How to: using the Place command in an action and remembering the source filename...

I have a large set of product, architecture, and other subject-specific photos, that I’m preparing for a new website; all to be placed in various galleries.
For each photo, I want it to have the same background. If I were doing this manually, I would simply “place” the subject photo into the background, and save it – back to the original photo name.
In other words, doing this manually, PRODUCT_001.TIF gets placed into STANDARD_BKGRND.TIF, (thereby automatically correctly sizing and centering it), and then saving the result back to PRODUCT_001.TIF; either overwriting the original, or into a new folder. (I have the original file somewhere else, and am working with an intermediate copy).
But since I have several hundred photos, how do I create an action (and really – a droplet) that will save the resulting file to the desired name? Typically placing photo ‘PRODUCT_001’ into photo ‘B’, alters photo ‘STANDARD_BKGRND’, so I can’t save the result back to ‘PRODUCT_001’. Said differently, in a droplet, each time it's run saves the result back to the same filename 'STANDARD_BKGRND'.
The end result – I want to apply that droplet to all the PRODUCT_***.TIF files in a given folder, and end up with the same file names as before.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Jerry
PS - I have no scripting experience in PS, but have written code in other applications/scenarios.

Actions don't have access to the document name (where the file name is). Scripts do, however.
If your products are sequentially numbered, you're in luck. You can overide the "Save as command" and make sure that your naming uses a sequence which you can set to the same starting number as your product. Here is an example of how to configure File -> Automate -> Batch (assume the set and action are your hand built one)
Instead of "Document name" you'd type "PRODUCT_" per your example and choose a 3 digit Serial number.
The "Starting Serial #" is where you can change if your products are numbered say, 101 and up.

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How to: using the Place command in an action and remember the correct source filename...

I have a large set of product, architecture, and other subject-specific photos, that I’m preparing for a new website; all to be placed in various galleries.
For each photo, I want it to have the same background. If I were doing this manually, I would simply “place” the subject photo into the background, and save it – back to the original photo name.
In other words, doing this manually, PRODUCT_001.TIF gets placed into STANDARD_BKGRND.TIF, (thereby automatically correctly sizing and centering it), and then saving the result back to PRODUCT_001.TIF; either overwriting the original, or into a new folder. (I have the original file somewhere else, and am working with an intermediate copy).
But since I have several hundred photos, how do I create an action (and really – a droplet) that will save the resulting file to the desired name? Typically placing photo ‘PRODUCT_001’ into photo ‘B’, alters photo ‘STANDARD_BKGRND’, so I can’t save the result back to ‘PRODUCT_001’. Said differently, in a droplet, each time it's run saves the result back to the same filename 'STANDARD_BKGRND'.
The end result – I want to apply that droplet to all the PRODUCT_***.TIF files in a given folder, and end up with the same file names as before.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Jerry
PS - I have no scripting experience in PS, but have written code in other applications/scenarios.

Its great that your products are cutouts layers, Its easy to put cutouts on backgrounds and even add layer style to the product layer to enhance the composite. Still cutouts have size and resolution as do your background images.
When you make composites. A document that is place in or pasted into the current document will be resample to match the current documents DPI resolution to preserve the size of the document being place or pasted in size.
Additionally if your using place if the document being placed in does not fit within the current document's canvas size. Photoshop may scale the image to fit within the canvas. It depends on your user id Photoshop Preference setting.
That means you need you handle the sizes involved.
I would think that you would want the final composite to be the size of the background image.
You need to know its size and dpi resolution. You must use image size on your product image and make the image have the same dpi resolution and a size smaller then the background image. Perhas they have the same dip resolution as the background and are smaller in size. If that the cast their size are good no image resize is required,
Then you need to use canvas size to make the document have the same size and resolution as the background image.
You may want to center the product layer over the canvas however Canvas size will add canvas evenly around the produt layer's layer bounds when you leave the anchor point in the center.
When you then place in the background image it will not be resampled for it has the same dpi resolution as the current document and it will not be scaled for it is an exact canvas size fit. All that remains to be done is move the current placed layer below the product layer
The document name is the product image file name opened by you or by Photoshop automate batch process.

Search-Mailbox not attaching the infected emails in target folder and deleting the contents in exchange 2010 & 2013 coexistence

Dear All,
I have an issue with deleting circulated spam emails in my environment through search-mailbox
We have Exchange 2010 & 2013 CU5 environment
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http://windowsitpro.com/exchange-server-2010/search-destroy-email-content-exchange-2010
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Remember to mark as helpful if you find my contribution useful or as an answer if it does answer your question.That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you Check out my latest blog posts on http://exchangequery.com Thanks Sathish (MVP)

Hi All
I managed to find the solution. Below command helped me in solving the issue
get-mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -IgnoreDefaultScope | search-mailbox -SearchQuery ‘Subject:"virus infected"’ -LogOnly -TargetMailbox administrator -TargetFolder filter -LogLevel Full
get-mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -IgnoreDefaultScope | search-mailbox -SearchQuery ‘Subject:"virus infected"’ -TargetMailbox administrator -TargetFolder filter -deletecontent -LogLevel Full
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[AS] Using the "place" command?

Hi
Im trying to place a illustrator eps onto the second page in my document, but the "place"
command doesn't seem to work, I see other people are having issues with getting it to work also,
is their a sure fire way to make it place the requested file?, if so what would it be, ive tried all sorts of combinations,
all of which fail, with (most of the time) ID doesn't understand the "place" command?, I have seen
that you can call a javascript that will do this but I know zero about javascript, any help welcome.
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activate
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Cheers
Kev
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How do I set the default file path for the Place command?

