I tried searching for an answer to this problem, but nothing showed up/ I’m hoping someone here might have a clue.
I have a bunch of TIFF files that need to be scaled and saved as JPEGs. All of the TIFF files are in a folder within my Documents folder. I started recording a new action, adjusted size, clicked Save As…, and saved as a JPEG to the desktop.
This all works great, except the file saved to the desktop has “copy” added to the file name even though I didn’t type that in while recording the action. Also, there is no other file on the desktop with that same name that might prompt the “copy.”
If I have to go in and remove that manually from all of the file names, I’ll still come out ahead on time, but I’d rather not if there is a workaround.
Just a hunch (haven’t looked it up), but I suspect there’s a glitch in Catalina (maybe earlier) that possibly conflicts with the Adobe apps (or maybe others).
For example, when I open an Adobe file and try to save it to a destination containing a file with the same name, I’ll get the standard dialogue box asking me whether I want to overwrite the existing file or name it something different. If I select overwrite, it doesn’t overwrite anything — it just creates a new file with “copy” appended to it.
That’s not the same problem that you described, but I suspect it’s related.