Hi everyone, I am developing a feature for my plugin that downloads remote .psjs files and executes them locally. However, I’ve run into an issue where batchPlay fails to execute the code. Here is my current function: JavaScript async function runPSJS(path) { const fs = require('uxp').storag…

You would also use this to execute an ExtendScript file. And the Adobe team did not want devs to mix those two together. So it does not work. Sadly, they do not distinguish between .jsx and .psjs

Funny enough, I can get it to work with .jsx files using the following function: JavaScript async function runJSX(path) { const fs = require('uxp').storage.localFileSystem; const token = fs.createSessionToken(await fs.getEntryWithUrl("plugin-data:/" + path)); return await action.b…

BatchPlay is failing to process descriptors containing "_obj": "runJavaScript"

Photoshop UXP Plugin API

tomzag April 9, 2026, 6:46am 5

Adobe restricts to run UXP scripts from UXP plugins.
Check out this thread: Panel with buttons to run psjs files

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BatchPlay is failing to process descriptors containing "_obj": "runJavaScript"

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