Saving psd document without update photoshop document

Photoshop
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I’m struggling with an issue when I try to save the activeDocument to a temporary file.

Let’s say I’m with a PSD file opened in my photoshop, and this PSD is stored at the normal user file system (not a temporary folder), but I need to upload this actual document (PSD) to an API so I’m calling the activeDocument.save(tempFile) to save this document to a tempFolder so I can upload this document without asking for user permissions.

This works as expected, I can do the upload, but I noticed that when I go to photoshop and click to reveal the active document in Explorer, then Photoshop shows that the active document is the file I previously saved when I did activeDocument.save(tempFile).

There is anyway I can avoid this behavior or there is another to accomplish my goal (upload the active document without user permission)? I think this can break the flow of a designer, because this temporary folder and its content will be deleted.

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You could duplicate document into new window. The duplicate has no fileReference. And close it once you are done. Or you could try a luck with “save as a copy” flag.

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Right, I’m new into uxp plugins, I’m working in my first one.

This “save as a copy” flag I know it was available in CEP extensions by passing an extra argument, but following the docs of uxp I didn’t find anything related to it, I also didn’t find anything related to duplicate the document into a new window. How can I duplicate my current document?

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Thanks so much!

This helped me a lot :slight_smile: