Image Processor no longer overwrites original files?

[.random..]

I’m trying to re-save a large batch of PSD files (including all subfolders) to force Photoshop to embed the “Maximize Compatibility” composite. In older versions of Photoshop, Image Processor allowed saving directly back to the original file location without creating any subfolders.

In the current version, Image Processor always creates new subfolders (JPEG, PSD, TIFF) in every directory, even if I only select “Save as PSD” and uncheck everything else. There’s no option anymore to overwrite the existing PSD files on the same path.

What I need is simple:

• process all PSD files recursively,
• re-save them as PSD,
• overwrite the originals,
• without generating new subfolders in every directory.

Right now Image Processor seems to make this impossible.

Batch + Actions still works, but Image Processor used to support this workflow too.

So my question is: Is this just me missing a hidden setting, or did Adobe actually remove the ability to save to the original location without creating subfolders?

If that option is gone, is there any official workaround besides using Batch + a custom Action or writing JSX scripts?

Thanks!

[Stephen Marsh]

I'll look into this... The opposite requirement was needed in this topic:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/batch-remove-maximize-compatibility-f...

[.random..]

I finally solved the issue by having GPT generate a script that simply goes through the entire top-level folder (including all subfolders), opens every PSD, and performs a Save As to the same location. That forces Photoshop to rebuild the composite layer. It works — but honestly, the fact that this is necessary is mind-blowing.

We have millions of files in thousands of folders in our company archive, and every now and then a PSD ends up saved without Maximize Compatibility enabled.

Result? Lightroom refuses to import it.
Seriously? Lightroom cannot handle a PSD — an Adobe-native format — just because it’s missing a composite preview? That was jaw-dropping.

Fine, I thought I’d batch-fix it via Bridge.
Except Bridge’s Image Processor can’t resave PSDs.

Alright then, Photoshop Image Processor… because that one does have a “Maximize PSD Compatibility” checkbox. Except it forces everything into newly generated subfolders named “PSD” and gives you no way to overwrite files in their original structure.

So what exactly is the expected workflow here?
Am I supposed to open folder after folder manually, drag files back into place, and overwrite them manually with a file manager?

It’s absurd. Adobe products try to do a million things simultaneously and somehow fail at the most basic pipeline needs. No wonder people are moving away from Adobe — the ecosystem feels increasingly disconnected from real production workflows.

[D Fosse]

You could get around it by batching an action that makes some small change, undoes that change, and then Save > Close. You can't Save an unchanged file, then you need Save As, which immediately complicates things.

Maximize compatibility is taken care of with the global Preferences setting.

I suspect the underlying reason for this is a bunch of new OS policies for file security and integrity. That already killed the direct Save to jpeg that people were used to from CS5 up to CC 2023.

Parametric editing in Lightroom does not support layers and it can't read layers of any kind. That's why you need the composite.

[.random..]

Thanks, I get the technical background — OS-level security, the need for an actual change before Save can fire, all that.

But even with that in mind, I’d still expect Lightroom to do something more sensible in this situation.

Ideally LR should have some way to fix these files before import — either through a small built-in module or an external pre-import hook that checks PSDs and adds the missing composite when needed. Because when you’re importing hundreds of files and one or two happen to be saved without Maximize Compatibility, the whole batch just breaks.

Or Bridge — a tool explicitly meant for bulk operations — could actually process PSD files and offer a real Save As with Maximize Compatibility.

Or at the very least, the Image Processor inside Photoshop could still include an option to re-save files in place, the way it used to, without forcing users into the whole “export into a new folder and manually merge everything back” workflow.

Right now it’s basically useless for production. The file exists, Photoshop can open it, Maximize Compatibility is enabled globally… and yet none of the Adobe tools around it can simply re-save it to make it usable for Lightroom.

So the burden lands on the user: writing custom scripts just to compensate for something the Adobe pipeline should reasonably handle on its own.

[D Fosse]

Right now it’s basically useless for production.

By @.random..

Well, to be fair, I've used Photoshop professionally for almost 20 years, 8 hours a day, and I've still never needed to batch overwrite originals. In fact, I go to great lengths to prevent that from happening.

But yes, having a small Lightroom prep of layered files before importing isn't unreasonable, considering how essential it is. It would have to be optional, maybe a LrC preference setting. I wouldn't object to that. 

[.random..]

