Save all open images

Question

I didn't find this when I did a forum search, but I find it hard to believe that there isn't a feature request for this already. Photoshop needs a "Save All" feature. I've seen suggestion to just make this an action, but the problem with that is that you must continually hit the action in order to perform it. Maybe I'm just missing something but I find it odd that a photo editing program, in which it is quite possible that you could have dozens of images open at the same time has no "Save All" or "Autosave" features...still.

Answer 1

If you want to give it a try paste the following text into a new file in ExtendScript Toolkit (part of Photoshop’s installation, Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities - CS5/ExtendScript Toolkit CS5) and save it as a jsx-file into Photoshop’s Presets/Scripts-folder.
After restarting Photoshop the Script should be available under File > Scripts and can be assigned a Keyboard Shortcut directly, recorded into an Action, (in CS4 and CS5) be used in a Configurator-Panel or started from ExtendScript Toolkit directly.
// save all open documents;
// 2011, use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop;
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
var theFirst = app.activeDocument;
var theDocs = app.documents;
// psd options for unsaved files;
psdOpts = new PhotoshopSaveOptions();
psdOpts.embedColorProfile = true;
psdOpts.alphaChannels = false;
psdOpts.layers = true;
psdOpts.spotColors = true;
// go through all files;
for (var m = 0; m < theDocs.length; m++) {
     var theDoc = theDocs[m];
     app.activeDocument = theDoc;
// getting the name and location;
     var docName = theDoc.name;
// thanks to xbytor for the regexp;
     if (docName.indexOf(".") != -1) {var basename = docName.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1]}
     else {var basename = docName};
// getting the location, if unsaved save to desktop;
     try {
          var docPath = theDoc.path;
// save the file if unsaved;
          if (theDoc.saved == false) {theDoc.save()}
// if file has not been saved yet save to desktop;
     catch (e) {
          var docPath = "~/Desktop";
          theDoc.saveAs((new File(docPath+'/'+basename+".psd")), psdOpts, false, Extension.LOWERCASE);
app.activeDocument = theFirst;