It would take an act of Congress for Adobe to release any more fixes to Photoshop CS5.

It's a shame the operating system has changed to make some features of the product not work, but why do you feel it's an Adobe problem, since it was clearly broken by Apple?

Yes, I realize we all pay more for this Adobe software than for the operating system software, so our expectations are necessarily high of Adobe, but...  You're using a product that was developed literally years ago on a system where the manufacturer is literally ruthless about not paying attention to compatibility.  I don't know whether it's any better in Photoshop CS6, but even then it's a product that's already developed and released on an operating system no one's seen before.

Honestly, I would suggest for anyone reading this that unless you have a burning need for a fix that only Mountain Lion can provide, you hold off on updating the OS until Apple works through the problems.  Yes, I realize we wouldn't expect to see many reports from people claiming "I upgraded to Mountain Lion, and surprisingly everything works!", but there do seem to be a lot of the other type.

-Noel

Hi Brett,

the exact same thing happened to me and my co-workers machines. If I make a new user account and create a new action and droplet there it works without any problems.

I do not want to create a new user just to make droplets work again, so do you have any tips to how I can make my it work on my user again?

So I tried to do everything on that list, but the issue still continues to haunt the machines. It's very weird that this happens, but I will have to keep trying different stuff because I do not want to create a new user just for this small issue.

I have done the same as you sunsetdesign and it does work for one time only.

I should also mention that I am on CS6, but I have tried with the CS5 I have on the machine and the same problem consists there.

hey does anyone know if this issue would be resolved by doing a complete reinstall of Mountain Lion, and the CS6? i use a lot of droplets and this issue is a killer for me.

i tried a new user account but it didnt make any difference.

to confirm - if i create a new user account will i be able to use droplets i had made in PS CS6 pre-updating to Mountain Lion? or will it just enable me to create new working droplets ?

I tried, and couldnt seem to get either option working - but perhaps i was doing something wrong.

I think I'm extra stuffed because the droplets have save-for-web actions in them tied to folders within my user account. So when I try to run them from a new user they fail as they can't find the folder. Have tried a droplet decompiler script to turn them back into actions but that doesn't work (error/unknown resource or something)

Can you confirm that a fresh reinstall of everything should fix the issue though? ie: I'm trying to ascertain whether creating droplets in PS6 in mountain lion works at all - or if this is all an issue relating to users who have upgraded from Lion (without a clean install)

I just want to add that since creating a new user account seemed to fix the problem I decided to do a clean install of the OS and create a whole new user from scratch.

The first program I installed was Photoshop CS6 and was real excited to see if droplets would work, but did they??? NO....Same god damn problem...

In other words... I am lost and a little bit frustrated because I work with photoshop for a living.

Just for the info: I did the clean install on my work machine at home, but can't do it on the one that is situated at work because there is so much stuff on it and I do not know how to downgrade with keeping all of that info.

I created an action from scratch and like before doing the action via batch works fine, but the instant I make an droplet with the same action the same issue arises. Droplets just does not work

Update:

On my machine at work I found out that the reason for the droplets not working was the program Default Folder X. In Mountain Lion it breaks the droplet system. So problem solved on work station.

It still doesn't explain why droplets doesn't work on my work machine at home since on that one there were no extra programs installed except photoshop.

Wetouch wrote:

 

On my machine at work I found out that the reason for the droplets not working was the program Default Folder X. In Mountain Lion it breaks the droplet system. So problem solved on work station.

 

Wow - that was causing my problem too. I can temporarily disable Default Folder X, and can then run my old photoshop droplets in Mountain Lion. Curious turn of events - will alert the Default Folder X creator in case its something wrong on their end