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Andrew Hall
Andrew Hall

Reputation: 139

Close all open docs who's name does not contain

During the course of my work I am constantly in a position where I would like to close all the documents that I have open except the templates I am working with.

If I were to have the word "keep" in each of my template document names, how would I go about writing some javascript code to run in photoshop that will close all open documents that DO NOT have the word "keep" in their names?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 415

Answers (3)

Daikazu
Daikazu

Reputation: 96

What you need to do is grab the Documents array and iterate through them. This code should do the trick. The search phrase is case sensitive.

var docs = app.documents;

for(var i = docs.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
   if(docs[i].name.indexOf('keep') < 0){
      docs[i].close();
   }
}

Upvotes: 1

Andrew Hall
Andrew Hall

Reputation: 139

As it turns out there was an easy way to avoid the part that I was not sure how to proceed with...

Performing the desired operation on a single document is easy:

 if (activeDocument.name !="keep") activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

What was confusing me was how to write a script that would perform this operation on EVERY open document. I quickly realized that this could easily be taken care of by recording an action playing this simple script and batching the action on all open files in photoshop.

Upvotes: 0

Jonast92
Jonast92

Reputation: 4967

It sounds like you wish to

But then again, I'm probably forgetting some edge cases since I haven't tried this specifically.

Start with something small, get it working and come back with specific questions when they appear if you can't find an answer to the specific questions.

Upvotes: 0

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