I’ve been working with Photoshop since version 3, and honestly, I’ve never needed anything like this either — until now, when I was tasked with converting our entire digital archive of PSD and TIFF files into web-ready versions, ideally in WebP, which is, frankly, a far better and more modern format than the ancient, compression-obsolete JPEG.

Let’s skip the fact that Adobe still ignores WebP even though it has been a web standard for years.

But when you’re going through a huge archive and you keep running into scattered PSDs without compatibility — sometimes a few, sometimes many — and you need to repair thousands of files in nested folders reliably, without risking layer merges or destroying effect stacks, you want a native Adobe tool, not a script you have to hack together with GPT just to compensate for missing functionality.

That’s the whole point: Adobe simply doesn’t listen to its own community.

I’ve been asking for a full year to add a simple feature in Bridge that would make life easier for literally thousands of publishers worldwide. I reached out to product managers on LinkedIn, posted here on the forum, contacted support through the website, even through the enterprise console. The response? Deafening silence. Not even the usual corporate boilerplate “we’ll pass this on.”

It’s honestly absurd.

And this kind of treatment is something I wouldn’t expect even toward a freelance designer who pays Adobe $50 a month.

But I’m working at a major publishing house in Europe — and even then, I’m completely ignored.

[ExUSA]

I've been a PS user since version 2.5 and almost never need to batch overwrite a large number of files. I do use scripting extensively so if there is a workflow hole I usually fix it that way.

I will agree about Lightroom needing to support layered Photoshop files. This is just another poor design choice along with classics like keyword sync and handling of import metadata presets among others.

Whats the Bridge feature you need? I've made dozens of workflow and UI suggestions that haven't been implemented so who knows. Bridge is another example of where I needed heavy scripting to fill in workflow gaps.

[.random..]

Thanks for asking — the feature we (and frankly the entire magazine publishing industry) desperately need in Bridge is a way to visually manage and assemble full publications made in InDesign.

Imagine a flatplan module inside Bridge that could:

• Display every InDesign page as a separate thumbnail (not just the first page).

• Allow teams to drag and drop pages or PDF ads to reorder or build an entire issue visually.

• Automatically sync page order and numbering back to the linked InDesign documents.

• Run a quick preflight (RGB images, low-res, bleeds, etc.) before export.

• Export the final issue as ordered PDFs — ready for print or digital.

Right now, every publisher has to plan issues manually in Excel or fake it using dummy InDesign files. It’s absurd that in 2025, a product called Creative Cloud still has no built-in tool for real collaborative flatplanning or issue management.

We produce ELLE and ELLE Decoration under BurdaMedia International (Europe), and we’ve been trying to raise this internally with Adobe for months — through support, enterprise channels, and LinkedIn. Still no answer.

A lightweight Bridge-InDesign integration like this would solve one of the biggest workflow gaps in publishing — and I’d love to connect with anyone at Adobe who wants to see how easily this could be implemented.

[ExUSA]

Don't get your hopes up. This sounds more like a plugin to InDesign or an add-on to Adone Experience Manager. Bridge is barely hanging on, they don't even have cloud storage support.

[Stephen Marsh]

/*
Batch Add or Remove Maximize Compatibility from PSD v1-2.jsx
Stephen Marsh
30th August 2025 - v1.0: Initial release
30th August 2025 - v1.1: Consolidated folder selection + file count prompts
2nd December 2025 - v1.2: Added dropdown for Maximize Compatibility preference: ALWAYS/NEVER
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/batch-remove-maximize-compatibility-from-psd-folders/td-p/15481712
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/image-processor-no-longer-overwrites-original-files/m-p/15615418
*/

#target photoshop

main();

function main() {

    var originalSetting = app.preferences.maximizeCompatibility;

    // Create main window
    var win = new Window("dialog", "Batch Add or Remove Maximize Compatibility (v1.2)");
    win.preferredSize.width = 400;
    win.alignChildren = "fill";

    // Create panel
    var panel = win.add("panel", undefined, "");
    panel.alignment = ["fill", "top"];
    panel.preferredSize.width = 400;
    panel.orientation = "column";
    panel.alignChildren = "fill";
    panel.margins = 15;