I keep my graphics files for each document in a particular folder. Every time I open an existing InDesign document and place a new image I have to browse back to that location - even though all of the previous images in that document came from the same folder. InDesign does not remember the file path that was used previously in the document. This is very annoying.
IS THERE A WAY TO SET THE DEFAULT FILE PATH, OR LOCATION, FOR IMAGE FILES?
I have looked through the preferences, searched the forums and internet, but I have not found any reference to setting default paths. Is there a setting like the one in MS Word called "File Locations" on the Options toolbox?
Thank you.

Since you're working in ID on Windows, you can take advantage of a neat trick in Windows. Copy the file path out of the File Explorer address bar and paste it directly into the Place filename field. That will jump you directly to the desired volume. For example, let's say I want to place a graphic located at X:\PS Jobs\May PS\709672bp\Working Source Files\Links. I copy that entire path from the File Explorer address bar, go to InDesign, select File|Place, and press Control + V to paste that path into the filename field. I press the Open button and Shazam! I'm there instantly, without a bunch of navigation.
You can do the same thing in the File|Save As and File|Export fields. Let's say you want export a PDF file from InDesign to the volume X:\PS Jobs\May PS\709672bp\Working PDF Files. First copy the desired file path from the File Explorer window. In InDesign, select File|Export, click anywhere in the filename field, and press the Home key to move the insertion point to the front of the filename. Press Control + V to paste that path in front of the filename, then add the backslash character (\). The filename will now look like this: X:\PS Jobs\May PS\709672bp\Working PDF Files\Filename.pdf. Press the Save button to bring up the Export Adobe PDF window. Select your desired PDF preset, press the Export button, and the PDF file will magically appear in the desired volume.
This sounds really complicated, but it's not. In practice, it only takes a few seconds. I probably save an hour's worth of needless navigation every day with this technique.

How to use this backup command

I am learning about solaris backup, I found three useful backup command, I am confusing about them, can not find
explanation on the man page
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2 why use the ufsrestore -rf -
3 when I finish the first command, there is nothing record in the /etc/dumpdates, why?
4 it seems they are useful to copy from disk to disk, but , when I restore data,
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5 currently, in the real world, what kind of backup command do you use in your
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Where to begin..
Well, question 1 and 2:
The commands you found are commands which were used to copy the entire root disk, as well as the partition /export/home to a new disk.
Apparently the person who first used them had a new harddrive, which he (or she) partitioned and mounted under /cop/ . He (or she) then copied all the data from the / and /export/home partitions to the new disk.
Hence the use of ufsrestore.
There are two outputs, standard output (also referred to as - or STDOUT) and standard error.
Any normal output from any command (such as 'ls') is sent to STDOUT . You can redirect data from STDOUT to a file by using >, i.e:
ls > /tmp/output.ls
STDERR is where error messages go.
Apart from STDOUT and STDERR you also have something called STDIN (or Standard Input), which is used to feed data to a command.
Just as you can use > to send STDOUT, you can use < to send STDIN, i.e:
cat < /tmp/output.ls
In the example you posted with ufsdump/ufsrestore the use read the content of a partition with ufsdump, then send it through a pipe to ufsrestore, which writes it down at a different place. The result is that the user gets a copy of the / disk under /cop/0 .
As such thats not a backup command, its a way of copying a disk.
Question 3:
Because there is no 'u' option, to update /etc/dumpdates you need to use the u argument to ufsdump, in your example:
ufsdump 0fu - /
Question 4:
Well. There are two ways to do a ufsdump to a disk, one way is to do it the way you did it, by piping it to ufsrestore. In that case you can't restore your files using ufsrestore, since they are already copied to the disk.
The second way to use ufsdump to a disk is to write the entire dump to a file, i.e.:
ufsdump 0fu /path/to/ufsdump_of_root.dmp /
Then you can restore a file using ufsrestore, to use an interactive restorer:
ufsrestore fi /path/to/ufsdump_of_root.dmp
Question 5:
Most companies i have worked at uses a mix, some backups are written to disks and some to tape. In particular the short term backups (in the time frame one week to one month) are disk based and everything else (one month to ten years) are tape-based.
But it really depends on what kind of data it is and what legal requirements you have. If you have to store data for a few years disk backups are not really an option. The benefits of tape backups are that they are quite fast (in particular LTO5), they don't really consume any electricity and you can easily enlarge your archive by buying more tapes.
I once calculated how many harddrives i would need to store 10 years of backups online. I don't remember how many harddrive i needed (but it was 100TB +), but it would require about 10-15kW of electricity...
Harddisk backups was popular a while ago, but i think tape is coming back, at least thats my impression.
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Scripting to load all pdfs in a month into the place command?

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of a script that allows for you to place all pdfs within a set date range from a folder into an InDesign document? I am looking to do my monthly report and each month I have to go out and get each one, would be nice to load the place tool with all the pdfs I have done with a set date range and then just place them accordingly. Is there something out there like this and/or am I missing something obvious?
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IM Sorry tomaxxi, am I suppose to be inputting something somewhere here in
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                                                                                From:       tomaxxi <[email protected]>
To:         Robert Borchardt <[email protected]>
Date:       11/08/2010 03:29 PM
Subject:    Scripting to load all pdfs in a month into the place command?
Sorry for delay...
I just tested script and it's working fine for me here.
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