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Hi Bardioch
perhaps another way is also right for you:
// copy_activeDoc2otherLocationWithShortenName.jsx
// https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2537114
main ();
function main() {
try {
var aDoc = activeDocument;
var aName = aDoc.name.replace(/_\w{3}\d{4}\./,".");
var aFolder = Folder(aDoc.path+"/processec");
if (!aFolder.exists) { aFolder.create() };
var copyFile = File(aDoc.fullName).copy (aFolder+"/"+aName);
//aDoc.close();
//open(File(aFolder+"/"+aName));
}
catch (e) {
alert ("no opened document or document was never saved - exit")
return;
}
};
This renames the file name for your requirements:
aDoc.name.replace(/_\w{3}\d{4}\./,".")
Have fun
Hi
two notes:
- be careful - in this way you lost the extension of your (duped) file
- be careful - all file names with an underscore will be changed
… and welcome in the scripting world.
Try 
var originalDoc = app.activeDocument;
var originalPath = originalDoc.path;
var sub_dir = new Folder(originalPath + '/' + 'Processed');
if (!sub_dir.exists) sub_dir.create();
if (!sub_dir.exists) { alert("Can not create folder"); throw("Can not create folder"); }
// Your RegExp is in doubt. I did not change
var new_name = originalDoc.name.replace(/(^.+)(_.+)(\.[^\.]+$)/, '$1.jpg');
alert(new_name, "New Name"); // for debugging
var file = new File(sub_dir + '/' + new_name);
if (file.exists) { alert("File already exists"); throw("File already exists"); }
var dupedDoc = originalDoc.duplicate(new_name, true);
originalDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
app.activeDocument = dupedDoc
var saveOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();
saveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
saveOptions.formatOptions = FormatOptions.STANDARDBASELINE;
saveOptions.matte = MatteType.NONE;
saveOptions.quality = 12;
dupedDoc.saveAs(file, saveOptions, false);
Furthermore your Grep is much to greedy:
… Now after re-reading Chris’s posts, I am not sure what the exact text pattern is! So Bardioch – can you please confirm the required input and output filename pattern using at least 3 examples of real-world filenames.
Fullack!
Without knowing the exact text pattern rules - every Grep are in doubt.
pixxxel schubser wrote:
Without knowing the exact text pattern rules - every Grep are in doubt.
Indeed…
However all I can do is go by Chris’s original post, which stated:
§BI00337684§_HPK1155.JPG
§AN00550282§_CHJ3942.JPG
§AD00093642§_IMG0023.JPG
It would be so cool and so much work saving if a script can delet everything after the "_" and the "_" itself.
Which is exactly what my regex does! Yes, I could have built the regex to be less flexible and to only look for a set amount of alpha, then a set amount of numeric etc., that is doable and ideally requires feedback from usage which has not been forthcoming.
Then in post #2 Chris corrected the OP:
OH, i made a mistake... my files look like "1ABCD_§BI00337684§_HPK1155.JPG" sorry...
And my original regex continues to work correctly if the highlighted bit in red above is still the same pattern that needs to be removed:
So Chris, can you please provide feedback?
How is the script?
How are the filenames being handled, are they correctly truncated or not?
I am guessing that you wish to batch process a group of files from Bridge.
Perhaps somebody with greater experience with scripting and using Bridge as a source can comment on why the duplicate is broken when run from a batch action from Bridge, when it works fine from Photoshop on a single image source or multiple open images.
So either avoid Bridge as a source, or it you must use Bridge as a source – don’t try to run the script from there into Photoshop. You can open all of the images in the batch to open files in Photoshop from Bridge, then have Photoshop batch process the open files with a destination of none, the duplicate and rename will work correctly. The files will remain open for processing and their save path should be to the newly created file and folder. The script will then work as intended. You really don’t wish to open/save/close JPEG files more than you have to.
If I had known all of this from the beginning, I would have suggested the following. You could simply use Bridge’s Batch Rename tool to copy the selected images into a subfolder using a regex based string substitution. The Batch Rename can be saved for later use, however you may need to update the destination folder path. This of course could all be scripted in Bridge, however that is a different and deeper subject.
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