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2009-10-06 10:30:12
Shirley_P
Registered: Oct 15 2006
Posts: 7

I am adding password security to a group of PDF's organized in folders and subfolders. On my old laptop using Acrobat 7 Pro and Windows XP, I select the top level folder and processing the 2700 pdf's is a breeze. On my new laptop with Acrobat 9 Pro and Windows Vista, it does the job but believes that there are 463, 844 files to process! Needless to say, it takes a long time. Am I missing some new setting in preferences or batch processing or is this a bug?
Any thoughts would be gratefully received.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
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2009-10-06 11:47:20
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In the Source File Options, make sure you uncheck everything.

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2009-10-06 11:51:06
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Shirley_P
Registered: Oct 15 2006
Posts: 7
Thank you. I did try that without any apparent effect on this issue. The folders in question only contain PDF files.
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2009-10-11 12:26:59
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buoyB
Registered: Oct 11 2009
Posts: 5
I ran into the same problem (plus another one) recently using Acrobat Pro 9 in Windows XP SP3. I was trying to batch process 1500 files, but the counter on the process status window indicated that Acrobat Pro was trying to process 114,000. It would run through some of the files, then act like it couldn't open some because they "are already open."

I fixed the file counting problem by going to the Windows Control Panel, launching "Add or Remove Programs", selecting Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, and selecting "change/remove". From the 3 options presented, I selected "repair." I hope this works for you.

Unfortunately, I can't get it to process more than 256 files before Acrobat Pro starts tripping over itself with file management problems. It's as if it can't keep track of which files have already been processed and closed in the batch so generates errors when it tries to reopen these files.
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