Update changes to multiple files

Hi, we're creating an application with dozens of pages, which are all being saved as separate photoshop files. Is there a way to link photoshop files so that if I change a layer in one file, the similar layer is aumatically updated across the board? I'm sorry if this is an oft asked newb question, I just can't seem to fund a clear answer to this.
Thanks!

Not the way you want it. This would require an app that uses genuine referencing like InDesign. Yes, PS has smart objects, but they are not exactly linked files - the embedded version always takes precedence and does not necessarily propagate back to the original source but rather will be treated as a new copy. So attempting to build a network of linked files thereon is bound to fail - files will never update properly. using layer comps within the same document might be an alternative depoending on what is going on, but you realyl shoudl look into otehr programs. PS is not a page layout program, after all...
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In your version it's available under the Advanced menu, Document Processing. It was called Batch Sequences before being renamed to Actions. Look there and you should find it...

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The "legacy" metadata editors, for which there was a "back door" in iTunes 12.0, have gone from 12.1. However, the revised editors in 12.1 provide access to (almost) all the metadata elements that were available in iTunes 11, albeit in a different layout and with some additional constraints based on media kind. Some users have / will have an issue with the statement that "Get Info has been completely redesigned in iTunes 12 to focus your attention only on what’s necessary for the selected item" since that removes some metadata elements that people may have been using in creative ways. iTunes 12.1 basically gives you access to the fields that Apple think are necessary ... . Some of the things that have been excluded by this rule:
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in songs view (or any of the other columnar views), you can still select any fields to display, independent of media kind, and these can be edited (though only one at a time) by double-clicking in the relevant "cell"
you can (temporarily) change the media kind of an item (or group of items) to get access to metadata elements that would otherwise be inaccessible.
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I have a book file with multiple files (prelim pages and chapters). In the header of each prelim page and chapter file I'm using a variable. How can I make a simple change to the variable and update it across all files that use it? I've tried looking through the menus and opening all files but I can't see any method of making a global change.
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How about File > Import formats …
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Change Permissikons on Multiple Files?

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Niel and Barney-15E,
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nachdenki,
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[svn] 3638: Changing the build order of swc file update with dita xml files .

Revision: 3638
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-10-14 16:49:56 -0700 (Tue, 14 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
Changing the build order of swc file update with dita xml files.
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Revision: 3638
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-10-14 16:49:56 -0700 (Tue, 14 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
Changing the build order of swc file update with dita xml files.
By default this would now happen during the checkintests target - so "ant clean main" shouldn't get affected.
To opt out use -Dno.doc=true
QA: No
Doc: No
Tests: checkintests
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flex/sdk/trunk/build.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/build.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/airframework/build.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flash-integration/build.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex/build.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/build.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/build.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/haloclassic/build.xml
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/rpc/build.xml
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