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I am facing a problem with an action that used to work in the past before I moved to a Mac and PS CC.
Basically, my action processes a pciture in different ways and saves each version in different folders within a main folder on the desktop. The action works fine but as soon as I rename or delete the main folder, the change is reflected in the action which forces me to re-record the "save as" parts of it. I would like to use the same folder structure since I have duplicates of it.
I tried everything and searched everywhere but no answer. Is it something new in PS CC or specific to the Mac OS (Maverick)?
Thank you
Frederic Neema

Thank you, that could be a solution but I have several workflows that need to save to different folders. I'd like to understand why this is hapenning in PS CC while it is working fine with PS CS5 and OS 10.8 or windows 7. Bug?
Anyway, here is test action to explain better what's going on.
Here is my test action with a folder "test" on the desktop. It has two sub-folders, "psd" and "jpg"
Now, here what happens when I rename the folder “test” to “test 2”. The action now shows test 2. It happens even if I close PS before renaming the file.

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