Copy all images from folder to global-folder when saving

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

I want to have a help here to do this:

When I activate my saveCorrection script, I  use it to modify/correct a single image tha it is present on a folder of 5, 6 or 7 images).

This means that I will have inside that folder 1 corrected images and also the other images I will need.

To simplfy my daily upload work, I decided to avoid uploading each individual folder each time I make a correction. So I start saving each corrected image to a daily global folder on my desktop.

At the ende of the day, I upload all my daily images I have corrected from that folder.

This is done and works great but I need also to upload the other not corrected images from that global folder.

For example:

Folder1 has 6 images

Folder2 has 5 images

Folder3 has 6 images

Folder4 has 4 images

I correct image1 from Folder2

and image4 of Folder4

The global folder needs to have not only this 2 images but also needs to read all the present images from a folder that had a correction and pasting them to the global daily folder.

At the end of the day I must have

GlobalFolder with 9 images from Folders 2 and 4

So I can I detect present files on a folder and passing them to another?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

At the ende of the day, I upload all my daily images I have corrected from that folder.

upload where?

Could you possibly clarify your workflow with a chart or something?

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

I only need to put all images together in a folder (anywhere).

After that, the uploading process is a batch done automatically from another app outside photoshop.

In less words, my question is:

How can I detect how many images there are in a folder each time I save only one image there and then get all the files there and transfer (copy/paste) all images to another folder anywhere (that global folder).

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I assume you are on Windows, so something like this

// 2012, use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var thePath = myDocument.path;
var theFiles = Folder(thePath).getFiles(/\.(jpg|tif|eps|psd)$/i);
alert (theFiles.join("\n"))
};

should get you the neighboring jps, tiffs, eps’, psds … amend the filter as needed.

Then you can iterate through the array (Edit: with a for-function) and use the method

File.copy (target: string)

to copy them somewhere else.

[Pedro Cortez Marques · Accepted solution]

Thanks !

It helped me a lot simplifiing and finishing what I needed.

I also manage to automatically create the date to name the daily folder.

#target photoshop
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
    var theDate = new Date();
    var theYear = (theDate.getYear() + 1900).toString();
    var mes = theDate.getMonth() + 1 ;
    var theMonth = mes.toString();
    if (theDate.getMonth() < 10) {
    theMonth = "0" + theMonth;
    }
    var theDay = theDate.getDate().toString()
    if (theDate.getDate() < 10) {
        theDay = "0" + theDay;
    }
    theDate = theYear + "_" + theMonth + "_" + theDay;
    //
    var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
    var thePath = myDocument.path;
    var theFilesLength = Folder(thePath).getFiles(/\.(jpg)$/i).length;
    var correctionsDayFolder =  Folder("~/Desktop/upload/" + theDate + "_Corrections"); 
    if (!correctionsDayFolder.exists) correctionsDayFolder.create();
    for (var u=0 ; u< theFilesLength ; u++) {
        fileCorr = Folder(thePath).getFiles(/\.(jpg)$/i)
        var nameCorr = Folder(thePath).getFiles(/\.(jpg)$/i).name
        fileCorr.copy(correctionsDayFolder + "/" + nameCorr)
        }
};