    // Instructions
    var infoText = panel.add("statictext", undefined, 
        "This script will process all PSD/PSB files in the selected folder and subfolders, update Maximize Compatibility according to your selection, overwrite the originals, and restore your original preference.", 
        { multiline: true }
    );
    infoText.preferredSize.width = 400;

    if ($.os.match(/Windows/i)) {
        infoText.preferredSize.height = 40;
    } else {
        infoText.preferredSize.height = 60;
    }
    infoText.alignment = ["fill", "top"];

    // Folder group
    var folderGroup = panel.add("group");
    folderGroup.orientation = "row";
    folderGroup.alignChildren = ["left", "center"];

    var browseBtn = folderGroup.add("button", undefined, "Browse...");
    var folderPath = folderGroup.add("edittext", undefined, "");
    folderPath.alignment = ["fill", "center"];

    // File count display
    var fileCountText = panel.add("statictext", undefined, "No folder selected.");
    fileCountText.preferredSize.width = 400;

    // Maximize Compatibility dropdown
    var compatGroup = panel.add("group");
    compatGroup.orientation = "row";
    compatGroup.alignChildren = ["left", "center"];
    compatGroup.add("statictext", undefined, "Maximize Compatibility:");
    var compatDropdown = compatGroup.add("dropdownlist", undefined, ["NEVER", "ALWAYS"]);
    compatDropdown.selection = 0; // Default: NEVER

    // Buttons
    var buttonGroup = win.add("group");
    buttonGroup.alignment = "right";

    var cancelBtn = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, "Cancel", { name: "cancel" });
    var okBtn = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, "OK", { name: "ok" });

    var selectedFolder;
    var allFiles = [];

    browseBtn.onClick = function () {
        selectedFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select the root folder to process PSD/PSB files");
        if (selectedFolder) {
            folderPath.text = decodeURI(selectedFolder.fsName);
            allFiles = [];
            collectFiles(selectedFolder, allFiles);
            if (allFiles.length > 0) {
                fileCountText.text = "Found " + allFiles.length + " PSD/PSB files to process.";
            } else {
                fileCountText.text = "No PSD/PSB files found.";
            }
        }
    };

    okBtn.onClick = function () {
        if (!selectedFolder) {
            alert("Please select a folder first.");
            return;
        }

        if (allFiles.length === 0) {
            alert("No PSD/PSB files found.");
            return;
        }

        var proceed = confirm("Found " + allFiles.length + " PSD/PSB files - all files will be overwritten! Continue?");
        if (!proceed) {
            win.close();
            return;
        }

        // Dropdown value (NEVER/ALWAYS)
        var chosenSetting = compatDropdown.selection.text;

        app.togglePalettes();
        win.hide();

        processFiles(allFiles, originalSetting, chosenSetting);

        win.close();
    };

    cancelBtn.onClick = function () {
        win.close();
    };

    win.show();
}


///// Functions /////

function processFiles(allFiles, originalSetting, chosenSetting) {
    var prefs = app.preferences;

    // Apply user preference
    prefs.maximizeCompatibility =
        (chosenSetting === "ALWAYS") ?
        QueryStateType.ALWAYS :
        QueryStateType.NEVER;

    try {
        var progressBarWin = new Window("palette", "Processing PSD Files", undefined, { closeButton: false });
        progressBarWin.alignChildren = "fill";

        var progressBar = progressBarWin.add("progressbar", undefined, 0, allFiles.length);
        progressBar.preferredSize.width = 300;

        var statusText = progressBarWin.add("statictext", undefined, "Starting...");
        statusText.preferredSize.width = 300;

        progressBarWin.show();

        for (var i = 0; i < allFiles.length; i++) {
            var file = allFiles[i];

            statusText.text = "Processing (" + (i + 1) + " of " + allFiles.length + "): " + decodeURI(file.name);
            progressBar.value = i + 1;
            progressBarWin.update();

            try {
                processPSD(file);
            } catch (e) {
                alert("Error processing file: " + file.name + "\n" + e.message);
            }
        }

        app.bringToFront;
        progressBarWin.close();
        app.togglePalettes();
        app.beep();
        alert(
            allFiles.length + " files processed!" +
            "\n\nYour original Maximize Compatibility setting has been restored."
        );

