saveAs: replace files or ask what to do?

It's one of those situations where I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but with too little knowledge that I there are many potentially Miss. in any case, enough self-deprecating...

This script came from a discussion I found ages there are that match what I had to do in time. I don't remember the exact discussion but Larry G.S. he rounded up and posted this:

********************************************************** 
  
Place_JPG_to_AI.jsx 

DESCRIPTION 

This script gets files specified by the user from the  
selected folder and batch processes them and saves them  
as AIs in the user desired destination with the same  
file name. 

Modified from Adobe supplied scripts and 
scripts by Carlos Canto on Illustrator Scripting 
by Larry G. Schneider 
  
**********************************************************/  
  
// uncomment to suppress Illustrator warning dialogs  
app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS;  
  
var destFolder, sourceFolder, files, fileType;  
  
// Select the source folder.  
sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder containing M.E.T. JPEG files', '~' );  
  
// If a valid folder is selected  
if ( sourceFolder != null )  
{  
     files = new Array();  
       
     // Get all files with JPEG extension
     files = sourceFolder.getFiles("*.jpg");  
       
     if ( files.length > 0 )  
     {  
          // Get the destination to save the files  
          destFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder where you want to save the AI files.', '~' );  
            
          for ( i = 0; i < files.length; i++ )  
          {  
               var idoc = app.open(File("/G/Design & Publishing/Elements/Master Templates/Re-Engineering Templates/Illustrator/MET Template 106.82x60.ai"));  // open template document. Change the file path for different templates
               
               var ilayer = idoc.layers["Image"];
  
               var iplaced = ilayer.placedItems.add();  // add image place holder  
               
               iplaced.file = (files[i]);  // place file  
                 
                var PosXY=new Array(2);  // ensure position is 0,0
                PosXY[0]=0;  
                PosXY[1]=0;
                iplaced.position = PosXY;
                iplaced.embed();
                 
               ilayer.dimPlacedImages = false;   // do not dim images        
               ilayer.locked = true;  // lock layer  
               ilayer.printable = true;
                 
               var docName = (files[i].name.split('.'))[0];   // take the first part of the placed file name for the new document  
       
               var destFile = new File(destFolder + "/" +  docName + ".ai");   // make a new file in the dest folder  
                 
               var options = new IllustratorSaveOptions();   // new save options  
               options.compatibility = Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR15;   // save as AICS5. May want to update if we go to CC
               options.pdfCompatible = true; // needs to be set to view links in InDesign
                 
               // Export as AI  
               idoc.saveAs(destFile,  options);  // save the file in the dest folder  
       
               idoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);   // close the file without saving  
          }  
          alert( 'Files are saved as AI in ' + destFolder );  
     }  
     else  
     {  
          alert( 'No matching files found.' );  
     }  
}  
  
app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DISPLAYALERTS

I edited bits for our purposes, but it is basically the same. the user selects a folder with JPEG files, a folder of dest, and the script puts the JPEG images on my model and saves them to the original file name. However, sometimes the user will need to do this several times in the same folder of dest and will not necessarily know what JPEG files they already did. so they eventually overwrite files that may already have been worked on (the names cannot be changed afterwards for some reason very annoying and irritating).

what they would like, in this case, is for the script to advise when files with this filename already existing in the dest folder (but work normal otherwise). I thought just turn DISPLAYALERTS turn it on could do it (since that's what saveAs does when you go there manually) but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I can't find clues in the reference, but then I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for.

any help or pointers no matter what level of detail welcome.

pass NULL to 0.

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