Droplet has strange icon and won't activate.

Question

I've never had trouble creating droplets in CS3, but now every time I create one it shows up with a strange (rough-looking, jagged edged) type of icon.  If I try to drop a file on it, it won't activate. I know the action works because if I open a file manually and choose the action, it works perfectly. Any ideas?

Answer 1

"Nonsense" runs off your fingers and keyboard as freely and as easily as cuss words roll off a parrot's tongue, Reynolds (Mark).  Alas, nothing you type afterwards ever backs it off.
If it takes you more than two minutes to set all your Photoshop preferences that get wiped when you reset them, you are as clumsy as a manatee and you don't know the Photoshop application one tenth as well as you think you do.
In addition, if you bother to record an action while you re-set everything in Photoshop just once, the next time you can do it with a single mouse click.
There is nothing destructive or harmful in trashing an application's preferences beyond having to re-set them.  The only thing you discard is corruption.  Anyone who has not saved his/her presets before the corruption sets in is better off recreating them from scratch.
I'm beginning to feel sorry for you, fortunately you're not my responsibility.
Next time you want to argue the point, present a viable, reasonable alternative, or be prepared to be exposed again.
[EDITED minor typo only, deleting duplicated article "the".]
Message was edited by: Ramón G Castañeda