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“Folder not found” error when batch processing in Photoshop
Filed under: Adobe Bridge, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop |
Leave a Comment If you try to run a batch process in Adobe Photoshop (either from Photoshop or from Adobe Bridge) and you get an error message that says a folder wasn’t found, here are some things to check:
- In the Batch Processing dialog box, look at the Errors section at the bottom of the dialog box. If you have the Errors pop-up menu set to Log Errors to File, click Save As and reset the error log file location. Pointing the log file to a disk or disk name that isn’t mounted or no longer exists can cause the error message. For example, maybe you renamed or deleted the folder that the error log was pointed to before.
- Check the action you’re running, and if there any folder paths in any action step, make sure those paths are still valid. Folder paths can exist in can Open step, a Save step, or a Load or Save step. For example, you might have a step that loads a saved curve from disk into the Curves dialog box.
- If you action calls other actions, check the folder paths in those sub-actions.
Fix problems with menu bar utilities
Comments (4)When an item on the right side of the menu bar isn’t working right (Spotlight, the Airport icon, or something you added to the menu bar), you can often fix it without having to restart the computer.
Menu bar utilities are handled by a process called SystemUIServer. If you restart that process, everything on the right side of the menu bar reloads, which usually fixes any problems there.
To restart SystemUIServer:
1. Open Activity Monitor (It’s in the Utilities folder).
2. If you don’t see the Activity Monitor window, choose Window > Activity Monitor.
3. In the list, select SystemUIServer. If the list is long and SystemUIServer is hard to find, enter the name into the Filter box at the top of the Activity Monitor window.
4. With SystemUIServer selected, click the Quit Process button, and then click the Quit button.
You’ll see SystemUIServer reappear in the list, because OS X restarts it automatically. The items at the right side of the menu bar should disappear, and then reload. In most cases, the problematic menu bar item should work correctly now.
If that doesn’t work, try logging out and then back in.
If that doesn’t work, try restarting.
The reason I don’t suggest logging out or restarting as a first course of action is that if you’re like me, you’ve constantly got multiple documents open in multiple applications and you don’t want to close it all down and set it all back up if it isn’t necessary.
Today I clicked on the Spotlight icon in the menu bar and it highlighted, but the Spotlight search menu wouldn’t appear. Restarting SystemUIServer fixed it, as usual.
Activity Monitor is a good place to quit or restart any process that doesn’t have its own Quit command.
And a final tip…you can rearrange most menu bar items by Command-dragging them. (Some menu bar items that appear at the left end may be put there by applications and can’t be rearranged.) You can also remove a menu bar item by Command-dragging it off the menu bar.
Bridge 1.0: Photoshop batch processing bug?
Leave a CommentTonight I was using Adobe Bridge on Mac OS X to process some camera raw files using the Tools > Photoshop > Batch command. An error alert appeared and directed me to the batch processing error log, which contained a number of errors I didn’t expect. I checked the filenames in the error log and realized they were not in the Bridge browser window of the file I selected. However, they were in another open Bridge browser window that was behind the window containing the files I selected.
I avoided the error by closing the other Bridge browser window, leaving only the window containing the files I actually wanted to process.
Note that Bridge has no controls for managing multiple windows. To get to the window behind the frontmost window in Bridge, which covered the entire screen, I used the Mac OS X keyboard shortcut for cycling to the next window, Command+`(back accent, the key above the Tab key on U.S. English keyboards). On Windows, press Alt+Tab.
Photoshop CS2: Use Print with Preview
The File > Print with Preview dialog box shows you how your image fits on the printer and paper size that’s selected, and lets you position the image on the page. By double-checking the document in Print with Preview before printing, you can avoid just about all wasted print jobs caused by incorrect image size, paper size, or orientation. While you’re in Print with Preview, click Page Setup to confirm that the printer and paper size are correct. The margins you see in Print with Preview are supplied by the selected printer driver, not Photoshop.
The Print with Preview dialog box has a Print button, so you can go straight to the Print dialog box from there. For this reason, you might want to use the keyboard shortcut editor (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) to assign Command/Ctrl+P to the Print with Preview command instead of the Print command.
Note that in Photoshop CS3, the Print with Preview dialog box is now the default print dialog box.
