Incremental quicksave action

[borgs37069531]

Hi there!

I am creating an action that has 3 basic functions;

1. Save file with incremental number (ex: figuredrawing001.png)
2. Close the file (without "are you sure" warning)
3. Create new document figuredrawing

This is what I have so far

I am creating this to quickly save 30 second figure drawings and refresh my canvas.

I found an ancient script online that did roughly this but for some reason it would stop without error (or notifying me) at 008 for no apparent reason and came with a whole host of other issues. (Like when I tried it after closing photoshop it started overwriting 001 again for instance)

Is there a way to set this up quickly under a hotkey? For reference this is the script that I was working with.

// This script will save the active document to a folder with an incremental sufix

// Change the options below to match your needs

var saveFolder = new Folder( 'E:/Specialization/30seconddrawing' ); //don't put the ending "/" this is for mac folders windows is /c/foldername

var saveSufixStart = '_';

var saveSufixLength = 3;

saveOptions = new PNGSaveOptions();

saveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;

saveOptions.formatOptions = FormatOptions.STANDARDBASELINE;

saveOptions.matte = MatteType.NONE;

saveOptions.quality = 8;

// End of user options

//==========================================

var saveExt = 'png';

function zeroPad ( num, digit ){

   var tmp = num.toString();

   while (tmp.length < digit) { tmp = "0" + tmp;}

   return tmp;

}

var docName = decodeURI ( activeDocument.name );

docName = docName.match( /(.*)(\.[^\.]+)/ ) ? docName = docName.match( /(.*)(\.[^\.]+)/ ) : docName = [ docName, docName, undefined ];

var saveName = docName[ 1 ]; // activeDocument name with out ext

var files = saveFolder.getFiles( saveName + '*.' + saveExt );// get an array of files matching doc name prefix

if( files.length == 0 ) {  // no file with that name so start at one

   var saveNumber = 1;

}

if( files.length == 1 ) { // one file found, see if it has a sufix

   var fileName = decodeURI ( files[ 0 ].name );

   fileName = fileName.match( /(.*)(\.[^\.]+)/ ) ? fileName = fileName.match( /(.*)(\.[^\.]+)/ ) : fileName = [ fileName, fileName, undefined ];

   if( fileName[1].match( /_(\d{3})$/ ) == null ){

      var saveNumber = 1;// does not have sufix so set to one

   } else{// has sufix

      var saveNumber = parseInt( fileName[ 1 ].match( /_(\d{3})$/ )[1] ) + 1; // strip the ext and get the sufix , convert to number and add 1

   }

}

if( files.length > 1 ){

   files.sort();

   var fileName = decodeURI ( files[ files.length -1 ].name );

   fileName = fileName.match( /(.*)(\.[^\.]+)/ ) ? fileName = fileName.match( /(.*)(\.[^\.]+)/ ) : fileName = [ fileName, fileName, undefined ];

   var saveNumber = parseInt( fileName[ 1 ].match( /_(\d{3})$/ )[1] ) + 1; // strip the ext and get the sufix , convert to number and add 1

}

var saveFile = new File( saveFolder + '/' + saveName + '_' + zeroPad( saveNumber, saveSufixLength ) + '.' + saveExt );

activeDocument.saveAs( saveFile, saveOptions ,true ,Extension.LOWERCASE);

[c.pfaffenbichler]

You may want to post over at

Photoshop Scripting

[borgs37069531]

I'll crosspost over there as well. I was hoping there would be an easier way using actions or droplets.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Actions are more limited and evaluating filenames and creating new, numbered ones is so far beyond their capabilities.