: How to Batch Export All Directory Contents to PNG-8, Overwriting Existing Files? Based on some preliminary manual testing, I've found that exporting as png-8 as one might expect provides significant

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Based on some preliminary manual testing, I've found that exporting as png-8 as one might expect provides significant file size reduction. One of my test images went from 58.8 kb to 10.7 kb.

With a delivery size of around 1 GB, my graphics package needs some trimming to make it play nicer, both with remote secured asset deliveries and for better performance in a low-storage embedded environment.

I want to roll this approach out to exporting all my images in my delivery to png-8. The problem is I have been unable to figure out how precisely to do that.

I tried record an action. I created a new action set, created new action w/ my template file open, select Quick Export to png-8 in the File > Export menu, I click save, click "Yes, overwrite existing file", then Ctrl+W to close. Stop recording.

When I try to run this action set on a directory of images, going to File > Automate > Batch, it opens them and closes them without saving.

If I select Save & Close in the circled box in the Batch dialogue, it seems to be saving them, but just as normal png files, not png-8:



It's interesting to note that my Export performed during the record period of the action does not seem to be noted in the Actions pane:



Expanding Close I see saving: no which is technically true... as I exported, not saved. But there's nothing there about the export.

My PS is PS CC cloud, version seen below (Windows 7, 64-bit):



How do I get the Batch process to:


Export to png-8.
Automatically confirm overwriting the existing png during this save process. (I will be always overwriting the existing copy.)


Thanks!

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