Request for "open file location" feature

[Deborah342639444s96]

Our team works on multiple projects (all in disparate locations) that all require numerous images. Because we're often working on more than one project at a time, juggling images in different file locations is a chore. It would help us enourmously and save us a lot of time if we had an "open file location" feature like our other applications have (i.e., Microsoft Office).

It could be a menu item, a tool on the toolbar, or maybe a clickable option that appears when you hover over a preview. Wherever it lives, we'd love it.

[ExUSA]

This is a built-in feature on the Mac, you simply right-click the proxy icon in the window to show the entire file path.

Windows being more limited, you would need to use a script. Save this in Notepad with a .jsx extension and place in the Photoshop scripts folder.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/scripting.html

#target photoshop
if(BridgeTalk.appName == 'photoshop'){
    try{
        var f = app.activeDocument.path;
        Folder(f).execute();
        }
    catch(e){
        Window.alert(e + ' ' + e.line);
        }
    }

[Deborah342639444s96]

Thanks for the info, ex. Does this open the folder where the image file lives or just show you the path?

If it opens the folder, running the script from Photoshop presents the same problem. When you want to run a script, you have to browse for it and Photoshop remembers the last folder location you used, so we'd have to navigate to wherever the script lives. That's the effort we're trying to avoid.

[Jeff Arola]

If your using tabbed document windows in Photoshop you can right click on the tab and use Reveal in Explorer

[Stephen Marsh]

@Deborah342639444s96 

Scripts can be installed in the application directory - Presets/Scripts. Browsing for a script is just an alternative option. Once installed, a custom keyboard shortcut can be added to the installed script, or an action recording of the script execution can also use an F-key keyboard shortcut.

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html?m=1

If you're working on projects and switching between various open files in each session, then you might find the following script useful:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/scripts-to-save-amp-restore-photoshop...

[Deborah342639444s96]

Thank you so much, Jeff!! Made my day.

I had no idea that was available. I use tabs but never to navigate.

[ExUSA]

Hi, did you look at the help link and try the script? You install the script as noted and it opens the folder that your active document is inside.