ExtendScript: detect if placed Item has file or not

Question

In Illustrator I am trying to detext if a placed item has a file, or if a file path is broken.

Usually I would check it like this:

for (var i = 0; i < placedItems.length; i++){
alert(placedItems[i].file.exists)
}

The alert should return a boolean value, true or false. But instead I get an error for the items that have no file:

Error 9062: There is no file associated with this item

So how can I check if a file exists, or not than?

Answer 1

You could use a try catch block within your loop

try {
// everything went fine 
}catch(e){
$.writeln(e);
// do something with the error
}