CS3 saving from actions & batch error, what to do?

Question

Hello!
I am trying to edit a big bunch of my photos using actions and the batch script in Photoshop CS3 Extended on Windows Vista. The whole thing falls apart when PS is trying to save during an action sequence (or even if the saving is bypassed by the batch script) and displays an error message: "Could not save as 'file location/file name...' because the file could not be found." And this happens while the file actually is already open in Photoshop!
Not only does it make the batch command completely useless but also makes editing a large number of photos very frustrating since the only way of saving them is to do it manually one by one.
Anyone have any ideas on what I could do to make it work again as it should?
Kind regards,
Olli

Answer 1

Photoshop open a file and read it in memory and converts it into a Photoshop document in Photoshop data structures and closes the file.  There are no open files in Photoshop there are active documents in Photoshop. Some Active documents may be associated with files while others may be new documents where no file exists yet.  You may be getting a miss leading message about a file not existing where the real cause may be something else like the device  or folder does not exist or the folder or file is locked with a read only attribute or something like that.   Batch Scripts and Plug-in save files all the time without problems its what batching is all about.