Batch Action - Does NOT Rename Files Properly

have CS3 on XP
I am doing a batch rename. The batch transfers the images from folder to folder like I want and performs a reduce size to 600pix action I created...but it DOES NOT rename the files to what I tell it.
I want the files original name to have the word "WebSize" added to the filename before the extension. I set this up in the batch. What I get is the original File names.
Now I did Do a file "save as" in the original action because I wanted to limit final file size to 100k per jpeg file size. I checked the override...and unchecked the override...neither setting alloows the new name to be made...just the original file name.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Suzzie

Your action doesn't to seem to include any Open actions. Why do you have the "Supress" option enabled?
Also, since your action has the two save commands, you would just leave the Destination set to None. Setting a Destination means that is going to save the files again.
The problem you'll run into though is that the action also saves the file name as part of the action, so that you'll end up just saving over the one file each time the action is played back on your 400 files. So Photoshop will process all the files, but each time it will overwrite the first file, so you'll end up with one file in each folder. Normally, in these situations, you'd use the Destination setting and use the "Overrride Action "Save As" Commands", which would substitute the Destination folder for whenever a Save command is used. The problem here is that you can only choose a single destination folder, so all files would be saved to the same location.
Short of scripting this, it may be best to break this into two separate actions.

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