    } catch (e) {
        alert("An error occurred during processing:\n" + e.message);
    } finally {
        prefs.maximizeCompatibility = originalSetting;
    }
}

function collectFiles(folder, fileArray) {
    var files = folder.getFiles();
    for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
        var f = files[i];
        if (f instanceof Folder) {
            collectFiles(f, fileArray);
        } else if (f instanceof File && f.name.match(/\.(psd|psb)$/i)) {
            fileArray.push(f);
        }
    }
}

function processPSD(file) {
    var doc = app.open(file);
    var tempLayer = doc.artLayers.add();
    tempLayer.name = "TempLayer";
    tempLayer.remove();

    var fileExt = file.name.split('.').pop().toLowerCase();

    if (fileExt === "psd") {

        // DOM PSD save
        var saveOptions = new PhotoshopSaveOptions();
        saveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
        saveOptions.alphaChannels = true;
        saveOptions.layers = true;
        saveOptions.annotations = true;
        saveOptions.spotColors = true;

        doc.saveAs(file, saveOptions, true);
        doc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

    } else {

        // Action Manager PSB save
        var c2t = function (s) { return app.charIDToTypeID(s); };
        var s2t = function (s) { return app.stringIDToTypeID(s); };

        var descriptor = new ActionDescriptor();
        var descriptor2 = new ActionDescriptor();

        descriptor2.putBoolean(s2t("maximizeCompatibility"), false);
        descriptor.putObject(s2t("as"), s2t("largeDocumentFormat"), descriptor2);
        descriptor.putPath(c2t("In  "), doc.fullName);
        descriptor.putInteger(s2t("documentID"), doc.id);
        descriptor.putBoolean(s2t("lowerCase"), true);

        executeAction(s2t("save"), descriptor, DialogModes.NO);
        doc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
    }
}

1. Copy the code text to the clipboard
2. Open a new blank file in a plain-text editor (not in a word processor)
3. Paste the code in
4. Save as a plain text format file – .txt
5. Rename the saved file extension from .txt to .jsx
6. Install or browse to the .jsx file to run (see below)

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

[CMass]

@.random..

Can you share your system info? This can be found by going to Help > System Info. Copy and paste everything into a text file and share it in your next response. 

^CM

[.random..]

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[aditya_6641]

First off, you're not going crazy, I just tested this myself in the latest Photoshop, and you're absolutely right. The "save in same location" behavior you remember from older versions is indeed gone. The Image Processor now forces you to choose a destination folder and will always create those subfolders (JPEG, PSD, TIFF), even if you only have one format selected

[Stephen Marsh]

You can save without creating sub-folders by using the "select folder" option with "keep folder structure" and selecting the parent/root top-level directory, however, originals will not be overwritten, a "_1" suffix will be added. The script would require modification to work differently.

[.random..]

Thanks, I’m aware of that workaround – the problem is, as you said, that it creates duplicate files with a _1 suffix.

In our case we need to re-save millions of existing PSDs in place with max compatibility, without breaking the folder structure or doing any manual merging afterwards.

I’ve ended up using a custom script that opens each file and saves it back over itself, which works great – I just find it strange that this isn’t possible directly in Image Processor anymore, given that it used to be trivial.

[Stephen Marsh]

Thanks, I’m aware of that workaround – the problem is, as you said, that it creates duplicate files with a _1 suffix.

The Image Processor version that ships with Photoshop 2026 is "1.2.0.3", it would surprise me if Adobe has made any changes to this script in years.

So perhaps it never did overwrite?

As I previously mentioned, the code would need to be edited to do so, such as removing the following highlighted entry (untested):

[Stephen Marsh]

The Image Processor version that ships with Photoshop 2026 is "1.2.0.3", it would surprise me if Adobe has made any changes to this script in years.

By @Stephen Marsh

Photoshop 2021 used version "1.2.0.1", so there have been changes... So colour me surprised!

But major changes that affect overwriting files?

I'm not sure, the code still looks the same.

[D Fosse]

So perhaps it never did overwrite?

By @Stephen Marsh

Someone with an old version still installed should be able to test this easily. But again, this is not something you normally do.

But if it did, and it has now changed, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be an operating system change that forced it. Just like saving out a jpeg copy without alerting the user, and identifying it as a copy, is no longer permitted by the OS (MacOS in that case).

[Stephen Marsh]

As both @.random.. and I have created scripts that do overwrite, my guess is that either the script was changed at some historical point, or that it never overwrote in the first place.

Hopefully my suggested edit to the Image Processor script will help someone else who needs this.