Know when an alert of photoshop is showing

[RichardLindhout]

Describe the bug
Can I keep track of the alerts windows gives sometimes + close the alert and handle the error / skip the file

[loonghao]

@RichardLindhout

Could you please give me more context information?

[RichardLindhout]

Sometimes windows give a blocking error e.g. file is in use or some other alert. I don't know how to get around these, it blocks the whole python code too

[theaafofficial]

maybe late, One workaround is to use a timeout for stuck operations. In my case, photoshop crashes after a certain task and gets stuck on a crash report. Use asyncio's function wait_for
import asyncio

async def potentially_long_task():
    # Code that might take a while

async def my_endpoint():
    try:
        result = await asyncio.wait_for(potentially_long_task(), timeout=5)
        return result
    except asyncio.TimeoutError:
        return {"error": "Task took too long"} 

My use-case:

import subprocess
RETRIES = 2
for i in range(RETRIES):
    try:
        await asyncio.wait_for(
            your_photoshop_function_script(),
            timeout=60,
        )
        break
    except Exception as e:
        subprocess.call(["taskkill", "/F", "/IM", "Photoshop.exe"])
        logging.error(f"Error: {e}")
        if i < RETRIES - 1:
            logging.info(f"Retrying ...")
            continue
        else:
            logging.error(f"Failed to process {psd_path_abs}")
            raise

restarting photoshop works for me.