WorkSpace Saver ?

I’ve found an old Script (that may not have been finished and tested properly) that is intended to save all open images that have no path, so newly created files that have never been saved.

As more than one new file could have the same name this Scripts gives them all new names with numbers straight away and offers the possibility to select a location to save them to.

If one would prefer to use the existing names one would do well to include a check to see if a file of that name already exists in the selected location and change the name for example.

This just seems to be an example where one might easily overlook an eventuality and later have to regret it …

You can check it out and see if you can salvage (elements of) this Script for your other endeavour.

// this script is spposed to save all open documents that have never been saved as tiffs;
// use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop;
if (documents.length > 0) {
var theDocumentList = app.documents;
var theNewlySaved = 0;
var theCount = 0;
var saveLocation = "~/Desktop";
//create dialog fo name-entry;
var dlg = new Window ('dialog', "save unsaved documents to the desktop", [500,300,880,450]);
//create the entry for the name;
dlg.msgPnl = dlg.add('panel', [25,15,350,135], 'Please enter a name for unsaved documents'); 
dlg.msgPnl.msgEt = dlg.msgPnl.add('edittext', [15,20,305,40], "a_", {multiline:false});
dlg.msgPnl.targrtFolder = dlg.msgPnl.add ('button', [78,80,242,105], 'Select Targetfolder')
dlg.msgPnl.buildBtn = dlg.msgPnl.add('button', [13,80,73,105], 'OK', {name:'ok'});
dlg.msgPnl.cancelBtn = dlg.msgPnl.add('button', [247,80,307,105], 'Cancel', {name:'cancel'});
dlg.msgPnl.theTargetLocation = dlg.msgPnl.add('statictext', [13,50,307,65], "Save to: "+saveLocation);
//dialog for target-folder;
dlg.msgPnl.targrtFolder .onClick = browseOnClick;
//retrieve the selection;
var myReturn = dlg.show ();
if (myReturn == true) {
//get the name;
          var theName = dlg.msgPnl.msgEt.text;
//save tiffs;
          for (var k = 0 ; k < theDocumentList.length; k++) {
// find out if file has a path and therefore doesn’t need to be saved;
                    try {var forgetThisVariable = theDocumentList.path}
// if file has no path save it to the target-location;
                    catch (e) {
                              theCount = theCount+1;
                              tifOpts = new TiffSaveOptions();
                              tifOpts.embedColorProfile = true;
                              tifOpts.imageCompression = TIFFEncoding.TIFFLZW;
                              tifOpts.alphaChannels = true;
                              tifOpts.byteOrder = ByteOrder.MACOS;
                              tifOpts.layers = true;
                              app.activeDocument = theDocumentList;
// if file with that name and number exists increase the count until the number is higher than the highest one found; 
                              if (File(saveLocation+"\/"+theName+zeroPad(theCount, 3)+".tif").exists) {
                                        while (File(saveLocation+"\/"+theName+zeroPad(theCount, 3)+".tif").exists == true) {
                                                  theCount = theCount+1
                                                  }
                                        }
                              else {};
                              theDocumentList.saveAs((new File(saveLocation+"\/"+theName+zeroPad(theCount, 3)+".tif")), tifOpts, false, Extension.LOWERCASE);
                              theNewlySaved = theNewlySaved+1
                              }
                    }
// tell how many have been saved
          if (theNewlySaved > 0) {
                    alert (theNewlySaved + " previously unsaved documents have been saved")
                    }
          else {
                    alert ("No previously unsaved documents have been found")
                    }
          }
else {};
}
else {
          alert ("No open documents")};
// zero-padding by paul r;
 function zeroPad(n, s) {
n = n.toString();
while (n.length < s) n = '0' + n;
return n;
};
// select targetfolder;
function browseOnClick() {
          saveLocation = Folder.selectDialog("Select Folder to save to");
          dlg.msgPnl.theTargetLocation.text = "Save to: "+String(saveLocation)
          };

In Photoshop Workspaces store the position of Panels (and optionally Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus).

So it seems unfortunate that you seem to be trying to use the term to describe something else.

In Photoshop Scripting windows’ positions are not accessible as far as I know, so recreating the exact arrangement of document windows seems to be off.

But creating a list of the open documents either as a separate file or persistentSettings (possibly by linking a Script via the Script Events Manager to quitting) and using that to try and open the same files later on (on starting the application for example) should be feasible.

How are your Scripting skills?