Action with Export won’t work

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tmalcom
Nov 12, 2003
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I have a set of actions that has an Export function that I use constantly. But it refuses to work in CS and I get the error message "The Command ‘Export’ is not currently available." I’ve tried deleting the Action and rerecording it by inserting a menu command, but it still refuses to work. It’s the same for any Export command I try. An Action with an Import menu item doesn’t work either and throws the same error.

Anyone have any idea why this doesn’t work any more?

Tom Malcom
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MarkATS
Nov 12, 2003
hmm…
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LenHewitt
Nov 13, 2003
Tom,

Anyone have any idea why this doesn’t work any more?<<

What are you attempting to export to? Paths to Ilustrator or the image to Zoomview?
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tmalcom
Nov 13, 2003
The first one I tried was the old GIF89a export (I have considerable workflow built around it), but then tried Paths to Illustrator and that doesn’t work either. Then I tried an Action with Import PDF and got the same "not available" error message. Yet the same commands work fine if I assign keyboard shortcuts to them.

Tom
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LenHewitt
Nov 13, 2003
Now you’ve explained a little more, lets see if Mark comes up with anything….
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tmalcom
Nov 24, 2003
I’d been holding off adding more to this thread until I got my personal copy of PSCS and installed it on my Win2K machine. As I suspected, the same actions don’t work there. Any action that has a menu command involving Import or Export throw an error stating that they are "unavailable". If I assign a hotkey to the commmand, they work perfectly. This is obviously a bug in the Actions. I’d like to know whether there’s some way to fix it without having to wait 6 months for Adobe to come out with PS 8.01.
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phil_vouers
Nov 25, 2003
I had the same problem with a new machine with xp home on it until I figured out that if I was networking to a folder the action didn’t work but if I was using a direct path not a virtual one then everything worked just fine.
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tmalcom
Nov 25, 2003
Neither machine that I’m trying to use the action on is trying to access it from a network drive…both are local. Nor am I able to record an action that involves Import or Export that will work. There are no error messages when I create the action, but I always get the "unavailable" error when I try to use the action.

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