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Powershell script to determine when a program is quit – Photoshop

I have two scripts I would like to combine, but the second script can’t begin until a program (Photoshop) is closed. Script one ends by starting a photoshop script with Invoke-Item. Once the Photoshop script is complete PhotoShop closes. The second code archives the raw files with a simple Move-Item. With PowerShell, how can I know when PhotoShop is closed and begin my Move-Item?

I have spent some time researching this to see what documentation there is, but either I am asking my questions poorly or it is an obscure enough I can’t find any leads to begin off of.

# Script One
ii "E:resizerScript.jsx"

#Something to determine when PhotoShop is closed and begin the next bit of code.

# Script Two
Move-Item -path "E:Staged*" -Destination "E:Archived"

I’m very new to coding and what I have is cobbled together from other articles. If anything is too unclear I would be happy to elaborate. Thanks in advance for any help or direction.

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  1. 0
    • First, you need to find photoshop’s process name. Open powershell and run

    Get-Process | Select-Object -Property ProcessName

    • Then use the following (you can customize it according to your needs of course, I’ve tested using Outlook)
    param(
    [string]$procName = "Outlook",
    [int]$timeout = 90, ## seconds
    [int]$retryInterval = 1 ## seconds
)

$isProcActive = $true

$timer = [Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew()

# to check the process' name:
# Get-Process | Select-Object -Property ProcessName

while (($timer.Elapsed.TotalSeconds -lt $timeout) -and ($isProcActive)) {

    $procId = (Get-Process | Where-Object -Property ProcessName -EQ $procName).Id

    if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($procId))
    {
        Write-Host "$procName is finished"
        $isProcActive = $false
    }
}

$timer.Stop()

if ($isProcActive)
{
    Write-Host "$procName did not finish on time, aborting operation..."
    # maybe you want to kill it?
    # Stop-Process -Name $procName
    exit
}

# do whatever

    [UPDATE] if you need to put this inside another script, you need to omit the param since this must be the 1st thing in a script. So it would look like:

    # start of script
$procName = "Outlook"
$timeout = 90 ## seconds
$retryInterval = 1 ## seconds

$isProcActive = $true
# etc etc

    Hope this helps,

    Jim

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  2. 0

    You can use Wait-Process,

    Invoke-Item "E:resizerScript.jsx"
Wait-Process photoshop
Move-Item -Path "E:Staged*" -Destination "E:Archived"

    but I recommend using Start-Process -Wait to start Photoshop.

    $photoshopPath = "C:...Photoshop.exe"
Start-Process $photoshopPath "E:resizerScript.jsx" -Wait
Move-Item -Path "E:Staged*" -Destination "E:Archived"

    If you want to set the timeout:

    Start-Process $photoshopPath "E:resizerScript.jsx" -PassThru |
    Wait-Process -Timeout (15 * 60) -ErrorAction Stop
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