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December 24, 2021
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Save copy incrementally with javascript in Photoshop

  • December 24, 2021
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The free Javascript "Save-Incrementally.jsx" for Adobe Illustrator 2022, Adobe Photoshop 2022 and Adobe InDesign 2022 or older versions saves the current saved document in the file format .ai, .psd or .indd and automatically adds a consecutive number to the file name. Thus, the file "Example.ai" becomes the file "Example-0001.ai", "Example-0002.ai" and so on; this works analogously for Photoshop and InDesign. This is also called "incremented" (continuous) saving. In this way, you can save individual steps in between and go back to an older version if necessary. The Javascript also works with older versions of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.  

See my Behance profile or on my german website.

 

Have fun with it and merry christmas to all.

– jens

Correct answer Stephen Marsh

As it looks like @Parts4Arts is no longer active, you can download various versions of the scripts from my archive here:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b1l8b03lqo5lz0g6exdrh/ai_ps_ind_Save-Incrementally.zip?rlkey=x7edz94n1ol4ho8gw6mhm9nyc&st=2glpr7cf&dl=0

 

There are other scripts on this forum to save incremental files, however they are only for Photoshop.

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Stephen Marsh
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Community Expert
December 24, 2021

Thank you for sharing!