How to wait until jQuery ajax request finishes in a loop?

You can create an array of promises so that once all promises are resolved you can run your all done code.

var promises = [];
for (var i = 0; i < $total_files; i++){ 
   /* $.ajax returns a promise*/      
   var request = $.ajax({
        /* your ajax config*/
   })

   promises.push( request);
}

$.when.apply(null, promises).done(function(){
   alert('All done')
})

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