REPOST: what does "Auto Resolve" do in PS7 File Browser?

I've researched all my PS7 books (and of course the PS7 Help). None even mentions it. Nobody replied to my post last time. Does this mean "Auto Resolve" is a mystical secret, known only to Adobe developers?

Walterius writes ...

Nobody replied to my post last time. Does this mean "Auto Resolve" is a mystical secret, known only to Adobe developers?

More likely it means most of us would choose "replace" or "cancel" instead of trusting "auto anything" so we don't know and don't care what "auto resolve" does :)

Walterius writes ...

Nobody replied to my post last time. Does this mean "Auto Resolve" is a mystical secret...

Out of curiosity I tried it in CS ... made a file named 'test.tif' and saved a copy in a 2nd directory then tried to copy again to the same directory from the File Browser and got the 'auto resolve' option ... choosing that option simply saved a copy of the file as 'test0000.tif' and saving again generated 'test0001.tif' ... so it just keeps on making copies (until 'test9999.tif' I guess ... wasn't motivated enough to see what happens after that) ... good way to do 'auto increment' of file names, better way to fill up your hard drive with extra copies you probably don't need ...

Bill

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:41:22 -0500, "Walterius" wrote:

I've researched all my PS7 books (and of course the PS7 Help). None even mentions it. Nobody replied to my post last time. Does this mean "Auto Resolve" is a mystical secret, known only to Adobe developers?

You just don't have the right book. Mine says "Use the auto resolution dialog box to have Photoshop calculate the appropriate resolution for an image based on your chosen output parameters"

There's a longer explanation for how to calculate the proper resolution manually.

"Photoshop for Windows and Macintosh" Weinmann and Lourekas.

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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

Tony Cooper writes ...

You just don't have the right book. Mine says "Use the auto resolution dialog box to have Photoshop calculate the appropriate resolution for an image based on your chosen output parameters"

From his earlier post a few days back it's clear he was asking about

something different, namely what "auto resolve" (not "auto resolution") means when you use File Browser to move a file into a directory which already has a file with that same name and you get "auto resolve" as one of the options (with 'cancel' and 'replace').

Well, I appreciate the tries. But it's clear no one knows what it does.

Thanks anyway.

Walterius
Old, and Auto-Confused.

Walterius wrote:

Well, I appreciate the tries. But it's clear no one knows what it does.
Thanks anyway.

Walterius
Old, and Auto-Confused.

Well, from Bill's explanation it would seem clear. When you try to drag a file to a directory where another file of that name already exists, you get 3 options: CANCEL the transfer to that directory; REPLACE the existing file with the new file of the same name; RESOLVE the issue by allowing the transfer to that directory, but adding a digit(s) to the filename, as obviously, 2 files of the same name cannot exist in the same directory. Since PS is adding the digits to the name of the file for you, it is auto-resolving the problem for you.

This explanation is purely based on Bill's findings.

Well read what Bill H wrote, that's your answer.

Frank

"Walterius" wrote in message

Well, I appreciate the tries. But it's clear no one knows what it does.
Thanks anyway.

Walterius
Old, and Auto-Confused.

Gentlemen (and ladies, if any), I apologize. I was referring to PS7, not CS/CS2, so I tuned out to Bill H's reply. However, when I actually tried Auto Resolve, it saved FileA and FileB as FileA000 and FileB000.

I had not looked in the folders previously to see what A-R actually did; I had assumed it simply overwrote FileA or left it alone.

My error. Thanks to all.

Well read what Bill H wrote, that's your answer.

Frank