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Hi to everybody!
Im using a script that takes a .ai document and save it in 4 different folders that i have.
I want to make them and also subfolders with an script, but io have no idea to do it. Can somebody share some code to make it?
Example:
Original folder:
1.ai
2.ai
1 /subfolder 1/ subsubfolder1/1.pdf
1 /subfolder 1/ subsubfolder2/1.png
1 /subfolder 2/ subsubfolder1/1.jpeg
1 /subfolder 2/ subsubfolder2/1.ai
2 /subfolder 1/ subsubfolder1/2.pdf
2 /subfolder 1/ subsubfolder2/2.png
2 /subfolder 2/ subsubfolder1/2.jpeg
2 /subfolder 2/ subsubfolder2/2.ai
If somebody can help me i will apreciate it a lot!!
THANKS!
You can get the name of the current document with app.activeDocument.name , put that into a variable and also make sure your 4 different folder names are in an array that can be looped with the code such as in my example. Store the whole path in this array like so:
var ImportantFolders = [
"C:/path start/path/My Folder1",
"C:/path start/path/My Folder2",
"C:/path start/path/My Folder3",
"C:/path start/path/My Folder4"
]
When you loop through them to create your folders, make a variable
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Here is how you make folders using a pre-supplied array of names you wish:
var startFolder = Folder("~/Desktop");
var foldersToMake = ["first folder", "second folder", "third folder"];
var thisNewFolder, thisNewFolderName;
for(var i=0; i<foldersToMake.length; i++){
thisNewFolderName = foldersToMake[i];
// automatically converts from Folder object to string using toString() method automatically
thisNewFolder = Folder(startFolder + "/" + thisNewFolderName);
// not sure if this is necessary, but probably good to check it it already exists.
if (!(thisNewFolder.exists)) {
thisNewFolder.create();
}
}
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Thank you very much Silly-V!
I tried but Ilustrator dont do nothing!
Its possible to take the .ai name and make the upper folder with the .ai name?
Thank you very much!
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Thank you again Silly,
Im trying to make a folder with the name of an .ai that is open. How can i take this name? I tryied like this, but only creates your 3 folders.
var startFolder = Folder("~/Desktop/work");
var Name = targetDoc.name;
var folder = new Folder ("~/Desktop/work" + Name);
var foldersToMake = ["first folder", "second folder", "third folder"];
var thisNewFolder, thisNewFolderName;
for(var i=0; i<foldersToMake.length; i++){
thisNewFolderName = foldersToMake[i];
// automatically converts from Folder object to string using toString() method automatically
thisNewFolder = Folder(startFolder + "/" + thisNewFolderName);
// not sure if this is necessary, but probably good to check it it already exists.
if (!(thisNewFolder.exists)) {
thisNewFolder.create();
}
}
Thank you again!
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You can get the name of the current document with app.activeDocument.name , put that into a variable and also make sure your 4 different folder names are in an array that can be looped with the code such as in my example. Store the whole path in this array like so:
var ImportantFolders = [
"C:/path start/path/My Folder1",
"C:/path start/path/My Folder2",
"C:/path start/path/My Folder3",
"C:/path start/path/My Folder4"
]
When you loop through them to create your folders, make a variable inside the loop which makes the a new folder object with the path from your array concatenated with the current file name.
Also it may be a good idea to take out the file extension from the document name.
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var thisFolder;
var docNameWithoutExtension;
for(var i = 0; i < ImportantFolders.length; i++){
docNameWithoutExtension = doc.name.replace(/\..+$/, "");
thisFolder = Folder(ImportantFolders[i] + "/" + docNameWithoutExtension);
thisFolder.create();
}
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Thank you very much Silly-V, you helped me a lot here and in another places in this comunity. THANK YOU.
I have one question about how Illustrator uses the characteristics of the computer, i dont know i have the "bottle neck" (is correct this in english?).
I have the lastest iMac and when i use some action like copy and paste a lot of vectors (move around 15GB), Ilustrator dont use the 40GB of Ram (only around 20), only use 1 thread and the graphic is not always al 100%. Do you know whats the most important part of the computer for Illustrator?
THANK YOU AGAIN!!