P: Ability to delete multiple paths

That's also in this thread too 🙂

Hi There-
There's a script to delete all paths at once.

You can find it here!

Ah, just make a little Action for yourself and it'll give you a path free document in the blink of an eye---and it won't hurt so bad 🙂 --- but I still do agree that it should be an option in the Paths Panel!

And then rename it. It's far more work than should be required after all these years. I still don't get why paths aren't an option like Layers and Alphas in the Save As dialog.

I think merging of paths by dragging or alt/option dragging (to make a copy) onto another path is also a great idea to circumvent the Copy & Paste Path methods that have always been available.

I think a delete all paths item would be great, too but a work-around that I have often used is to do a Select-All, then Edit Copy Merged, then create a NEW Document which will automatically have the same size and resolution of the original. Then do an Edit Past into the new document, Flatten and you're ready to print or send off minus all the paths and/or Alpha Channels.

I'd love a band-aid, if you'd be so kind.

It's only a one line script:-
activeDocument.pathItems.removeAll();

Many of Photoshop's "built-in" features are scripts... even a couple of features not in the scripts menu.

You can't change the GUI of an existing panel with a script.. Deleting all paths is trivial, though. And a modal dialog that lets you select a bunch of paths at once is possible, too.

Seems like some are worried that Adobe will will delay surgery if I provide a band-aid. 😛

Thank you for the example. That makes it much easier to explain to managers.