find a file based on its extension name: ExtendScript - Photoshop

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March 12, 2020
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Hi Community, this is my first week using ExtendScript. I have been able to pretty quickly create a lot of powerful little scripts but this is alluding me for some reason... What I am trying to do after opening a Tiff file is look in that same directory for any files of a specific extension like .jpg, just to see if they are present. The jpg's in this case have a bunch of metadata that needs to follow the Tiff. Maybe it is the 50 hours I have spent staring at Javascript this week already but I am not getting any examples I find to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

That's a lot of extra stuff if you just want the get the path of the active document.

var docPath = activeDocument.path;

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

This is how to create an array of files with a jpg extension. Then you can create a loop and go through the files in the array.

var imageFolder = new Folder('~/desktop/')// put image path here
var mask = '*.jpg';
var fileList = imageFolder.getFiles (mask);

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curtiswiensAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks that was helpful. I think the pathing was tripping me up. This got me exactly what I need:

var myPath = (app.activeDocument.fullName.parent.fsName).toString().replace(/\\/g, '/');

var imageFolder = new Folder(myPath)

var mask = '*.png';

var fileList = imageFolder.getFiles (mask);

alert(fileList);

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