Photoshop Help - Batching and Errors

[Morfiend]

I have a problem with Photoshop and was wondering if any one here could help. Here is the situation. I do very large batches of images using the photoshop automate function and actions. I have this down no problem. The problem is that if there is any sort of error, the batch stops. Frequently it is "The file you are trying to open is damage or corrupt, would you like to proceed?". The other one is "The IPCT data in the image may be damaged, do you still want to open the image".

What I want it to do is click "continue" or "open anyway" and continue on with the batch.

Does anyone have any idea how I can do this?

[Ookii]

Can't you change errors from "Stop for Errors" to "Log Errors to File"?

It's in the bottom left of the batch window in Photoshop 7 (No CS3 on the work computer).

[Morfiend]

I forgot to add that I have it set to "save errors to log file" but it still stops.

[Ookii]

Well you got me then, I would go about investigating another program that does what you want to accomplish, yet is more robust in the batch department.

It's worth noting that if Photoshop is bitching about corrupted data you might want to look into your hard drive. I batch stuff and have used Photoshop in general for an extremely long time, and I've never gotten any of those errors (save maybe once or twice).

[Venkman]

Photoshop occasionally doesn't recognize the type of error it gets from a file and therefore doesn't know how to process even the error itself. If you're saving the errors to a Log File, the only errors you should be getting are the "damage"/"IPCT" type you mentioned. If you're getting other errors on generic files you know work fine, then I think Trippy's idea of it being corrupted data or a disk problem may be right. Heck, it could be that the Log File itself is corrupted in some way. Have you tried creating it in different locations? I've seen stranger things.

Also, are you reading these files from sort of legacy media like ZIP, JAZ, CD or some potentially abused memory card? Are these one of those wierd RAW-like formats?

[Trippy]

Not my idea.

[Venkman]

Ok, I'm the only one here actually fooled by Ookii's "actually is Trippy" moniker then? I should probably get a grief title for that alone... 

[schild]

Hah. Burn.

[Mrbloodworth]

What version of photoshop? Also, i have done some long batches before, and have not encountered this problem. make sure you don't have some odd file type in the folder thats not really an image format or the like (Like SVN or CVS hidden files).

Take note of what file it is busting on, and see if you can open it normally.

[Morfiend]

Well, here is the thing. I get sent external hard drives from companies all over the world. Usually large collections of jpgs. By large I am talking 50,000 to 200,000 images. Some times the data on the images is lagitamatly corrupt, but with that many images, I dont care, I just dont want the batch to stop. Photoshop will open the corrupt files, but it just needs me to OK it first. I was hoping some one knew of a plug-in or maybe a applescript that I could run that would do some thing like "if error then click ok" or some such thing.

[Nerf]

Usually large collections of jpgs. By large I am talking 50,000 to 200,000 images

  That's alotta porn!

[Mrbloodworth]

applescript that I could run that would do some thing like "if error then click ok" or some such thing.

?

Sorry, i got nothing...

[Ookii]

What are you doing to these photos exactly?  Auto levels or just resizing?

[Morfiend]

What are you doing to these photos exactly?  Auto levels or just resizing?

Mostly just opening and saving. It "cleans" the files before they go in to my ingestion system. The current batch I am working on, it is saving them smaller. Some of the files in the current batch are huge.

[naum]

I use ImageMagick for these sorts of tasks…

[Ookii]

If you're just opening them and resaving them, are you just trying to strip out the EXIF data from the pictures?

ImageMagick would do that in five seconds