Photo rename and delete from home page of Photoshop

Hi Trevor, as far as I can remember the Your Files screen has always been cloud storage. For Photoshop, it shows all Photoshop Cloud Documents and never any local files. Your Files can also list documents created with compatible cloud apps; for example, if I save a document with Adobe Fresco (iPad OS) that document will show up in Your Files in Photoshop, because both Photoshop and Fresco can open those.

That might explain your Brush Engine experiments. If they were created with any Adobe app that saved them as Photoshop-compatible cloud documents, then Your Files is where they would go.

I've looked at the Files | Adobe page, but I'm not seeing any way for the Your Files screen to show local drive content.  Is that how it is?

By @Trevor.Dennis

Yes, and doubly so for the Files page in a web browser because that’s labeled Cloud Documents…nothing up there shows local drive content. Adobe cloud documents have their own cloud-based organization that is not tied to the local file system of any desktop or mobile device. 

So in Photoshop today, the only place the Home screen shows local files is when Home is selected, not Your Files. And I think that makes Your Files a very misleading name…the name is only accurate for people who do all their work with cloud documents.

(When Creative Cloud Files were still around, they worked like Dropbox / Google Drive / OneDrive / iCloud Drive, where there was cloud storage that mirrored its hierarchy on a dedicated sync folder on each connected device. But now that Creative Cloud synced Files are discontinued, Your Files and the Creative Cloud website show only the organization of documents that are stored only in the cloud.)

/*
Open Files Without Populating the Open Recent list.jsx
Stephen Marsh
*/

#target photoshop

var selectFile = File.openDialog("Please select the file/s:", Multiselect = true);
for (var i = 0; i < selectFile.length; i++) {
    var openFiles = app.open(File(selectFile[i]));
}

Maybe one could have a script that would get the locations of the recent files and put them in a list, where they could then be opened in Windows Explorer to be renamed or deleted.

By @Semaphoric

 

That is certainly possible via scripting, but keep in mind that is editing the originals, not the alias/shortcut/pointers to the images that Photoshop stores in an unknown location and format.

 

This script will create a text report on the desktop containing the paths and filenames of the files in the recent files menu. Note that all files are returned until the menu is cleared, regardless of the value set to display N number of recent files. The report is grouped into valid and invalid files, with invalid being files that have been renamed or moved and will no longer be accessible.

/*
Recent Files Report.jsx
Stephen Marsh
v1.0 - 23rd of February 2025: tested on Mac and Windows
~ This script generates a report of the recent files in Photoshop, classifying them as valid or invalid based on their existence on disk.
~ The report is saved to the desktop as a text file and opened in the default text editor.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/photo-rename-and-delete-from-home-page-of-photoshop/td-p/15170183
*/

#target photoshop

// Ensure we have access to the app object
if (app.documents.length > 0 || app.recentFiles.length > 0) {
    var recentFiles = app.recentFiles;
    var validFiles = [];
    var invalidFiles = [];
    var validFilesCount = 0;
    var invalidFilesCount = 0;

    // Loop through recent files and classify them as valid or invalid
    for (var i = 0; i < recentFiles.length; i++) {
        if (fileExists(recentFiles[i])) {
            validFiles.push(formatPathForOS(recentFiles[i]));
        } else {
            invalidFiles.push(formatPathForOS(recentFiles[i]));
        }
    }

    // Prepare the content for the text file
    var content = "Valid recent files:\n";
    for (var i = 0; i < validFiles.length; i++) {
        content += validFiles[i] + "\n";
        validFilesCount++;
    }

    content += "\nInvalid recent files:\n";
    for (var i = 0; i < invalidFiles.length; i++) {
        content += invalidFiles[i] + "\n";
        invalidFilesCount++;
    }

    // Write the content to a text file on the desktop
    var file = new File("~/Desktop/Recent_Files_Report.txt");
    file.open("w");
    file.write(content);
    file.close();

    alert("Report Completed!" + "\r\r" + "Number of valid recent files: " + validFilesCount + "\r\r" + "Number of invalid recent files: " + invalidFilesCount + "\r\r" + "The report has been saved to your desktop as " + file.name);

    // Open the file in the default text editor
    file.execute();

} else {
    alert("No recent files found.");
}

function fileExists(filePath) {
    var file = new File(filePath);
    return file.exists;
}

function formatPathForOS(filePath) {
    try {
        // Create a File object which will handle path formatting automatically
        var fileObj = new File(filePath);
        // fsName provides the platform-specific path format
        return fileObj.fsName;
    } catch (e) {
        // Return original path if conversion fails
        return filePath;
    }
}

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