Once I create a persistent teken for a directory and inside that directory I add a subfolder that receives the active document that I save in.tiff format, but I cannot save the other documents, as I receive an Error: A Folder with given name exists . Cannot overwrite a Folder. How do I fix this and…

Your problem in both examples is one of scope , but let’s just debug your first example. The subfolder variable is only scoped to your if statement and so it doesn’t exist by the time you call it. If you changed it to this then subfolder will still exist when you call and will have a value. // Ini…

If you call this piece of code on every file, it tries to await folder.createFolder("SubFolder"); also every time

I actually provided a “find or create folder” helper function in another thread a few days ago: [image] Check directory existence Photoshop Looks good to me. As you’re now duplicating code it would be better to wrap it all up into a helper function. const findOrCreateFol…

I confess that this process to import, save or export files in UXP plugins is my biggest challenge, I’m not familiar with it and I’m willing to face it head on with my rough questions. @Timothy_Bennett I read this topic several times, but I couldn’t do it the way you found it, the process of verif…

I modified this code but it doesn’t save, just create a subfolder. Please, can anyone help me? try { const fs = require('uxp').storage.localFileSystem; // const directory = await fs.getFolder(); //abre uma tela que permite escolher a pasta // const persistentToken = await fs.createPersistentToken…

Hi @Timothy_Bennett now it worked perfectly! The understanding became much clearer! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I’ll post the script for anyone who needs it. try { const fs = require('uxp').storage.localFileSystem; // const directory = await fs.getFolder(); //abre uma tela que permite …

Even better would be to wrap all that up in a helper function that you can reuse at any time, for any folder, in any UXP plugin as per the post I linked. You actually do that successfully in your second example, but it’s all encapsulated in, or rather scoped to, the main function and so theFolder n…

But to expand on what’s happening there; When we define a variable in JS we can provide a function call as the value so that the function can execute first and it’s return value becomes the variable’s value. Consider that this const foo = "bar" is the same as function getBar() = { return "ba…

Spoiler - you could do the same for your save functionality…

@Timothy_Bennett thanks for your teachings! While you are still available, I would like to ask you another question: If I already have the document open and active and I can get its directory path (app.activeDocument.path), why do I have to use fs.getFolder(); to set the output location of the fi…

That’s a design choice by Adobe to protect Marketplace customers from unscrupulous developers who might use full access to your file system for unsavoury practices. The only real workaround is to have the user select a folder once on initial plugin installation, save that as a persistent token, and…

Save multiple documents in subfolder

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Timothy_Bennett January 31, 2023, 2:51pm 3

I actually provided a “find or create folder” helper function in another thread a few days ago:

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