others and I think that problem will be solved. Reinstalling CS3
also resolved a Lightroom problem so all has ended very well. Thanks
for your help. I greatly appreciate it.
Good holidays to you and all on the list.
Don
BTW Using the uninstall function on the CD left the application on my
hard drive. I uninstalled, restarted the computer and it was all still
there. I had to drag the entire folder to the trash and reinstall again
before it worked correctly.
Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
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.
